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"Matchbox" is a song written and recorded by Carl Perkins and released in 1957. ... the Beatles performed "Matchbox" with Ringo Starr, Best's replacement, ...
Many of the Beatles' live shows had rock 'n' roll covers of Carl Perkins's songs such as Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, Matchbox and Honey Don't. Drive-By Truckers, on their album The Dirty South, recorded a song about him, "Carl Perkins' Cadillac". The Carl Perkins Arena in Jackson, Tennessee, is named in his honor.
"Honey Don't" is a song written by Carl Perkins, originally released on January 1, 1956 [2] as the B-side of the "Blue Suede Shoes" [1] single, Sun 234. Both songs became rockabilly classics. Bill Dahl of Allmusic praised the song saying, " 'Honey Don't' actually outclasses its more celebrated platter-mate in some ways."
2. "Come and Get It" by Badfinger. 1969 Written and produced by Paul McCartney, this song became a top 10 hit for Badfinger, a band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label.
Between 1963 and 1966, the Beatles' songs were released on different albums in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, 30 songs were released as non-album singles, while appearing on numerous albums in the US. Since the remastering of the band's catalogue on CDs in the 1980s, the Beatles have a primary "core catalogue" of 14 albums ...
The Beatles chose to break with their previous policy by allowing album tracks to be issued on a UK single. [64] [65] The "Yellow Submarine" single was the Beatles' thirteenth single release in the United Kingdom and the first to feature Starr as lead vocalist. [66]
A Hard Day's Night is the first Beatles album to feature entirely original compositions, and the only one where all the songs were written by Lennon–McCartney. [21] Lennon is the primary author of nine of the thirteen tracks on the album, as well as being the lead singer on these same nine tracks (although Paul McCartney sings lead on the ...
On June 1, 1964, the Beatles recorded most of their version of "Slow Down" at EMI Studio 2 in London. [4] Producer George Martin added piano overdubs three days later. [4] Parlophone released the song on the Long Tall Sally EP in June in the UK. [4] In July, the song was included on the American album Something New.