The Beatles

Subject: The Beatles
From: 53
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:15 PM

What was your favorite song of the Beatles. This should be a easy one. I'm Looking through you, was mine. Bob

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:18 PM

How long have you got? Of the lesser known songs, I like "Two of Us", which opens "Let It Be".

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:19 PM

While My Guitar....

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:20 PM

In My Life

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:21 PM

So many, but "I'll be back" is top (for today, at least)

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:28 PM

Not at all easy, Bob. In fact it's making my head hurt trying to decide, so I've given up!

BJ

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:34 PM

Today? Rocky Raccoon.:-)

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 03:46 PM

I'm like you so many songs, so little time. Bob

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 05:46 PM

Another Day!

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 05:51 PM

Sorry Mrs Lemon, that isn't a Beatles song...

I know that it's in the 'Beatles Complete' chord book, but...

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: DancingMom
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 06:21 PM

Let it Be. Norgwegian Wood.

The Inner Light.

My Sweet Lord. Sorry. Can't narrow it down to one. Sharon

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 06:22 PM

Sorry, my daughter tells me she knows more about the Beatles than I do and 'I was there!' She says it's by Mr. and Mrs McCartney. Please forgive me. Anyway I still like it. So 'The Beatles Complete' book was compiled by a fan - hmmm.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 06:42 PM

'The Beatles Complete' book was compiled by an idiot. Nearly all of the songs have been put into different keys, in many cases much harder to play than the original.

no idea what that is about...

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 06:56 PM

I guess Imagine doesn't count since it was Lennon's? Or am I mis-remembering?

Another one...Julia...just beautiful.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 07:50 PM

Back In The USSR. Come Together. Penny Lane.

Mooh.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 08:03 PM

Every Little Thing

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:13 PM

Paperback Writer....... Nowhere man......... Eleanor Rigby (now there's a song with all the essential "folk" type images in it)....

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Pean O'Graffey
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:30 PM

Across The Universe, Dear Prudence, And Your Bird Can Sing, Mister Postman (not technically a Beatles song, but there's is the definitive version, is it not?) So on and so forth. Could go on and on.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 10:52 PM

Great Songs.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Jim Krause
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:07 PM

• Day Tripper
• Taxman
• Baby You Can Drive My Car
• When I'm 64
• With a Little Help From My Friends
• Revolution (the upbeat version)
• You Can't Do That
• Eight Days A Week

  That's enough

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 05:41 AM

The answer to this would change with my mood, but most of the time I would choose "If I Fell in love with you"

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 05:50 AM

The Inner Light

We miss you, George

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Trevor
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:07 AM

Straw poll in the office -

Norwegian Wood You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Paperback Writer I Will (me) Lucy In The Sky Here, There and Everywhere (also me) "That one that goes laa, la la la laa"! Hey Jude Stawberry Fields Eleanor Rigby

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Trevor
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:25 AM

And now with line breaks!

Norwegian Wood
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Paperback Writer
I Will (me)
Lucy In The Sky Here, There and Everywhere (also me)
"That one that goes laa, la la la laa"!
Hey Jude
Stawberry Fields
Eleanor Rigby

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: John P
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:09 AM

Today's list, in no particular order:

Hello Goodbye
Come Together
Strawberry Fields
I Am the Walrus
If I Fell
Get Back
We Can Work it Out
Kansas City
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day in the Life
Piggies

John Peekstok

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Ian
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:23 AM

A more interesting question might be, what is your least favourite Beatles song?

I guess that most people would go for Revolution #9 (I quite like it myself).

Apart from that?

Difficult!

Maybe Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Ian

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: JedMarum
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:29 AM

In My Life

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: JedMarum
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:30 AM

I still sing In My Life, and audiences still love it. Song just doesn't seem to wear out!

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Snuffy
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:08 AM

As nobody else has mentioned Yesterday, then I won't either.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:41 AM

Yeah, why is The Beatles Complete so weird? drove me crazy until I got the transcription book. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:06 AM

Dizzy Miss Lizzy was by Larry Williams and Kansas City is a Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller song. Mind you, they are both great versions. I also love the punchy version of "Please Mr.Postman" and "You Really Got A Hold On Me" -was that a Smokey Robinson song?

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:12 AM

Current fave: "Soldier of Love", the great Arthur Alexander song -- Lennon does a great job of it, the troops in Hamburg must have eaten it up.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Mike Strobel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:15 AM

I guess my vote goes: Across the universe , Two of us and Taxman

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:47 AM

I'll be Back is a good song also

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Trapper
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:31 PM

I'm with Jed - IN MY LIFE.

- Al

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Kim C
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:39 PM

It was listening to the Beatles that I learned how to sing harmony. Specifically, "If I Fell." The bottom part was WAY too low for me at 14 but I picked it out anyway.

