Martha My Dear (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1968
From the album The Beatles (The White Album) (track #9)
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Martha My Dear appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- The Beatles (The White Album) (track #9) (this album) (1968)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #139) (compilation) (1988)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #130) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #119) (compilation) (1982)
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Pieza de cámara ligera y sutil, muy en línea McCartney, balanceando bien los elementos orquestales y la instrumentación eléctrica. Buena pieza
A very endearing love tune by Paul, written for his Martha, an Old English Sheepdog he owned at the time of recording the White Album. The music hall-inspired piano line with which the song opens, forms the base for the whole track and makes it a real earbug.
Good McCartney song. That's about everything I have to say about this. If I would write more about it, only "average Mc Cartney song" would remain in this comment.
I feel like Paul would have been happy just writing these kind of songs.
JulianR 08/14/2017 20:37 | #196049
an excellent track with a surprising amount of hidden complexity
One of those songs that, in my mind, shows McCartney could write tighter melodies than Lennon, at least on this album
Classic joyful Macca
Another decent McCartney track :)
Wings and solo career in a nutshell a couple of years before The Beatles end.
This a brilliant example of one of Paul McCartney's character songs. McCartney puts himself in the guise of an upper class MP, or at least something like that, to bring us this sweet and jaunty little old time number. Perfect in between John Lennon's darker and more introspective songs either side of this one on the album, it's another example of just how diverse and eclectic the White album actually is. Martha, by the way, was the name of McCartney's sheepdog.
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