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2022 FBG, 172 to 1 Beatles Countdown 1-25 lists... And 173 to 1 Countdown from 1-64 lists! (1 Viewer)

I really should seek out more of Julian's music, but I just never really think about it.  But I can't think of a single song of his that I've heard that I haven't enjoyed.  

 
Hey guys, Have to make a change of plans...

I'll take lists through Tuesday at Noon (ET)

Have a little too much going on until then and can't commit to starting the 1-64 countdown until then.

 
After almost 20 years, I finally watched The Concert for George (the truncated PBS pledge drive version).

Interesting that Paul sang All Things Must Pass when he was a big reason why that song didn’t make it onto Let It Be.

 
Hola,   I'm going to start the 1-64 list countdown shortly.

Im only going to "at" people if they ranked the song in their Top 5. 

By all means, please comment if you like on any song whether you voted for it or not. Would really like comments on songs you placed in the 26-64 range.

Many thanks to the 23 of you that sent in lists.  It was about this number of lists where I felt the "smoothing" out process would work, and I think it did.  As always, there will be several surprises.

On a weird note, son and I traveled to Pendleton, OR for some poker Sunday after our trip to Phoenix.  We were scheduled to drive back yesterday, but we are snowed in and the I-84 from Pendleton to Ontario, OR is still closed in many places, so I'll post for a little bit here today. Going to play HORSE tourney at noon.  Hopefully drive back (3.5 hours) Wed am.

 
My list:

 

1---Hey Bulldog

2---Get Back

3---Eleanor Rigby

4---Help!

5---A Hard Days Night

6---Two Of Us

7---I Want To Hold Your Hand

8---Day Tripper

9---She Loves You

10---I Feel Fine

11---Let It Be

12---

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

13---Ticket To Ride

14---Rain

15---I Saw Her Standing There

16---Hey Jude

17---Paperback Writer

18---Mother Nature's Son

19---Hello Goodbye

20---Here Comes The Sun

21---Norwegian Wood

22---Things We Said Today

23---All You Need Is Love

24---A Day in the Life

25---The Night Before

26---With A Little Help From My Friends

27---Abbey Road Medley

28---In My Life

29---Can't Buy Me Love

30---The Fool on the Hill

31---I Should Have Known Better

32---I've Just Seen a Face

33---We Can Work it Out

34---Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

35---Penny Lane

36---Nowhere Man

37---Magical Mystery Tour

38---Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

39---Yellow Submarine

40---Eight Days A Week

41---Strawberry Fields Forever

42---Please Please Me

43---If I Fell

44---All My Loving

45---Lady Madonna

46---You Won't See Me

47---No Reply

48---Boys

49---The Ballad of John and Yoko

50---Blackbird

51---Don't Let Me Down

52---She Said She Said

53---Taxman

54---Helter Skelter

55---You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

56---And Your Bird Can Sing

57---Yesterday

58---I am The Walrus

59---Something

60---Here, There and everywhere

61---You Can't Do That

62---You're Going To Lose That Girl

63---Come Together

64---The Long and Winding Road

 
Fun question for the day:

23 voters....   What song received the most #26-64 votes and how many of those votes did they get?

 
Piggies
#173

64 List Voters/Points: 1/1

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

One lone #64 vote. NR in 2022 countdown.

 
So 173 made this countdown.  One more than the 2022 #1-25 List countdown.


Here are the 16 songs that received a vote in the 2022, #1-25 List countdown, that did NOT get a vote in the #1-64 List countdown.   That also means that 17 songs that did not get a #1-25 vote got one in the #1-64 lists.  How odd. LOL.

