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• 1) MUSIC PLAYER
• 2) The Influences
• 1963-esque
• 1964-esque
• 1965-esque
• 1966-esque
• 1967-esque
• 1968-esque
• 1969-esque
• 1970-esque
• 'REUNION' 1970-Now
1) BEATLESQUE Songs:
1964-esque
guests on the Player -
• The Rutles; Otis Redding; Go-Go's; Ramones
• Thee Headcoatees; The Smithereens;
The Dirtbombs; Katrina And The Waves
• The Equals; Frank Lee Sprague;
The Pebbles; The Monkees
• Rolling Stones; Shonen Knife; Gene Clark; Elastica.
Rolling Stones; Chambers Brothers;
Honey Ltd; The Kinks.
Music Player:
1964-esque
BEATLESQUE Songs: 1964-esque
Hear the unlimited Playlist here.)
of alternative Beatles sounds!
Los Apson! Beach Boys! Marvin Gaye!
Raspberries! Led Zeppelin! The Cars!
The Knack! Utopia! The Romantics!
The Spongetones! The dB's! The Police!
The Bangles! Sneetches! Crowded House!
Young Fresh Fellows! Lush! Stereo Total!
Splitsville! She & Him! Young Veins!
Filhos Da Judith! New Pornographers! Baby Shakes!
• The BEATLES song plays first (shown here in red).
• It is followed by Clones and Cousins, often bracketed at the beginning and end by Cover versions. Then the next Beatles song repeats the cycle.
• A Clone is a song directly imitating the song. A Cousin is within the same sonic spirit as the original.
• The Beatles' songs are in order of their release; the matching songs are listed sequentially in the order of their own release, i.e., 1963, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, etc.
• (If The Beatles recorded a cover version, it is preceded by the original, followed by all the clones in their style.)
• Because The Beatles finished each year with a Christmas EP for their UK Fan Club, each Music Player ends with Holiday songs done in their style.
The Playlist matches each of these songs to its children, in this order...
• "I Want To Hold Your Hand/ This Boy" (Nov 1963)
• EP: "Long Tall Sally"/ "I Call Your Name"/ "Slow Down"/ "Matchbox" (June 1964)
•• Songs written for other artists: "One And One Is Two", "Nobody I Know", "World Without Love", "I Don't Want To See You Again", "From A Window", "Like Dreamers Do", "It's For You", "You Know What To Do"
• "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand/ Sie Liebt Dich"(March 1964)
• A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (July 1964):
• "A Hard Day's Night"
• "I Should Have Known Better"
• "If I Fell"
• "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You"
• "And I Love Her"
• "Tell Me Why"
• "Can't Buy Me Love"
• "Any Time At All"
• "I'll Cry Instead"
• "Things We Said Today"
• "When I Get Home"
• "You Can't Do That"
• "I'll Be Back"
• "I Feel Fine/ She's A Woman" (Nov 1964)
• BEATLES FOR SALE (Dec 1964):
• "No Reply"
• "I'm A Loser"
• "Baby's In Black"
• "Rock And Roll Music"
• "I'll Follow The Sun"
• "Mr. Moonlight"
• "Kansas City - Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
• "Eight Days A Week"
• "Words Of Love"
• "Honey Don't"
• "Every Little Thing"
• "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
• "What You're Doing"
• "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"
(each cover version is preceded by the original)
•• February: "Johnny B Goode"
•• March: "From Us to You" (show opener), "Can't Buy Me Love ", "Till There Was You", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Roll Over Beethoven", "All My Loving ", "From Us to You" (show closer)
•• April: "I Got A Woman"
•• May: "I Forgot To Remember To Forget"
•• July: "A Hard Day's Night ", "Things We Said Today", "Long Tall Sally", "If I Fell", "And I Love Her", "You Can't Do That"
•• August: "Things We Said Today", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Boys", "All My Loving", "She Loves You", "Long Tall Sally", "You Can't Do That", "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
•• November: "She's A Woman", "I Feel Fine", "I'm A Loser", "Honey Don't", "I'll Follow The Sun", "I Feel Fine "
•• December: "Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!", "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", "Rock And Roll Music"
• Christmas flexi; banter with snippets of "Jingle Bells", "Oh Can You Wash Your Father's Shirt?"
