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The song was recorded on [[16 October]], [[1965]] at [[Abbey Road Studios]]. [[The Beatles]] recorded the basic rhythm track for "[[If I Needed Someone]]" after completing "Day Tripper".<ref name="lewisohn64"/>
The song was recorded on [[16 October]], [[1965]] at [[Abbey Road Studios]]. [[The Beatles]] recorded the basic rhythm track for "[[If I Needed Someone]]" after completing "Day Tripper".<ref name="lewisohn64"/>


The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on ''[[Past Masters, Volume Two]]'') in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears;<ref name="anomolies">{{cite web |url=http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/common/anomaly-d.htm#dt |title=What Goes On - Day Tripper |accessdate=2007-02-27}}</ref> this may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap.
The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on ''[[Past Masters, Volume Two]]'') in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears;<ref name="anomolies">{{cite web |url=http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/common/anomaly-d.htm#dt |title=What Goes On - Day Tripper |accessdate=2007-02-27}}</ref> this may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation [[1 (The Beatles album)|1]].


==Credits==
==Credits==

Revision as of 02:39, 30 June 2008

For the recreational activity, see Day-tripper.
"Day Tripper"
Song
A-side"We Can Work It Out"

"Day Tripper" is a riff-driven rock song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles as a "double A-side" single with "We Can Work It Out". Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The song topped the UK Singles Chart and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Composition

Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market,[1] Lennon wrote most of the lyrics and the famous guitar break, while McCartney helped with the verses. "Day-tripper" was a typical play on words by John: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of… you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?"[2] In the same interview he said, "That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit."[2] In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, he used "Day Tripper" as one example of their collaboration, where one partner had the main idea but the other took up the cause and completed it.[3] For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.[4]

The lyric may be partly about McCartney's reluctance to experiment with LSD. [citation needed] (Lennon and Harrison had been using LSD since the spring of 1965, when a London dentist slipped it into their coffee after an evening meal.[5] In August, Lennon confessed that he "just ate it all the time.") On the face of it, however, the song is about a girl who leads the singer on. The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a prick teaser."[4] In this sense, it may equally be about the aloof heroine from "Norwegian Wood." In Many Years From Now, McCartney admitted that "Day Tripper" was about drugs.[4]

According to Ian MacDonald, the song "starts as a twelve-bar blues in E, which makes a feint at turning into a twelve-bar in the relative minor (i.e. the chorus) before doubling back to the expected B—another joke from a group which had clearly decided that it was to be their new gimmick."[6] Indeed, in 1966 McCartney said in Melody Maker that "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" (recorded three days prior) were "funny songs, songs with jokes in." McCartney provides the lead vocal and Lennon the harmony, in contrast to the Beatles' usual practice of a song's principal composer singing lead.

Recording

The song was recorded on 16 October, 1965 at Abbey Road Studios. The Beatles recorded the basic rhythm track for "If I Needed Someone" after completing "Day Tripper".[1]

The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on Past Masters, Volume Two) in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears;[7] this may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation 1.

Credits

Cover versions

Year Band Record Notes
1966 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Herb Alpert presents
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66		 album
1966 Nancy Sinatra Boots album
1966 Otis Redding Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul album
1967 Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions album of recordings from 5 days with BBC's Radio One, released in 1988.
1974 Electric Light Orchestra Long Beach live album and single in Germany and the Netherlands
1975 Anne Murray Highly Prized Possession album, and a minor hit single, reaching #59 on the Billboard charts
1978 Whitesnake Trouble
1979 James Taylor Flag album
1980 Cheap Trick Found All The Parts live 10" EP
1980 Sham 69 The Game
1980 Yellow Magic Orchestra Public Pressure live album
1984 Devo 4th Dimension borrowed riff
1976 Skyhooks Million Dollar Riff borrowed riff
1987 Bad Brains The Youth Are Getting Restless live album
1991 Daniel Ash Coming Down album
1994 Gene Wooten "The Great Dobro Sessions album of dobro players.
1996 Ocean Colour Scene single with members of Oasis
1999 tok tok tok 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Album of German Jazz Award winning soul-acousic band, Day Tripper to re-appear on 2005 compilation "I wish"
1999 Type O Negative World Coming Down album
2000 Simply Uncanny Heads over Heels demo album
2001 The Bollock Brothers '77 '78 '79 – The Bollock Brothers album
2001 Ian Hunter Missing In Action live album
2004 The Punkles Pistol album
2006 Tommy Shaw Butchering the Beatles: A Headbashing Tribute Compilation Album
2008 David Cook Day Tripper (American Idol Studio Version)- Single American Idol Season 7

Cultural references

  • The Police incorporated part of the riff into "O My God", from 1983's Synchronicity. It can be heard in the introduction and chorus call "Fill it up".
  • In 1984, Devo reused "Day Tripper"'s riff in "The 4th Dimension" on their album Shout!.
  • Johnny Marr of The Smiths incorporated the riff from "Day Tripper" in live versions of the band's early song, "Jeane".
  • The song is featured in the TV show The Mighty Boosh, near the end of the episode "Jungle". Vince Noir and mod-wolves are seen dancing to the song.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Mark Lewisohn (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. p. 64. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
  2. ^ a b David Sheff (interviewer) (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 177. ISBN 0-312-25464-4. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ Jann S. Wenner (interviewer) (2000). Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in Rolling Stone magazine). London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ a b c Barry Miles (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company. pp. 209–210. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6.
  5. ^ The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 177. ISBN 0-8118-2684-8.
  6. ^ Ian MacDonald (1994). Revolution in the Head: the Beatles' Records and the Sixties. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 134. ISBN 0-8050-2780-7.
  7. ^ "What Goes On - Day Tripper". Retrieved 2007-02-27.
Preceded by UK number one single
December 16 1965 (5 weeks) 		Succeeded by
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