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PLAYLIST OCT. 21st 2012

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The Beatles – Please Mr. Postman - (William Garrett - Robert Bateman - Dobbins - Brian Holland and Freddy Goreman) Recorded July 30th 1963 Originally by Their version released August 1961 became a number one hit. Musicians: – double-tracked lead vocal, ; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; – backing vocal, lead guitar; – drums This was a cover-version of ’s first-ever hit, by The Marvelettes. Paul said that we got it from our fans, who would write ‘Please Mr. Postman’ on the back of envelopes. ‘Posty, Posty, don’t be slow, be like the Beatles and go, man, go!’ That sort of stuff. John decided to double-track his vocal against the better advice of , who hoped for the powerhouse sound of And Shout. But he’d become self-conscious about the way his voice sounded on tape, and insisted that he fill it out Lead vocal John US - Capitol LP The Beatles' Second

The Supremes - You Can't Do That - A LITTLE BIT OF . 1964

The Beatles – (Go To Him) () Alexander’s original recording was released as a single in Sept. of 1962 on Dot Records. Did not crack the Top 40. Beatles played it live in `62 and `63. Musicians: – lead vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums This only took three takes. John made a half-hearted attempt to toughen up Arthur Alexander’s by omitting the word darling. Lead vocal John US – Vee-Jay LP Introducing the Beatles US –

Stevie Wonder- - Signed Sealed Delivered

The Beatles – Boys ( / ) Please Please Me Originally recorded by as a B-side to their big hit “ Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”. Recorded 11th February 1963 in just 1 take. Musicians: Ringo Starr – lead vocal, drums; John Lennon – backing vocal, rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar You couldn’t get away with this these days, because the lyrics make you sound queer. Paul remembered that they did it for a laugh (but whether Ringo found it funny is another matter!) Lead vocal Ringo US - Vee-Jay LP Introducing the Beatles US – The Early Beatles

Todd – – WMMR 1970

The Beatles – - sessions (-- James McDougal) – Anthology I/ Beatles For Sale sessions Recorded Aug. 14th 1964 around 10PM when they should have been ending the days sessions ( Studio regulations) Musicians: John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal; Paul McCartney – bass guitar, ; George Harrison – double-tracked lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums, This was recorded at the Beatles For Sale sessions, but was left to rot in the stores for thirty years. It has now been made available on Anthology 1. Lead vocal John

The Jam – And Yer Bird Can Sing – Extras

The Beatles – (Phil Medley & ) – Please Please Me Feb. 11th 1963. Original recorded by in May of 1962. The Beatles performed it regularly between 1962 and 1965 Musicians: John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums This was the last to be recorded at the marathon Please Please Me session. They’d been singing non-stop for twelve hours and it was already past ten at night, but George Martin still needed a big finish, so they gathered in the canteen to gee themselves up. John was suffering from a cold at the time, and was drinking warm milk to stop his voice giving out. Then he sang it in a single take, with his top stripped off. By the end he said: I couldn’t sing the damn thing, I was just screaming. My voice wasn’t the same for a long time after. Every time I swallowed, it was like sandpaper. George Martin said: God alone knows what he did to his larynx each time he performed it, because he made a sound rather like tearing flesh. That had to be right on the first take, because I knew perfectly well that if we had to do it a second time it would never be as good. John later explained: The more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple. They sort of said shake your arse, or your prick, which was an innovation really… The blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex which is why I like it. But I hate singing Twist And Shout when there’s a coloured artist on the bill. It doesn’t seem right, you know. It seems to be their music, and I feel sort of embarrassed. Makes me curl up… They can do these songs much better than us. [I can’t let the moment pass without giving an honourary mention to and ’ version of Twist And Shout, which was released on the 28th June. They were the band that Decca signed instead of the Beatles. And poor old Dick Rowe had to sit and suffer while the Beatles’ Twist And Shout EP made it past them in the singles chart!] Lead vocal John US - Vee- Jay LP Introducing the Beatles US – The Early Beatles

The Tubes – – What Do You Want From Live?

Paul – Matchbox – Live 93

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – I Need You – Concert For George

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The Beatles – () - With The Beatles Released as a Chuck Berry single May 1956 on peaking at #29. A song performed in the very early day when John sang lead.

