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Your favorite Yoko song

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I suppose mine would be "Mind Train" but I really love the entire Fly album.
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Walking on Thin Ice, followed by Remember Love
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"Oh My Love", as sung by Cilla Black and arranged/produced by George Martin is a good simulation of what Yoko might have sounded like if she'd had vocal training (or was a naturally gifted vocalist) and allowed herself to be produced by GM. As she both inspired and co-wrote the song, I'll stretch the boundaries of the definition of what you'd call a "Yoko song" and call it a "Yoko song"!!



Same deal for "Because", to be fair about it: it could have been interesting to hear Yoko sing on that, with her vocal enveloped by triple-tracked harmonies from John, Paul and George. If that didn't work (and sounded discordant) only because of Yoko's vocal limitations, then it would be comparable to the version of "Because" produced by GM (with Geoff Emerick's help) featuring the harmonies of The Bee Gees as a silky smooth backdrop to the drab voice of Alice Cooper...!!!

"Song For John" is a nice one, though recorded on a cassette by the sound of things.

"Sakura", the traditional Japanese folk song, as performed on TV with John on acoustic guitar is another nice one: maybe her musical and vocal sensibilities are better suited to pentatonic melodies?
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All good choices. Of course if we count co-written works, "Imagine" still remains a strong song 50 years later.

An odd thing I noticed and felt like I needed to point out is that Amazon Music (in the US) does not have any Yoko (solo) at all when I searched on it. The closest I got was somebody else covering "Listen The Snow Is Falling".

So if I did my own Yoko top 10:
01) Mind Train
02) Mrs. Lennon
03) Remember Love
04) Namyohorengekyo
05) Midsummer New York
06) Don't Worry Kyoko (POB w/ Eric Clapton version)
07) Hirake aka Open Your Box
08) I Lost Myself Somewhere In The Sky (a very pleasant surprise)
09) We're All Water
10) Cambridge 1969 (there's just nothing else like it that I can think of and it drastically changes any mood)

I suppose I'm more of a fan of her earlier experimental work but I haven't actually heard everything she's done. There is just so much pleasure to be found in the Beatles Universe.
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dumbchops wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 6:48 am I suppose mine would be "Mind Train" but I really love the entire Fly album.
I'm generally not a fan...but I do like Walking On Thin Ice.
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Remember Love, but mainly because of the backing.
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