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Who Wrote the Beatle Songs

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by Todd M Compton


  “Nobody I Know,” 74

  “Norwegian Wood,” 121-22

  “Not a Second Time,” 64-65

  “Not Guilty,” 220, 331, 344 , 361

  “Nothin’ Shakin’ (But the Leaves on the Trees),” (Eddie Fontaine) 342, 351

  “Nowhere Man,” 122-23

  “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” 236-37

  “Octopus’s Garden,” 287-88 , 329

  Off the Ground (solo album by Paul McCartney), 331, 346

  “Oh My Love,” 339

  “Oh Yoko!” 339

  “Oh! Darling,” 287 , 328, 381

  “Old Brown Shoe,” 277

  On Air — Live at the BBC Volume 2 album, 341, 366

  “One After 909,” 265, 324-25 , 365

  “One And One Is Two,” 73

  “Only a Northern Song,” 274-75

  Ono, Yoko, 116, 128, 173, 210, 219, 225-26, 232, 235, 238, 240, 249, 253-54, 259, 266, 275, 278, 281, 302-4, 307, 336, 361; collaborates with John, 249, 289-91, 339; influences John’s songs and experimental music, 260-62, 278, 290-91; a subject for John’s lyrics, 249, 274, 277-77, 289, 319-20, 346

  “Oo You,” 316

  “Ooh! My Soul,” (Little Richard) 352

  Orbison, Roy, 34-35, 46n, 59

  “P.S. I Love You,” 33-34

  “Paperback Writer,” 139-40 , 147

  Paramor, Norrie, 40-41

  Paris, 70-73, 78, 113

  “Paul’s Bass Jam,” 365

  “Paul’s Piano Piece,” 328 , 365

  “Penina,” 279

  “Penny Lane,” 131, 164, 169-71 , 216

  Perkins, Carl, 26, 78, 92, 99, 306

  Pet Sounds album, Beach Boys, influenced Revolver , 149, influenced Sgt. Peppers, 173-74

  Pickett, Wilson, 72, 86

  “Piggies,” 244

  Plastic Ono Band (solo album by Lennon), 12, 19, 258, 337 ; most songs composed after the Beatle period, 337

  “Please Mr. Postman,” (the Marvelettes) 61

  Please Please Me album, 37ff. ; aside from two earlier singles, recorded in one day, 37; ends with a screamer, in live show tradition, 45, 76; includes offbeat songs, in live show tradition, 38; live show aesthetics of, 38

  “Please Please Me,” 34-36 , 42, 55

  polls, artistic accomplishment of Beatle albums assessed from, 163, 171n, 379

  “Polythene Pam,” 293-95

  Porter, Cole, 55

  Portugal, 114-16, 279

  Presley, Elvis, 106, 134, 306, 330, 346, 348-49, 352, 354, 364, 376, 383

  Preston, Billy, 267, 332-34

  Proby, P. J., 119

  Quickly, Tommy, 50-51

  “Rain,” 140-41

  Ram (solo album by Paul McCartney), 338

  “Ramona,” (Gene Austin) 149

  “Raunchy,” (Bill Justis) 363

  “Real Love,” 360

  “Red Sails in the Sunset,” (Nat King Cole) 343

  Rembrandt, Heswall, Merseyside (Jim McCartney residence), 137, 297

  “Reminiscing,” (Buddy Holly) 342

  “Revolution 1,” (album version), 228, 257

  “Revolution No. 9,” 260-62

  “Revolution,” (fast version), 228

  Revolver album, 113, 142ff. ; first album of Beatles’ full maturity, 135; includes experimental music, 135-36, 145, 151, 154, 160-64; influenced by American music, 149, 156; 159; sometimes regarded as Beatles’ best album, 163, 379

  Rhone, Dorothy “Dot”, 56

  rhythm and blues, 26, 42, 44, 97, 287

  Richards, Cliff, 23

  Richards, Keith, 63, 332

  “Rip It Up,” (Little Richard) 329, 362

  Rishikesh, the Himalayas, India, 218, 234, 236, 238, 248, 254, 338

  Robinson, William “Smokey”, 59, 62, 64, 68-69, 130

  “Rock and Roll Music,” (Chuck Berry) 96

  “Rock Of All Ages,” 305

  Rock of Gibraltar, 276

  “Rocky Raccoon,” 245

  “Roll Over Beethoven,” (Chuck Berry) 62, 76

  Rolling Stones, 58, 63-64

  Rorem, Ned, 15-16

  Rubber Soul album, 102, 118, 120ff. , 135; beginnings of experimentalism, classical textures, 122, 131; transitional between early Beatle exuberance and sophisticated Beatle maturity, 118; represents attempt to shed Beatle teen-age image, 118

