You and Me (Babe)
| "You and Me (Babe)" | |
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| Song by Ringo Starr | |
| from the album Ringo | |
| Published | Harrisongs |
| Released | 2 November 1973 |
| Genre | Rock, pop |
| Length | 4:59 |
| Label | Apple |
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison, Mal Evans |
| Producer(s) | Richard Perry |
| Ringo track listing | |
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10 tracks
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"You and Me (Babe)" is a song by English musician Ringo Starr, released as the final track on his 1973 album Ringo. Starr's fellow ex-Beatle George Harrison wrote the song along with Mal Evans, the Beatles' longtime aide and a personal assistant to Starr during the making of Ringo. The track serves as a farewell from Starr to his audience in the manner of a show-closing finale, by lyrically referring to the completion of the album. During the extended fadeout, Starr delivers a spoken message in which he thanks the musicians and studio personnel who helped with the recording of Ringo – among them, Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and his producer, Richard Perry.
The recording of "You and Me (Babe)" features a series of well-regarded guitar solos from Harrison, and backing from musicians such as Nicky Hopkins and Klaus Voormann. Jack Nitzsche and Tom Scott contributed the song's musical arrangements.
A friend of the Beatles since 1960, German musician and artist Klaus Voormann has suggested that Ringo Starr's first rock solo album, Ringo, elicited a Concert for Bangladesh-style spirit of goodwill from Starr's key collaborators on the project. In addition to Starr's former Beatles bandmates and Voormann, the participants included Mal Evans, originally a roadie for the group and, by the late 1960s, an occasional lyricist, Apple Records A&R scout, and music producer. Evans also managed Splinter, a South Shields duo who began working with George Harrison in early 1973, initially on the soundtrack for Apple Films' Little Malcolm. In March that year, when sessions for Ringo were under way in Hollywood, Harrison and Evans shared a house in Los Angeles and co-wrote a song for Starr's album, titled "You and Me (Babe)". Evans had some lyrics for what he termed "a meditation song", and asked Harrison for help with the melody, after which Harrison reworked the composition on a piano.
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