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Post by TotalInformation on Feb 23, 2008 14:47:27 GMT -5
It is often suggested that a number of "Lennon / McCartney" songs from Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale(!), and Help! were ghostwritten (& and not just reworked by Geo Martin). There were certain formulaic demands from EMI, and John and Paul were both rather busy. By looking at interview quotes from John, JPM, and even FAUL, we can get a pretty good read on which songs were ghostwritten. Abrupt 2 or 3 word answers, passive voice, dismissive comments such as "filler" . . . I'm Happy Just to Dance With You Any Time At All I'll Be Back (by Del Shannon?) Every Little Thing What You're Doing The Night Before Tell Me What You See |
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Post by mommybird on Feb 24, 2008 15:06:11 GMT -5
Damn, those are some of my favorite Beatle songs ! I think that Paul might've had a hand in " I'm Happy Just to Dance with You ". Actually, I think that "I'll Be Back" and " Tell Me What You See" are up there in my top 5 !  |
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Post by DarkHorse on Feb 28, 2008 19:28:37 GMT -5
Supposedly I'm Happy Just To Dance With You was written by John for George.
I like Anytime At All but I've long thought Another Girl was ghostwritten.
But that's a good way, TI, to help determine what was written and what wasn't. That is, your technique on observing the Beatles talk about their songs in interviews, etc.
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Post by TotalInformation on Feb 29, 2008 18:55:40 GMT -5
ANOTHER GIRL
(Lennon/McCartney)
JOHN 1980: "'Another Girl' is Paul."
FAUL circa-1994: "It's a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it."
(I think "circa-1994" means it's from the official biography "Many Years From Now")
Is that what George Martin or whoever told Faul about the early ghostwritten songs? The "Beatles test"?
You can see how Faul started to get a big head after being let in on this sort of thing. It would take the edge off the stigma of not being a "real Beatle" and give him the confidence and chutzpah he needed to start asserting himself more within BEATLES creative endeavors.
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Post by Paul Bearer on Mar 1, 2008 0:35:19 GMT -5
If it was accepted The Beatles did cover songs aon their albums anyway, why bother to have ghost writers?
A Hard Day's Night was supposedly the first album to contain only Beatles-composed music. If some of those songs were written by others, why not just cover them and attribute them to the proper authors? It's not like they'd set a precedent with a previous album they had to keep. The following album (Beatles 4 Sale) went back to having a mixture of self-composed and cover songs.
Perhaps their dismissive attitude of those songs is because they hadn't put their heart and soul into writing them, only wrote them half-heartedly or with just enough effort to make them passable - "fillers" because they had to fill the quota.
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