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BWTB George Martin Show 1 PLAYLIST MARCH 13th 2016 2 Celebrating the production genius of George Martin 9AM The Beatles - Besame Mucho /June 6th 1962 (1st session with GM) 3 The Beatles - Love Me Do – Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) Lead vocal: John and Paul The Beatles’ first single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Released October 5, 1962, it reached #17 on the British charts. Principally written by Paul McCartney in 1958 and 1959. Recorded with three different drummers: Pete Best (June 6, 1962, EMI), Ringo Starr (September 4, 1962), and Andy White (September 11, 1962 with Ringo playing tambourine). The 45 rpm single lists the songwriters as Lennon-McCartney. One of several Beatles songs Paul McCartney owns with Yoko Ono. Starting with the songs recorded for their debut album on February 11, 1963, Lennon and McCartney’s output was attached to their Northern Songs publishing company. Because their first single was released before John and Paul had contracted with a music publisher, EMI assigned it to their own, a company called Ardmore and Beechwood, which took the two songs “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You.” Decades later McCartney and Ono were able to purchase the songs for their respective companies, MPL Communications and Lenono Music. Fun fact: John Lennon shoplifted the harmonica he played on the song from a shop in Holland. On U.S. albums: Introducing… The Beatles (Version 1) - Vee-Jay LP The Early Beatles - Capitol LP The Beatles – How Do You Do it - Recorded Sept 4th 1962 (2nd session with GM) BREAK 4 The Beatles - Please Please Me – Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) Lead vocal: John and Paul The Beatles’ second single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Written entirely by John Lennon in the bedroom of his Aunt Mimi’s home on Menlove Ave., Lennon has said it was his attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song. In fact, the original version was a slower, bluesy version which producer George Martin recalls as being “rather dreary.” Because Martin was insisting on releasing their previously recorded cover of “How Do You Do It?” as their next single, The Beatles rearranged “Please Please Me” as an up-tempo song with harmonies and harmonica and then stood their ground to get it selected as their second single. Martin agreed to issue this Beatles original as the next single, shelving “How Do You Do It?” for another month, when it again came up for consideration for a single release. This was the first record owned by Elvis Costello, who was in the Beatles Fan Club when he was eleven. The 45 rpm single was released January 11, 1963 and topped two of the UK music industry’s three sales charts, compelling EMI to order a full album of songs from the band. It was the first Beatles release to list the songwriters as “McCartney-Lennon.” Both sides featured the credit in that last name order. Released three different times in the U.S. on Vee-Jay. The coupling of “Please Please Me” and “Ask Me Why” caused many to take notice of The Beatles, and particularly Lennon and McCartney's burgeoning songwriting partnership. It led to Dick James approaching them to found Northern Songs, their music publishing company. On U.S. albums: Introducing… The Beatles (Version 2) - Vee-Jay LP The Early Beatles - Capitol LP The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There – Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) Lead vocal: Paul 5 Recorded February 11, 1963. A Paul McCartney original, the song was written in one day in September 1962 in the front parlor of 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton (the McCartney family from 1955 to 1964), with John Lennon helping with some of the lyrics. It was recorded under its working title, “Seventeen,” at the marathon recording session that produced the majority of songs for the Beatles’ debut album. A fan favorite, the Beatles recorded “I Saw Her Standing There” eleven times for BBC Radio between March 1963 and May 1964. McCartney has said that his bass line was lifted almost note for note from the obscure Chuck Berry song “I’m Talking About You,” released by Berry in February 1961. The Beatles performed “I’m Talking About You” at some of their club shows in 1962 and 1963. It is included on the “Live! At The Star Club” CD. Specially selected by Capitol Records staff members to be the b-side of the American “I Want to Hold Your Hand” single on Capitol in the U.S., replacing “This Boy” for the honor. The first song on the first Beatles LP. On U.S. albums: Introducing… The Beatles (with “1, 2, 3” inexplicably missing from Paul’s count-in) - Vee-Jay LP Meet the Beatles! - Capitol LP The Beatles - Twist And Shout – Please Please Me (Medley-Russell) Lead vocal: John The last song recorded during the marathon session