The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles

"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles"
"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles"
Single by the Residents
A-side	"Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life"
B-side	"Flying"
Released	1977
Genre	Experimental music
Label	Ralph Records
Songwriter(s)	Lennon–McCartney, Harrison, Roy Lee Johnson, Larry Williams, the Residents
The Residents singles chronology

"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" is a 1977 single by the Residents. The A-side, "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life", is an audio collage of recordings by the Beatles and John Lennon, with a looped clip from the Beatles' third Christmas record, in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we've tried."^[1]

The B-side, "Flying", is a cover of the Beatles song, selected because it (along with "Dig It") is one of the few songs to be credited to all four Beatles. At one point, one of the Residents quotes the clip from the McCartney interview used on the A-side and laughs maniacally.

The single, particularly the B-side, reflects the Residents' boredom with pop music and their tendency to perform deconstructionist covers, perhaps shown most notably on their album The Third Reich 'n Roll.

It was originally released as a 7" single that was limited and numbered to 500 copies, with three different hand-screened sleeves.^[2]

Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life

This track is a collage of recordings by the Beatles, plus one song by John Lennon. In addition to the snippet of dialogue from the 1965 Christmas record, the track contains the following songs:^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Records". The Internet Beatles Album. December 8, 2007. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
^ "The Residents - The Beatles Play The Residents And The Residents Play The Beatles (Vinyl)". Discogs. August 1977. Retrieved 2016-10-12.

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Studio albums	Meet the Residents The Third Reich 'n Roll Fingerprince Not Available Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen Eskimo Commercial Album Mark of the Mole The Tunes of Two Cities Title in Limbo George & James The Big Bubble Stars & Hank Forever God in Three Persons Buckaroo Blues The King & Eye Freak Show Our Finest Flowers Gingerbread Man Have a Bad Day Wormwood Demons Dance Alone 12 Days of Brumalia Animal Lover Tweedles The Voice of Midnight The Bunny Boy The Ughs! Lonely Teenager Coochie Brake The Ghost of Hope Intruders Metal, Meat & Bone
Soundtracks	Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? The Census Taker Hunters
Singles and extended plays	Santa Dog "Satisfaction" "The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" Duck Stab! "Santa Dog '78" Babyfingers Diskomo The Commercial Single Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" "Kaw-Liga" For Elsie "Hit the Road Jack" The Snakey Wake "Santa Dog 88" "Don't Be Cruel" Prelude to "The Teds" Pollex Christi
Live albums	The Mole Show Live at the Roxy The 13th Anniversary Show Live in the U.S.A. Cube E: Live in Holland Live at the Fillmore Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions Wormwood Live
Compilations	The Residents Radio Special Residue of the Residents Assorted Secrets Liver Music Residue Deux Refused Dot.Com
Videos and films	Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? Twenty Twisted Questions Icky Flix Eskimo
CD-ROMs	Freak Show Gingerbread Man Bad Day on the Midway
Remix albums	WB: RMX The King & Eye: RMX
Demo albums	The Warner Bros. Album
Related articles	Ralph Records Hardy Fox Snakefinger Vileness Fats Graeme Whifler Renaldo and the Loaf

Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life

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