gcarras

Yeah..

They ALSO eliminated the last verse.

tomfromphilly

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Really, I must have listened to those many times, because I owned the
original "Roll Over Beethoven" single (Capitol yellow & orange swirl)
which I purchased in NJ many decades ago, and I owned a copy of their
2nd Album which contained both of those, and I never heard them mangle
the lyrics (not to speak of hearing these songs, Long Tall Sally back
in the day on WABC, by the Beatles, as well as the other, and on WIBG,
to. "Roll Over Beethoven" will be played by request on WOGL, and it
gets requested. I thought the Beatles were pretty hip to the lyrics
in American songs they covered.

On the other hand, artists who remake a song, and I'm speaking of any
particular artist in general, American or British, will often change
the lyrics in an updated version of a song, a little, to suit their
tastes, or their place in time, and this has been done by anyone from
Frank Sinatra to Otis Redding and many in between those two stylistic
poles of taste over the years in many instances. What I'm saying, it
is sometimes not accidental, or incidental, but deliberate.

Please give an illustration of the Beatles mangling the lyrics. I
never noticed.

Tom Blumenthal

tregembo

You're such a boob...oh, wait a minute that's four letters

Ray Arthur

dchord568

<< Really, I must have listened to those many times, because I owned the
original "Roll Over Beethoven" single (Capitol yellow & orange swirl)
which I purchased in NJ many decades ago, and I owned a copy of their
2nd Album which contained both of those, and I never heard them mangle
the lyrics (not to speak of hearing these songs, Long Tall Sally back
in the day on WABC, by the Beatles, as well as the other, and on WIBG,
to. "Roll Over Beethoven" will be played by request on WOGL, and it
gets requested. I thought the Beatles were pretty hip to the lyrics
in American songs they covered.

-- snip --

Please give an illustration of the Beatles mangling the lyrics. I
never noticed. >>

Chuck Berry sings:

"I caught the rollin' arthritis sittin' down at rhythm reviews."

George Harrison sings:

"I think I caught it off the writers sittin' down at rhythm reviews."


Little Richard sings:

"Long Tall Sally, she's built for speed, she's got everything that Uncle John
needs."

Paul McCartney sings:

....well, it's hard to make out, but he sure doesn't sing the above. The nearest
I can figure is something like "Long Tall Sally's still pullin' tricks..." --
which, when you think of it, is actually racier than Little Richard's version!


Also:

Larry Williams sings (on "Slow Down"):

"Now you got a boyfriend down the street."

John Lennon sings:

....again, hard to tell. His vocal on "Slow Down" is double-tracked, and he
sings two very different things at this point of the song. One of them may be
what Larry sings, but the other one sure isn't!


And just to give Ringo his due, too, he messes up Carl Perkins' "Matchbox" (in
fact, he imports an entire verse that isn't in Perkins' version, though perhaps
it's in another one) -- while George has 50 women (instead of 15) knockin' at
his door on "Everybody's Tryin' to Be My Baby."

brett a. pasternack

Which pretty much contains the *point* of the song, not to mention that
it explains why the title is what it is! B^)

brett a. pasternack

Some of the lesser-known Beatle covers (the ones that weren't officially
released until Anthology or Live At The BBC) have this problem to. For
example, the original "Some Other Guy" has the great line: "Some other
guy now, is breakin' the padlock off my pad." The Beatles change it to
the much less clever "Some other guy now, is making my past seem oh so
bad." And there are some lines in "Three Cool Cats" they didn't seem to
understand, either--I guess you couldn't expect them to know what a
"nickel candy bar" was.

One that bugs me is that The Hollies sing the line "Crackin' up over
you" in every chorus of "(Ain't That) Just Like Me". Uh, guys...you're
missing the point. You sing the "Mary Had A Little Lamb" verse, you say,
"ain't that just like me, following you around". Then, after the "Humpty
Dumpty verse, you sing the bit about "crackin' up". Get it? Like Humpty,
you're crackin' up! Mary didn't crack up! Neither did the dish who ran
away with the spoon, for that matter! And this one can't really be
chalked up to lack of familiarity with American culture--I don't know
whether all of the rhymes in question are well-known in England, but
even if for some reason they aren't, all the information you need is
there in the parts of the song they do sing.

gary myers

This one is pretty close - I guess it still makes sense - and I'm not even
sure of it, but I think Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" says "I'll just a
victim" instead of "I'll just stay addicted." Of course, that's 70's, too,
but the original is 60's.

gem

dchord568

<< One that bugs me is that The Hollies sing the line "Crackin' up over
you" in every chorus of "(Ain't That) Just Like Me". >>

This is getting pretty esoteric, but I've always been puzzled as to why, in
their version of Betty Everett's "It's in His Kiss," The Hollies sing "and
you're not listening to *the words that* I say" instead of the orginal's
"you're not listening to *all* I say."

I have a dim memory of encountering another cover/remake of this song by a
British Invasion group -- and wouldn't you know, they sing it the same way The
Hollies do. So you wonder whether these guys (whoever they were) were copying
The Hollies, or whether both were copying some other version of "It's in His
Kiss."

robertjroman

On 17 Aug 2003 05:24:03 GMT, dchord568@aol.commotion (DChord568)


They were probably both being fairly accurate.

Bob Roman