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2009-11-11 20:57
Ticket to Ride was written mainly by John Lennon for the album, Help! (1965). It was the first Beatles' track to go over three minutes in length, and it marked a departure from the tried and true approaches to song writing that the pair had used up...
2009-11-11 20:57
The Coasters, a seminal rock and roll group from the 1950's with their own recognizable sound and almost comic good humor, popularized Three Cool Cats. Writing credits go to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It came out in 1959 on the b-side of the...
2009-11-11 20:37
Sure to Fall (In Love with You) is a Carl Perkins song, written by him with Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch. It came out in December, 1955 with Tennessee on the b-side. It was supposed to be his sequel to Blue Suede Shoes, but it did not chart....
2009-11-11 20:27
She Said She Said was written by John Lennon, who said it was an "acidy" song. The words came from an encounter on August 24, 1965 with Peter Fonda and members of the Byrds in Beverly Hills during a pause in their US tour. Fonda and the Byrds...
2009-11-11 20:36
John Lennon wrote Sun King for the Abbey Road album. It comes in the medley that ends the second side, in the number two position. Many confuse it with George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun, since the same lyric appears in the chorus with "King"...
2009-11-11 20:35
McCartney originally wrote Step Inside Love for Cilla Black in 1967, and she released it as a single in March of 1968. On September 16 in a free moment during the recording sessions for The White Album, Paul started adlibbing the song with acoustic...
2009-11-11 20:34
Some Other Guy is a well-known, traditional rock and roll song by Richard Bennet (with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) and performed by him on a 1962 single. The Beatles performed the song during 1962. In fact, their version of Some Other GuyI (...
2009-11-11 20:33
Arthur Alexander, a popular US singer of soul music, came out with Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) in 1962. The Beatles greatly admired Alexander, and immediately covered the song. (Alexander's song, Anna (Go to Him) was included on the...
2009-11-11 20:32
The songwriting credit for So How Come (No One Loves Me) goes to Felice Bryant. It was originally recorded in 1960 and came out as track 9 on the album, A Date with the Everly Brothers. In the Beatles version, George Harrison takes lead vocals with...
2009-11-11 20:31
Larry Williams originally wrote and performed Slow Down, which came out in the US in 1958. It is a fairly standard 12-bar blues, released on the b-side of another 12-bar blues, Dizzy Miss Lizzy. The Beatles covered both songs in their early years as...

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