 

(2022 #1-25 List placement/Song Title)
139-Baby's in Black

143-Why Don't We Do It In The Road

147-Old Brown Shoe

150-Roll Over Beethoven

163-Long Tall Sally

164-I Call Your Name

165-Rocky Racoon

123T-Revolution 9

125T-Your Mother Should Know

130T-Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey

132T-Till There was You

134T-Bad Boy

148T-What Goes On

151T-All Together Now

157T-Dizzy Miss Lizzy

171T-You Know My Name

 
Misery
 

64 List Rank: 172

64 List Voters/Points: 1/1

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

Another #64 lone vote

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Real Love
2022 Ranking: 134T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 19
Ranked Highest by: Shaft41 (Daughter) (7)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz comments:  Of all of the amazing moments in the 2019 countdown, this was my favorite. @Shaft41's daughter singing Let It Be. The story behind the song and her voice and performance make me  :cry: every time. And now, three years later, she has graced us by submitting a list and her first song to make the list is this beautiful song.

Krista4

My 2019 ranking:  N/A

2019 write-up:  N/A

2022 Supplement: This is awkward since I don’t know the order these will be presented in.  I already wrote up “Free As A Bird” and don’t know if that will come first or if I need to give more background on these songs.  Well, whatever the ####, I’m just going to skip over all that and assume it’s been covered by Guido or me.

While I prefer “Free As A Bird” as a song, the video for this one, which I assume Getz will have posted, brings me to tears every time.  When they sing about “real love,” they’re singing about each other.  These guys shared something that no one else in the world could have ever experienced.  Much is made of the tensions and their eventual break-up, but they shared such a deep love for each other even in the bad times.  Watching the Get Back documentary really hammered this home for me, especially in the way that John and Paul would look at each other.  Best mates who could drive each other crazy with their differences but those differences are also what made them the best songwriting team of all time.  What struck me most strongly in watching them together was how damn much they admired each other.  Sure, they loved Ringo and George, but they were simply blown away by each other.  The quibbles and disagreements were, to me, minor when you take into account their ages.  They grew up together!  And of course they started to drift apart as people do when they begin to focus on families and such.  They had to work through that inevitability in full view of the world, and the world responded by acting as if John and Paul were the only people who ever went through that.  It’s Yoko!  It’s Paul being a micromanager!  It’s the death of Brian Epstein!  Whatever.  They were just growing up and working through it all better than most any of us could.

But that way they looked at each other, as if in awe of one another…that never changed.

Damn it, where did all this dust come from?

Was I supposed to write something about the song here?

2022 Mr. krista Supplement: 

I don’t love it.  There’s something bothersome about John singing in that falsetto.  It sounds like b-sides to Double Fantasy, not good enough to be on a record that was tepid by John standards.  I kinda wish that what got the remaining Beatles back together wasn’t doing a mediocre John Lennon song, but Long Tall Sally.  Or Paul could write a song, George could write a song, Ringo could kind of write a song maybe, or the jury’s out on that.  Or even to do a tribute to John, not have him be the missing person in the room.  [I point out “All Those Years Ago” was a tribute to John.]

Guido Merkins

The first time I heard Real Love was on the 1988 soundtrack for the Imagine: John Lennon documentary soundtrack.  At that point, it was called Real Life, a demo played by John on guitar, circa 1979 or 1980.  In this version, it had the same haunting beauty that the Strawberry Fields Forever demo on Anthology 2.  I was absolutely transfixed by this version of the song and it remains one of my favorite demos by the Beatles or anyone else.  Other demos of this song exist called Real Love with John playing piano.  It was one of these that Yoko gave to Paul when he asked for demo recordings from John that the Beatles could work on for the Anthology project along with Free As A Bird, Grow Old With Me, and Now and Then with only Free As A Bird ever seeing an official Beatles release.  Real Life was actually a later demo than the Real Love one the Beatles used to record in 1995.  In fact, Real Life was the latest demo and John considered it for the Double Fantasy album in 1980.

Real Love was a more finished song than Free As A Bird, but there were significant technical problems to get it ready to record.  The demo had significant tape hiss and a hum and was out of time.  Also,  Paul, George, and Ringo had to get past the emotional hurdle of recording without John.  They did so by pretending that John had gone out for lunch and they were just finishing the track.  

