Mr. Moonlight. Sounds weird.

One of these:

From Please Please Me:
Chains,
Boys,
A Taste Of Honey (John used to call it A Waste Of Honey)

From With The Guys:
Till There Was You,
Devil In Her Heart

From Guys For Sale:
Honey Don't

From Help!:
Act Naturally,
Dizzy Miss Lizzy

From Let It Be:
Maggie Mae

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Personally: Boys, Dizzy Miss Lizzy and Maggie Mae (at least these three) are worse than Mr. Moonlight

I don't think many or any of the covers were very good. It was the only Beatles mistake (apart from breaking up) they made.

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I don't think many or any of the covers were very good. It was the only Beatles mistake (apart from breaking up) they made.

Three words.... TWIST AND SHOUT!!!

Quoted from The End

Three words.... TWIST AND SHOUT!!!

I admit it's a good one. I suggested there may be a few good ones.

Everyone included cover versions on their LPs in the early to mid 60s so I don't consider their inclusion to be a mistake. They recorded and redefined some classic tracks and sometimes even bettered the originals in my opinion - I'm thinking Twist And Shout (better than the original), Anna (not as good but still a classic recording!!), Money (better)... oh there are too many to list here!!!

Quoted from GreenApple

Mr. Moonlight. Sounds weird.

Not one of my favourite either, but John Lennon's vocal on this track is just mind blowing!!!

Quoted from The End

Everyone included cover versions on their LPs in the early to mid 60s so I don't consider their inclusion to be a mistake. They recorded and redefined some classic tracks and sometimes even bettered the originals in my opinion - I'm thinking Twist And Shout (better than the original), Anna (not as good but still a classic recording!!), Money (better)... oh there are too many to list here!!!

It's all a matter of perspective. Whenever I see or listen to the track listings on albums, I just have to avoid the covers. It even seems odd to me to see covers listed. For me they could even be officially removed from the albums when they are remastered. Could seem like an odd view I know. But, I do concede that it shows where they were coming from in terms of influence. But more than any other band, it seems wrong to me that there should ever have been cover versions at all. They were the greatest and will never be bettered. And they had to sacrifice Beatles compositions to allow those covers. Beatles songs which can never be. I just think it's a real pity.

Don't buy Beatles at The BBC then!!

I've got it. And I appreciate the Beatles songs on it. AHDN sounds really good. And lots of Beatles humour on that album. I'll Be On My Way is nice. I can listen to it through if I don't think it's the Beatles doing those covers.

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Don't buy Beatles at The BBC then!!

Oh do! it's a great laugh, really good one

The interviews are really funny.

Yeah Yeah, i dunno if you've noticed but on one of the interview tracks on disc 1, they mention somewhere called Perry road in sherwood, nottingham (or something along the lines of), and my dad used to live near there, and say's he knows the road lol! Nice little fact for you there

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Yeah Yeah, i dunno if you've noticed but on one of the interview tracks on disc 1, they mention somewhere called Perry road in sherwood, nottingham (or something along the lines of), and my dad used to live near there, and say's he knows the road lol! Nice little fact for you there

I vaguely remember that without pulling out the album. I think the best bit is where they re-launch the end of A Hard day's Night just to show that it's really live and not just a recording. And when the compere throws a banana to Ringo. 'Have a banana Ringo - catch!'

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I think the best bit is where they re-launch the end of A Hard day's Night just to show that it's really live and not just a recording.

I think they propably did that because the instrumental break actually IS from the released recording!

It's on the BBC Sessions.

I'm confused  

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I vaguely remember that without pulling out the album. I think the best bit is where they re-launch the end of A Hard day's Night just to show that it's really live and not just a recording. And when the compere throws a banana to Ringo. 'Have a banana Ringo - catch!'

I mean this. This is on the BBC recording sessions, isn't it?

The version of AHDN that appears on 'Beatles at the BBC' uses the instrumental break as released on record and then cuts back into the BBC version just before the line "So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone".

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I mean this. This is on the BBC recording sessions, isn't it?

Yeah.

