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I Wanna Hold Your Hand vs She Loves You

I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Single, 1964 ~ Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, sung by Lennon

She Loves You - Single, 1964 ~ Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, sung by McCartney 

Remember, THESE are my own opinions and they may be totally, 100% different than yours so no hate please!

Compare: From being both recorded in German by The Beatles, these 2 songs hit number 1 on the charts in 1964. Both of them never located on albums (until after The Beatles) and sold both as singles and were both profitable. Both of them are about confessing love "wanting to hold someone's hand" and saying that the one that you love "she loves you" back. Both could be about losing love, showing about how both sides react from that.

Contrast: Really, I don't think there are very many differences between both of the songs. They do both sound different and they are both classily different Lennon and McCartney songs but they both have key points in each songs that really remind me that they're the same. "Love" centric themed songs really remind me of almost the same things. 

Likes: I like both of the songs, they're typical Beatles songs and EVERYONE knows them. Hey, if you haven't heard I Wanna Hold Your Hand at least once in your life then there's something wrong with you! And if you haven't checked out the German versions, you would enjoy listening to them (even if you don't know any German). 

Dislikes: I have a problem with Beatles song that I listen to too much that after a while I don't really like them much anymore, sadly this is what happened with the both of these songs. I can listen to them sometimes but I don't listen to them all the time, only on certain occasions. 

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The Monkees - The American Beatles

The Monkees is something that I happened to learn about on accident. It was 1am on a Saturday MANY years ago, and I just remember that I had troubles falling to sleep that night, so I decided to turn in my television to see what was on. When I passed by one channel, I swore that The Beatles were on! I laid there with confusion as I watched, on how much I loved this show. Not until I researched more about them that I knew how much they actually did relate to The Beatles.

After 'A Hard Days Night' premier in 1964, 2 men thought that it would be a great theme for a television show, having 4 young musicians who find troubles getting music jobs and running into hilarious distractions on the way. They wanted the success of the show to be just as much as The Beatles. What was cool about the show is that they were a recording band with albums! Show + band + good looking guys = very happy teenage girls. 

After interviewing many young men, they picked 4 that they thought would fit the roals perfectly. Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork (who were actual musicians), Micky Dolenz (former childhood star in a show called Circus Boy) and Davy Jones (jockey/former stage performer). They remained together as a band even after the cancelation of the show in 1968 until Mike Nesmith's departure in 1969. After taking a break for years, Peter, Micky and Davy joined back and started recording again in the 1980s. We lost Davy in 2012 and still to the day Peter and Micky are touring (so is Mike but on his own without them). 

What makes this cool is that The Beatles WATCHED THE SHOW! They were aware that they The Monkees were inspired by them and was very supportive of them. John Lennon was especially supportive, having talked about looking forward to watching the next episode of The Monkees every week. Knowing that, whenever I watch The Monkees, it makes me think that I'm watching something John Lennon had watched at one time (made me cry the first times I thought of it). 

Each of The Beatles gained friendships with each of The Monkees. John Lennon invited Mike and his wife (at the time) Phyllis (who bonded with Cynthia Lennon that day) to come to the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club band, in which they did. George Harrison and Peter Tork spend many times playing the sitar together. Paul McCartney and Micky Dolenz frequently hung out (adorable pictures with them and Paul's equally as famous sheepdog Marthia). 

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The Beatles and Germany

To this day, whenever I hear someone say Hameburg, Germany, I think about The Beatles. Yes, I know that technically at the time they weren't known as "The Beatles" and it was years before Ringo would even be thought of joining the band. At that time, the consisted of 5 members, Johh Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Stutcliffe and Pete Best. They were so young when they went, George was 14 and underage - which was illegal at the time and he ended up getting deported to Liverpool! For years to come, I will always connect The Beatles and Germany together. 

John, Paul and George all learned German school but George was the one who remembered the most. It's funny, I used to look up YouTube videos of The Beatles all the time, it was so adorable to watch them whenever I wanted. One day I looked up George Harrison speaking German and I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Like The Beatles always do, it impacted my life forever. Currently for the last 3 years in my high school I've learned German as my forgin language, just because of George. 

If you didn't know already, The Beatles in 1964 released German versions of their 2 top hits of the year, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" (formerly known in German as "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand and Sie Liebt Dich"). Since I knew that they had these songs in iTunes I had to get them (thanks to the Past Masters album with Beatles hits). The part that makes me love the songs the most that 1. Its the ACTUAL Beatles singing the songs (John and Paul trying to) and 2. I CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IN GERMAN! (Thanks to those 3 years or learning it)

In Germany, The Beatles found themselves meeting 2 loyal friends, Astrid Kirshher and Klaus Vorrman. Astrid was engaged to Stu, even more famous for coining the term "mop top" for The Beatles and creating the hairstyle. She has even taken many infamous pictures of them, especially ones of John Lennon. Klaus is just as special to me as Astird is, he's one of my favorite people ever because he was the one to design and make The Beatles Revolver album cover (my favorite album). He also played bass at George's Concert for Bangladesh in 1970 - the both of them spoke in George's documentary Living in the Material World.  