The Playlists will follow the original British release of singles and albums in sequence.
2) BEATLESQUE Songs:
How Their Influence Never EndsA HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964)
• The A HARD DAY'S NIGHT album
captures the band defining themselves just as the frenzy of Beatlemania took the USA.
• 1964 became a new Year Zero for Rock'n'Roll, with Beat Music overhauling Pop into Jet Age modernity.
• Elvis had launched solo rivals, but The Beatles catalyzed legions based on the new group concept, copying their every style and advance.
• Where Elvis films featured canned material, The Beatles' 'movie soundtrack' was purely a self-created and mature statement.
• Here, they were finding their writing voices with strong material forecasting that they were too solid to be a fad.
• They were on such creative fire that they were launching others' careers with side songs, such as the haunting waltz "It's For You".
• Crucially, all of this was made possible by George Martin's impeccable production and empathic support.
Leads To:
▶ Beat Music/Merseybeat, Freakbeat, Mod, Garage Rock, Female bands, World bands, Northern Soul, Yé-yé, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Power Pop, Pub Rock, Punk, Jangle Pop, Dream Pop, Britpop, Beat Revival.
▶ Beatlemania, The Mod scene, Long hair, Garage bands, Art covers, British Invasion, MTV and Rock Videos.
Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1964 sounds of The Beatles.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
• British Invasion
The Beatles' style and sound provided a template for young acts to spring from.
Their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 opened the floodgates for many other English imports, including The Rolling Stones, Gerry And The Pacemakers, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks, The Hollies, The Who, The Zombies, The Searchers, The Dave Clark Five, Chad And Jeremy, Freddie And The Dreamers, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Rockin' Berries, The Honeycombs, and The Liverpool Five.
• Side Songs
The Beatles were the tsunami lifting all boats.
Like the songwriting teams of the Torch Song era, Lennon-McCartney wrote hit records for other artists, like Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, The Applejacks, Cilla Black, Peter And Gordon, and The Fourmost.
These are often considered 'lost Beatles songs' which get covered in their style by soundalike artists.
The Merry-Go-Round.
• Peers
Immediately, the band's success, style, and sounds ignited a hothouse flowers of responses that escalated the maturity and scope of modern Pop music, from Folk to Soul to Jazz to Rock, with a resulting hybridization that expanded the arts and their audiences. Luminaries that flourished include The Beach Boys, Jackie De Shannon, The Byrds with Gene Clark, The Angels, The Knickerbockers, The Remains, The Mamas And The Papas, The Rascals, Buffalo Springfield, The Merry-Go-Round with Emitt Rhodes, The Buckinghams, Neil Diamond, The Moving Sidewalks [pre-ZZ Top], and The Equals with Eddy Grant. This pollinated onward with later acts like Three Dog Night, Led Zeppelin, Yes, and T.Rex.
• Soul Seranade
When the band did cover versions from the fledgling Motown label, it opened their artists to worldwide fame.
Rock and Soul are generic terms often misused to separate, but in reality all music is just passion made to be shared by everyone. Artists who both inspired and responded back to The Beatles include Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, George And Teddy, Dionne Warwick, Joe Bataan, The Chambers Brothers, Sly And The Family Stone, Booker T And The MG's, The Bar-Kays, Friends Of Distincion, Al Green, and their friend from Hamburg days, organist Billy Preston.
They also inspired jams from Jamaica with responsive songs from a young Bob Marley And The Wailers, The Skatalites, Errol Dunkley, Pat Kelly, The Upsetters, and The Paragons.
