{"id":134,"date":"2024-12-16T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/?p=134"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","slug":"181-everybodys-trying-to-be-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/181-everybodys-trying-to-be-my-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"181: Everybody&#8217;s Trying To Be My Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-beatles-card-song-info\"><div class=\"beatles-card-content\"><div class=\"bible-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/BeatlesBibleApple.svg\" alt=\"Beatles Bible\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>The Beatles Bible<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bible-text\"><p class=\"bible-paragraph\">Sung by George Harrison as the final track on the Beatles For Sale album, \u2018Everybody\u2019s Trying To Be My Baby\u2019 was originally recorded by Carl Perkins in 1957.<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/wp\/media\/beatles-for-sale-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"Beatles For Sale album artwork\" title=\"Beatles For Sale album artwork\" class=\"bible-thumbnail\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/songs\/everybodys-trying-to-be-my-baby\/\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Beatles Bible \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wiki-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/WikipediaLogo.svg\" alt=\"Wikipedia\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>Wikipedia<\/span><\/div><div class=\"wiki-text\"><div class=\"wiki-excerpt\">&quot;Everybody&#039;s Trying to Be My Baby&quot; is a rockabilly song credited to Carl Perkins. Based on a 1936 song written by singer\/songwriter Rex Griffin, it achieved widespread popularity when it was released in 1957 by Perkins and covered by the Beatles in 1&#8230;<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everybody%27s_Trying_to_Be_My_Baby#The_Beatles&#039;_version\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Wikipedia \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I have a soft spot for this Everybody&#8217;s Trying To Be My Baby. I love the cheeky, light-heartedly bragging tone. Seems like a great fit for George&#8217;s witty, ironic and sort-of-but-not-quite humble personality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t work at all for Paul McCartney, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also think it has a really nice authentic rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll sound and a great performance. Although a Cavern regular (meaning they knew it inside out), it was recorded later for the Beatles For Sale album and benefits greatly from improved production and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a soft spot for this Everybody&#8217;s Trying To Be My Baby. I love the cheeky, light-heartedly bragging tone. Seems like a great fit for George&#8217;s witty, ironic and sort-of-but-not-quite humble personality. It wouldn&#8217;t work at all for Paul McCartney, right? I also think it has a really nice authentic rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll sound and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,19,11],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-a-day","tag-beatles-for-sale","tag-cover","tag-harrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}