An outtake of John and Paul singing "Two of us" in a Scottish accent. Delightful results, particularly in the middle of the song.
The video to the song is not original. It is a footage of the band rehearsing "Two of us" from another session (in which Paul breaks into an Elvis impersonation..)
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heh!
*though I have to admit a good scots accent is a thing of beauty*
Yeah let's hear Robert Burns sing "Helter Skelter"
I wish they had sung in an English accent sometimes. Lennon's spoken-voice Liverpudlian accent was so totally different from his singing, it sounded like a different person. As many people noted last year, that was Syd Barrett's major contribution -- to Englishify rock'n'roll. And Ian Anderson took it further.
Rahul: I know what you mean. But almost the entire '64 British Invasion crowd was influenced by American musicians (and were selling into the bigger American market...) Floyd really became big here in '72-'73 (almost the same time as Tull)
what about numbers like you know my name (look up the number) types? i thought they had a faint tang of geoffrey boycott speak, no?
but generally, yeah. they were all trying to be elvis back then.
Well, "you know my name" is just weird... The Who have English themes now and then ("I want to play cricket on the green", etc) but I'm not sure what to call their accent. By the late '60s I think British musicians should have been sufficiently self-confident to not require Americanising themselves. And there were Brits, like Cliff Richard, who, despite Americanising themselves, never really penetrated the US market but were very successful at home.
Rahul: So this is the "Indian Writers in English" problem being discussed in the context of rock music? :)
Space bar: Did you just say "a faint tang of Geoffrey Boycott"? OMG.
:D why?
(i ain't admitting nuthin')
I never knew poets made references to retired cricketers.
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