

"All Together Now" appears in an animated sequence in the film Yellow Submarine, and is also introduced by the Beatles themselves in a final live-action scene of the film.

( June 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Mark Lewisohn reported that the "party-style" backing vocals were provided by "whoever happened to be around".

George Harrison – backing vocals, acoustic guitar, handclaps.John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocals (middle eight), backing vocals, ukulele, banjo, harmonica, handclaps.Paul McCartney – lead vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, handclaps, percussion.The song took less than six hours to record and was recorded in nine takes, the last of which was selected for overdubs. George Martin was absent from this session, leaving recording engineer Geoff Emerick in charge of the control room. The track was recorded on at EMI Studios and mixed the same day, but was not released until 13 January 1969, when it appeared on the soundtrack album. He also described a "subcurrent" in the song, a dual-meaning where "we are all together now.” According to music critic Tom Maginnis of AllMusic, McCartney created the song "to match the same light-hearted spirit" of " Yellow Submarine". McCartney described the song as a children's sing-along with the title phrase inspired by the music hall tradition of asking the audience to join in.