  “Run For Your Life,” 134 , 135, 308

  Russell, Leon, 308

  Russia, 233

  Sardinia, 288

  “Savoy Truffle,” 258

  Schwartz, Francie, 226

  Scott, Jimmy, 236-37

  “Searchin’,”(The Coasters) 27, 347, 357

  “Sexy Sadie,” 254-55

  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, 3-4, 6, 163, 171ff. , 311-12; as concept album, 173-77, 195-96; often viewed as greatest rock album in history, 171, 379; shows Beatles’ interest in experimental music, 172-73, 195, 200; strong McCartney impact on, 164, 173, 176

  “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band reprise,” 195-96

  “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” 174-77

  Shadows, The, 23

  “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” (Bill Haley and his Comets) 329, 362

  Shakespeare, William, 298-99

  Shankar, Ravi, 148, 190-91

  Shapiro, Helen, 40

  “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” 295-97

  “She Loves You,” 52-54

  “She Said She Said,” 154-55

  “She’s a Woman,” 92, 93-94

  “She’s Leaving Home,” 2, 164, 185-88

  “Sheila,” (Tommy Roe) 343

  Shenson, Walter, 78-80

  Sheridan, Tony, 21-25

  Shimmy Like Kate,” (The Olympics) 343

  Shotton, Pete, 144-45, 158, 211, 240, 261-62

  “Shout!,” (the Isley Brothers) 359

  Simone, Nina, 125-26

  Sinatra, Frank, 315

  “Sing One for the Lord,” 332

  “Singalong Junk,” 317

  ska, 77n

  “Slow Down,” (Larry Williams) 77-78

  Smith, Mimi Stanley (John’s aunt), 34, 167, 170n, 185

  Smothers, Tommy, 278

  “So How Come (No One Loves Me),” (Everly Brothers) 352

  “Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms),” (Arthur Alexander) 346, 349

  “Some Other Guy,” (Richard Barrett) 348

  song, as music, 15, 69; as lyrics, 103

  “Sour Milk Sea,” 224-25

  Spector, Phil, 26, 68, 349; produces “Instant Karma” for John, 300; “reproduces” Let It Be album, 266, 275, 300-302, 310, 321, 327, 364, 381

  standards (songs), 55, 61, 149, 191-92, 257, 262-63, 384

  Starr, Ringo (Richard Starkey), 4, 23, 33, 38, 42, 63, 99, 102, 104, 111, 127, 139, 144, 147, 153, 178-79, 214, 225, 230, 246-47; 257, 261-62, 272; collaborates with George Harrison, 287-89; contributed lines and phrases to Beatle songs, 78-80, 161

  “Step Inside Love,” 221 , 362

  Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 161, 201, 260, 382

  Storm, Rory, 23, 38, 42

  Strangers, The, with Mike Shannon, 73

  “Strawberry Fields Forever,” 164, 167-71 , 172-73, 180, 204, 216, 373, 385, 390

  “Suicide,” 315 , 366

  “Sun King,” 293

  “Sure to Fall (in Love with You),” (Carl Perkins) 348

  surrealism, in Beatle lyrics, 150-53, 171, 179-81, 209-11, 240, 285, 320

  “Suzy Parker,” 328

  “Sweet Little Sixteen,” (Chuck Berry) 26n, 351

  “Taking a Trip to Carolina,” 365

  Tao Te Ching , 223-24, 335

  tape loops, 135-36, 161-62, 214, 232, 260-62; McCartney discovers, 382-83

  “Taxman,” 17, 135, 142

  Taylor, Alastair, 208

  Taylor, Derek, 215, 240-41, 258, 278

  Taylor, James, 285

  “Teddy Boy,” 317 , 362

  “Tell Me What You See,” 111-12

  “Tell Me Why,” 83


  “Thank You Girl,” 47-48

  “That Means A Lot,” 119 , 361

  “That Would Be Something,” 313

  “That’ll Be the Day,” (Buddy Holly) 20, 354

  “That’s All Right (Mama),” (Elvis Presley) 348, 364

  “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” 276-77

  The Beatles (The White Album) double album, 1, 6, 113, 191, 232ff. , 284-85, 287, 303, 309-10, 316, 326, 362; Lennon’s favorite Beatle album, 172, 219; many of its songs composed in India, 218; Lennon felt that this album reflected the real Beatles breakup, 373; most songs from had no collaboration between Lennon and McCartney, 218; increased tension between Beatles in the recording studio during, 219, 344; song fragment aesthetics of, 313