My reaction when I heard it in 1995 was that….it sounds like the Beatles.  Everything.  The drumming, the guitar solo, the harmonies….it’s the Beatles.  Does the song belong with Strawberry Fields Forever, no.  But it’s far from the worst Beatles song ever and you could easily imagine the Beatles getting together some time in the 80s if John had lived and recording this and it sounding like this. 
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64 List Rank: 171

64 List Voters/Points: 1/2

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0 

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

One #63 vote...  On songs that appeared in the 1-25 countdown, I'll be quoting that post so you can finally read the excellent writeups by @krista4 and @Guido Merkins

 
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Getzlaf15 said:
64 List Rank: 171

64 List Voters/Points: 1/2

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0 

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

One #63 vote...  On songs that appeared in the 1-25 countdown, I'll be quoting that posts so you can finally read the excellent writeups by @krista4 and @Guido Merkins
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I couldn't get my kids to commit to a 1-64 list, or else this one would have ranked higher thanks to my daughter.  It just missed my list.  

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Birthday
2022 Ranking: 105
2022 Lists: 2
2022 Points: 33
Ranked Highest by: Krista(Rob) (7) @Dwayne Hoover (12)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 129/2/6

Getz comments:  Shoutout to my FIL on his 92nd BDay.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  144

2019 write-up:

Birthday (White Album, 1968)

It's love it and hate it within the same song!  What I love about this:  it's a rave-up; the guitar riff; the drums; the music (but not the vocals) between 0:42-1:43; the "take a ch-ch-ch-chance" bit; the fact that it seems a rare bit of fun during their White Album sessions.  What I hate about this:  the lyrics oh god those ####### lyrics; Paul's cookie-monster vocal; the "biiiiirthday" backing vocals by Yoko Ono and Pattie Harrison; the fact that I can't hear it without thinking of that stupid Anthony Michael Hall character in that stupid Sixteen Candles movie.  I could overlook everything else if it weren't for the lyrics.  Paul claimed this was a collaboration with John; as was often the case, John claimed no part in it and called it "a piece of garbage."

Mr. krista:  "Badass riff.  Badass drumbeat.  It sounds like a Little Richard song, too.  It has that kind of effortlessness that comes from just being able to rock out a song.  I like the reverse polka, pa-oom instead of oom-pa, from Ringo.  Listen to this.  [Plays me Little Richard's "The Girl Can’t Help it."]  It’s the same song."

Suggested cover:  Paul Weller.  And in tribute to prior discussion in the thread:  The Iveys

2022 Supplement:  Yeah, I still don’t like this nearly as much as the rest of you do.  It’s sometimes a “change the channel” for me, even.

Paul says that this song was written specifically with live performance in mind, which might be the reason he continues to perform it at his shows to this day.  I remember waiting expectantly for his encore when I saw him in Vancouver in 2019; I’d read that the first number of the encore would be either “Yesterday,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” or this song.  We got this song.  :kicksrock:   Anyway, Paul has mentioned that this is a good concert song, because there’s always someone in the audience who has a birthday.  Hey Paul, that was not me. 

This song was improvised on the spot at Abbey Road, on a night when some additional visitors were there, including awful Pattie Boyd and even-more-awful Eric Clapton.  The band used the riff from Little Richard’s “Lucille” as a starting point, and developed it from there.  The also incorporated an idea from The Who’s “My Generation,” which was the “stutter” of “f-f-f-f-f-f.”  That became the basis of the “cha-cha-cha-cha-chance” in this song, which was then adapted again later in David Bowie’s “Changes.”

Guido Merkins

One of the most well-known songs on the White Album.  I want to say this song is the reason I wanted the White Album in the first place.  I first became aware of the song with a radio show I used to listen to here in New Orleans and when they’d go through birthdays, they’d play Birthday in the background.

Birthday led off the Side 3 of the White Album and sits along the other rockers on that side.  Paul made up the riff and he and John literally made up the song on the spot in the studio.  John later called it “garbage”, but that riff is a real ear worm and impossible to forget. The riff is the best part of the song.

It sounds like something totally improvised in the studio and it has that totally loose feel.  Love the drumming and I love the difference in feel between Paul’s roaring vocals on the verses and John’s more laid back middle (yes we’re going to a party party.)  It was inevitable that for Ringo’s 70th birthday celebration at Radio City Music Hall that Paul and Ringo would get together and perform Birthday.
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64 List Rank: 169

64 List Voters/Points: 1/5

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

One #60 here...

