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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. ==Background and composition== A friend of the Beatles since 1960,〔Rodriguez, pp. 83, 85.〕 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.〔Leng, pp. 138–39.〕 In addition to Starr's former Beatles bandmates and Voormann, the participants included Mal Evans,〔O'Dell, pp. 246–47.〕 originally a roadie for the group〔Clayson, pp. 105–06.〕 and, by the late 1960s, an occasional lyricist, Apple Records A&R scout, and music producer.〔Spizer, pp. 50, 338, 341.〕 Evans also managed Splinter, a South Shields duo who began working with George Harrison in early 1973,〔Leng, p. 142.〕 initially on the soundtrack for Apple Films' ''Little Malcolm''.〔Badman, pp. 90, 129.〕〔Michael Simmons, "Cry for a Shadow", ''Mojo'', November 2011, pp. 84–85.〕 In March that year, when sessions for ''Ringo'' were under way in Hollywood,〔Madinger & Easter, pp. 500–01.〕 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,〔Rodriguez, p. 35.〕 after which Harrison reworked the composition on a piano.〔Spizer, p. 308.〕 Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner describes the song as "a showbizzy send-off",〔Schaffner, p. 161.〕 as the lyrics allow Starr to farewell the listener:〔Inglis, p. 56.〕 Author Ian Inglis notes the similarity between "You and Me (Babe)" and the Beatles songs "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heats Club Band" and "Good Night", through its incorporation of a songwriting device whereby the performer directly addresses his audience.〔 In the two middle eights, the lyrics refer to the convivial atmosphere that was a feature of the Los Angeles sessions〔 – in the lines "''I wanna tell you the pleasure really was mine / Yes, I had a good time, singing and drinking some wine''" – before Starr concludes the second middle eight with a message to LP listeners:〔 Another reference to the album comes in Starr's spoken line during the playout: "''Well, it's the end of the night and I'd just like to say thank you to everyone involved in this piece of plastic we're making ...''"〔 He then names three of the main session musicians on ''Ringo''〔 – fellow drummer Jim Keltner, Voormann and keyboard player Nicky Hopkins – before similarly thanking Harrison, ex-Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney, producer Richard Perry, sound engineer Bill Schnee, and songwriter Vince Poncia.〔("Ringo Starr – You and Me (Babe)" ), metrolyrics.com (retrieved 30 June 2013).〕 Author Robert Rodriguez views Harrison's role in finishing "You and Me (Babe)" as "()ssisting the nascent songwriting career" of Evans,〔Rodriguez, p. 158.〕 who co-wrote Splinter's "Lonely Man" around this time.〔Castleman & Podrazik, p. 370.〕 Evans had also provided uncredited assistance to McCartney in 1967 on song lyrics for the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' album.〔Rodriguez, p. 241.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「You and Me (Babe)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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