Tag: ringo sings
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175: Act Naturally
Appearing on the Help! album, Act Naturally was one of the last covers included on the Beatles original official releases. By this stage in their career, the available recording and production technology had improved significantly and Act Naturally is also helped by a unironic/sympathetic arrangement – although it’s a Country & Western “pastiche”, the Beatles…
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196: What Goes On
The first entry from Rubber Soul and another Ringo vocal. What Goes On has a country feel coming mainly from Harrison’s lead guitar. Like some of the other Ringo songs mentioned earlier in the thread it has a fairly static melody, but in this case it is brightened by strong dual harmonies throughout (fantastic throughout…
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207: Honey Don’t
This is another Ringo track, and a cover of a Carl Perkins song from (IMO) the Beatles’ weakest pop era album Beatles For Sale.“Weak” being very much a relative term for Beatles albums – they’d have knocked most other artists into a cocked hat, of course. Ringo was a fan of country music, so Honey…
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208: I Wanna Be Your Man
In their early days as a live act in Liverpool and Hamburg the Beatles had alternated the lead vocals between John, Paul and George fairly systematically. I guess this made sense as they would play long and energetic shows. Fans had their favourite Beatle, who they wanted to see in the “spotlight”. When Ringo joined…
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211: Don’t Pass Me By
Don’t Pass Me By is unusual in being written by Ringo (there is only one other Starkey song in my list, plus a few more where he is credited as co-writer or arranger). It’s another song on the White Album that IMO would not have made it past quality control in the earlier stages of…