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Not a Second Time by the Beatles 1963. Piano, bass, percussion. From the album "With the Beatles". (MagicSF 2)
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D Camp's fictitious chamber orchestra. Composed or re-arranged by D Camp. Enjoy.
I am Mr D Camp. My hobby is composing and arranging tunes using music software. Ever since I could listen to music, I always wished I could re-arrange it. I did not have a group of musicians. Now in the computer age with music software I am able to listen to what I hear in my head. The 178th street chamber orchestra is my fictitious group of virtual musicians who sometimes collaborate with other fictitious groups such as the Bathgate Avenue Boys Choir or the Beneath-the-Expressway Rhythm Kings. I compose original tunes. I re-arrange existing tunes. I try to keep these as short as possible. Two minutes is an epic. Some are easy listening. Some are experimental. I do this for my personal enjoyment but I hope you enjoy too. Thank you.
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Chamber Music
Charts
Peak #25
Peak in subgenre #3
Uploaded
November 22, 2020
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.2 MB • 128 kbps • 1:20
Story behind the song
For your enhanced experience, listen to the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8dTDuRCOk Liner notes: Why "Not A Second Time"? Well, recently I read an article listing The Beatle most under-rated songs per album. "Not A Second Time" made the list. I went back to the CD and listened and listened again and again. Couldn't stop. Then I googled. I was surprised to see how much was written about this song. Some features about the original: 1. Structure is unusual. Two verse lines of 7 bars each. Not 4 or 8 or 16. Then a refrain of 10 bars. Again not 4, 8, 16. Then an instrumental piano solo of the REFRAIN. Not the verse. Very unusual. Beatles producer Sir George Martin plays this piano solo in the lower register. I believe he does so because this is a sad song. Girl dumps boy. Boy cried (actually cr-i-i-i-ied). Girl changes her mind. Boy does not want to cry again. Not a second time. 2. To add to the sadness, in the line "Not a second time" the D7 chord does not lead back to the expected G major chord but to the unexpected sad E minor chord. At the time a classical music critic wrote that this as an example of "aolian cadence" and compared it to a work by Gustav Mahler. The Beatles had instant intellectual street cred (if there is such a thing). Later John Lennon said he thought "aolian cadence" were exotic birds. 3. "Not A Second Time" was written by John. And it was sung by him on two tracks which is not easy as there are numerous eighth notes. I've said it before. John Lennon was consistently a very good singer. Much more so than Sir Paul. The Anthology CDs will back me up on that. Regardless, at the very end you hear that the two tracks strayed a bit. But the Beatles liked it and they kept it in. 4. One of Lennon's early influences was Motown. For this song he later said "I was writing a Smokey Robinson". I heard this. I wondered how it would sound on the piano and a bit slower with a bit of a Latin feel. So that's what I did. Not much more. Didn't need to. I do the tune once and then add my coda.
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