LADY MADONNA * BAD PENNY BLUES *

THE BEATLES, Portada del single (para ESPAÑA ) de LADY MADONNA., el tema basado en BAD PENNY BLUES del Jazzista HUMPHREY LYTTELTON , o sea que todo parecido con la realidad es pura ... IMITACIÓN !! 

According to musicologist Walter Everett, "Lady Madonna" is a raucous rock and roll song.Paul 

McCartney based his piano part for the song on Humphrey Lyttelton's 1956 trad jazz recording "Bad Penny Blues".McCartney said of writing the song in a 1994 interview, "'Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing ... It reminded me of Fats Domino for some reason, so I started singing a Fats Domino impression. It took my other voice to a very odd place." Domino himself covered the song later in 1968. The Fats Domino hit "Blue Monday" from 1956 tracks the feelings of a hard working man over each day of the week. "Lady Madonna" imagines the situation from a woman's perspective

John Lennon helped write the lyrics, which give an account of an overworked, exhausted (possibly single) mother, facing a new problem each day of the week. McCartney explained the song by saying: "'Lady Madonna' started off as the Virgin Mary, then it was a working-class woman, of which obviously there's millions in Liverpool. There are a lot of Catholics in Liverpool because of the Irish connection." The lyrics include each day of the week except Saturday. In a 1992 interview, McCartney, who only realized the omission of Saturday many years later, half-jokingly suggested that, given the difficulties of the other six days, the woman in the song likely went out and had a good time that day.[citation needed]

Speaking later about the lyrics, Lennon said: "Maybe I helped him on some of the lyrics, but I'm not proud of them either way."

                             

"Written mostly by Paul McCartney and is credited to Lennon/McCartney. In March 1968 it was released as a single, backed by "the Inner Light". 

The song was recorded at Abbey Road Studios during sessions on 3 February and 6 February 1968, before the Beatles left for India. This single was the last release by the band on Parlophone in the UK and Capitol Records in the U.S.. All subsequent releases, starting with "Hey Jude" in August 1968, were released on their own label Apple."

The song, and in particular, the intro, is similar to Humphrey Lyttelton's "Bad Penny Blues" from 1956. John Lennon helped write the lyrics. The line "see how they run" was included after his suggestion (and was a theme that had been used in the previous year's "I Am the Walrus".

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Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band 1956 Bad Penny Blues: recorded in 1956 and released as single and rereleased as LP "Bad Penny Blues" This was a real class composition by Humph himself and features himself on trumpet. This one went into the hit parade and made Humph famous just at the time when the Trad Jazz boom was under way but for what ever reason one will never know Humph was already showing his tendancy towards more mainstream approach (by the inclusion of the sax into his front line) financially this was a huge blunder on his part coz everyone else were cruising along with six and seven piece bands and enjoying the Trad Jazz boom while Humph was working a much heavier man and lady front line at a time when Mainstream was not the vogue. Anyway that is history Humph made great contributions to Jazz: Trad, Mainstream, Modern and Swing. Furthermore his contributions in cartoonery (is that a word) in which he worked with Trao (Wally Fawkes), calligraphy he was elected president of the Society for Italic Handwriting, radio broadcasting the BBC gave him his own BBC series, The Best of Jazz, which he helmed for over four decades. Six years later, he was also appointed host of the spoof panel game I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue, a program notorious for its abundance of double entendres. He wrote, publishing a series of books including I Play as I Please, Second Course, Take It from the Top, Why No Beethoven, and It Just Occurred to Me ?, and for a time he even served as a restaurant critic. On March 11, 2008, he retired from The Best of Jazz. Weeks later, he died following heart surgery on April 25 2008. Thank you Humph for everything. The Band (Please check this): Humphrey Humph Lyttelton Tp; Wally Trog Fawkes Cl; Bruce Turner ASx & SSx; Johnny Parker Pn; Freddy Legon Gt/Bj; Micky Ashman Bs; George Hoppy Hopkinson Dr/WB. Submitted: ULAJAZZ