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Dear Prudence vs. Back in the U.S.S.R

Back in the U.S.S.R - The White Album, 1968, Written and sung by Paul McCartney 

Dear Prudence - The White Album, 1968 ~ Written and sung by John Lennon 

Remember, THESE are my own opinions and they may be totally, 100% different than yours so no hate please!

Compare: The theme for the songs this week are the one's I said that Ringo didn't do the drums on. I feel like these 2 songs are really represented of the people/band that they were named after. 'Dear Prudence' was John writing about a girl named Prudence Farrow (actress Mia Farrow's sister) who was in India on the trip with them in 1968. She used to get caught in meditation and John wanted to make a song kinda after that, beaconing Prudence out of meditation.  'Back in the U.S.S.R' was basically a song based off of Chuck Berry's 'Made in America' and The Beach Boys 'California Girls'. 

Contrast: It's Lennon and McCartney at their work - we all know that there is going to be a difference in the sound of both of the songs. But another thing I think there is a difference in them is that one is more famous than the other (my opinion). We all know 'Dear Prudence' a lot more than we do 'Back in the U.S.S.R'. 

Likes: I like the songs on The White Album, it's like taking a jump into the later 1960's and experiencing multiple different kinds of genres of music on 1 album (packed with songs on both sides of it). These 2 are on the top of the list of my favorite songs on the album. I listen to Dear Prudence a lot more than Back in the U.S.S.R, I love Dear Prudence so much that someday I'd love to name my daughter Prudence so she could have it as her song.

Dislikes: Being a Ringo girl, you can guess that I'm not very happy that he didn't play the drums on this album. Yes, Paul did a decent job on them and if you didn't know that Ringo wasn't drumming, you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. But being me, I can't ever forget that it isn't Ringo whenever I listen to the songs. I'm the bad person of telling other people as they listen to the song that it isn't Ringo and they get angry at me. Sorry!

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Jayci's 4 Beatles Funfacts (Part 2)

I did a post like this a while back where I talked about Beatles Funfacts that I personally know and hopefully could share to you guys if you didn't know - today I decided to bring it back again and talk about more of my favorite Beatles Funfacts! 

1. The White Album's title isn't really "The White Album": If you ever look at The White Album, you can instantly tell that there's something unique about it - it's plain with nothing special on it; unless you look close enough. Towards the bottom of the album cover, you can see that 2 words "The Beatles", and do you know why they're there? Yes, obviously The Beatles made the album but that's actually the titled of the album. 

2. The song 'Yellow Submarine' is located on 2 separate Beatles albums: This one fact has always been confusing to me because why would they put the same Beatles song on 2 albums. Out of a ll my Beatles song knowledge I have, this is the only song that I can think of that is on 2 separate Beatles albums several years apart. Yes, 2 years isn't that long away but it's just a little surprising. It's located on 1966's 'Revolver' and 1968's 'Yellow Submarine'.

3. Paul McCartney and George Harrison went to school together: Some people think that The Beatles all knew each other before they ever joined with each other to make the band, which isn't the case at all. The only 2 Beatles that knew each other before the making of The Beatles were Paul McCartney and George Harrison. They both went to the same elementary school together (George was in a grade below Paul) and they actually took the same bus together. This is how after Paul met John, was able to persuade him to listen to George's playing and then kicked off the start of something amazing. 

4. Ringo didn't play the drums for 2 (technically 3) Beatles songs: Ringo quit the band in 1968 (before rejoining back that same year) during the same time production of 'The White Album' was going on. This meant that they had to have a replacement for the drum parts for the 2 songs that he missed. Paul jumped in and played the drum parts for both 'Dear Prudence' and 'Back in the U.S.S.R'. Only 2 Beatles played on the song 'A Ballad of John and Yoko' having Paul taking on the drumming part once again. 

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Within You Without You vs. Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood - 1965, Rubber Soul ~ Written and sung by John Lennon

Within You Without You - 1967, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ~ Written and sung by George Harrison 

Remember, THESE are my own opinions and they may be totally, 100% different than yours so no hate please!

Compare: This week is going to be sitar week! I picked 2 of the songs that I felt like really has a sitar presence (definitely Within You Without You). Norwegian Wood is significant to this as well because it was the first Beatles song to include the sitar with it - HOW COOL IS THAT?! Even though John wrote it, I feel like he left George shine on it with the sitar since this is around the time that he first started learning how to play it. Within You Without You has a sitar/violin battle in it and it a large part to the song in general. 

Contrast: Even though both of these songs have sitar in them, they are very different sounding.  Norwegian Wood was still a rock sounding song, just with the hit of the stringy sitar while Within You Without You is a song revolved around it, showcasing it's Indian type of sound with violins adding along to it. 

Likes: Both of these songs are 2 of my favorite Beatles songs. Sitar being one of the coolest instruments I have ever heard, I'm always fascinated by how The Beatles were able to integrate that specific sound into their music (from the skillful help of George Harrison)

Dislikes: It's really hard for me to find any kind of dislike on either of these songs - the only kind I can think of (not personally from my taste but I know people have other likes) is that some people do not enjoy the sound of sitar - which is totally up to them and everyone has their own kind of music style and sound that they like 

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