Maybe if they had called “Yellow Submarine” “The U-Boot Song”…
Recordings of “Undead Paul” and “Quit Bringing Your Girlfriend into the Studio” were mysteriously erased.
I don’t think they ever officially released “Queen Mr. Mustard.”
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If only they’d called it “The Queen’s a Pretty Nice Girl” instead of “Her Majesty”.
Not that it counts, but there is the ex-Beatle song “Queenie Eye”
And “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey,” which did get nominated.
Wish MMM: that these final polls remain open longer than the meager day or day and a half that you’ve been giving them. At least two times now I’ve missed them because I’ve lost track of which ones were current and which ones were older threads getting rezzed, finally notice the thread, head on in, only to discover that I am now locked out. And I am more or less retired at the moment-for people with jobs it is likely very easy for someone to be doing 18 hour days back to back or something and only have time to eat, shower, and hit the sack.
Actually, the polls are open for 48 hours. There is little voting done after the first 24 hours or so.
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I saw something in Slate (paywalled) today that brought me back to this post. The bulk of the Slate article is about Brenda Lee’s 65-year ascent to #1 on the Hot 100 this Christmas, but he had a couple of paragraphs of aside about the Beatles on streaming:
…What would happen when you allowed the public to download any Beatles song, untethered from albums or from physical goods? Which Lennon–McCartney classics would dominate at iTunes: No. 1s like “She Loves You,” “Yesterday,” “Hey Jude,” “Let It Be”? Turns out, it was none of those. When the first week of Beatles download data came in at Billboard, the top seller was a song that not only never hit No. 1, it had never even been released as a single—and it was a George Harrison song: “Here Comes the Sun.” At the time, I explained away this result as one of market availability. As a nonsingle in 1969, “Sun” was hard to buy on its own—you had to either buy the Abbey Road LP or the 1973 “blue” compilation. It wasn’t a hit, so it didn’t make most Beatles greatest-hits collections, including the bestselling 1 CD—maybe casual Beatles fans were just filling that gap in their collections? But my 2010 theory was wrong: As the years have gone on, the public’s love for “Sun” has only deepened. When Spotify came to America in 2011, “Sun” established itself as the Beatles’ top stream. It still holds that distinction a dozen years later, far and away—“Here Comes the Sun” is the only Beatles song to surpass a billion streams on Spotify.
I take away a couple of lessons from the “Sun” revelation. First, when it comes to the charts, metrics matter. We had no idea how beloved George Harrison’s Abbey Road deep cut was, because the charts and the marketplace didn’t provide a yardstick. On a truly even playing field—one made possible by digital technology, where all songs are equally consumable—the market forms a consensus. Second, songs are both inspiring and functional. “Here Comes the Sun” makes sense as a Fab Four favorite, because it soundtracks life passages and times of change. You can picture all of the occasions a listener might find “Sun” hopeful, heartening, and hymnlike.
I think both streaming and the SDMB reinforce the conclusion that George was, at least later in Beatles history, rather underrated.
Here Comes The Sun wasn’t a single? Wow,. It’s one of my favorite songs of all-time, not just by the Beatles.
From the Smooth Jazz genre;
HAPPY by Speedometer
HUMAN NATURE by Nelson Rangell
Have a Little Faith in Me (Joe Cocker or John Hiatt)