Musicians: George Harrison – double-tracked lead vocal, lead guitar; John Lennon – rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – bass guitar; Ringo Starr – drums The Beatles had always been big Berry fans, and between 1957 (when started out) and their last gig in ‘66, they played more songs by him than by anybody else. Berry explained that he aimed the lyrics at his big sis, telling her to get off the piano so he could have a go: Roll Over Beethoven was written based on the feelings I had when my sister would monopolise the piano at home during our youthful school years. In fact most of the words were aimed at Lucy instead of the Maestro Ludwig Van Beethoven. Thelma also took piano lessons in but Lucy was the culprit that delayed rock ‘n’ roll music twenty years. John always used to sing it in their days, but he gave it to George for the LP – and a very credible job he does too. You can hear an amazingly good live version on Anthology 1. Lead vocal George US - Capitol LP The Beatles' Second Album

The Cryin Shames – If I Need Someone – Single

The Beatles – Baby It’s You – Please Please Me (-Barney Williams-) Originally recorded by The Shirells in Dec. 1961 on . Recorded Feb. 11th 1963 Musicians: John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums; George Martin – celesta This only took three takes. A week later George Martin over-dubbed a celeste and a piano, but they didn’t like it, so they wiped it off Lead vocal John US - Vee-Jay LP Introducing the Beatles (both) US- Capitol LP The Early Beatles

The Donnas – – This Bird Has Flown

Paul McCartney – I Got Stung (Schroeder-Hill) – Run Devil Run ‘99

This was a 1959 No.1 single for Elvis. Paul: "It wasn't my favorite Elvis song, but I kept hearing 'Holy smoke landsakes alive, I never thought this would happen to me'. That intro kept grabbing me. I thought I'll do it a bit more raucous than Elvis."

Aerosmith - I’m Down – Permanent Vacation

The Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzy - Help! (Williams) Lead vocal: John Recorded specifically for the American market at the urgent request of executives, who needed two songs to fill out their upcoming “Beatles VI” album. Of course, Capitol had four songs in its possession it could have included (“,” “Misery,” “There’s A Place” and the German-language version of “,” had all yet to appear on an LP in America), but they went to the Beatles and asked for something new ASAP. With no new material ready to go the band pulled two ’ songs from their pre-fame club repertoire, “Bad Boy” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” that could be recorded in one day and then the tapes would be air-freighted to Capitol Records in .

“Dizzy Miss Lizzy” was added as the album closer on the UK “Help!” LP when several songs earmarked for the project fell through (“” and “Wait”) and they decided against including the two most recent B-sides. On U.S. album: Beatles VI - Capitol LP

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Sandi Shaw – - 1969 album,

The Beatles – Chains ( /) Please Please Me Feb.11th 1963 / Top 20 hit for in 1962. Lead vocal John Paul and George Musicians: George Harrison – lead vocal, lead guitar; Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass guitar; John Lennon – harmony vocal, rhythm guitar, ; Ringo Starr – drums They recorded four takes of this, and apparently it’s a little bit out of tune. They also added a harmonica intro that isn’t in the Cookie’s version Lead vocal George US - Vee-Jay LP Introducing the Beatles US – The Early Beatles

Cilla Black – The – Single

The Beatles – Don’t Ever Change (Goffin /King) - BBC LIVE "Don't Ever Change" is a 1961 popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It is one of their lesser-known songs, although a version by reached the top 5 in the .

Ella Fitzgerald – Savory Truffle – Single 1969 single "I'll Never Fall In Love Again / ".

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The Beatles - A Taste of Honey (Marlow/ Scott) - Please Please Me Written by Ric Marlow & for the play of the same name.1st recorded by the Bobby Scott combo in 1960 as the title track for the SDTK LP Musicians: Paul McCartney – double-tracked lead vocal, bass guitar; John Lennon – harmony vocal, rhythm guitar; George Harrison – harmony vocal, lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums This was taken from Tony Richardson’s film A Taste Of Honey, which came out in 1961. Acker Bilk scored a hit with it in the early sixties, so they covered it on the Please Please Me LP. John was later scathing about it, and whenever they played it live he changed the chorus to A Waste Of Money Lead vocal Paul US - Vee- Jay LP Introducing the Beatles US – The Early Beatles

Teenage Fanclub – Ballad Of John & Yoko – Single 1990

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The Beatles – Money (That’s What I Want) (Janie Bradford & ) With The Beatles Originally recorded by and released as a single in dec.1959 peaking at #123. It was a part of the Beatles live repertoire from 1960 to 1964. Recorded by the Beatles July 18th 1963. Musicians: John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums; George Martin – piano This was a of Barrett Strong’s 1959 flop. [This legendary song was originally released on the Anna label – the early precursor of Motown, and was written by Berry Gordy. It refers to the money worries that he was having setting up Motown.] It became a staple of their Hamburg set, and they performed at their failed Decca audition as well. The mono and stereo versions are slightly different, because the stereo version has got some extra guitar at the start, and there’s some hand clapping in the intro, which can’t be heard in the mono version. Lead vocal John US - Capitol LP The Beatles' Second Album

