Tag: notation
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148: Ask Me Why
Having been written and performed live before the Beatles were signed, Ask Me Why was an early Lennon-McCartney collaboration, with the main idea coming from John Lennon. It appeared as the B-side to Please Please Me, and on the album of the same name. Lyrically it is a conventional but well-crafted love song. Musically it…
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153: It Won’t Be Long
It Won’t Be Long was the first track on With The Beatles. It was written mainly by Lennon who also takes the lead vocal. I hadn’t heard the song for a while and it was a real pleasure to listen again this morning when preparing this article. It has many of the hallmarks I am…
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154: From Me To You
From Me To You was the A-side of the Beatles third single and written collaboratively by Lennon and McCartney while on tour with Helen Shapiro in 1963. Paul McCartney regarded From Me To You as an important song in the development of the Lennon-McCartney writing partnership, pointing to the middle eight as a particularly important…
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155: No Reply
No Reply was written mainly by John Lennon and appears on the Beatles For Sale album. For some reason this song really sticks in my memory, and I think it must have been one I listened to a lot in my early days as a Beatles fan. Teenage Memories I’d heard the Beatles quite a…
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157: All My Loving
All My Loving is a 1963 almost-single which appeared on the Beatles’ second album With The Beatles. I say almost-single, because it has a single-like quality and craftsmanship about it, and because – as explained on the beatles.com official website: Though it was not released as a single in the United Kingdom or the United…
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163: Don’t Bother Me
Don’t Bother Me is notable for being George Harrisons first original song for the Beatles, appearing on their second album With The Beatles. In my view it is better than several of Lennon-McCartney songs (in this ranking it is higher than Little Child, I Wanna Be Your Man and Love Me Do), so the possibility…