• Common Folk
Their love of Country Music and Folk melodies was reflected back by Folk artists like Vashti Bunyan, Judy Collins, and Mary McCaslin;
by Country artists like Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Roseanne Cash, and The Mavericks;
and by artists who combined Bob Dylan and The Beatles to create Folk Rock and Roots Rock, from The Byrds and Sir Douglas Quintet to Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and The Long Ryders.
• World Beat
Moptops shook globally in a world unified by Beat Music, with cousins like The Beau Brummels, The Del-Vetts, The Iguanas with young Iggy Pop, Les Improvistes (Canada), Les Shadols (Canada), Les Hou-Lops (Canada), Jacqueline Taieb (France), Le Fleurs De Pavot (France), Les Guitares Sèches (France), Les Missiles (France), Czerwone Gitary (Poland), Vulkan (Czech.), George And The Beatovens (Czech.), Kvartet 4M (Croatia), Bijele Strijele (Croatia), Les Baroques (Netherlands), De Maskers (Netherlands), Eddy And The Lightnings (Finland), The Hounds (Finland), Hljómar (Iceland), Mavi Isiklar (Turkey), Los Brincos (Spain), Los Mustang (Spain), Los Bravos (Spain), Los Diana (Spain), Los 5 Diablos (Spain), Los Cheyenes (Spain), Los Flecos (Spain), Els Dracs (Spain), Els Drums (Spain), Los Apson (Mexico), Liverpool (Brazil), Leno And Lilian (Brazil), Los Shakers (Uruguay), Los Protones (Peru), Los Ecos (Peru), The Outcast (Japan), The Befores (Japan), The Librettos (New Zealand), The Blue Diamonds (New Zealand/Indonesia), and The Easybeats (Australia).
• She Rocks
The Beatles are credited with selling more guitars in the mid-'60s than anytime in history. That explosion of bands included uncounted all-female bands who have since been unfairly excluded from that history, such as The Liverbirds, The Pleasure Seekers, Germanes Ros (Spain), Die Sweetles (Germany), Sanjalice (Yogoslavia), The Debutantes, and She.
These Beat sisters set the tempo for later Beat-transistors like The Runaways, The Go-Go's, The Bangles, The Pandoras, The Delmonas, The Breeders, Shonen Knife (Japan), The Pebbles (Japan), The Milkees (Japan), The Margarettes (Japan), The Beat Girls (Japan), Thee 50's High Teens (Japan), BIGMAMA SHOCKIN' 3 (Japan), The A-Lines, Vivian Girls, BOYTOY, Baby Shakes, and The She's.
BEATLES FOR SALE (1964)
• The BEATLES FOR SALE album
gets pinned unduly with the 'exhausted' narrative, as in too much touring and too many cover versions.
• But the covers here actually help foretell the coming style transitions into Folk and Soul for 1965.
• Here, their new songs turn into introspective confessionals, abetted by lush harmony blends.
• Young men now with partners, their songs go from Love as attraction to Love as introspection.
• In between the albums, they perfected the perfect mid-'60s Guitar Riff song with "I Feel Fine".
Leads To:
▶ Beat Music/Merseybeat, Freakbeat, Mod, Garage Rock, Female bands, World bands, Northern Soul, Yé-yé, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Folk Rock, Power Pop, Pub Rock, Punk, Jangle Pop, Dream Pop, Britpop, Beat Revival.
▶ Beatlemania, British Invasion, The Mod scene, Long hair, Garage bands, World Tours.
• Idol Hands
Their heroes Little Richard, The Crickets, Link Wray, The Everly Brothers, and Del Shannon began to sound like them, and their songs were interpolated by varied legends like The Ventures, Grant Green, Chet Atkins, Ella Fitzgerald, Stanley Turrentine, Vince Guaraldi + Bola Sete, and Henry Mancini.
