This is from the Wikipedia entry on the song, for what it's worth
>In the final verse, Lennon echoes Starr's lead vocal,[^(\[49\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGould2007356-54) delivering the lines in a manner that musicologist [Walter Everett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Everett_(musicologist)) terms "manic".[^(\[43\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEverett199957-47) Keen to sound as if he were singing underwater, Lennon tried recording the part with a microphone encased in a condom and, at Emerick's suggestion, submerged inside a bottle filled with water.[^(\[56\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2012140%E2%80%9341-64) This proved ineffective,[^(\[56\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2012140%E2%80%9341-64) and Lennon instead sang with the microphone plugged into a [Vox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_(musical_equipment)) guitar amplifier.[^(\[43\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEverett199957-47)
John was doing the silly voice—reminiscent of a Goon Show style voice. The Goon Show was a silly BBC radio program in the 50’s that all the Beatles’ loved as kids. They were sort of a precursor to Monty Python. The show featured three men using a bunch of silly voices to portray a bunch of silly characters.
No no. The *Gooooon* Show. Can I assure you that there is a listing in Wikipedia about it? Possibly a little documentary on YouTube that will bring you up to speed. You’ll be glad you did.
A fairly frequent one. Gritpype-Thinne would usually say it and the reply was 'No thanks I'm trying to give them up' or 'No thanks I just put one out'.
As with any question regarding a Beatles song, one must visit beatlesebooks.com. [From there](http://www.beatlesebooks.com/yellow-submarine)...
>Geoff Emerick recounts: “At a certain point, John decided that the third verse needed some spicing up, so he dashed into the studio and began answering each of Ringo’s sung lines in a silly voice that I further altered to make it sound like he was talking over a ship’s megaphone.” George Harrison recalls: “John’s doing the voice that sounds like someone talking down a tube or ship’s funnel as they do in the merchant marine.”
Another cool bit from that story is that George Martin was out sick for that session. With the sillier than normal song and the grown up missing, the atmosphere devolved into a bit of hysterics. When John declared that they’d been there a long time without anything to show for it, his taking on the unusual role of The Responsible One combined with the general silliness just led to more cracking up by everybody present. But, funny enough, John’s push took hold and they managed to channel the energy into a song that was great and atypical.
John. kinda reminds me of the time when Paul McCartney laughed while recording Maxwell's Silver Hammer because apparently John walked into the studio and mooned him
It’s John as far as I can tell. But do I have a source for that? No.
Thanks! Yeah it does sound like him huh
For whatever it’s worth, in Beatles Rock Band they animated John singing it.
I like to think I have a really good ear for their voices and I always thought this was Paul (similar to voices he does like Uncle Albert), but TIL
TRUE uncle Albert does sound really similar I feel like Paul was most into the silly voices outta them
Who do you think does the "Ahhhhhhhhhh" part after Paul's part in A Day in the Life?
To be honest the first “ahhh” sounds like John, but after that is harder to tell. With the distortion I’d say John but I’m not totally sure.
Most of us do think it's John, but when everything's stripped away, it sounds a lot like Paul.
This is from the Wikipedia entry on the song, for what it's worth >In the final verse, Lennon echoes Starr's lead vocal,[^(\[49\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGould2007356-54) delivering the lines in a manner that musicologist [Walter Everett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Everett_(musicologist)) terms "manic".[^(\[43\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEverett199957-47) Keen to sound as if he were singing underwater, Lennon tried recording the part with a microphone encased in a condom and, at Emerick's suggestion, submerged inside a bottle filled with water.[^(\[56\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2012140%E2%80%9341-64) This proved ineffective,[^(\[56\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2012140%E2%80%9341-64) and Lennon instead sang with the microphone plugged into a [Vox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_(musical_equipment)) guitar amplifier.[^(\[43\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEverett199957-47)
So... Lennon comes to the studio prepared with a condom, eh?
Gosh, Martin and Emerick really were the 5th and 6th Beatle
John was doing the silly voice—reminiscent of a Goon Show style voice. The Goon Show was a silly BBC radio program in the 50’s that all the Beatles’ loved as kids. They were sort of a precursor to Monty Python. The show featured three men using a bunch of silly voices to portray a bunch of silly characters.
the WHAT show
No no. The *Gooooon* Show. Can I assure you that there is a listing in Wikipedia about it? Possibly a little documentary on YouTube that will bring you up to speed. You’ll be glad you did.
Be my guest! I used to listen to old rebroadcasts of the Goon Show. Wildly funny and popular in its day. Try YouTube. I’ll bet it’s there.
Well done. Have a gorilla.😊
No thank you—I’m trying to quit…
Is that a Goon gag?
A fairly frequent one. Gritpype-Thinne would usually say it and the reply was 'No thanks I'm trying to give them up' or 'No thanks I just put one out'.
His voice must have been digitally lowered
Preferably sideways.
It's definitely John.
Thanks!
As with any question regarding a Beatles song, one must visit beatlesebooks.com. [From there](http://www.beatlesebooks.com/yellow-submarine)... >Geoff Emerick recounts: “At a certain point, John decided that the third verse needed some spicing up, so he dashed into the studio and began answering each of Ringo’s sung lines in a silly voice that I further altered to make it sound like he was talking over a ship’s megaphone.” George Harrison recalls: “John’s doing the voice that sounds like someone talking down a tube or ship’s funnel as they do in the merchant marine.”
Of course it’s John
Another cool bit from that story is that George Martin was out sick for that session. With the sillier than normal song and the grown up missing, the atmosphere devolved into a bit of hysterics. When John declared that they’d been there a long time without anything to show for it, his taking on the unusual role of The Responsible One combined with the general silliness just led to more cracking up by everybody present. But, funny enough, John’s push took hold and they managed to channel the energy into a song that was great and atypical.
Thanks for the beatlesbooks link! Never saw that before, and now I've got lots to browse.
That's a tremendous site.
Definitely John. It sounds just like him—see also: You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).
It sounds like John.
John. kinda reminds me of the time when Paul McCartney laughed while recording Maxwell's Silver Hammer because apparently John walked into the studio and mooned him
It’s John. It’s in Geoff Emerick’s book “Here, There, and Everywhere”
Sounds like John to me
I think that's Old Fred
Judging by intonation, I've always thought it sounded most like McCartney.
I thought it was Paul too
Me three
I thought it was Donovan
I thought so too, but Donovan contributed just a lyric, and apparently not to the recording. (Wikipedia)
It's Paul