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Originally Posted by Daoust
Were the Beatles one of the first bands to incorporate the orchestra? Like in Day In The Life???
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Beatles tested the water with a string quartet on "Yesterday" in 1965 and "Eleanor Rigby" in 1966. Full orchestra on Sgt. Pepper in 1967.
The orchestra is a timbre, just like any other tone color available to a composer. Some songwriters might want a cowbell here, a full orchestra there. The challenge, as a listener, is to deny associating an orchestra with a social class of person, and appreciate it for the sound value it contains in that particular composition.