"Fixing a Hole"

When I listened to the second disc of the 2 CD Anniversary Edition of Sgt. Pepper a few days ago, I noticed something about "Fixing a Hole."  The version on the second disc is a different take from the one that ended up on the completed album, but both have this same feature: the "go" in the line "Where it will go" is sung with a glissando (Ab down to F), which gives a musical impression of "go[ing]."

"Good Morning Good Morning"

The second thing I noticed when I listened to the 2 CD Anniversary Edition of Sgt. Pepper recently is the saxophone parts in "Good Morning Good Morning."  During most of the repeated "Good morning..." sections and throughout the "Ev'rybody knows there's nothing doing" and "People runnin' 'round; it's five o'clock" sections, the saxophones arpeggiate A major and D major chords.  Something like:

(I guessed on the key, and the rhythm of the eighth notes might not be strictly accurate.)

It seemed that arpeggiating the chords with saxophones like this was a relatively common feature of 1950s rock and roll, but I had to do some searching before I found any specific songs that do this.  Of the songs I found, the most well-known is probably Fats Domino's "Blue Monday" (which also seems to have inspired "Lady Madonna").  Like these sections of "Good Morning Good Morning," the saxophones in "Blue Monday" arpeggiate chords, playing the root, third, and fifth (although the root is played twice in succession and the rhythms of the two parts are different).

Of course, I'm not sure if the saxophones in "Good Morning Good Morning" are meant to be reminiscent of "Blue Monday" or even any song in particular, but they do have a certain similarity.

"Within You Without You"

I recently acquired the 2 CD Anniversary Edition of Sgt. Pepper, which I first listened to last night.  I noticed a couple small things, and I plan to write a few posts about them over the course of the next few days.

In "Within You Without You," the "away" in the line "When they pass away" is sung with a melisma (going back and forth between Gb and F).  This provides a musical sense of movement, namely that "pass[ing] away."