Beatles Mentioned in Song Lyrics
Dr.Winston O'Boogie
individually. For instance, Marc Bolan sang , "John Lennon knows your name
and I've seen his", in Ballrooms of Mars on "The Slider"LP. Sugarloaf sang
about John Paul & George , in "Don't Call Us". There has got to be tons out
there, so put on your thinking caps and let it rip. I can think of a bunch
more, but I want to see what you all come up with.
George
gfausel
"Dr.Winston O'Boogie" wrote:
Easy ones first ... Peter Paul and Mary's I Dig Rock N Roll Music.
Should we rule out Beatle novelties?? SInce they all obviously mention them. I
actually want to start a thread on those. The WORST novelties.
Glenn F.
PS I think I wil
Jeff Landroche
Is Watching Me and You". It's loaded with Beatle references.
http://www.landrock.com/grey
Ben Popovich
the beatles....
Beatlfilms
>I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles, as a group or
>individually.
Here's some I could think of...
"I don't believe in Beatles" from John Lennon's "God"
"I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind" from Simon and Garfunkel's
"A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)"
"Like The Beatles, he ain't human" from Cheap Trick's "Taxman Mr. Thief"
"Well, I've neer been to England, but I kind of like The Beatles" from Hoyt
Axton's "Never Been To Spain"
"British Beatlemania" from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire"
"I asked The Beatles" from The Who's "The Seeker
"When he heard his first Beatles song" from Bad Company's "Shooting Star"
"Beatles and The Stones" from Mott The Hoople's "All The Yound Dudes"
Dr.Winston O'Boogie
Dr.Winston O'Boogie <quar...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles, as a group
or
terjoy
Rock & Roll Music", (can't think of the exact lyrics, but one
line starts with "and when the Beatles tell you...."), and Three
Dog Night, "Never Been To Spain", "but I kind of like the
Beatles".
In article <8c3qls$u3q$1...@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>, "Dr.Winston
O'Boogie" <quar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles,
as a group or
>individually. For instance, Marc Bolan sang , "John Lennon
knows your name
>and I've seen his", in Ballrooms of Mars on "The Slider"LP.
Sugarloaf sang
>about John Paul & George , in "Don't Call Us". There has got to
be tons out
>there, so put on your thinking caps and let it rip. I can think
of a bunch
>more, but I want to see what you all come up with.
>
>George
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In article <8c3qls$u3q$1...@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>, "Dr.Winston
O'Boogie" <quar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles,
as a group or
>individually. For instance, Marc Bolan sang , "John Lennon
knows your name
>and I've seen his", in Ballrooms of Mars on "The Slider"LP.
Sugarloaf sang
>about John Paul & George , in "Don't Call Us". There has got to
be tons out
>there, so put on your thinking caps and let it rip. I can think
of a bunch
>more, but I want to see what you all come up with.
>
>George
>
>
>
>
From Rupert Holmes's second lp (1975) "I Don't Want to Hold Your
Hand": But the days are gone forever, of hearin' John and Paul,
and I don't wanna hold your hand..."
Francie
http://sites.netscape.net/fabest/memoreez
If you meet a madman who says that he is a fish
and that we are all fishes, do you take off your
clothes to show him that you do not have fins?
--Milan Kundera, Risibles Amours, 1984
Christine
This reminded me of a *really* obscure one. My friend is a HUGE ELO fan and
I've heard a lot of lesser-known music by Jeff Lynne as a result. His first
band, The Idle Race, did a song called "Girl at the Window" on their second
album, which contained the line "John and Paul and Ringo and George were
singing lovely tunes..."
Tim Brent
floor"
DavisK
Dr.Winston O'Boogie wrote in message
<8c3qls$u3q$1...@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>...
>I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles, as a group
or
>individually. For instance, Marc Bolan sang , "John Lennon knows your name
>and I've seen his", in Ballrooms of Mars on "The Slider"LP. Sugarloaf sang
>about John Paul & George , in "Don't Call Us". There has got to be tons out
>there, so put on your thinking caps and let it rip. I can think of a bunch
>more, but I want to see what you all come up with.
>
>George
>
>
>
'Ball of Confusion' by The Temptations says '...the Beatles new record's a
gas...'
'Garden Party' by Rick Nelson doesn't specifically say 'Beatles', but does
make a Lennon/Yoko reference '...Yoko brought her walrus...'
