I_Want_To_Hold_Your_Hand_(Beatles_song_-_sample).ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 14 s, 65 kbps, file size: 111 KB)
Summary
- This media file has an associated English-language subtitle file TimedText:I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song - sample).ogg.en.srt
Description |
A short, relatively low-quality sound sample from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles. |
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Portion used |
Less than 10% of the original audio. (14 seconds from original 2:24.) |
Low resolution? |
Ogg Vorbis, quality zero (64 kbit/s) |
Other information |
This sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording. |
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Purpose of use |
This song is an example of an early Beatles pop rock recording. It demonstrates the band operating as a basic rock group—guitars, bass, drums and vocals— playing a simple, catchy pop tune. This contrasts with songs they would later create in an expanding range of musical styles, using an increasingly innovative combination of unusual instruments and studio techniques. Though early, it nevertheless demonstrates an advance the band had already made in its "incorporation of a harmonized release, which, for the first time on a Beatles single, supplied a strong musical and emotional contrast to the overall exuberance of the song". (Source: Gould, Jonathan (2008), Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6, p. 214.) The sample presents part of the second verse, towards the end of which the harmonization can be heard in the combined vocals of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Words alone are inadequate to describe the song, and presenting the sound of this song alongside later ones is necessary for a complete understanding of its nature and its contrast with material from other periods, and hence of the way the band's music evolved during their career. Additionally, this song is historically significant: its sudden huge popularity in the U.S. in late 1963 was a key moment in the group's success story, as detailed in the article. |
Replaceable? |
No free alternative for copyrighted audio recording |
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Purpose of use |
This sample illustrates an educational article, specifically to show an iconic song, which had a major impact on the development of the subject of the article and which is impossible to describe in text. |
Replaceable? |
No free alternative for copyrighted audio recording |
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Purpose of use |
This sample illustrates an educational article, specifically to show an iconic song, which had a major impact on the development of the subject of the article and which is impossible to describe in text. It is used specifically to support the following quote from Bob Dylan in reference to the song: "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid." |
Replaceable? |
No free alternative for copyrighted audio recording |
Licensing
![]() | This is a sound sample from a song, movie, sound effect, or other audio recording that is currently copyrighted. The copyright for it may be owned by the company who made it or the author. For a song, it may also be owned by the person(s) who performed it. It is believed that the use of this work qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law when used on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the U.S. by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, where:
A more detailed fair use rationale should be provided by the user who uploaded this sample.
Any other uses of this sample, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. If you are the copyright holder of this sample and you feel that its use here does not fall under "fair use", please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems for information on how to proceed. To the uploader: If this is a free, non-copyrighted audio recording, please post it to Wikimedia Commons instead. | ![]() |
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current | 15:20, 12 May 2007 | 14 s (111 KB) | Gurch (talk | contribs) | Reverted to earlier revision |
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Transcode status
Update transcode statusFormat | Bitrate | Download | Status | Encode time |
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MP3 | 209 kbps | Completed 04:22, 25 December 2017 | 1.0 s |
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