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Title: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: on September 29, 2004, 07:40:58 PM
i think its john lennon with a guitar and nothing else, here are some of the lyrics:  Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover......... I dont want to leave her now, you know i believe in _____?

so, if you can tell me the name of this song that would be great. thanks.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Indica on September 29, 2004, 07:53:50 PM
the answer is in the Lyrics :)

Its Something, and Its a George Harrison Composition.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: number14 on September 29, 2004, 11:48:54 PM
One of georges best
 :)
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: sexy sadie on October 03, 2004, 08:27:32 PM
very pretty song
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: on October 03, 2004, 08:35:05 PM
P.S. Its George performing an acoustic version, not John.





...and how can you not have heard of Something? One of the best songs off Abbey Road.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: LarryG on October 05, 2004, 02:42:01 AM
[quote by=haiku_jimi link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1096486858,s=4 date=1096835705]P.S. Its George performing an acoustic version, not John.





...and how can you not have heard of Something? One of the best songs off Abbey Road.[/quote]


Plus, it was Frank Sinatra's favorite "Lennon-McCartney" song, though it was written by George.

Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Herecomesyoursun on October 05, 2004, 02:44:39 AM
you have to think that after he did it the first time some sqeally little assistant corrected him so Frank continued to do it just to p*ss him off and show him that Frank dont make mistakes.  Plus audiences probably laughed.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: pc31 on October 05, 2004, 10:09:18 AM
i detest snotra
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: tkitna on October 05, 2004, 10:29:12 AM
[quote by=pc31 link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1096486858,s=7 date=1096970958]i detest snotra[/quote]

See PC, you should give more kudos for Paulie. After all, Paul pretty much shunned Sinatra (not really, but he didnt have the time) and sent him a crap song he wrote when he was 16, after Frankie requested (over-bearingly so) Macca write one for him. Sinatra checked the tune out and said it was junk. Stayed a bit bitter for awhile.

I'll look the name of the song up later and post actual details of the event.

Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Mendips on October 05, 2004, 11:59:08 AM
I know Paul had written a song when he was  young called SUICIDE, could that be it?


Anyway, in 1964 Sinatra, Dino and Bing Crosby did a recorded parody of the Beatles called THE
BUMBLERS.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Sadie4 on October 05, 2004, 01:19:38 PM
[quote by=Jim_Morrison link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1096486858,s=0 date=1096486858]i think its john lennon with a guitar and nothing else, here are some of the lyrics:
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: tkitna on October 05, 2004, 11:11:35 PM
I do believe the song was indeed 'Suicide', but I still havent looked up the details. I'll do it tomorrow for sure to verify.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Mendips on October 07, 2004, 02:54:35 AM
Thanks tkitna,
I'm really curious about that myself!  :)
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Post by: Lucy In The Sky on October 08, 2004, 10:48:36 PM
[quote by=number14 link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1096486858,s=2 date=1096501734]One of georges best
 :)[/quote]

Sweet sweet George. How I regret not being alive when they were.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: tkitna on October 08, 2004, 11:15:09 PM
[quote by=Mendips link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1096486858,s=12 date=1097117675]Thanks tkitna,
I'm really curious about that myself!
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Mendips on October 08, 2004, 11:48:56 PM
You're a doll!  :K)
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: tkitna on October 09, 2004, 12:16:09 AM
[quote by=Mendips link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1096486858,s=15 date=1097279336]You're a doll!
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: tkitna on October 11, 2004, 12:15:25 AM
Well, I guess there really isnt much to tell about the Sinatra episode, but here goes. In the 60's a songwriters supposedly greatest feat was to have Sinatra accept and record a song that they had writen. Well, Paul was a teenager and decided to write a song for Sinatra once while lying in bed. Of course, Paul came up with the song 'Suicide' that he wrote in a cabaret style. Here are some lyrics from that song-

'If when she tries to run away and he calls her back she comes,,,,,it's okay, because she's under both his thumbs....'
'She'll limp along to his side.....I call it suicide!'

Paul admits that it was a horrible song. Anyways, years passed and one day in Abbey Road studios Sinatra called. He asked Paul for a song since the Beatles were big at the time and Paul had a reputation for writing songs for other artists that did well. Paul didnt have anything ready so he dug up 'Suicide' and made a demo for old Frank.
Title: Re: Can Someone Identify this song please?
Post by: Mendips on October 11, 2004, 08:17:58 PM
HA!
NOW we know the story! Poor Paul!
Thanks so much!!