zipp
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Post by zipp on Dec 2, 2007 13:55:26 GMT
I thought it might be worthwhile starting a thread on this question which is giving the experts a bit of a headache. Maybe one reason the question 'What was the first Beatles song?' is difficult to answer is that we now know that Paul and John often wrote separately.It might be easier to find out the first Paul song (I Lost My Little Girl?) and the first John song (Hello Little Girl?) and the first George song (Don't Bother Me?) rather than a hypothetical first Beatles song.
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Post by sondra on Dec 2, 2007 21:29:53 GMT
Okay then there are a few questions: What was the first song ever written by a Beatle? What was the first song written by a Beatle that became a Beatles song? (recorded) What was the first song written together by Lennon/McCartney? (recorded or not) What was the first Beatles song, written by the Beatles, ever put out to the public? I think that little girl asked a pretty good question. I just don't know how to answer her yet!
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zipp
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Post by zipp on Dec 3, 2007 18:22:03 GMT
Paul says he wrote his first song I Lost My Little Girl just after his mother died.So that's the end of 1956.
In Spite Of All The Danger also seems to be a Paul song.George gets the credit for the guitar solo!
The first Lennon/McCartney song could be You'll Be Mine. But they started collaborating at the end of 1957, so that's a difficult one.In any case Paul says that he gave the idea of writing songs to John, so Hello Little Girl was probably a later group effort.
The first song written by a Beatle to be recorded later could be I'll Follow The Sun or The One After 909 or even When I'm 64!
What do you think?
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beatlemaniac64
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Post by beatlemaniac64 on Dec 9, 2007 5:07:12 GMT
All I know is that I've Lost My Little Girl was Paul's first. And I read that he wrote Love Me Do when he was sixteen.
And, Cry For A Shadow is the only song that's Lennon/Harrison I believe. So, that maybe was George's first time at least helping to write a song.
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zipp
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Post by zipp on Dec 9, 2007 9:17:16 GMT
All I know is that I've Lost My Little Girl was Paul's first. And I read that he wrote Love Me Do when he was sixteen. And, Cry For A Shadow is the only song that's Lennon/Harrison I believe. So, that maybe was George's first time at least helping to write a song. Paul says he wrote I Lost My Little Girl just after his mother died, so that would be November or December 1956.Definitely the first song written by a Beatle. John says his first song was Hello Little Girl which he wrote on the toilet (!) at 18 so that would be 1958. Love Me Do was mainly Paul but from 1958 too. One After 909 was one of the earliest collaborations, maybe from 1957.So it's probably the best candidate for first Beatles song recorded officially by the group. Cry For A Shadow isn't really a song just an instrumental.
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Post by The End on Dec 9, 2007 13:20:07 GMT
Also from 1958 was the McCartney/Harrison composition "In Spite Of All The Danger" recorded at Percy Phillips' studio 12 July 1958.
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zipp
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Post by zipp on Dec 9, 2007 16:50:31 GMT
Also from 1958 was the McCartney/Harrison composition "In Spite Of All The Danger" recorded at Percy Phillips' studio 12 July 1958. Yeah, but as I've already said George got the credit just for the guitar solo so it was really a Paul song.Paul says it's his song in the Anthology book where he also says that he wrote When I'm 64 at the piano when he was 16. So that's another one for 1958.
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Post by Bobber on Dec 10, 2007 12:06:41 GMT
I've encountered I Call Your Name in Revolution In The Head to be 'one of Lennon's earliest songs'. In The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is a quote of John about One After 909: "One of the first songs I ever wrote, which we revived for the film Let It Be'.
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Post by the carnabys on Apr 10, 2008 15:02:07 GMT
In Spite Of All The Danger is a great song!
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alexis
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Post by alexis on Apr 10, 2008 22:41:05 GMT
I thought I may have read somewhere that "Hello Little Girl" was John's first ... So many things I've read, so many brain cells ago ...
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Post by danielcelano on Oct 3, 2008 21:21:31 GMT
Love Me Do is the first song to be on a Beatles record, right?
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Post by The End on Oct 6, 2008 11:52:19 GMT
Love Me Do is the first song to be on a Beatles record, right? This has always been a tricky one - on commercially released record, Love Me Do is definitely the first Lennon/McCartney song. But you also have to consider Cry For A Shadow (Harrison/Lennon), although is this technically a song as it has no lyrics!?. In Spite Of All The Danger wasn't commercially released so I don't know whether you could call that the first Beatle song on record, it was the first to be pressed onto a disc though!
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beatler
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Post by beatler on Nov 1, 2008 14:36:47 GMT
the first song that they perfomed live is guiatar boogie. at least, that is the first song that is mentioned by any of them. paul talks about messing up the solo at his first-ever gig with the quarrymen in 57
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Post by alexis on Nov 2, 2008 1:45:40 GMT
the first song that they perfomed live is guiatar boogie. at least, that is the first song that is mentioned by any of them. paul talks about messing up the solo at his first-ever gig with the quarrymen in 57 And that's an excellent point!
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elementrypenguin
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Post by elementrypenguin on Nov 2, 2009 19:40:52 GMT
Does Any Recordings Of The Original Versions Of When I'm Sixty-Four And The One After 909 Exist? Or Where They Recorded At All Originally?
And By The Way,Isn't The Love Of The Loved A Lennon/Mccartney Composition? That's Pretty Early,Isn't It?
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