Wednesday, November 20, 2019

"All My Loving"

I listened to the second disc of Live at the BBC this morning and noticed a small feature in "All My Loving" (which is also in the studio version).  In one of the "all my loving"s in the coda (at ~1:53 in the studio version), the "all" is sung with a melisma (G# E F#, I think), musically giving a sense of that entirety.  The melisma is slightly different in the live versions (I think it's G# F# E in the BBC version, just G# E in the Live at the Hollywood Bowl version, and - oddly - G F Eb in the live version on Anthology 1), but it's clearly written as a feature of the song.