There is some odd, non-Beatle talking throughout the "Magical Mystery Tour" song "I Am the Walrus." What is it?

casperone123

a snippet from a BBC radio production of Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of King Lear," Act IV Scene VI. During the song's mixing John was playing around with the tuning dial of a radio and fed the signal into its background track. Two of the lines heard clearly included "... bury my body" and "O, untimely death," Jun 21 06, 8:06 AM

dino335

"...a choir of 16 voices variously singing 'Ho'ho'ho, hee-hee-hee, ha-ha-ha', 'Oompah, oompah, stick it in your jumper!', 'Got one one, got one', everybody's got one' and making a series of shrill whooping noises." The choir were eight men and eight women from the Mike Sammes singer. This according to George Martin page 127, "The Beatle's Recording Sessions" ------- Both are on the record. I suppose the choir is technically "singing". The radio feed is described as "making that unique night time sound of being flicked through foriegn stations . The tuning dial eventually cam to rest on BBC Third Program...while a 190 minute production of ... King Lear was being broadcast...The Shakespeare broadcast is particularly eveident at the end of the song." (also from the book previously mentioned) Jun 21 06, 8:08 AM

CumftblyNumb

Not sure about all the way through but I know some voices on it were from Shakespeare (King Lear Act IV Scene VI), that were taken from a BBC broadcast at the time The Beatles recorded this. Jun 21 06, 8:52 AM

snowconeboy789

The talking is from a BBC performance of The Tragedy of King Lear by Shakespeare. It was on the radio while they were recording the song. Read the I Am The Walrus section here: http://wgo.signal11.org.uk/html/content/i.htm#iatw for the words that are being said, and when. May 01 11, 10:30 AM