{"id":244,"date":"2007-06-11T00:33:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2008-10-13T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:22:39","slug":"beatle-b-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Beatle B-Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Scott Westerman<\/a> – Keener13.com<\/small>
After reading John Colapinto’s fascinating New Yorker article, When I’m 64, Paul? McCartney Then and Now<\/em>, I was inspired to look over my Beatle 45 collection to see what tunes were on the flip sides of their American singles during the Keener era.\n<\/p>\n

1963: I Saw Her Standing There?- 1964: You Can’t Do That, I Should Have Known Better, I’m Happy Just to Dance with You, If I Fell, Slow Down, She’s a Woman -1965: I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party, Yes It Is, I’m Down, Act Naturally?- 1966: What Goes On, Rain?- 1967: Baby You’re a Rich Man, I Am the Walrus?- 1968: The Inner Light, Revolution?- 1969: Old Brown Shoe?- 1970: You Know My Name (Look up the Number), For You Blue <\/p>\n

If you discount the stuff from 1969 on as being influenced by those outside of the Beatles’ hit machine (Brian Epstein and George Martin), the 17 B sides are remarkable. With a couple of exceptions, each one was or could have been a smash hit in its own right.<\/p>\n

Compare that to the bulk of the other acts of the decade and you’ll find for the most part that B sides were populated with tunes that were meant to be abused by the turntable platter.? The Stones only had a couple of double sided hits: Ruby Tuesday \/ Lets Spend the Night Together and Honky Tonk Woman \/ You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Only the Beach Boys come within striking distance. The partial list below doesn’t include the hits with duds on the flip:<\/p>\n

1962 Surfin’ Safari\/409? -1963 Surfin’ U.S.A.\/Shut Down, Surfer Girl\/Little Deuce Coupe, Be True to Your School\/In My Room, Fun, Fun, Fun\/Why Do Fools Fall in Love??- 1964 I Get Around\/Don’t Worry Baby, Wendy\/Little Honda, Dance, Dance, Dance\/The Warmth of the Sun??- 1966 Wouldn’t It Be Nice\/God Only Knows<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I used to love to listen to B sides anyway. It was a way to see if the group was for real, or just a one-trick-pony. And sometimes they would yield a gem that never found its way to the air, but became an underground personal favorite.<\/p>\n

As the record industry slowly starts to embrace on-line distribution, singles are coming back as downloadable one-offs on Rhapsody and I-Tunes. We don’t need B sides anymore. But I miss them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Scott Westerman – Keener13.comAfter reading John Colapinto’s fascinating New Yorker article, When I’m 64, Paul? McCartney Then and Now, I was inspired to look over my Beatle 45 collection to see what tunes were on the flip sides of their American singles during the Keener era. 1963: I Saw Her Standing There?- 1964: You Can’t Do That, I Should Have Known Better, I’m Happy Just to Dance with You, If I Fell, Slow Down, She’s a Woman -1965: I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party, Yes It Is, I’m Down, Act Naturally?- 1966: What Goes On, Rain?- 1967: Baby…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","tag-beatles","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}