Danny
day" by Chris De Burgh.... why oh why do I know this information?? It's very
embarrassing.
Danny
Ben Popovich <bmpo...@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
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And We Are
You Amend" off their One Chord To Another album ("Some like
Ringo St--arrr...")
And I think it's Johnny Rivers, or somebody, that has that song
with the chorus that goes "All summer we did enjoy it/sitting in
the sand/and we all kept playing/Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band" or something like that, it's on the oldies station all the
time.
And the Clash mentions Beatlemania hitting the dust (the phony
kind) in London Calling, as well as mentioning them in a few
other songs I think?
AWA
Strabbo
There's some song they used to play on the Oldies station that
started out...
"Summer rain, taps at my window"
which features the line "Everybody kept on playing Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band" in the bridge sung twice during the
song. Can't remember the name of the song though.
Also, in Jellyfish's "All I Want Is Everything" there's a line:
"I'd like to learn guitar and be a Beatle, that'd be so swell"
That's all I got right now!
MS
mar...@compusmart.com
"Shemofo, buttalain me to da bone, jackin me up...tight me?"
Dale Houstman
"Strabbo" <martins...@compusmart.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> I can think of two off the top of my head....
>
> There's some song they used to play on the Oldies station that
> started out...
>
> "Summer rain, taps at my window"
>
> which features the line "Everybody kept on playing Sgt. Pepper's
> Lonely Hearts Club Band" in the bridge sung twice during the
> song. Can't remember the name of the song though.
"Summer Rain" and it's by Johnny Rivers. The same guy who did "Secret Agent
Man."
>
DMH
Strabbo
Are <and_we_ar...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>Canadian Beatle band sound a like mentions Ringo in "The Lines
>You Amend" off their One Chord To Another album ("Some like
>Ringo St--arrr...")
Good one!
That's Sloan from their "One Chord To Another" album. Great
little Paul-ish harmony bit in the bridge on that song.
The line, I believe, is:
"You always come to mind whenever I hear that song
That one 'bout photographs
Sung by Ringo Star
'Specially in the chorus part when he says
Now don't you start....Don't you start"
Great little tune.
Sir Barb Alan Atkinson
song with a lyric about a club band crucifying John Lennon. JT alluded to the
Fabs "with a holy host of others gathered round me" in Caralina in My Mind.
There are loads more!
Barb
LadyChong
time.", making reference to what Ringo says in "Honey Don't"
inxsgirl
don't know who he is) has a song TO DO YOU (JOHN LENNON SAYS)
Strabbo
their "Gordon" album called "Be My Yoko Ono" or something. Never
liked the song, so I really have nothing more to offer on the
subject.
MS
mar...@compusmart.com
"Shemofo, buttalain me to da bone, jackin me up...tight me?"
gfausel
And We Are wrote:
>
>
> And I think it's Johnny Rivers, or somebody, that has that song
> with the chorus that goes "All summer we did enjoy it/sitting in
> the sand/and we all kept playing/Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
> Band" or something like that, it's on the oldies station all the
> time.
I think the line was "and the jukebox kept on playing SPLHCB"
Isn't that stupid?? They COULDN'T play that, as it was not a jukebox single at
the time. Sigh. No attention to details.
Glenn F.
Dale Houstman
"AllaBest" <alla...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> gfa...@aol.com wrote:<BR>
> ><BR>
> >I think the line was "and the jukebox kept on playing SPLHCB"<BR>
> > Isn't that stupid?? They COULDN'T play that, as it was not a jukebox
> >at<BR>
> >the time. Sigh. No attention to details.<BR>
> <BR>
> Actually, we did have jukebox's in the '60's which played albums. I
remember
> sitting at booths in restuarants with jukebox "terminals" where one could
play
> choices from many popular albums of the day.
Yes - I was going to Univ of Maryland in College Park and right off campus
on Route One was a nice little bar that served cheap beer and whose walls
were covered with album covers to which a number had been added. You called
out the number and they would play the entire album. Pepper I am sure was
one of them. And it was a very nice bar.
DMH
terjoy
the Beatles". For those who may not know, Joe is a country
singer and the line is "We got a love bigger than the Beatles".
They even had some Beatles lookalikes in the video. It's kind
of cute!
