The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Yellow Submarine.” “Yellow Submarine” is on The Beatles “Revolver” album. The song was written by Paul and John aas a song for Ringo to sing. Most of the credit for writing the song goes to Paul. Paul would say “I wrote that in bed one night as a kid’s story. And then we thought it would be good for Ringo to do. Donovan also helped with the lyrics the ‘sky of blue sea of green” was his line. “Yellow Submarine” is the first Beatles song that I can remember hearing and it is one of The Beatles best known songs, especially among kids. The song was released as a b-side to “Eleanor Rigby.” “Yellow Submarine” was the bigger hit in the United States where it reached #2 on the charts.John Lennon:backing vocal, shouting and acoustic guitar/ Paul McCartney: backing vocal, shouting and bass guitar/ George Harrison: backing vocal and tambourine/ Ringo Starr: drums and vocals/ Mal Evans: bass drum/ Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall. George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Patti Harrison, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithful, Alf Bicknell-backing vocals. The song was recorded on May 26th and June 1st, 1966 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “Yellow Submarine” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ****

• “Yellow Submarine” was ranked by Rolling Stone Magazines “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” at #74. Spignesi and Lewis did not rank the song in their top 100 in “100 Best Beatles Songs.”
• Length of song 2:38.

Yellow Submarine {Lennon-McCartney}