“It’s Only Love” is a love song written by John Lennon of The Beatles in 1965 and is included in their album “HELP!”
In this post/video, we will learn how to play the acoustic guitar part of It’s Only Love, the chords and will show you how to do the strumming patter and the solo notes.
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In this post, we will learn how to play “Wait” as popularized by The Beatles.
This song is included in their sixth studio album called Rubber Soul.
Here are a couple of fun facts about the song courtesy of SongFacts.
This is one of those songs of the Beatles that is unclear who wrote or composed the song. It’s known today to be credited to Lennon and McCarthy, but in his book Many Years from Now, McCartney credits the song entirely to himself, while another music publication of the time credits it entirely to Lennon.
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“I’m Down” is a song by the Beatles written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and first released as the B-side to the single “Help!” in 1965.
The Beatles recorded “I’m Down” on 14 June 1965 in the same session as “Yesterday” and “I’ve Just Seen a Face”.
The Beatles recorded the backing track in seven takes. The first of these takes can be heard on Anthology 2, with a quiet organ track and no backing vocals. At the beginning of the Anthology version, McCartney says, “Let’s hope this one turns out pretty darn good” in a faux American accent. During the session, particularly between takes one and two, McCartney can be heard repeating the phrase “Plastic soul, man, plastic soul”. He later revealed that the phrase, which the Beatles later adapted for the title of their album Rubber Soul, was used by black musicians to describe Mick Jagger.
“Every Little Thing” is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by the Beatles on their 1964 British album Beatles for Sale. In North America, Capitol released it as the last track on Beatles VI. McCartney wrote the song in a music room at the home of Jane Asher, where he was living at the time. McCartney initially hoped it would be the follow-up single to A Hard Day’s Night, although this wasn’t to be
“Eight Days a Week” is a song by the The Beatles written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon based on McCartney’s original idea, The song was issued in the U.K. December, 1964 on the album Beatles for Sale.
The song was issued in the U.S. February, 1965 as a single with the B-side I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party where it went to No. 1 for two weeks on March 13 1965. The song was also issued June, 1965 on the U.S. album Beatles VI and reissued worldwide in 2000 on the Beatles number one compilation album 1.
“Dizzy, Miss Lizzy” is a song composed and recorded by Larry Williams in 1958. It shares many similarities with the Little Richard song “Good Golly Miss Molly”.
Dizzy Miss Lizzie had been a part of The Beatles’ live repertoire since their earliest days. It was originally released as a single by Williams in 1958, with Slow Down on the b-side.
Although it wasn’t intended for the Help! LP, The Beatles evidently decided their version was good enough to be included.
“Baby’s in Black” is a song by the Beatles, co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
“Baby in Black” performs at a 6/8 time signature with a moderate tempo that makes it sound like 3/4 (waltz-time).
“Baby’s in Black” was recorded by the Beatles on 11 August 1964, and was the first song recorded for Beatles for Sale. Lennon and McCartney sang their vocal parts simultaneously through the same microphone. This was done at their own insistence in order to achieve a closer feel to the performance. McCartney was subsequently contacted by their music publisher in 1964 inquiring as to which melody line was the main tune (i.e. Paul’s higher or John’s lower melody). McCartney later said that he told the publisher they were both the main melody.
“I Need You” is a song by the Beatles and appears on the album Help!. It is the second George Harrison song the band released[2] after two albums without any songwriting contribution from Harrison. The song was performed in their second film, Help! and is the second video produced showing George Harrison singing lead vocal on a song (after “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You” from A Hard Day’s Night).
“Ticket to Ride” is a song by the Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 and released two months later. It was also used in the 1965 film Help!, The Beatles’ second film, and was included on the film’s soundtrack. In 2004, this song was ranked number 394 on Rolling Stone ’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
Written by: Morrison-Russell
Recorded: 17 June 1965
Released: 6 August 1965 (UK), 13 September 1965 (US)
Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, sticks
Paul McCartney: harmony vocals, bass
John Lennon: acoustic rhythm guitar
George Harrison: lead guitar
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“Act Naturally” is a song written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, originally recorded by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, whose version reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1963, his first chart-topper. In 2002, Shelly Fabian of About.com ranked the song number 169 on her list of the Top 500 Country Music Songs
This is one of those songs in the Beatles’ career that they did not write by their own. They have a number of songs from their decade of career, specially in their early years that they did a cover of those songs.
They’re going to put me in the movies
They’re going to make a big star out of me
We’ll make a film about a man that’s sad and lonely
And all I got to do is act naturally
Well, I’ll bet you I’m going to be a big star
Might win an Oscar you can never tell
The movie’s going to make me a big star
‘Cause I can play the part so well
Well I hope you come and see me in the movies
Then I’ll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that ever hit the big time
And all I got to do is act naturally
We’ll make the scene about a man that’s sad and lonely
And begging down upon his bended knee
I’ll play the part but I won’t need rehearsing
All I have to do is act naturally
Well, I’ll bet you I’m going to be a big star
Might win an Oscar you can never tell
The movie’s going to make me a big star
‘Cause I can play the part so well
Well I hope you come and see me in the movies
Then I’ll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that ever hit the big time
And all I got to do is act naturally