 
Getzlaf15 said:
I Will
2022 Ranking: 110
2022 Lists: 2
2022 Points: 31
Ranked Highest by:@fatguyinalittlecoat (4) Shaft41(son1) (17)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 97/2/17

Getz comments:  We are in the middle of a 16-song run of songs that received either two or three votes. After that, it’s almost all five or more. Two more first timers! 21 left to go...

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  117

2019 write-up:

I Will (White Album, 1968)

Beautiful and hummable, stuck-in-your-head song with a fabulous guitar line from Paul that sounds more George-like than George does.  Readers of my first post in this thread, which is none of you, will note my statement that I'm not sentimental or sappy.  As a result, this lovely song from the Paul McCartney automatic-song-generator gets high points for all of that plus its absolutely gorgeous harmonies but is docked compared to other songs due to its hokey lyrics:

Love you forever and forever

Love you with all my heart

Love you whenever we're together

Love you when we're apart.

  Mr. krista:  "THAT sounds like a song that was written in 1964.  It’s a lovely little Beatles tune.  They were in India when he wrote it so they were probably feeling particularly decent.  McCartney is best when he seems vulnerable."

Suggested cover:  Allison Krauss holy hell

2022 Supplement:  Paul has indicated that the melody for this song had been hanging around for a while before he finally set it down in February 1968 while in India; he still counts it as one of his favorite melodies he’s ever written.  The [Editors’ note:  dreadful] lyrics took him a while longer, kicking them around with Donovan after an evening of meditation but never becoming quite satisfied before deciding to go for “very simple words, straight love-song.”  He describes this as his being “in my troubadour mode,” not addressing the lyrics to Jane Asher or any particular person, but instead setting the words and music to a film he’s watching in his head.  This seems to tie to my earlier discussion of how John wrote more autobiographically, while Paul was more about imaginary worlds.

Paul must have been reading the 2019 thread.  😉  In the Lyrics, he writes:  “This is a song about the joy of love.  Those are sometimes thought of as being soppy or sweet or saccharine.  Yes, I understand that.  But love can be the mightiest, strongest force on the planet.  Right now in Vietnam, or in Brazil, there are people falling in love.  They often want to have children.  It’s a strong, universal force.  It’s not soppy at all.”

Has Sir Paul convinced me?  Nah, I still hate the lyrics to this otherwise gorgeous song.

Guido Merkins

The Beatles wrote lots of songs in India.  One of them that Paul had a melody for, but had problems with the words was a song called I Will.  He finally just attached some very simple words to it and recorded it.

I Will features just Paul, John and Ringo.  Not sure what George was doing.  Paul on acoustic guitar, John and Ringo on percussion and Paul singing a bass line.  Paul has a gift for these types of songs with just himself on acoustic guitar.  Yesterday, Blackbird, even demos like Goodbye and into his solo career with Calico Skies from Flaming Pie.  I Will is one of those.  Paul would be a good guy to have around a campfire with just an acoustic guitar.

I Will is one of those songs I heard the first time I heard the White Album and I instantly loved it. Paul thought it was one of his best melodies and it came to him effortlessly. It sounds like it.
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64 List Rank: 167

64 List Voters/Points: 3/11

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 3

A #59, #61 and #64.

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Thank You Girl
2022 Ranking: 161T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 7
Ranked Highest by: Krista (Sharon)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 131T/1/5

Getz: catchy, early years rocker with the usual solid harmonies. Sharon is a friend of Krista's. 7 pts is a ranking of #19.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  184

2019 write-up:

Thank You Girl (single, 1963)

The b-side to "From Me to You," this was originally intended to be an a-side single, but the Beatles decided it "didn't work."  John in particular seems to have disliked the final results here, as he's described it as "hacky," among other things.  Like many of the earlier songs, they seem to be speaking directly to the listener, and in this case they intended the song to be a thank-you to their fans.  The off-kilter "ohs" from John, the reverb-y harmonica, and Ringo's drum fills are what draw me into this one; otherwise I might call it a little boring.