• Heirs Apparent
Their sonic innovations gave flight to kindred spirits who brought new dimensions of their own, like The Redcoats, The Monkees, Badfinger, Jeff Lynne, Cheap Trick, The Rutles, Billy Joel, The Spongetones, Crowded House, The Smithereens, The Rembrandts, Myracle Brah, Swag, The Resonars, The Autumn Defense, The Clientele, The Draytones, Groovy Uncle, The Red Button, Pugwash, The Strypes (Ireland), Jack Bartlett, and Yorick van Norden (Netherlands).
• Power Pop
Putting the punch in the hooks through the '70s were Pop powerhouses like Flamin' Groovies, The Raspberries, Oister with Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour, Ronnie D'Addario, the Paley Brothers, The Tweeds, and Blue Ash.
Power Pop became both an alternative to and entry point for New Wave with Beathoven/ The Innocents (Australia), The Poppees, The Pleasers, The Cars, The Heaters, The Teenbeats, Heartbreak (Sweden), The Toms, The Merton Parkas, Utopia with Todd Rundgren, The Knack, Rockpile, 20/20, The Last, The Romantics, The Numbers (Australia), The Stripes with Nena (Germany), Promise, The Donkey, Y Trwynau Coch (Wales), Dirty Looks, The dB's, The Sneetches, The Little Girls, The Police, Katrina And The Waves (Canada), The Darling Buds, and The Primitives.
This current surged onward from the '90s to now with The La's, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Bristols with Fabienne DelSol, Cherry Twister, Frank Lee Sprague of the Sprague Brothers, Locksley, The Morning Benders, Splitsville, The Hi-Risers, The Young Veins, Kommando Beat (Germany), and She & Him.
• Garage Punx
Their feiry hooks and irreverent spirit lit the fuse directly to Garage Rock avatars like Neighb'rhood Childr'n and Velvet Underground, and burned clearly in later Punks like Ramones, Buzzcocks, The Boys, The Nerves, The Atlantics, and Red Kross.
Their flame continued to singe past time through Thee Headcoatees, Melvins, The Muffs, Elastica, 60 Ft Dolls, The Friggs, The Dirtbombs, The Come Ons, Boonaraaas (Germany), Babyshambles, Miss Ludella Black, The Ugly Beats, Vicki And The Vengents, The Pink Tiles (Australia), and The Reverberations.
• New Beat
1964-style Beat music still oscillated across time with Blondie, The Beat with Paul Collins, The Prisoners, Sekret (Russia), Wednesday Week, and Marshall Crenshaw, and strobed in mid-'80s Psychedelic revivalists like Lyres, The Three O'Clock, and The Chesterfield Kings '80s;
Beat set off new tremors with The Kaisers (Scotland) and Los Fresones Rebeldes (Spain) '90s;
with The Singles, Nick Armstrong And The Thieves, Muck And The Mires, Vinyl Kings, Blue Skies For Black Hearts, Cola Jet Set (Spain), Serpentina (Spain), The Rabeats (France), and Les Fleur De Bach (France) '00s;
and with The Beat Rats, The Weeklings, The Belmondos (Italy), Filhos da Judith (Brazil), Derrick Anderson, THE LET'S GOS (Japan), The Connection, The Mieters (Netherlands), The Kitschenettes (France), Brilliant Colors, The Bawdies (Japan), The Mergers (Germany), The Beatophonics (Netherlands), and The Most (Sweden) '10s.
• When I'm '64
The sounds of 1964 still reverberate across a panoply of artists like The Roches, Traveling Wilburys, Lush, Stereo Total (France), The New Pornographers, The Redwalls, Mando Diao, The Last Shadow Puppets, Magnetic Heads, The Shelters, Leather Girls, and Those Darlins, for those attuned to hear it.
In 1964, THE BEATLES overwrote the history of Rock'n'Soul with a new future. People have been quoting the verses ever since.
And as their sounds expanded, so did all the responses across time...
• 1963-esque
• 1964-esque
• 1965-esque
• 1966-esque
• 1967-esque
• 1968-esque
• 1969-esque
• 1970-esque
• 'REUNION' 1970-Now
© Research, Art, and Essay by Tym Stevens
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