And We Are
"Johnny was a school boy
When heard his first Beatles song
Love Me Do I think it was and
From there it didn't take him long
Bought himself a guitar
Used to play every night
Now he's in a rock and roll outfit
And everything's alright"
Blah blah blah
AWA
AllaBest
Valic9
>or
>> individually.
Life in a Northen town by the Dream Academy. "JFK and The Beatles".
Sam A.
gfausel
AllaBest wrote:
I believe those were the 33 1/3rpm EPs which contained 3 songs on each side, not the
full album. And SPLHCB was not available in that format.
Glenn F.
Onn Jian Lim
> I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles, as a group or
> individually. For instance, Marc Bolan sang , "John Lennon knows your name
> and I've seen his", in Ballrooms of Mars on "The Slider"LP. Sugarloaf sang
> about John Paul & George , in "Don't Call Us". There has got to be tons out
> there, so put on your thinking caps and let it rip. I can think of a bunch
> more, but I want to see what you all come up with.
>
> George
i don't think anyone has mentioned bowie's 'life on mars' yet. "the workers
have struck for fame, and lennon's on sale again"
-OJ
BIL...@webtv.net
Roll Music...."And If the Beatles Tell You" the other is by
Sugarloaf.......i cant remember the name of the song but the line is
something like this....."listen kid you payed for the call, you aint bad
but we heard it all before, kinda like John, Paul, George".....then you
hear the intro to I Feel Fine.
Steve Foresman
http://community.webtv.net/SteveForesman/SteveForesmanandthe
Dale Houstman
Stones and Beatle Bones" which even roughly quotes Strawberry Fields (I've
lent the damn thing out, so the title is an approximation). Robyn Hitchcock
has a song called "Beatle Dennis"
dmh
AllaBest
that half the time they are singing..."it Beatles like the first time." Check
it out and see if you don't agree.
Clem Chowder
crucifying Mr. Lennon. Amazingly enough, it was released virtually
simultaneously with "The Ballad Of John And Yoko".
Clem
BarryFurey
by Melanie. Although the latter is a conventional folk song, her verison of it
contains a backward track "Ha, Ha, Paul's Alive" as a comment to the Paul is
dead rumors of the time.
Dr.Winston O'Boogie
BarryFurey <barry...@aol.com9-1-1> wrote in message
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I like Lorne Greene's "Ringo", but the song is about a gunfighter, not the
greatest rock & roll drummer on the world. Good one though.
Tim Brent
to the Beatles.....
"The four Kings of EMI sitting stately on the floor"
Susan Gagne
tribute to John.
Sue
Mick Collins
Cranberries- "I just shot John Lennon"
The Elevator Drops- "Lennon's Dead" (complete with Day in the Life end note)
Gosh, I'm morbid.
Cyn
"Denton, Denton- you've got no pretention...Denton, Denton, I'd just like to
mention....Denton, Denton, USA"
"The Home of Happiness"
BarryFurey
>greatest rock & roll drummer on the world. Good one though.
>
Agreed, however the last line of the song states that "no one could explain the
tarnished star above the name - of Ringo", or something to that effect. While
the star refers to a marshal's badge, it's at least an obvious play on worlds
referring to Messr Starkey.
Sharon Miller
Garden", both regarding John.
Sharon
gl...@mindspring.com
wrote:
Good point!
AllaBest
"fated like the Beatles on 'Hey Jude'... you've got a holy Love."
gfausel
Sharon Miller wrote:
Actually the late great Johnny Ace WAS the late great Johnny Ace. But the
second half of the song refers to John Lenon of course.
Glenn F>
BarryFurey
Simon & Garfunkel - A Simple Disultory Phillipic "I've been Rolling Stoned and
Beatled 'til I'm blind".... Rick Nelson - Garden Party "Yoko brought a
Walrus.."
BarryFurey
American Pie by Don McLean carries many interpretive references such as
"Sergeants", "Helter Skelter" and "Lennon/Lenin".... and Bad Company's Shooting
Star.. "heard his first Beatle's song..Love Me Do..I think it was..."
Danny
Yokes) on the cover of King Crimson's Lizard LP, best to check out the Vinyl
rather than the CD it's a lot clearer, but then it would be, it's bigger.
They surround the letter "i" of "Crimson".
Danny
Deirdre
> >I like Lorne Greene's "Ringo", but the song is about a gunfighter, not the
> >greatest rock & roll drummer on the world. Good one though.
