KLOS Super Single Sunday 2015
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1 1 2 2 3 SUPER SINGLES SUNDAY 2015 9AM Tony Sheridan - My Bonnie – w/ The Beatles 1961 The Beatles first appearance on a commercial disc. 3 4 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 - Let It Be - album version - Let It Be 4 5 (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul “Let It Be” was the last song properly recorded on multi-track at Apple Studios during the “Get Back” sessions in January 1969. It was completed in eight takes (numbered Take 20 through 27 to match the film crew clapboard numbers) on January 31, 1969, the day after the rooftop concert. Take 27 had two complete performances of the song and the first of these Take 27 performances was deemed the best. Though the intent of the January 1969 “Get Back” sessions was to capture the Beatles “live” in the studio without benefit of studio trickery like overdubbing, an exception was made on “Let It Be” so that George Harrison could re-record his lead guitar solo. George’s overdub was recorded on April 30, 1969. Author Mark Lewisohn: “It is widely believed that there are two different takes of ‘Let It Be’ publicly available - the single released (in the UK) on March 6, 1970 and the “Let It Be” LP version released (in the UK) May 8, 1970. Certainly the lead guitar solos in the middle eight differ considerably, and the LP version has a longer duration. But, in truth, these are one and the same version. That is, they are derived from the same tape.” Beatles coming full circle….. 9.12 BREAK SUPER SINGLES SUNDAY 2015 TOP 5IVE US billboard 5 6 When 'Can't Buy Me Love' went to 1 in the US it headed up the most complete USA chart domination of all time - The Beatles monopolized the entire top five places on the Billboard Hot 100 for April 4 1964 …and we hear those 5 songs starting w/ the #1 song the 1st week of April 1964…Image the Top 5 songs all from the same group…you couldn’t buy that kind of love! 1 - Can't Buy Me Love (Capitol 5150) 2 - Twist and Shout (Tollie 9001) 6 7 3 - She Loves You (Swan 4152) 4 - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Capitol 5112) 5 - Please Please Me (Vee Jay 498) Also in the Top 100 singles that 1st week in April #31 - I Saw Her Standing There (Capitol 5112b) 41 - From Me To You (Vee Jay 522) 46 - Do You Want to Know A Secret (Vee Jay 587) 58 - All My Loving (Capitol Canada 72144) 65 - You Can't Do That (Capitol 5150b) 68 - Roll Over Beethoven (Capitol Canada 72133) 79 - Thank You Girl (Vee Jay 587b) Top LPs chart 1 - Meet The Beatles (Capitol 2047) 2 - Introducing The Beatles (Vee Jay 1062) Super Singles Sunday here on BWTB QUICK BREAK HERE (Read) 7 8 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride - Help! (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocals: John and Paul The Beatles’ ninth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Issued nearly four months prior to the “Help!” album’s release on July 19, 1965 in the U.S. and four days later in the UK. Recorded on February 15, 1965 and featuring a blistering lead guitar performance by Paul McCartney. John and Paul composed the song together based primarily on John’s idea. The song’s distinctive drum pattern was conceived by Paul. The complex song arrangement was highly innovative for the time, and certainly unlike anything being played on top 40 radio. John Lennon in 1970: “ 8 9 ‘Ticket To Ride was slightly a new sound at the time. It was pretty heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making. It's a heavy record and the drums are heavy too. That's why I like it.” McCartney said, “It was quite radical at the time.” Capitol Records printed “From the United Artists release ‘Eight Arms To Hold You’ ” on both sides of the single. On U.S. album: Help! - Capitol LP The Beatles - Paperback Writer - A Collection Of Beatles Oldies (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul The Beatles’ twelfth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Recorded on April 13 and 14, 1966. The track is notable for Paul McCartney’s furious bass line. The bass is so prominent in the mix that sound engineers at EMI worried it could cause the stylus of a record player tone arm (the needle thing on record players) to jump when fans played the 45 RPM single at home. Thankfully, no such calamity occurred. For this heavy bass sound Paul’s chose to replace his usual Hofner bass with a Rickenbacker 4001S bass. Aside from the dominant bass part, McCartney also provides the lead guitar, with George Harrison working the tambourine. The second and third verse backing vocal is the French nursery rhyme “Frere Jacques.” Released in America on May 23 and in the UK on June 10. “Paperback Writer” made the second largest ever jump to No. 1 on Billboard's chart. It debuted at number 28 on June 11, 1966, moved to 15 and then to number 1 on June 25. The only single to make a bigger jump was another Beatles song, “Can't Buy Me Love.” On U.S. album: Hey Jude - Capitol LP (1970) 4 KIP 9 10 Paul McCartney & Wings – Helen Wheels “Helen Wheels” was the name of Paul’s land rover – a play on “Hell On Wheels.” Recorded in Lagos with Paul on lead guitar, bass and drums. Linda is on keyboards with Denny on guitar. This song is a true single, in that it did not appear on the Band on the Run album in the UK, but was included in the US version. See it’s not gonna be just Beatles singles today…we’ve got solo 45’s in our SUPER BOWL JUKEBOX 2015! Super Singles Sunday 9.42 BREAK Super Singles Sunday here on BWTB 10 11 It is now time for both sides of what some say it the most “perfect” single released by the Beatles…and it didn’t go to #1…makes no sense…or does it? The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever - Non-LP track 11 12 (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John The Beatles’ fourteenth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Recording began on November 24, 1966. Written in Spain by John several months earlier while he was filming the Richard Lester-directed film “How I Won The War.” The beautiful “Take 1” of this Lennon classic can be heard on the “Anthology 2” album. It is entirely different than the finished version. Strawberry Fields was actually a Salvation Army home in the neighborhood where Lennon grew up. John used to go to parties there and it always brought back happy memories to him. One of the only two “honest” songs that John says he wrote for the Beatles. The other? “Help!” On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP The Beatles - Penny Lane - Non-LP track (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul The Beatles’ fourteenth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Following the disastrous 1966 world tour the individual Beatles took control of their hectic schedule. They were no longer in a rush to do anything. In September 1966, Brian Epstein informed EMI and Capitol that there would be no new Beatles album, and quite possibly no single, ready in time for the 1966 Christmas season. EMI quickly assembled a 16-track greatest hits album (“A Collection Of Beatles Oldies”). In the U.S., Capitol did not release a hits compilation and instead waited impatiently for a new single. The band reconvened in late November to begin work on their next LP. With no deadlines, they simply brought in new songs as they dreamt them up. Contains at least TWO slightly slang obscenities (“finger pie” and “keeps his fire engine clean”). On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP 12 13 George Harrison – What Is Life - All Things Must Pass ‘70 George wrote this song in 1969 while traveling to a Billy Preston session at Olympic Studios. This would be the second single released off the album, though it was listed as the B-Side for “My Sweet Lord,” in the UK. Although it should have been noted as a Double-A Single.