Nils Lofgren – Anytime At All – Night Fades Away 1981

The Beatles – Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby () – /LIVE BBC/ Beatles For Sale Recorded Oct. 18th 1964. Originally recorded by its author Carl Perkins on his Teen Beat LP from 1958…the Teen Beat LP also contained two other songs that the Beatles covered: “Matchbox” and “Honey Don’t”. Musicians: George Harrison – lead vocal, lead guitar; Paul McCartney – bass guitar; John Lennon – acoustic guitar, tambourine; Ringo Starr – drums This was based on an old hit by Carl Perkins (who based his on an old country-and-western ballad). The original lyrics were an ode to groupie sex, and much more risque than the Beatles’ version, which cut out all the references to balling and squaling. In order to compensate, though, they decided to raise the original nineteen women knocking on my door to a much more impressive fifty! Lead vocal George US - Capitol LP Beatles '65 Capitol EP 4-By the Beatles

Faces – Maybe I’m Amazed – LIVE

The Beatles – Memphis – Decca Tapes Jan. 1st 1962

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The Beatles – Rock’n’Roll Music (Chuck Berry) Beatles For Sale Recorded Oct. 18th 1964. Chuck’s original single was released in Sept. of 1957 getting to the #8 spot on the US charts. Including THREE people playing the SAME piano. John, Paul & George Martin. Musicians: John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – bass guitar; George Harrison – acoustic guitar; Ringo Starr – drums; George Martin (with John and Paul) – piano This only took one take. John, Paul and George Martin bashed out the intro on a single piano. You can hear John messing up the lyric at 2:19 where he sings It’s oughta-got music, instead of It’s gotta be . Lead vocal John US - Capitol LP Beatles '65

Todd – Rain – Faithful

Paul McCartney – - Concert For George ‘03

Al Green – Daytripper - LIVE

John Lennon – (Carl Perkins) – Live Peace in Toronto 1969 After being introduced by Kim Fowley, the semi-legendary L.A. “scenemaker,” John and band do some tuning, some pre-show explanation of the ad-hoc nature of the group and set, and launch into a good version of Carl Perkin’s signature tune. They followed Carl’s arrangement as opposed to Elvis

Wings – Lucille – LIVE Glasgow

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The Dammed – HELP! flip of New rose Produced by Nick Lowe 1976

The Beatles - Bad Boy (Williams) – Beatles VI / Collection of Oldies 1st time in UK Dec. 1966/ Recorded: 10 May 1965 Musicians: John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar; Paul McCartney – bass guitar, ; George Harrison – double-tracked lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine

Generation X – Gimme Some Truth - flip 1978 - "King Rocker" b/w "Gimme Some Truth" UK #11

Paul – Partial To Yer Abracadabra

The Cyrkle – Happy Just To Dance w/ You – Neon

The Beatles – You Really Got A Hold On Me (William “Smokey” Robinson)- With The Beatles Recorded June 18th 1963. Originally recorded by its authors group Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, releases as a single in Nov. of 1962 reaching #8 in the US billboard charts. Musicians: John Lennon – joint lead vocal, rhythm guitar; George Harrison – joint lead vocal, lead guitar; Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar; Ringo Starr – drums; George Martin – piano This was the first song recorded for With The Beatles. They did eleven takes in July, and had another go on the 17th October but it was crap, so they scrapped it. Lead vocal John & George US - Capitol LP The Beatles' Second Album

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Bono w/ – –

Ringo – Love Me DO -

Black Keys – –

Paul McCartney – Honey Hush (Turner) – Run Devil Run ‘99 Written by . Paul was more familiar with Johnny Burnette's version. Paul: "John and Stuart used to have a flat in Gambier Terrace. I remember waking up, burning eyes job, and one of the guys put on 'Come into this house, stop all that yakety yak'. It's my favorite on the whole album to sing."

Breeders – – Pod

George Harrison – Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - Brainwashed ‘02 Recorded in 1991 for British television, during sessions with and band. It allows the ever-playful George to play ukulele and sing and just have fun with the great Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler standard

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Scott McCarl – – Single

The Beatles – Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey (Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller Richard Penniman) - Beatles For Sale Recorded Oct. 18th 1964 Originally recorded by KC Lovong i.e. Little Willie Littlefield who released it as a single on Dec 29th 1952 and was part of the Beatle live set in 1961 `62 and again in `64. Musicians: Paul McCartney – lead vocal, bass guitar; John Lennon – backing vocal, rhythm guitar; George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums; George Martin – piano They only did two takes of this, and they issued the first one. (But you can hear the second one on .) They picked it up when sharing a stage with in 1962. The song has a long and complicated history, and started life as Leiber and Stoller’s K.C. Loving in ‘52. Richard changed it’s name to Kansas City and added the call-and-response finale in ‘55. Six months later he turned the call- and-response bit into a completely new song, and released it as Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey on the back of his Good Golly Miss Molly. And one year after that he released Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey as an A-side. Lead vocal Paul US - Capitol LP Beatles VI

Beady Eye – Across The Universe – Single

Paul – - Concert For George

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The Shazam – Rev 9 – Rev 9 EP