Yellow Submarine (song)

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"Yellow Submarine" is a 1966 song by The Beatles (written by Paul McCartney, but attributed to Lennon-McCartney) and a 1968 animated United Artists film based on the music of The Beatles. It is also the title for the soundtrack album to the film, released as part of The Beatles' music catalogue.

The 45 disc single of "Yellow Submarine" was The Beatles' thirteenth UK single. Ringo Starr performed lead vocals. It was released in Britain on August 5 1966 and in the United States on August 8. It includes uncredited lyric contributions and (probable) backing vocals by Donovan, and was promoted in Britain as a 'double A side' with its flip side, "Eleanor Rigby".

The single went to #1 on every major British chart, remained at #1 for four weeks and charted for 13 weeks. It won an Ivor Novello Award for the highest certified sales of any single issued in the UK in 1966. No promotional film clip was made, so some TV programs (including the BBC's Top Of The Pops) created their own clips from stock footage.

Following its release in the summer of 1966, the song received bad publicity through rumors that it referred to hallucinogenic Nembutal capsules. McCartney vehemently denied the allegations, saying he had written the song as a children's tune.

In the United States, the single was #2 on the Billboard "Hot 100", and #1 in Record World and #2 in Cashbox, where it was held off #1 by The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love". The single was released at the height of the controversy surrounding John Lennon's comments about The Beatles being "more popular than Jesus" and this has been cited as part of the reason that it failed to reach #1 on all US charts. Despite this, it sold 1,200,000 copies in only four weeks and earned The Beatles their twenty-first US Gold Record award, beating the record set by Elvis Presley.

In 1968, The Beatles' own Apple Records label issued a single by the Black Dyke Mills Band - a brass band - which featured a cover version of "Yellow Submarine" as the B-side.

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The Beatles
Singles
All You Need Is Love \| Baby It's You \| The Ballad of John and Yoko \| Can't Buy Me Love \| Come Together \| Day Tripper \| Do You Want to Know a Secret? \| Eight Days a Week \| Eleanor Rigby \| Free as a Bird \| From Me to You \| Get Back \| Got to Get You into My Life \| A Hard Day's Night \| Hello Goodbye \| Help! \| Hey Jude \| I Feel Fine \| I Want to Hold Your Hand (Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand) \| Lady Madonna \| Let It Be \| The Long and Winding Road \| Love Me Do \| Matchbox \| Beatles Movie Medley \| Nowhere Man \| Paperback Writer \| Penny Lane \| Please Please Me \| Rain \| Real Love \| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band \| She Loves You (Sie Liebt Dich) \| Slow Down \| Something \| Strawberry Fields Forever \| Ticket to Ride \| Twist and Shout \| We Can Work It Out \| Yellow Submarine \| Yesterday
B-sides
Ask Me Why \| Baby You're a Rich Man \| Baby's in Black \| Don't Let Me Down \| For You Blue \| I Am the Walrus \| I Don't Want to Spoil the Party \| I'll Get You \| I'm Down \| Matchbox \| Old Brown Shoe \| P.S. I Love You \| Revolution \| Rock and Roll Music \| She's a Woman \| Thank You Girl \| The Inner Light \| Things We Said Today \| This Boy \| What Goes On \| Yes It Is \| You Can't Do That \| You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
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