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2009-11-11 15:00
All I've Got to Do is one of several John Lennon compositions inspired by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (You Can Depend on Me). It is track two on the Beatles' second album, With The Beatles. The Beatles never performed this song live. One theory...
2009-11-11 15:21
Bad to Me was never recorded by The Beatles. John Lennon wrote it for Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, who released it in 1963. It was that group's first number one song in the UK. The next year it climbed to number 9 in the US charts. Kramer...
2009-11-11 15:22
Ballad of John and Yoko was written mainly by John Lennon in April of 1969 and released a month later as a single in the UK. The song, in traditional ballad style, narrates the events of John's marriage to Yoko Ono and their life afterwards. It...
2009-11-11 15:45
Come Together was recorded in late July of 1969 and released on the Abbey Road album in September of 1969. Lennon wrote the song as a gesture of support for Timothy Leary, famed pro-drug activist, psychologist, writer and gad-fly to the conventional...
2009-11-11 15:43
Come and Get It is credited to Lennon/McCartney, but was a 100% McCartney composition. On the morning of July 24, 1969 Paul recorded this song all by himself as a demo, before the recording sessions for the Abbey Road album started. Lennon was...
2009-11-11 15:42
Clarabella was written by Frank Pingatore and recorded originally by the Jodimars in 1956. This group was comprised of former members of Bill Haley's comets (Joey Ambrose, Dick Bocelli and Marshall Lytle), who had quit in a dispute over wages. The...
2009-11-11 15:35
On November 28, 1967, The Beatles produced a fan club disc called Christmas 1967 (a "flexi-disc" pressed by Lyntone Records). It contained the expected mélange of patter, commentaries and jokes. It also contained the highly improvisational...
2009-11-11 15:34
Chains was first recorded in 1962 by the Cookies, a female group that had evolved from the "Raylettes," Ray Charles' back-up singers. It was somewhat well-known in the States, but in Britain it achieved wide popularity. The Beatles covered the song...
2009-11-11 15:33
Paul McCartney wrote Cayenne in the late 1950's or in 1960. It has always been credited just to "McCartney" as opposed to "Lennon/McCartney," indicating that it is a pre-Beatles composition though recorded after their collaboration had begun. It...
2009-11-11 15:33
The credit for Carry That Weight goes to all four Beatles, something of a rarity, though it was written by Paul McCartney. It is part two of the long medley that completes the album, Abbey Road. Golden Slumbers precedes it, and The End follows it....

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