"The Night Before"

I watched Help! back in June, and during the sequence for "The Night Before," I noticed that the bass part for the verses lookt to be mostly fourths and fifths.  I sort of forgot about this until late October, when I learned most of the bass part.  While I was writing it out in early November, I figured out the sections I was missing (the bridges).

Here's the notation, but - as always - there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong (I'm a bit suspicious of some of the note and rest values in the introductory section, but I'm pretty sure I have the right pitches, at least):

"Julia"

An-other thing I noticed when I listened to The Beatles last week is that in "Julia," both "shimmering" and "glimmering" in "Her hair of floating sky is shimmering / Glimmering" are sung with melismas (A G# F# D for each).  To some degree, this gives a sense of the meaning of those words, specifically the wavering involved in both.

"I'm So Tired"

Thursday was the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Beatles (22 November 1968).  I listened to the album and found a couple small things to write about.

I'm surprised I hadn't noticed this before, but some of the "so"s in "I'm So Tired" are sung with melismas (either B A B or C# B A B), indicating the degree of tiredness.