Paul wanted a 'brass band sound' on the song - so there was only one place to go
Paul McCartney plays trumpet playing with Black dyke mills brass band accompanied by Martha the Old English sheepdog in Saltaire June 1968 Picture: .A renowned journalist, in 2009 Hall made a Sony Radio award-winning radio documentary about The Beatles with his friend Radio 2 presenter, Bob Harris and his wife Trudy
After struggling to recreate the brass band sound he wanted for Thingumybob, it was James Taylor who told McCartney: “Seems to me the only way to get a brass band sound on a gramophone record, is to use a brass band’. He interviewed John Clay, who played the cornet and flugelhorn with the Black Dyke Mills Band and participated in the recording of ‘Thingumybob’, who in turn paid tribute to the band’s conductor Geofffrey Brand who later took them on to win the World Championships.
Just three weeks later Paul McCartney was in Saltaire ready to record with the Black Dyke Mills Band at the Victoria Hall in Saltaire near Bradford.“The session was booked for Sunday morning, 30 June. It had to be in the morning because we had a booking that same day to play in the afternoon at Thorne Park, near Doncaster,” recalls Clay. “We were booked to play twice, from 3pm to 5pm and from 7pm to 9pm.
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