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Be-Bop-A-Lula: [From: beatlesbible.com]
The song made a big impression on The Beatles. Lennon claimed to have performed it with the Quarrymen on 6 July 1957 at the garden fete of St Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool, the day he met Paul McCartney for the first time.
McCartney watched the Quarrymen’s performance, and afterwards the pair were introduced by band member Ivan Vaughan. McCartney impressed Lennon by playing a range of songs including ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’, Eddie Cochran’s ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and a medley of Little Richard numbers.
“I came across the cover photo – the original picture of me in my leather jacket, leaning against the wall in Hamburg in 1962 – and I thought, ‘Is this it? Do I start where I came in, with ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’?’ The day I met Paul I was singing that song for the first time onstage. There’s a photo in all the Beatles books – a picture of me with a checked shirt on, holding a little acoustic guitar – and I am singing ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’, just as I did on that album, and there’s a picture in Hamburg and I’m saying goodbye from the Record Plant.”
–John Lennon, 1980
Rolling Stone
‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ became a part of The Beatles’ early stage repertoire, although they never recorded it properly. A live version with Fred Fascher on vocals, recorded in December 1962, was later issued in 1977 on the unofficial Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962.
The group also performed an impromptu version of the song on 24 July 1969, during a session for Abbey Road. While working on ‘Sun King’/‘Mean Mr Mustard’, John Lennon led The Beatles through versions of ‘Ain’t She Sweet’, Who Slapped John? and ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’.
Did all of these musicians have a Christian phase? I know a lot of early rockabilly and blues came from that tradition and I think Cliff Richard performed with Billy Graham.
Be-Bop-A-Lula:
[From: beatlesbible.com]
The song made a big impression on The Beatles. Lennon claimed to have performed it with the Quarrymen on 6 July 1957 at the garden fete of St Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool, the day he met Paul McCartney for the first time.
McCartney watched the Quarrymen’s performance, and afterwards the pair were introduced by band member Ivan Vaughan. McCartney impressed Lennon by playing a range of songs including ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’, Eddie Cochran’s ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and a medley of Little Richard numbers.
“I came across the cover photo – the original picture of me in my leather jacket, leaning against the wall in Hamburg in 1962 – and I thought, ‘Is this it? Do I start where I came in, with ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’?’ The day I met Paul I was singing that song for the first time onstage. There’s a photo in all the Beatles books – a picture of me with a checked shirt on, holding a little acoustic guitar – and I am singing ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’, just as I did on that album, and there’s a picture in Hamburg and I’m saying goodbye from the Record Plant.”
–John Lennon, 1980
Rolling Stone
‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ became a part of The Beatles’ early stage repertoire, although they never recorded it properly. A live version with Fred Fascher on vocals, recorded in December 1962, was later issued in 1977 on the unofficial Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962.
The group also performed an impromptu version of the song on 24 July 1969, during a session for Abbey Road. While working on ‘Sun King’/‘Mean Mr Mustard’, John Lennon led The Beatles through versions of ‘Ain’t She Sweet’, Who Slapped John? and ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’.
Did all of these musicians have a Christian phase? I know a lot of early rockabilly and blues came from that tradition and I think Cliff Richard performed with Billy Graham.