Monday, May 21, 2018

"Here, There, and Everywhere"

Yester-day I started reading the entry for 14 June 1966 in Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.  This was the first session for "Here, There, and Everywhere," and just in reading the title, I realized something about the song.  At the end, the three syllables of "ev'rywhere" are all sung to different pitches: D B G in the line "I will be there and ev'rywhere" and D F# G in the line "Here, there, and ev'rywhere."  Because the syllables are all sung to different pitches (with spans of a fifth and a fourth, respectively), there's a musical sense of the breadth of "ev'rywhere."