"Don't Bother Me" on the U.S. "Meet The Beatles" album in 1964 was composed by George Harrison and I think it's a great tune.
dtuba said:Your opinion, maybe.No worse than “You Like Me Too Much” or “I Need You”. Both were by Harrison, and both were on the U.K. release of the Help! LP (YLMTM was released in the U.S. on Beatles VI, and George sang INY but not YLMTM in the movie).
Not until “Taxman”, “Love You To”, and “I Want to Tell You” (a great tune IMO) on Revolver did Harrison find his songwriting stride (although all votes for “If I Needed Someone” on RS will be counted).
I think "I Need You" is a lovely song, and Help! is one of my favorite Beatles albums.
Agreed that Harrison did not always get the credit (as a songwriter) that maybe he was due, at least in the early days. I believe the reason why "You Like Me Too Much" did not appear in the movie was because it was on side 2 of the album, and side 2 usually featured songs that may have been written for the movie, but not used in it. At least, it was that way for the UK albums.johnbasalla said:"Don't Bother Me" on the U.S. "Meet The Beatles" album in 1964 was composed by George Harrison and I think it's a great tune.
Manny Michaels said:firepoint525 said:Want some "obscure" Beatles songs? Try these:semoochie said:I'm still reeling from the concept of "obscure Beatles songs"!
"The Sheik of Araby"
"Three Cool Cats"
"If You've Got Trouble"
"In Spite of All the Danger"
"That Means a Lot"
All of these are from the Anthology series, and while I mentioned the Anthology series earlier in this thread, I don't think any of these particular titles would get any airplay, mostly because these were too early in the Fab Four's career. It's worth noting that "In Spite of All the Danger" had a Harrison-McCartney songwriting credit, and there was also an instrumental with a Harrison-Lennon songwriting credit. Didn't see that too often!
I suspect that the real reason they don't get any airplay is that these songs are truly horrible. I'm just sayin'.
Personally, I liked "If You've Got Trouble," and I think that if they had spent a little more time on it, it could have been a great song. Not that I disagreed with replacing it with "Act Naturally," as I like that one, too, but the problem with "If You've Got Trouble" was the writing:FightingIrish said:"If You've Got Trouble" and "That Means A Lot" were discards from around the time of Help. The former, with a Ringo vocal, was a toss-off. It was crap, and they knew it. It was replaced by "Act Naturally" as the Ringo track. The latter was a rather complicated track (sounds like they were going for a dense Phil Spector-type sound). McCartney put a lot of work into it, but was never happy with the end result, hence it got shelved and the song itself given to another singer. I think it's a really good song, and if they had the time and energy to really sort it out, it would have been a stand-out on the Help album.
Fieldtech1 said:Just curious. Do a lot of AAA stations spin The Beatles??
I miss WNWV when it was AAA. It sounded like the old WMMS form the 70's, in fact it had some WMMS produced programs (the old Coffee Break Concerts). Now we have that "Franken FM" 87.7 WLFM. I can't get it on my new car's radio (the radio starts with 87.9). WLFM is close but not the same as 1073.johnbasalla said:Certain Super Groups work in a variety of ways. The Beatles are one that usually pleases. WNWV in the Cleveland, Ohio area plays a number of Beatles tracks. One way WBWC, a college owned station with an Alternative format, differentiates itself from its commercial counterpart is to have select tracks from The Beatles, and others (ie. The Doors) available for occasional use. Staffed primarily by 18-24 year olds it was interesting when the P.D. told the staff not to play so many tracks by these artists. That says a lot about the quality, longevity and continuing interest these artists enjoy.