Boys
“What a bundle of joy”
A Shirelles B-side from 1960, given a hard-driving Beatles cover with Ringo's first lead vocal on record. The band ignored the gender-flip of a male singing 'I talk about boys' – the lyric stayed and nobody noticed.
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This song is the earliest Beatles song to mention Sex, which goes on to appear on 13 in all.
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Tags on this page are original analysis, transcribed and cross-checked against the fine work of others: Alan W. Pollack's “Notes on…” series, the Beatles Complete Scores (Hal Leonard), Mark Lewisohn's session histories, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, Dave Rybaczewski's Beatles Music History and Andy Babiuk's Beatles Gear for the instruments and studio equipment, and others besides – then verified by ear against the recordings. Full bibliography: Sources & thanks.
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