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The Beatles – Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
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George Harrison sings on the final track. This is the second Carl Perkins cover on the Beatles for Sale album, taken from his 1957 Dance Album of (Carl Perkins) LP.
The Beatles
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Carl Perkins – Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
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Well they took some honey from a tree / Dressed it up and they called it me / Everybody's tryin' to be my baby / Everybody's tryin' to be my baby / Everybody's tryin' to be my baby
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The Beatles – Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
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One of Lennon’s last truly wild rock numbers recorded by The Beatles, its barebones simplicity would later cause it to be regarded as a throwaway by its own author.
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Carl Perkins – Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby Covers
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See all of “Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby” by Carl Perkins’s covers
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The Beatles – I Got To Find My Baby
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna search this town / From door to door / Love I crave / I can't find no more / [Chorus] / I gotta find my baby / I declare that ain't no lie / I ain't had no
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The Beatles – Hippy Hippy Shake (Live)
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[Verse 1] / For goodness sake / I got the hippy hippy shake / I've got to shake / Who the hippy hippy shake / [Verse 2] / Who I can't keep still / With the hippy hippy shake / I
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The Beatles – Ask Me Why (Live in Germany)
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[Verse 1] / I love you, 'cause you tell me things I want to know / And it's true that it really only goes to show / That I know that I—I, I, I / Should never, never, never be blue
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The Beatles – Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
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Originally written by Jerry Leiber and performed by Little Willie Littlefield in 1952, “Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” is one of the Beatles' most well-known covers.
They first
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The Beatles – All My Loving [Live at the BBC Disk 2]
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[Verse 1] / Close your eyes and I'll kiss you / Tomorrow I'll miss you / Remember I'll always be true / And then while I'm away / I'll write home everyday / And I'll send all my
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The Beatles – Reminiscing
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[Intro] / Gentlemen, hello / [Verse 1] / I'm just sitting here reminiscing / Wondering who you've been kissing, baby, oh oh baby / I've been wandering all around / There must be a
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The Beatles – I'll Follow the Sun
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While this acoustic ballad first appeared on 1964’s Beatles For Sale, it is one of the Beatles' earliest Lennon-McCartney originals. Paul claimed that he wrote the song when he was
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The Beatles – 1822!
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[John] This is a Dorsey Burnette number, brother of Johnny Burnette, called "Lonesome Tears in My Eyes," recorded on their very first LP in 1822! [*all laugh*] Ha!
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The Beatles – Matchbox [Live at the BBC Disk 2]
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I'm sittin' here watchin' / Matchbox hole in my clothes / Oh, sittin' watchin' / Matchbox hole in my clothes / I ain't got no matches but I sure / Got a long way to go / Well, I'm
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The Beatles – Set Fire To That Lot! (Speech)
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Rodney Burke: I've got one card here and it's on the same subject, eh, but this one says, "We think the show is great and we dig the Beatles the most, but we still haven't heard a
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The Beatles – Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
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[Chorus 1] / Oh baby baby baby / Blues and sorrow / And I love you tomorrow / Just suit you just fine / Oh baby baby baby / Blues and sorrow / And I love you tomorrow / Just suit
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The Beatles (Ft. John Lennon & Lee Peters) – Love These Goon Shows!
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[Speech] / [Lee Peters] But now, John has his work cut out on the next one / As he takes his guitar on and off his neck and pulls the harmonica in and out of his face / [John] Harp
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The Beatles – Besame Mucho (Live in Germany)
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[Intro] / Cha-cha, boom! / [Chorus 1] / Bésame, bésame mucho / Each time I cling to your kiss / I hear music divine / So bésame, bésame mucho / I'll love you forever / Say that you
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The Beatles – I Just Don't Understand
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[Chorus 1] / Well you call me your baby / When you hold in my hand / But the way that you hurt me / I just don't understand / [Verse] / Well you say that you need me / Like an
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The Beatles – Ain't Nothing Shakin' (But The Leaves)
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[Verse 1: George Harrison] / I found it out, what love is all about / And every day, it sure lets out / I see my baby, I get weak in the knees / 'Cause nothin's shakin' but the
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The Beatles – Don't Ever Change
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[Verse 1] / You never wear a stitch of lace / Your powder's never on your face / You're always wearing jeans except on Sunday / So, please, don't ever change / Now, don't you ever
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The Beatles – I Feel Fine
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“I Feel Fine,” written primarily by John Lennon, was released as a single in 1964, with “She’s a Woman” as the B side.