> >
>
> Agreed, however the last line of the song states that "no one could explain the
> tarnished star above the name - of Ringo", or something to that effect. While
> the star refers to a marshal's badge, it's at least an obvious play on worlds
> referring to Messr Starkey.
I sincerely doubt it. Lorne Greene was 49 when "Ringo" hit #1 on
Billboard's Top 100 in '64. I don't think he was paying alot of attention
to a bunch of kids from Liverpool. The song is based on an actual person,
and the tarnished star just that.
Dee
Dale Houstman
"BarryFurey" <barry...@aol.com9-1-1> wrote in message
dmh
Michael Davis
Just to make sure this horse is nice and tender, I don't think anyone has
mentioned World Party's "Sweet Soul Dream," and the line "I've got rare '61
Beatles." Not so rare these days...
Mike Davis
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"Dr.Winston O'Boogie" <quar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see how many songs have references to The Beatles, as a
> group or individually. For instance, Marc Bolan sang , "John Lennon
> knows your name and I've seen his", in Ballrooms of Mars on "The
> Slider"LP. Sugarloaf sang about John Paul & George , in "Don't Call
> Us". There has got to be tons out there, so put on your thinking caps
> and let it rip. I can think of a bunch more, but I want to see what
> you all come up with.
"Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?" by the Barbarians, though the
reference is oblique. Something like "You look like a girl, but you
come from Liverpool" -- I'll have to listen to it to see if that's
right, but it's close. (And there's a bonus references to the Rolling
Stones and (maybe) the Monkees: "You can sing like a female monkey, but
you sink like a stone (Yeah, yeah, a Rolling Stone)".)
There was an early- to mid-seventies song (I think) whose chorus
started "If I could sing like Paul McCartney ...." I think it was a
pretty forgetable song, though. It must have been, since I've forgetten
it.
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Before you buy.
Peter Perpetua III
Key West Intermezzo by John Mellencamp (This Loud Cuban Band is Crucifying
John Lennon)
Sir Barb Alan Atkinson
Actually, I believe it's "Yoko brought her Walrus..."
Barb
Dale Houstman
"Sir Barb Alan Atkinson" <b...@webzone.net> wrote in message
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I know: just making another lame joke purchased from "Orthopedic Humor, Inc"
dmh
terjoy
Herndon says the line "Her Favorite Song Was 'In My Life'"
(which is also my favorite song!)
Joyce
Tom Ricciardi
Why don't nobody sing of romance,
Oh baby, all you wanna do is dance"
-Billy Joel, "All You Wanna Do Is Dance", Turstiles, '76
-TiP
AllaBest
>
>> Isn't that "Yoko bought a Walrus"?
>>
>> dmh
>
>Actually, I believe it's "Yoko brought her Walrus..."
"Yeah! "Magic in the air!"
-Ricky Nelson-
BarryFurey
>the
>> tarnished star above the name - of Ringo", or something to that effect.
>While
>> the star refers to a marshal's badge, it's at least an obvious play on
>worlds
>> referring to Messr Starkey.
>
>I sincerely doubt it. Lorne Greene was 49 when "Ringo" hit #1 on
>Billboard's Top 100 in '64. I don't think he was paying alot of attention
>to a bunch of kids from Liverpool. The song is based on an actual person,
>and the tarnished star just that.
>
If Lorne wasn't paying attention, he was about the only one who wasn't. The
Beatles were as much a cultural phenomenon as they were a musical phenomenon.
Their impact can be judged by the fact that we're debating references in a
newsgroup 30 years after their breakup. While the song Ringo was literally
about a gunfighter, it certainly is not an historical account. Lorne also did
not write it. I can remember several DJ's at the time making comments
concerning the figurative reference made in the song. Obviously, the words
badge, shield, and a host of others have the appropriate number of syllables
(one) to fill the gap. The composers made a choice - IMHO - a calculated one
that was good for business - when they used the word "star".
That being said, and now being in the approximate age range quoted for the
artist formerly known as Ben Cartwright when he released this tune, I guess I
must destroy any CDs I have recently purchased by even lesser lights than those
lads from Liverpool, 'cause us old folks don't have a clue, and quickly plug
myself back into life support before the Lawrence Welk reruns begin. Remember,
"it's only rock 'n roll".
Danny
"In the winter of 63 it felt like the world would freeze, with J F
Kennedy... and The Beatles"
Thank you Vegas!!!
Danny