Kids from all over the bloody world were shouting at me, ‘Why did you press that button?’”Ī few years after this movie, a similarly musically trippy animated film came out, this time associated with the music of Beatles ally and friend, Harry Nilsson. “The first year it was out, I had all these kids coming up to me, ‘Why did you press the button?’ I pressed that button and got shot out. Ringo once spoke of his greatest memory associated with the movie. The image of the film’s yellow submarine is easily identifiable in 2018, a year in which Ringo Starr still tours at age 78, singing “Yellow Submarine” every time he takes the stage.
The Beatles had been in cartoons several years ahead of the Yellow Submarine feature film, but it was this particular imaginative journey that seemed to capture them at their most psychedelically accessible.
Old submarine cartoon show series#
Beat Bugs is pretty sophisticated 3D animation, and famous musicians like Sia, The Shins, and Pink often perform The Beatles songs included on the series about five insects. Both of the kids were already familiar with that song, as it’s the theme song to the Beat Bugs cartoon series, the latest deliberate move to expose another generation to Beatles music. I pulled out Magical Mystery Tour on vinyl, which, like the animated film, includes “All You Need Is Love,” a perfect song to introduce to small children. The coolest thing about that is that it didn’t come from me but from his parents! And he really loves my little yellow submarine Christmas ornament.Ī few months ago, he and my five-year-old granddaughter marched into my record room asking to listen to records. And my three-year-old grandson already has a Yellow Submarine shirt. I said, “yes,” and she bought it along with her Yellow Submarine VHS. “Is this the record you said was great?” she asked me, holding up an Ian Hunter album that she’d overheard me identify to someone else as a classic. “And I’m so glad my dad still has a player so I can play this!” She said she was fourteen when she first saw it, so now she’s poised to take The Beatles into adulthood.
I began talking with her about it, and I asked her how old she was. In a record store just last week, I saw a young woman holding a used VHS tape of Yellow Submarine. The animated Beatles' film "Yellow Submarine" in VHS format.
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