  The Beatles Anthology DVD, 363

  The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 album, 366

  “The Bells of Rhymney,” (the Byrds) 133-34, 290

  “The End,” 298-99

  The Family Way , movie soundtrack, 165-67

  The Girl Can’t Help It , movie, 250

  “The Hippy Hippy Shake,” (Chan Romero) 346, 351

  “The Honeymoon Song,” (Marino Marini) 350

  “The Inner Light,” 221-22

  “The Long and Winding Road,” 266, 268, 326-27

  “The Lovely Linda,” 313

  “The Night Before,” 108

  “The Sheik of Araby,” (Joe Brown) 357

  “The Word,” 124

  “There’s a Place,” 44

  “Things We Said Today,” 85

  “Thingumybob,” 229

  “Think For Yourself,” 124

  “Thinking of Linking,” 363-64

  Thirty Three & 1/3 (solo album by George Harrison), 340-41

  “This Boy,” 68-69 , 104

  “Three Cool Cats,” (the Coasters) 357

  three-part harmony, 68, 92, 104, 291

  Tibetan Book of the Dead , 160

  “Ticket to Ride,” 103-4 , 110

  “Till There Was You,” (Peggy Lee) 25, 61

  “Tip of My Tongue,” 51

  “To Know Him [Her] Is to Love Him [Her],” (The Teddy Bears) 26, 68, 349

  “Tomorrow Never Knows,” 17, 135, 160-63

  “Too Much Monkey Business,” (Chuck Berry) 347

  Townshend, Peter, 255

  Transcendental Meditation, 218-19, 223, 234, 238, 242, 271

  Troy, Doris, 308-9, 331-32

  “Twist and Shout,” (the Isley Brothers) 45, 381

  “Two of Us,” 318-19

  Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins album, 232

  Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions album, 275

  Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) (McCartney solo album), 342

  “Valentine Day,” 314

  Varèse, Edgard, 260

  Vaughan, Ivan, 38, 126

  Vaughan, Jan, 126

  Vietnam War, 228

  Vincent, Gene, 22n, 24, 250, 342-43

  “Wah Wah,” 336

  “Wait,” 133

  Warhol, Andy, 158

  We Can Work It Out,” 137-38

  Wedding Album , 302

  “Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine” (Gene Austin), 49

  “What Goes On,” 127-28

  “What You’re Doing,” 101

  “What’s the New Mary Jane,” 361-62

  “When I Get Home,” 86

  “When I’m Sixty-Four,” 191-93

  “Where Have You Been All My Life?” (Arthur Alexander) 343

  “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” 239-40

  Who, The, 215, 255

  “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road,” 248 , 381

  “Wild Honey Pie,” 237-38 , 313

  Williams, Larry, 77-78, 105, 117

  “With a Little Help from My Friends,” 178-79

  With the Beatles album, 59ff.; live album aesthetics of, 59, 65; pronounced Motown influence on, 59, 61-62, 64

  “Within You Without You,” 190-91 , 223

  “Woman,” 138

  “Woman Don’t You Cry for Me,” 340-41

  Wonderwall Music , movie soundtrack, 229-30

  Wooler, Bob, 351

  “Words of Love,” (Buddy Holly) 99

  Yellow Submarine album, 268-69

  Yellow Submarine movie, 268

  “Yellow Submarine,” 150-54 , 229, 268, 377

  “Yer Blues,”237, 242, 252 , 306

  “Yes It Is,” 104

  “Yesterday,” 108, 113ff. , 373

  “You Can’t Catch Me,” (Chuck Berry) 282

  “You Can’t Do That,” 72 , 86

  “You Give Me Joy Joy, ” 332

  “You Know My Name (Look Up My Number),” 311-12

  “You Know What to Do,” 359

  “You Like Me Too Much,” 111

  “You Never Give Me Your Money,” 292

  “You Really Got A Hold On Me,” (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) 62, 329

  “You Won’t See Me,” 122

  “You’ll Be Mine,” 356

  “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl,” 110

  “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” 108-9

  “Young Blood,” (The Coasters) 347

  “Your Feet’s Too Big,” (Fats Waller) 341

  “Your Mother Should Know,” 215-16

 

 

 


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