The importance of this song in the history of The Beatles and rock'n'roll/pop history can't be overestimated. This wasn't properly a "jam" between Paul and John: It was the song with which McCartney auditioned for Lennon. When the two of them met on the 6th of July of 1957 (The anniversary of which is coincidentally a few days from now) at Woolton's Village Fete, in The Quarrymen's "dressing room" inside St. Peter's Church, this was the main song Paul impressed John with: He was given a right-handed guitar to play something, that (Like many lefties including me 😀 ) he could play upside down, and, after tuning it by ear (Something that nobody in the band including Lennon knew how to do), he sung Twenty Flight Rock remembering all the words. For a guy that barely remembered song lyrics, and many times by then had to make them up on stage as he sung, like John Lennon that was the biggest shock. Not counting that Paul knew how to rock a guitar. Than Macca showed off his screaming voice with a couple of Little Richard tunes and his future was sealed, there and then
What's even more impressive is that the single had yet to be released, so Paul was working from the movie version (The Girl Can't Help It 1956 -- not released in the UK until 1957) -- unless there was a soundtrack album, but I can't find one other than the 2008 22 track version.
Originally recorded in 1956 for the movie The Girl Can't Help It, Eddie Cochran didn't release as a single until Nov 1957. According to legend, it's the song that Paul played for John the day they met on July 6 1957. I'm sure The Beatles must've performed it, but it doesn't appear anywhere in their 60s discography, so it's unlikely they ever recorded it.
Eddie Cochran had the start of a great career. Unfortunately, he died in a car wreck at 21. In the car with him was Rock and Roll great, and Beatle influence, Gene Vincent. Gene survived but Cochran did not. Coincidence, the cab driver's name was George Martin (no relation). Tony Sheridan, whom the Beatles backed in their first recording date, was bucking to ride along but didn't. Ringo played in Tony's band at one point. Had he died that night as well, there'd been no recording of My Bonnie, the song that some young patrons requested from Brian Epstein, that got him involved with the Beatles.
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were set to perform on the same bill as Cochran and Vincent in May of that year. Ringo was really looking forward to sharing a bill with Cochran and they say he never forgave him for dying.
Return to Pepperland (as people call it) was the cancelled album before this. I listened to the title track and it's fun. His compilation album All the Best was released at the end of 87, it included some non-album singles such as Another Day (from the time of Ram), C Moon from 72, We All Stand Together from 84 and Once Upon a Long Ago (which had been intended for 'Pepperland').
I made some research to look up who the mixing engineer was for this album (The one responsible for not turning up the guitar during the solo 😀) and he turned out to be Peter Henderson
I like this album but Run Devil Run rocks a lot harder. Best song for me on this album is his version of a jazz song, Gershwin's 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' with a great cha-cha fade out. Many will know he also jammed on these songs during the rehearsals for Flowers in the Dirt just for the fun of it and to get into a groove.
Phonetically it sounds as "Snova V eSeSeSeR" - "Snova" (with accent on "o") much closer to "Again" than to "Back" - it contains repeat sense without backward moving. "Snova" could be used on rare posters or billboards so it was stylistically more correct. Besides, it was '88 and nobody really wanted to Back in the USSR. About the reasons of russian special release - I've heard that he (Paul) avoided copyright problem replacing it into Russia - not sure. I bought it in 1988 after a month of runnind around and was very disappointed :) rock'n'roll has not become the subject of my interests at that time - I was 12. Still have it. Somewhere.
There was no need to "get back to the USSR" in 1988: it WAS still the USSR back then 😊. Well the story is a bit complicated, but being 18 y.o. at that time and living in the USSR I remember it vividly. Paul had long dreamed of "a Russian (or better say Soviet) bootleg" compiled of his obscure recordings. So when in July 1987 he made some Rude Studio jam recordings with a group of fellow musicians he didn't know exactly what to do with them. He didn't have initial plan, he just got some fresh live studio tapes on his hands with no project at all. Then some months later Paul happened to meet a Soviet rock journalist Artemy Troitsky, who had just published his book somewhere in the west (I'm not sure where exactly), telling about some Soviet rock musicians and bands, named ... "Back in the USSR". 'Cause, you know, that Beatles song ment something to Soviet music lovers back in 1968 and since then became legendary. The meeting of McCartney and Troitsky was a destiny. After their conversation Paul decided to publish those recordings exclusively in the USSR, naming the "bootleg" after his own 1968 Beatles song "Back In The USSR". But of course that "bootleg" had to bear a Russian name, so it became "Снова в СССР", because that was one of the most popular translation variants of the original title in the USSR since 1968. Actually, the "bootleg" idea didn't happen since the Soviet record label "Melodya" was eager to publish the 'Russian' McCartney album legally, and it was officially released in the USSR in October 1988. So maybe it looked like a "bootleg" from the westerners' point, but it actually was an official legal release.
This is the song that got Paul in the band… playing a right handed guitar upside down. And he knew all the words.
The song he auditioned with! Passed the audition. And he could tune a guitar.
The importance of this song in the history of The Beatles and rock'n'roll/pop history can't be overestimated.
This wasn't properly a "jam" between Paul and John: It was the song with which McCartney auditioned for Lennon.