Mr. krista:  "I like the “oh oh” with all the reverb on it. I think that was them trying to do something to keep it interesting for themselves, cause otherwise it’s kind of dull."

Suggested cover:  Not a lot to choose from here, but this Argentinean hard rock version is kinda fun:  Airbag

2022 Supplement:  Another one I wish I could have higher (Binky:  lower).  But what do I move down to get this one up?  (The crowd roars, “Rocky Raccoon!”)  Love those harmonies and the energy.  Just to show what a terrific energy this song has, here’s a live at the BBC version that omits one of its most compelling elements, the harmonica part, as well as the double-tracked vocals (which were the Beatles’ first use of this device):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBaHJkhybs The result?  Still awesome.

Guido Merkins

The Beatles, early in their career used a lot of personal pronouns in their songs.  She Loves You,  I Want to Hold Your Hand, From Me To You, I’ll Get You, and Thank You Girl.

Thank You Girl was written as a follow up to Please Please Me, but then they came up with From Me To You and relegated Thank You Girl as the B side of From Me To You. 
This song was a true collaboration between John and Paul with Paul claiming the chorus and John not really sure of who did what, other than to say that they both contributed.  The message of the song is clear.  A thank you to the fans.  Nothing more complicated than that.

The best part of the song, hands down, is the end with Ringo’s signature drum fills.  Technically so wrong, yet so right and so distinctively Ringo.  And, there hasn’t been a ton of discussion of stereo vs mono mixes, but Thank You Girl is one where there are distinctive differences.  The Stereo version has extra harmonica in the middle and at the end.
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64 List Rank: 166

64 List Voters/Points: 2/15

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 2

#54 and #61

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Good Night
One #47 vote...
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MINE!!!!

the only Ringo vocal that would make it outta my bottom 15 Beatles songs. 

the rest do absolutely nothing for me at all ... auto skips galore. 

but "Good Night" is John's baby ... that side of him that i love to be in touch with so much - the lush arrangement just makes it even more so heart tugging. 

LOVE. 

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Mr.Moonlight
2022 Ranking: 102
2022 Lists: 2
2022 Points: 37
Ranked Highest by: Krista(Mom/Hub) (2) Krista(Sharon) (13)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz comments:  Last song two have only two voters. There are only eight left that have less than five voters. Sharon posts her ninth song to take that lead and take an even larger lead in the Chalk race. Also, I can see why this didn't get votes last time.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  181

2019 write-up:

Mr. Moonlight (Beatles for Sale, 1964)

We're into a new tier of covers.  In these, I don't think the Beatles versions are worse, but they don't do anything to make the songs better, either.  

This one sounds awfully corny in some ways, in particular Paul's "roller rink" Hammond organ solo in the middle, but I suspect it's meant to be.  All the goofiness - why is George on African drum?  why is Ringo hitting those tom-toms so hard?  why is the harmony so monotone? oh no, here comes that organ solo - makes the energy of John's blistering vocals stand out even more.  John's commitment to this song makes it shine through the zaniness.

Mr. krista:  "Vocals are so great though.  He clearly loves that song more than anybody else in the band."

The original by Dr. Feelgood and the Interns has a similarly stellar vocal.   

2022 Supplement:  This was a b-side obscurity picked up several British bands, including the Merseybeats and the Hollies, but the Beatles’ version is still considered the standard-bearer, even by those who don’t like it.  A crowd favorite in the Beatles’ live performances at the Cavern Club, they often opened with it and apparently hammed it up to the extreme.  I can imagine why it would be a compelling opener to a set list, the way John’s voice just comes out of nowhere with that first “Mi-i-i-i-i-i-i-ster!”  Somehow that didn’t translate to the recording which I understand for many years was considered by most to be the Beatles’ worst song.  Part of that reaction might largely be Paul’s cheesy organ solo, which wasn’t originally part of the song but was substituted in when George Martin deemed George’s guitar sound to be too weird (despite George, John, and the others liking it).  The Anthology series included a couple of earlier takes of this song.  Take a listen to this one and see what you think of the guitar solo instead:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg0x5P6DAKA  