on February 11, 1963. Two takes were completed before Lennon’s voice gave out. The released version is the first take. Originally recorded by The Isley Brothers in May 1962, The Beatles performed it regularly in their live act between 1962 and 1965. Its inclusion in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” sent the song up the Billboard singles chart 22 years after its initial U.S. release. On U.S. albums: Introducing… The Beatles - Vee-Jay LP The Early Beatles - Capitol LP 3 in a row from 1st Beatles album produced by GM 6 BREAK In between 1st LP and the 2nd LP in UK…we got this GM production! The Beatles - She Loves You - A Collection Of Oldies `66 (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John and Paul The Beatles’ fourth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. With a July 1, 1963 recording date looming The Beatles knew their latest composition would be their next a-side: a song then entitled “Get You In the End,” shortened to “I’ll Get You” by the time it was released. But things changed on June 26, 1963. In a hotel room a few hours prior to a show in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John and Paul sat facing each other on twin beds and proceeded to write from Paul’s suggestion. The song they created was “She Loves You.” The next day, with The Beatles having a rare day off from touring, John met up with Paul in the dining room of the McCartney’s Forthlin Road home to finish up the song. Beatles manager Brian Epstein had encouraged John and Paul to try to write songs that would appeal to the American market, specifically American teenagers. Soon American colloquial sayings and words started showing up in their songs. The most memorable was the use of the Americanism “yeah” instead of the more proper “yes” in “She Loves You.” When John and Paul played their newly written song for Paul’s father he chided them for the slang, saying, “There's enough of these Americanisms around. Couldn't you sing 'She loves you, yes, yes, yes’?” Released August 23, 1963, with “I’ll Get You” on the flip side, the 45 became The Beatles’ first million-selling single and broke all previous 45 r.p.m. single sales records in Britain, with 1.3 million copies sold. George Harrison is credited with the idea of adding a sixth note to the harmony on the final 'yeah.' U.S. Non-album single (Swan) 7 On U.S. album: The Beatles’ Second Album - Capitol LP UK: Non-album single (a-side) The Beatles - Don’t Bother Me – With The Beatles (Harrison) Lead vocal: George George Harrison’s first recorded original song. While some may see it as a misfortune that Harrison was surrounded by two of the most gifted songwriters in history, this proximity gave him great insight into the mechanics of writing a song from scratch. His first attempt was more than a throwaway composition. He called “Don’t Bother Me” an “exercise” to see if he could write a song, and it was written while George was sick in a bed at the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth where The Beatles were playing six nights at Gaumont Cinema in mid-August of 1963. It was during this engagement (on August 22) that photographer Robert Freeman took the iconic “artsy” cover photograph of the band in half lighting that would grace the cover of both the British “With The Beatles” album and the American “Meet The Beatles!” album. On U.S. album: Meet The Beatles! - Capitol LP The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand - A Collection Of Beatles Oldies (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John with Paul The Beatles’ fifth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was the Beatles’ first single issued by Capitol Records. It is the song that launched Beatlemania in the United States. It was written equally by John and Paul in the basement music room in Richard and Margaret Asher’s house at 57 Wimpole Street in the west end of London in September 1963. Paul had been dating the couple’s daughter, actress Jane Asher, and was spending a lot of time at the Asher home whenever he was in London. Paul would eventually accept an invitation to move in, taking up residence in their attic. 8 Recorded in 17 takes on October 17, 1963. The song is the first Beatles song recorded on a four-track tape recorder, proof that the Beatles had become a high priority for EMI and Parlophone. Prior to this, the Beatles’ music had been recorded on a two-track recorder. From the With The Beatles sessions winding down 1963…QUIZ???? Add LONG QUIZ TONES The Beatles started off January of 1964 in Paris France…where George Martin recorded what was to be there 4th UK single…name that song! 9.26 BREAK winner here 9 The Beatles - Can’t Buy Me Love - A Hard Day’s Night (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul The Beatles’ sixth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label.
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