I know they didn't write this one, but I always loved their recording of "Till There Was You."

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Rex
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:52 PM

Within You Without You

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:53 PM

I want to hear you play that one on the sitar, Cowboy.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: dwditty
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 02:47 PM

I've Got a Feeling

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 02:52 PM

About 97% of them.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Billy Boy
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 02:54 PM

Tomorrow Never Knows Thank You Girl
Hey Jude

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Deda
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:10 PM

In 1968 (?I think it was) I used to walk around London with my then-boyfriend and we'd sing "You won't see me" in harmony.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:35 PM

Till there was you is a great song.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:38 PM

That was from a broadway musical, 53. Can't remember which one.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:41 PM

LEJ,

Meredith Wilson's 'The Music Man' (1957)

The Beatles got their version from Peggy Lee's 1958 version.

Jeez, if only I knew this much about something useful...

KB

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:47 PM

Thanks KB. I'll never forget McCartney singing "I never sore them winging, no I never sore them at all til there was you."

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Slickerbill
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:10 PM

Best: Golden Slumbers, Come together, Blackbird, Hey Jude, Something, two of Us...ach I better quit...

Worst: Most of the stupid stuff, like Octopus' Garden, O Bloody Di O Bloody Da,... Actually, with the very notable exception of With A Little Help, most of the tunes they let Ringo sing I thought sucked crap. sb

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: van lingle
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:11 PM

It's kind of schmaltsy and from their head- shaking "whoooo" days but I still love hearing P.S I Love You. Eric Schoenberg did a beautiful solo guitar version of I'll Get You which was a tune I was never really crazy about until I heard him do it. vl

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 07:05 PM

Hide your love away

Norweign Wood

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say, Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she changes from day to day. I want to tell her that I love her a lot, but I got to have a belly full of wine. Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, and some day I'm going to make her mine, Oh yeah, some day I'm going to make her mine!

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:03 PM

"All My Loving" from their first "official" US LP.

I still get misty-eyed.

Linn

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:22 PM

The fool on The Hull.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:36 PM

"Because"

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: John P
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:38 AM

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Terry K
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 03:38 AM

Girl

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,toribw who should be working
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 12:55 PM

I'm Only Sleeping

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:24 PM

Lovely Rita is still a fave of mine, partly because of the short, honky-tonk piano break McCartney plays.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:31 PM

LEJ,

The piano break was played by George Martin

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:33 PM

No kidding? Did Martin play on many other Beatles tunes?

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:36 PM

Yep, LEJ. He played on a lot. One of the best known examples is the instrumental break in 'In My Life'

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 03:04 PM

"Rvolution on the head" is a great source of info regarding all Beatles recordings. Sorry I forget who compiled it.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 03:08 PM

Ian Macdonald

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Steven G.
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 05:19 PM

Get Back is a great song..

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 09:27 PM

Hide your love away, If I fell, Norwegian Wood, When I'm 64.

But I guess I'd have to vote for "Take the back right turn". A buddy of mine, when he was young mistook the lyrics in "Paperback Writer" for the above. It always reminds me of him, so it has to be my fave.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 12:21 AM

Yellow Submarine, Octopus'e Garden, Eleanor Rigby, "Sie Lieb Dich Ja, Ja, Ja" (Auf Deutsch!)

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Shonagh
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 01:24 PM

My all time fave has to be Here comes the sun (do do do do!) It just makes me smile everytime I hear it! Paper back writer is brill, so is I am the walrus. The have to be one of the best bands ever. (this coming from a 17 year old!)

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 01:27 PM

Not one of the best bands ever...

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: RolyH
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 01:54 PM

A Day in the Life or Turn,Turn,Turn.(can't make me mind up)

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: beadie
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 02:33 PM

I can't recall any that I didn't like.

However, . . .

"You've got to hide your love away" This was a cover of the song as originally done by a vocal quartet called "the Silky." The album had perhaps a dozen songs, at least ten of which were Dylan compositions, and the instrumental accompaniment credits were given to Lennon, McCartney and Harrison.

"Back in the USSR" and "Paperback Writer" were examples of the Boys' tendency to admire the competition by recreating a style. Try to imagine the Beach Boys singing the former and The Monkees singing the latter.

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 07:03 PM

You don't have to imagine the Beach Boys singing Back In The USSR, the Fabs did a pretty good impersonation. As for their best song it has to be their brilliant pastiche of The Byrds on Turn Turn Turn.....

BJ

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Jim Krause
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 11:53 PM

Right, on their Pistachio album. I hear this is soon to be re-released on the Humbug label.
Jim

Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: X
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 02:32 AM

Preferred the Kinks.