Tag: with the beatles
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100: Hold Me Tight
Hold Me Tight is an original track, written by Paul McCartney and appearing on With The Beatles. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Hold Me Tight is one of a trilogy of “hold” songs all completed between September and October of 1963. The Smokey Robinson cover You Really Got A Hold On Me is…
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109: Money (That’s What I Want)
Money is a cover of the Barrett Strong song which appears as the climactic rocker at the end of With The Beatles. As with Twist And Shout, from the Please Please Me album, John Lennon pulls out all the stops in a powerful vocal performance. The entire band turns up the energy as the song…
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119: Roll Over Beethoven
Roll Over Beethoven is a Chuck Berry Cover from the Beatles’ second album, With The Beatles, sung by George Harrison. Though the Beatles were big fans of Berry, only two covers, Roll Over Beethoven and Rock And Roll Music, made their official catalogue (thirteen others were, at various times, performed as part of their repertoire).…
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128: Devil In Her Heart
Devil In Her Heart is a cover version from the With The Beatles album, sung by George Harrison. The Beatles took great pride in their knowledge of American music and their taste in selecting even quite obscure songs for their setlist. Devil In Her Heart is a great example, being possibly the most obscure track…
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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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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…
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179: Not A Second Time
Not A Second Time is a Lennon song from With The Beatles. In line with the overall sound of the album this is a influenced by Motown. Lennon said: “To me, I was writing a Smokey Robinson or something”. I think you can see with this song and the album as a whole, that the…
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186: Little Child
There’s perhaps not much to say about Little Child, an original song from 1963 which McCartney describes as a “work job”. It’s telling that the songs that Lennon and McCartney regarded as throwaways and album fillers were pretty strong in the first albums. I think you can see signs that they were trying to use…
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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…