But I think the reason they went back into Geroge's outro is because part of that track actually is from the version they released on record. So to prove it wasn't the record (even though a part of it was) George kept playing the outro!

Does that make sense?! LOL

Quoted from The End

Yeah.

But I think the reason they went back into Geroge's outro is because part of that track actually is from the version they released on record. So to prove it wasn't the record (even though a part of it was) George kept playing the outro!

Does that make sense?! LOL

I think you mean that if the audience heard the keyboard bit from the recording, their suspicion's might be aroused that it might be a studio recording? Hey, I've just realised that we discuss some very obscure stuff here! But it certainly passes the time!

Quoted from The End

Yeah.

But I think the reason they went back into Geroge's outro is because part of that track actually is from the version they released on record. So to prove it wasn't the record (even though a part of it was) George kept playing the outro!

Does that make sense?! LOL

Are you sure they play the record? I'm pretty sure it's live/

I think he means the keyboard part.

Quoted from GreenApple

I think you mean that if the audience heard the keyboard bit from the recording, their suspicion's might be aroused that it might be a studio recording?

Yep, that's exactly what I meant.

Quoted from GreenApple

I think he means the keyboard part.

Yep, but not just the keyboard, the whole of the instrumental break of A Hard Day's Night from Beatles At The BBC is taken from the version released on record in 1964.

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Are you sure they play the record? I'm pretty sure it's live/

Wouldn't have been the only time. I have the 10 disc Beatles At The Beeb set, and there's several incidences where they did just that. Some songs weren't easy to reproduce live if people were actually listening and not screaming!!

Maggie May This is a Liverpool seaman's song, The Beatles did a short version of it on The "Let It Be" album

Now gather round you sailor boys and listen to my plea and

When you've heard my tale you'll pity me

For I was a real damned fool in the port of Liverpool

The first time that I came home from the sea.......


We paid off at the home from the port of Sierra Leone and

Four pounds ten a month that was my pay

With a pocket full of tin I was very soon taken in by a

Girl with the name of Maggie May......CHORUS

CHORUS
     Oh Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away

     And she'll never walk down Lime street anymore

     For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

     That dirty robbin' no good Maggie May.


Oh well I do remember when I first met Maggie May

She was cruising up and down old Canning Place

She'd a figure so divine  like a frigate of the line

So me being a sailor  I gave chase..........CHORUS


Next morning when I awoke I was flat and stoney broke

No jacket  trousers waistcoat I could find

When I asked her where they were she said - My very dear sir

They're down in Kelly's knocker number nine..........CHORUS


To the pawnshop I did go but no clothes there I did find and

The policeman came and took that girl away

The judge he guilty found her of robbing the homeward - bounder and

Paid her passage back to Botany Bay.....CHORUS TWICE  
as per   http://sailorsongs.com/lyrics.htm                                                          

Good lyrics ... and they fit better with the songs they were written by 1968-1969 than early ... that humour side, I mean ... it's hard to imagine this cover on their early albums, tho they recorded Long Tall Sally and so, but ...

I like Ringo's vocals with John, but this doesn't really belong on Let It Be. An annoyance with all the other 'bits' on it.

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I like Ringo's vocals with John, but this doesn't really belong on Let It Be. An annoyance with all the other 'bits' on it.

I think it should be there. I would have prefered Let It Be to have been a 'soundtrack' album rather than just a regular album. The songs could have been interspersed with various bits of dialogue, as in Pulp Fiction/Reservior Dogs. I was hoping they'd do this with 'Naked'. I see Maggie Mae as a bit of fooling around. I've never counted it as a song.

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I think it should be there. I would have prefered Let It Be to have been a 'soundtrack' album rather than just a regular album. The songs could have been interspersed with various bits of dialogue...I was hoping they'd do this with 'Naked'. I see Maggie Mae as a bit of fooling around. I've never counted it as a song.

They kind of did it with Fly On The Wall.

Quoted from GreenApple

They kind of did it with Fly On The Wall.

Would have been better incorporated into the album instead of on a separate disc.