"firefly"  wrote in message 
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>  wrote in message
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>> 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?
>
> I'll Follow The Sun is a beautiful song with certain dynamics.  Melody,
> construction, material: It has a story and a feeling that has the dignity 
> to
> live.
>
> The One After 909 is garbage.
>
> I will never understand, for the rest of my life, how the Beatles' trash
> gets the most talk and airplay.
>
> ---firefly
>

Come to think of it though, maybe the simpler songs are the less threatening 
to less creative minds...

---firefly 

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