When the two of them met on the 6th of July of 1957 (The anniversary of which is coincidentally a few days from now) at Woolton's Village Fete, in The Quarrymen's "dressing room" inside St. Peter's Church, this was the main song Paul impressed John with: He was given a right-handed guitar to play something, that (Like many lefties including me 😀 ) he could play upside down, and, after tuning it by ear (Something that nobody in the band including Lennon knew how to do), he sung Twenty Flight Rock remembering all the words.
For a guy that barely remembered song lyrics, and many times by then had to make them up on stage as he sung, like John Lennon that was the biggest shock.
Not counting that Paul knew how to rock a guitar.
Than Macca showed off his screaming voice with a couple of Little Richard tunes and his future was sealed, there and then
What's even more impressive is that the single had yet to be released, so Paul was working from the movie version (The Girl Can't Help It 1956 -- not released in the UK until 1957) -- unless there was a soundtrack album, but I can't find one other than the 2008 22 track version.
The song that started it all, great rocket, if there was a single for the album, this would be it. Song goes back to the 50’s, Eddie Cochran.
Originally recorded in 1956 for the movie The Girl Can't Help It, Eddie Cochran didn't release as a single until Nov 1957. According to legend, it's the song that Paul played for John the day they met on July 6 1957. I'm sure The Beatles must've performed it, but it doesn't appear anywhere in their 60s discography, so it's unlikely they ever recorded it.
Another great rocker!
Eddie Cochran had the start of a great career. Unfortunately, he died in a car wreck at 21. In the car with him was Rock and Roll great, and Beatle influence, Gene Vincent. Gene survived but Cochran did not. Coincidence, the cab driver's name was George Martin (no relation). Tony Sheridan, whom the Beatles backed in their first recording date, was bucking to ride along but didn't. Ringo played in Tony's band at one point. Had he died that night as well, there'd been no recording of My Bonnie, the song that some young patrons requested from Brian Epstein, that got him involved with the Beatles.
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were set to perform on the same bill as Cochran and Vincent in May of that year. Ringo was really looking forward to sharing a bill with Cochran and they say he never forgave him for dying.
@@Kieop Sounds like something Ringo would say. 🙂
Paul's fanclub members received a free copy of this lp when it was released in the USSR. Mine I still in it's mailing sleeve.
Return to Pepperland (as people call it) was the cancelled album before this. I listened to the title track and it's fun.
His compilation album All the Best was released at the end of 87, it included some non-album singles such as Another Day (from the time of Ram), C Moon from 72, We All Stand Together from 84 and Once Upon a Long Ago (which had been intended for 'Pepperland').
Everything on it was amazing. I mean: I Love This House alone was a banger
@@UettiI'll have to hear the rest.
The compilation All the Best in 87 was a reminder of his good non-album singles too.
When I get to the top I'm too tired to rock.
I made some research to look up who the mixing engineer was for this album (The one responsible for not turning up the guitar during the solo 😀) and he turned out to be Peter Henderson
I like this album but Run Devil Run rocks a lot harder. Best song for me on this album is his version of a jazz song, Gershwin's 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' with a great cha-cha fade out. Many will know he also jammed on these songs during the rehearsals for Flowers in the Dirt just for the fun of it and to get into a groove.
Phonetically it sounds as "Snova V eSeSeSeR" - "Snova" (with accent on "o") much closer to "Again" than to "Back" - it contains repeat sense without backward moving. "Snova" could be used on rare posters or billboards so it was stylistically more correct. Besides, it was '88 and nobody really wanted to Back in the USSR.
About the reasons of russian special release - I've heard that he (Paul) avoided copyright problem replacing it into Russia - not sure. I bought it in 1988 after a month of runnind around and was very disappointed :) rock'n'roll has not become the subject of my interests at that time - I was 12. Still have it. Somewhere.
interesting!
There was no need to "get back to the USSR" in 1988: it WAS still the USSR back then 😊. Well the story is a bit complicated, but being 18 y.o. at that time and living in the USSR I remember it vividly. Paul had long dreamed of "a Russian (or better say Soviet) bootleg" compiled of his obscure recordings. So when in July 1987 he made some Rude Studio jam recordings with a group of fellow musicians he didn't know exactly what to do with them. He didn't have initial plan, he just got some fresh live studio tapes on his hands with no project at all. Then some months later Paul happened to meet a Soviet rock journalist Artemy Troitsky, who had just published his book somewhere in the west (I'm not sure where exactly), telling about some Soviet rock musicians and bands, named ... "Back in the USSR". 'Cause, you know, that Beatles song ment something to Soviet music lovers back in 1968 and since then became legendary. The meeting of McCartney and Troitsky was a destiny. After their conversation Paul decided to publish those recordings exclusively in the USSR, naming the "bootleg" after his own 1968 Beatles song "Back In The USSR". But of course that "bootleg" had to bear a Russian name, so it became "Снова в СССР", because that was one of the most popular translation variants of the original title in the USSR since 1968.
Actually, the "bootleg" idea didn't happen since the Soviet record label "Melodya" was eager to publish the 'Russian' McCartney album legally, and it was officially released in the USSR in October 1988. So maybe it looked like a "bootleg" from the westerners' point, but it actually was an official legal release.
@@Zholobov1so cool! And you were living there at the time!
@@coryclark2469 I was born in 1970, so I've been living "there" all my life 😊
Yes, the song is about being too tired to have sex. 😜