Interestingly, the song features one of the first uses of
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The Beatles – Words of Love
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This is a cover of “Words of Love” by the late Buddy Holly, originally released in February 1958—the same year that The Quarrymen formed back in Liverpool.
John Lennon was an avid
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The Beatles – Glad All Over
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[Verse 1] / Ain't no doubt about it / This must be love / One little kiss from you / And I feel glad all over / Ooh baby, hot-dang-gilly / It's silly / But I'm glad all over / [
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The Beatles – Hippy Hippy Shake
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[Verse 1] / For goodness sake / I got the hippy hippy shake / I've got to shake / Who the hippy hippy shake / [Verse 2] / Who I can't keep still / With the hippy hippy shake / I
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The Beatles – Eight Days a Week
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“Eight Days a Week” was originally issued in 1964 as a single from Beatles for Sale. However, it wasn’t released in the US until 1965. It came out in advance of the 1965 album
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The Beatles – So How Come (No One Loves Me)
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[Intro] / They say that everyone wants someone / So how come no one wants me / And they say that eveyone needs someone / So how come no one needs me / [Chorus] [x2] / Well if you
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The Beatles – I Forgot To Remember To Forget
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[Verse] / I forgot to remember to forget her / I can't seem to get her off my mind / I thought I'd never miss her / But I've found out somehow / I think about her almost all the
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The Beatles – I Remember You (Live in Germany)
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[Chorus] / Oh, I remember you-ooh / I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell / Like the rain out of the blue-ooh / [Verse 2] / When my life is through / And the angels
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The Beatles (Ft. Alan Freeman) – Just A Rumour
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[Verse 1] / [Alan Freeman] George, is it true you're a connoisseur of the classics? / [George] No, it's just a rumor / [Alan] It's just a rumor / [George] A rumor, mmm / [Verse 2
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The Beatles – Honey Don't [Live at the BBC Disk 2]
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Well how come you say you will when you won't / Say you do, baby, when you don't? / Let me know honey how you feel / Tell the truth now, is love real? / [
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The Beatles – Yes It Is - Anthology 2 Version
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[Verse 1] / If you wear red tonight / Remember what I said tonight / For red is the color that my baby wore / And what's more, it's true / Yes it is / [Verse 2] / Scarlet were the
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The Beatles – You Can’t Do That [Live at the Hollywood Bowl] [Bonus Track]
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[Verse 1] / I’ve got something to say that might cause you pain / If I catch you talking to that boy again / I’m going to let you down / And leave you flat / Because I told you
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The Beatles – Sweet Little Sixteen [Live at the BBC Disk 2]
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[Verse 1] / They're really rocking in Boston / Philadelphia, PA / Deep in the heart of Texas / On down in Frisco Bay / All over Saint Louis / On down to New Orleans / All the cats
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Carl Perkins – Matchbox
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“Matchbox” was written by Carl Perkins in 1956 and appears on his 1957 album, Dance Album of Carl Perkins.
This is pure rockabilly, but shares some lyrics with two older songs
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The Beatles – Red Sails In The Sunset (Live in Germany)
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[Intro: Paul McCartney] / Yes, I'll take one, please / [?] / A tune called, "Red Sails in the Sunset" / The one you've come for / [...] / "Red Sails in the Sunset" / [Verse 1
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Love – Everybody's Gotta Live
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[Chorus] / Everybody's gotta live / And everybody's gonna die / Everybody's gotta live / I think you know the reason why / [Verse 1] / Sometimes the goin' gets so good / Then again
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The Beatles – Rock and Roll Music
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“Rock and Roll Music” is the Beatles' cover of Rock and Roll Legend Chuck Berry’s song of the same name, originally released in 1957. The Beatles had been playing the song at
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The Beatles – I'm A Loser [Live at the BBC Disk 2]
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[Intro] / I'm a loser / I'm a loser / And I'm not what I appear to be / [Verse 1] / Of all the love I have won or have lost / There is one love I should never have crossed / She
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The Beatles – Have A Banana!
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[Verse 1] / [Brian Matthew] Is that it? Is that the end? / [Paul] Yeah, yeah, that's it / [John] Fade, fade! / [Brian] Good track Oh, well, we'll stop there, stop there, stop there
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Carl Perkins – Honey Don’t
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Well how come you say you will when you won't / You tell me you do, baby, when you don't? / Let me know, honey, how you feel / Tell the truth, now, is love real? / Uh uh oh, honey
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The Beatles – Mr. Moonlight
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“Mr. Moonlight” is a song written by Roy Lee Johnson, best known for being covered by The Beatles on the 1964 album “Beatles for Sale” in the United Kingdom and “Beatles ‘65” in
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