Don't Pass Me By
“You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair”
Ringo Starr's first solo Beatles songwriting credit – a country-style lament about a narrator waiting for a partner who may have left. Recorded for The Beatles (White Album) with prominent country fiddle by guest violinist Jack Fallon.
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Paul McCartney played drums on 7 Beatles songs, taking over for Ringo on tracks like 'Wild Honey Pie', 'Don't Pass Me By', 'Mother Nature's Son'.
RecordedJune 5 – July 22, 1968
ReleasedNovember 22, 1968
Song familyPaul is dead'You were in a car crash and you lost your hair' read as the crash
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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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