Hey Bulldog footage

[ward]

As a lot of you might know, Hey Bulldog is my favorite Beatle track. I heard it was recorded on the same day a s Lady Madonna, which incidently was filmed for a promotional video. So my question is did the Beatles also film themselves recording Hey Bulldog as well? If so where can I see the footage? The recording session sounds like a blast!

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[Jerry]

I have a video for Lady Madonna, and I'm pretty sure the footage is from this day you are talking about. The video of them in the studio doesn't really ever match the song you hear. John is sporting some pretty sweet sideburns. Anyway, as you're watching the video, it looks like the song they're recording is probably Hey Bulldog. I'm not sure why it was edited this way. I'm sure somewhere out there, somebody has the full video of the day's recording session.

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[darkhorse]

Ward, you already asked this question before, I'm afraid, on the "And Your Bird Can Sing" forum... I told you that a video of The Beatles actually recording and playing "Hey Bulldog" exists, and I can tell it because I have it tape-recorded from a local TV station. It was released to the world with the re-releasing of the "Yellow Submarine" movie, as a way of promoting it and as "the only thing that you hadn't seen before" from The Beatles footage, according to Sir James Paul McCartney.

George said about this in 1999:
"We now have an unreleased video of 'Hey Bulldog,' as you know. When we were in the studio recording 'Bulldog,' apparently it was at a time when they needed some footage for something else, some other record (Lady Madonna), and a film crew came along and filmed us. Then they cut up the footage and used some of the shots for something else. But it was Neil Aspinall who found out that when you watched and listened to what the original thing was, we were recording 'Bulldog.' This was apparently the only time we were actually filmed recording something, so what Neil did was, he put (the unused footage) all back together again and put the 'Bulldog' soundtrack onto it, and there it was!"

(Source here (http://www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dba10sub.html))

The most interesting thing is that you can actually see who's playing what, and who's singing... John played piano and sang one lead vocal from there, and then recorded another vocal with Paul in front of a microphone. The main track consisted of John on piano and vocals, Paul playing two tambourines, Ringo on drums and George on guitar. Then Paul overdubbed the bass. Great video, probably my favorite. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thumbsup.gif


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[Lucy]

For a second in that video there is a flash of a page with lyrics on it. Being the loser that I am, I once paused the video on that and there you have it!! The lyrics to "Hey Bulldog" instead of "Lady Madonna"!!


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[ward]

Darkhorse, thank you for the informative information. Really interesting stuff. Sorry I posted this twice, I forgot where I had Originally asked the question. Once again thanks for the info. Cheers!

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[McCharlenstar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By ward:
Darkhorse, thank you for the informative information. Really interesting stuff. Sorry I posted this twice, I forgot where I had Originally asked the question. Once again thanks for the info. Cheers!

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Good post.Thanks for the info!



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[Tim]

As I noted in the 'bulldog' thread,the video is of the Hey Bulldog recording. In 1968,they dubbed Lady Madonna over it for a video to promote Lady Madonna.

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