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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:46:59 -0600
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:59:22 -0600, "comicsfan{at}hotmail.com"
 wrote:

>Recordings of "I'll Follow The Sun" date back to 1960; is this is the
>earliest recording of a Lennon/McCartney (or McCartney/Lennon) song
>that would be released on their Beatles LPs?
>
>And more importantly -- because it leads to discussion -- does anyone
>know why THIS particular song was the one they went back to in 1964?
>Certainly other songs were left behind ("One After 909" being the most
>obvious), and there were lots of songs given away in between. Was
>their any suggestion from the Beatles as to what makes *this* one
>particularly special?

Lennon and McCartney didn't seem to be in any way sentimental about
their songs, their early songs in particular. Most of usuable early
material was given away in the hurly-burly of 1963, and the Beatles'
weren't about to re-release that stuff.

I don't think that the fact that "I'll Follow The Sun" happened to
taped makes its fate much different to other early songs which the
Beatles later released, such as "I Call Your Name", also released in
1964, "What Goes On" and "Michelle", released in 1965,
and "When I'm
64", released in 1967.

What does connect these songs is that each was supplied with a new
B-section just prior to release. Perhaps the incomplete state of these
songs explains why they weren't given away.

"The One After 909" is in a different catagory, namely, "Songs The
Beatles Failed At Recording". "That Means A Lot" and "If You Got
Trouble" both, thankfully, belong in the same category. By 1969 the
Beatles had picked up the skills necessary to do a better job on "The
One After 909."

So, I'm not sure there was anything particular "special" about the
song in 1964. It's more likely that they were scraping the bottom of
the barrel in an attempt to finish off an album. Nice opening chords
though -- like a number of McCartney songs.





  

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