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The Beatles

24 Jun 02 - 03:15 PM (#735937)
Subject: The Beatles
From: 53

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


24 Jun 02 - 03:18 PM (#735940)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: alanabit

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


24 Jun 02 - 03:19 PM (#735941)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Jack the Sailor

While My Guitar....


24 Jun 02 - 03:20 PM (#735942)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Kim C

In My Life


24 Jun 02 - 03:21 PM (#735943)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

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


24 Jun 02 - 03:28 PM (#735946)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Bullfrog Jones

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

BJ


24 Jun 02 - 03:34 PM (#735951)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: katlaughing

Today? Rocky Raccoon.:-)


24 Jun 02 - 03:46 PM (#735963)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53

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


24 Jun 02 - 05:46 PM (#736033)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: the lemonade lady

Another Day!


24 Jun 02 - 05:51 PM (#736035)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

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

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


24 Jun 02 - 06:21 PM (#736054)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: DancingMom

Let it Be. Norgwegian Wood.

The Inner Light.

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


24 Jun 02 - 06:22 PM (#736056)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: the lemonade lady

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.


24 Jun 02 - 06:42 PM (#736077)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

'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...


24 Jun 02 - 06:56 PM (#736089)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: katlaughing

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

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


24 Jun 02 - 07:50 PM (#736125)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Mooh

Back In The USSR. Come Together. Penny Lane.

Mooh.


24 Jun 02 - 08:03 PM (#736136)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ

Every Little Thing


24 Jun 02 - 09:13 PM (#736164)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,ozmacca

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


24 Jun 02 - 09:30 PM (#736173)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Pean O'Graffey

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.


24 Jun 02 - 10:52 PM (#736208)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53

Great Songs.


24 Jun 02 - 11:07 PM (#736220)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Jim Krause

  • 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


25 Jun 02 - 05:41 AM (#736360)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Nigel Parsons

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


25 Jun 02 - 05:50 AM (#736364)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

The Inner Light

We miss you, George


25 Jun 02 - 06:07 AM (#736369)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Trevor

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


25 Jun 02 - 06:25 AM (#736371)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Trevor

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


25 Jun 02 - 08:09 AM (#736422)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: John P

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


25 Jun 02 - 08:23 AM (#736438)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Ian

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


25 Jun 02 - 08:29 AM (#736442)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: JedMarum

In My Life


25 Jun 02 - 08:30 AM (#736444)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: JedMarum

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


25 Jun 02 - 09:08 AM (#736473)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Snuffy

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


25 Jun 02 - 09:41 AM (#736487)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Peter T.

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


25 Jun 02 - 10:06 AM (#736500)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: alanabit

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?


25 Jun 02 - 10:12 AM (#736505)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Peter T.

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.


25 Jun 02 - 10:15 AM (#736508)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Mike Strobel

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


25 Jun 02 - 10:47 AM (#736520)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53

I'll be Back is a good song also


25 Jun 02 - 12:31 PM (#736591)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Trapper

I'm with Jed - IN MY LIFE.

- Al


25 Jun 02 - 12:39 PM (#736601)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Kim C

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."


25 Jun 02 - 12:52 PM (#736609)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Rex

Within You Without You


25 Jun 02 - 12:53 PM (#736611)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ

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


25 Jun 02 - 02:47 PM (#736679)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: dwditty

I've Got a Feeling


25 Jun 02 - 02:52 PM (#736681)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: fat B****rd

About 97% of them.


25 Jun 02 - 02:54 PM (#736683)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Billy Boy

Tomorrow Never Knows Thank You Girl
Hey Jude


25 Jun 02 - 03:10 PM (#736690)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Deda

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.


25 Jun 02 - 03:35 PM (#736710)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: 53

Till there was you is a great song.


25 Jun 02 - 03:38 PM (#736715)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ

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


25 Jun 02 - 03:41 PM (#736720)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,KB

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


25 Jun 02 - 03:47 PM (#736724)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ

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


25 Jun 02 - 06:10 PM (#736878)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Slickerbill

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


25 Jun 02 - 06:11 PM (#736881)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: van lingle

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


25 Jun 02 - 07:05 PM (#736914)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Just Amy

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!


25 Jun 02 - 08:03 PM (#736951)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Bat Goddess

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

I still get misty-eyed.

Linn


25 Jun 02 - 08:22 PM (#736966)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

The fool on The Hull.


25 Jun 02 - 08:36 PM (#736980)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Justa Picker

"Because"


26 Jun 02 - 01:38 AM (#737125)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: John P

While My Guitar Gently Weeps


26 Jun 02 - 03:38 AM (#737177)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Terry K

Girl


26 Jun 02 - 12:55 PM (#737468)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,toribw who should be working

I'm Only Sleeping


26 Jun 02 - 01:24 PM (#737499)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ

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


26 Jun 02 - 01:31 PM (#737504)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

LEJ,

The piano break was played by George Martin


26 Jun 02 - 01:33 PM (#737507)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Lonesome EJ

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


26 Jun 02 - 01:36 PM (#737511)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

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


26 Jun 02 - 03:04 PM (#737571)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: fat B****rd

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


26 Jun 02 - 03:08 PM (#737576)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

Ian Macdonald


26 Jun 02 - 05:19 PM (#737687)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST,Steven G.

Get Back is a great song..


26 Jun 02 - 09:27 PM (#737845)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Celtic Soul

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.


27 Jun 02 - 12:21 AM (#737928)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Wincing Devil

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


27 Jun 02 - 01:24 PM (#738311)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Shonagh

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!)


27 Jun 02 - 01:27 PM (#738312)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: GUEST

Not one of the best bands ever...


27 Jun 02 - 01:54 PM (#738348)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: RolyH

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


27 Jun 02 - 02:33 PM (#738379)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: beadie

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.


27 Jun 02 - 07:03 PM (#738518)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Bullfrog Jones

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


27 Jun 02 - 11:53 PM (#738662)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: Jim Krause

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


28 Jun 02 - 02:32 AM (#738696)
Subject: RE: The Beatles
From: X

Preferred the Kinks.