HERE IS BEATLES BAND

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that the canon polls keep creeping back to their spiritual home of Fridays - it must be fate! Anyway today in a fit of indulgence we are doing the BEATLES, to celebrate the fact that something written by me about them is going to be in a proper book available in real actual shops later this year. You get TEN picks from the frankly motley range of Official Beatle Hits available.




[Poll #723001]

I am actually quite intrigued as to how this one will turn out!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what IS "ain't she sweet'? i have never heard of it!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

#29 in 1964. For a cash-in single to only get to #29 at the screaming height of Beatlemania it must have been a real dog!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it's not mentioned in lewissohn! (i seem to have mislaid macdonald)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Maybe Everyhit made it up!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

isn't it a cover? = rockism in full effect even in 1964!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

aha it feat. PTEE BEST on drums

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

and macdonald doesn't mention it! i think it was a 1961 demo for polydor

[koganbot]

Is a cover of a song that was a hit before your mother was born (but not before my mother was born; she was age 4) and had already been covered scads and scads of times prior to the Beatles getting to it; theirs wasn't the first version I'd heard. You'll recognize the song when you hear it.