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number14
June 30, 2004, 5:31pm Report to Moderator

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Im new to this forum but i Have one question for you guys and i want everyone to answer it.

1. What is The Beatles Most famous song overall??!!

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Their most recorded track is Yesterday - so I guess that is their most famous song. Anyone else have opinions on this?


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Endlessly debatable.....Yesterday is the most played/covered.....Hey Jude is their biggest single in the United States....I Want to Hold Your Hand was their biggest selling single worldwide...hard to tell really.



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i think yesterday is the song most prominent in peoples minds when they think of the Beatles.  it was the most played song on the radio for 8 years



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I could agree on Yesterday, but I can mentiion that after working in a kindergarden here in Norway, I have only knowingly encountered two children under seven who didn't know the refrain of Yellow submarine


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Quoted from Stratford, posted July 4, 2004, 3:18pm at here
I could agree on Yesterday, but I can mentiion that after working in a kindergarden here in Norway, I have only knowingly encountered two children under seven who didn't know the refrain of Yellow submarine


yet your question did not specify children (tho I'm sure that is a good call on their behalf).

Yesterday, most likely.
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Quoted from misterchaz, posted July 4, 2004, 3:23pm at here

yet your question did not specify children (tho I'm sure that is a good call on their behalf).


No, of course My point was simply that if so many six year old in 2003 knows it (just like I knew it at that age back in '94) it's merely a possible indicator. I just mentioned how it had become an accepted children's song


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I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Yesterday, Let it Be, Hey Jude, or Yellow Submarine.
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Come Together is pretty well known along with Can't Buy Me Love with teens like myself.....I hear the former being sung by gals all the time...



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Help! is pretty well known. It's been covered in movies as well as a commercial I think. But then all of the others mentioned are equally well known! Speaking of children, the first graders in my class can sing MANY of the Beatles early hits as well as a few of the later ones like All You Need is Love. Basically, Beatle songs are SO part of our culture it's hard not to know many of them by the time your 3! So how could you pick one thats most famous? That's hard!


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I actually knew zero Beatles songs for quite a while....Aerosmith's cover of "Come Together" along with "Yellow Submarine" from my choir class were the first I got to know of them....and that was in fifth and seventh grade respectively.....I honestly hadn't heard more than five Beatles songs until 1 came out and my friend played it at a party once....and even then, I never heard them again until I purchased Abbey Road. So I guess it is possible for someone to listen to lots of rock music and somehow avoid them all together, as I never even heard an actual Beatles studio track until the year 2000.

EDIT: On a side note, I did hear "Free as A Bird" around the time the Anthology came out, but that was about it.



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I agree with most of the people here, Yesterday is their most famous song.

Other well known songs are 'I saw her standing there','Twist and Shout', 'Hey Jude' and 'I want to hold your hand'



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Well i when i was writing this thread i was expecting let it be or yesterday so im not surprised.




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i think that yesterday is probably there biggest hit. and also Long and winding road



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i wasn't around when the beatles were famous, i wasn't even born when john lennon died. i just grew up with my whole family listening to them and teaching me their music. the most popular ones i've heard people talk of are i wanna hold your hand & hey jude, but alot of the ones u guys mentioned are pretty popular too


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I think the most popular - in these days/this generation - would be Yesterday, and Let it Be, and Hey Jude. (In that order)


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how about"she loves you"? It wasnt there biggest, but one of  best known
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i think broady hit it right on with his list



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UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.......................................

Let me think.............


Not Broady. Totally not Broady!  But Yesterday and Hey Jude.



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It's certainly 'Yesterday' when you take into account it is has had the most radio plays in the world and is the most covered song ever.

It must have graced this worlds subconscia so many times.



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Quoted from happydude, posted July 12, 2004, 3:21am at here
UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.......................................

Let me think.............


Not Broady. Totally not Broady!  But Yesterday and Hey Jude.


Huh?


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Yeah, I'm not sure what was meant by that either......definitely left me puzzled for a while last night...



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Quoted from dr.robert, posted July 9, 2004, 8:37pm at here
how about"she loves you"? It wasnt there biggest, but one of  best known


Ya she loves you is right up there . I forgot about that song.




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I think Yesterday and Let It Be are the most recognizable. Hey Jude Probably the biggest hit.
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MB is totally right.



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i totally disagree with all of you and think more people like all you need is love and know it.but how can you cover perfection??????




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Twist and Shout, She Loves You, and I Wanna Hold Your Hand are three songs that I ALWAYS used to think of when I thought of the Beatles when I was in Elementary school.

BUT...

It seems like ANY kid who plays piano nowadays knows how to play Let It Be, so that's another consideration.  It's definitely one of, if not THE most, popular song to play on piano (That's not classical).
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I'd have to say YESTERDAY. A great tune, but I'm sooooooo sick of it.

I'm so glad there are so many young fans on this forum! Makes me feel like there's hope for the future after all! It's true that the radio these days is really not playing enough variety of Beatles. It's always YESTERDAY, HEY JUDE, CAN'T BUY ME LOVE, YELLOW SUBMARINE....

No wonder many teens today think the Beatles are too wimpy for their tastes. I remember when the radio used to play stuff like YER BLUES or HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN...
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I hear Hey Jude -far- more than Yesterday.  And Yesterday only lasts a few minutes, HJ goes on FOREVER!!!  arg!!!
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Quoted from dr.robert, posted July 9, 2004, 8:37pm at here
how about"she loves you"? It wasnt there biggest, but one of  best known


First I was thinking of that too, it's a really well-known song, but 'yesterday' is the best known I think.
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Hmmm yes Joe Karlosi - those would be the songs that I think of when talking about the beatles - but when I think Yesterday I think Paul McCartney... but I still think it's the most well known


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Yellow submarine is very well known too, help also is...




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Well, when I was little and first getting into the Beatles, the first (and probably only) song I knew of theirs was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"... I don't think I knew of "Yesterday" until I heard it on Help! or saw Paul perform it on one of the anthologies...

Another pretty well-known song is "With a Little Help from my Friends," used for the opening credits of "The Wonder Years," etc...

Sorry to be getting off-topic, but a friend of mine who likes WALHFMF didn't even know it was a Beatle song until I told her!


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Yeah, I think their most well-known songs are

Yellow Submarine
Yesterday
Can't Buy Me Love
All You Need Is Love


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aaaaaaggggh! it IS(unfortunatley) yellow submarine
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WHen I tihnk the Beatles I think-------Help!


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Yellow Submarine is their most indentifiable song.
Yesterday is their most covered and recorded song.
I Want To Hold Your Hand is their most sold song.
Hey Jude is their most successful song.
Let It Be is their most memorable song.

I think it's a tie between those. Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Hey Jude or Let It Be.


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Yesterday, Hey Jude


I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we pass the audition.
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Yesterday, Yellow Submarine, She Loves You -- this kid in one of my classes always mentions that when the Beatles are even vaguely mentioned. XD "... that wasn't their only song." "It WASN'T? *wtf*"


Things they do look awful c-c-cold... yeah, I hope I die before I get old.
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