Guido Merkins

One of the most controversial songs in the Beatles catalog.  Not necessarily because it was all bad, but because of what was left off.  Anthology 1 has a version of Leave My Kitten Alone which was done in the style of Twist and Shout with an absolutely searing Lennon vocal.  I love Beatles For Sale more than most Beatles fans, but even I can’t figure out why Mr Moonlight was included and Leave My Kitten Alone was left off.  Oh well, I’m not a Beatle

The song was a cover of a song by Dr Feelgood and the Interns.  The Beatles loved obscure B sides and this fit the bill as they played it in the Cavern and in Hamburg. 

The recording features a brilliant Lennon vocal, some cool conga type drums from Ringo and kind of a gaudy organ solo by Paul.  

Not a brilliant song or recording, but it was certainly different from the other songs on Beatles For Sale, and maybe that was the point.
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64 List Rank: 161

64 List Voters/Points: 1/27

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

One #38 vote...

 
Getzlaf15 said:
For You Blue
2022 Ranking: 151T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 11
Ranked Highest by: @Man of Constant Sorrow (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 111T/1/11

Getz: This song received some "Get Back" time. See video link below. I can see MoCS when I hear this.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  146

2019 write-up:

For You Blue (Let It Be, 1970)

I LOVE THE LAP STEEL GUITAR ON THIS SONG.  I love the sound of that guitar and the slide; I've read variously that John used a lighter, a shotgun shell, and a lipstick tube as the slide.  George called this a "happy-go-lucky" song, and his vocal has a nice sweet quality to it.  Paul did some interesting work on the piano, putting paper between the strings to give it a fuzzy sound.  The problem I have with this song is George's silly talking during the middle.  Maybe that's just them having fun, but it detracts for me.  Though I enjoy George's vocal on this, I think I'd enjoy it more as just an instrumental.  Still a great groove, though.

Mr. krista:  "Seems fun.  Well, compared to The Long and Winding Road, surgery seems fun.  I like the self-deprecating bits of dialogue. I like the DoBro steel guitar. It was like a really concise Allman Brothers song."

Suggested cover:  Well, I can't resist this:  Dhani Harrison and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N6aW4Gh2LU

2022 Supplement:  I felt like this should have been higher (Binky, you know what to do) at the time and still do today.  Not sure why it got so lost in my rankings.  Oh…holy ####.  I just read my write-up and see I docked it for George’s talking, which is now one of my favorite parts.  I love the “Go, Johnny, go!” and the rest of it.  Must have been in a bad mood when I wrote that one.

In the studio on this one:   and from the Get Back documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abPLPAm5q9o

Guido Merkins

The Beatles were not a blues band.  Obviously all rock and roll and R&B, and pretty much any other form of American music is based on the blues, but the Beatles very rarely did something that could be considered a straight up 12 bar blues.  One of the only examples was given to us by George on the Let It Be album called For You Blue.

For You Blue was written about Pattie Boyd, George’s wife and her blue eyes.  There is a lap steel guitar played by John, ironic in that it was Harrison who would spend the rest of his career playing slide, but for this John did it.  There is no bass guitar on the track because Paul is playing a piano.  They wanted a certain sound out of the piano, so they put newspaper on the strings to give it kind of a buzz sound.  I guess make it sound old-timey.  

I love George encouraging John with stuff like “go Johnny go” and “Elmore James got nothing on this” as he chuckles.  George’s vocal on this is very good as well.  George calls the song “a 12 bar blues that follows all the principles of a 12 bar blues, except it’s happy go lucky.”  I think that’s a better description than I could ever do, so I’ll leave it at that.
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64 List Rank: 160

64 List Voters/Points: 1/27

64 List Top 5: 0

64 List Top 10: 0

64 List 1-25 votes: 0

64 List 26-64 votes: 1

Another #38 solo...

 
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