The Beatles Bible - Topic: Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 meanmistermustard on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-4/#p59467 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-4/#p59467 Did anyone order the 50th anniversary rerereleased Love Me Do single (release date scheduled for today), just got word that its been "delayed" yet amazon say its in stock. Have sent an email to thebeatles store to find out if delayed means shelved or at a later date  but was wondering if anyone knew anything.

]]> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:21:40 +0100 Joe on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-4/#p59220 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-4/#p59220 I think you're right MMM. We know they had the song from Mike McCartney's Forthlin Road photos, but I don't think it was a regular part of their live set in June 1962 (I may be wrong). The only setlist I'm aware of from that era was from a Manchester show in February 1962, and they were still mostly doing cover versions: The Hippy Hippy Shake, Sweet Little Sixteen, The Sheik Of Araby, September In The Rain, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Take Good Care Of My Baby, Till There Was You, Memphis, Tennessee, What A Crazy World We Live In, ...]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:45:53 +0100 meanmistermustard on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59172 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59172 I Saw Her Standing There was about but had a harmonica running thru it and the beatles were still working it out, well thats what the cavern rehearsal shows us. Put it in the Please Please Me folder; about but not quite there. If PPM had been right that would have been the first single above everything else.

Anyway the beatles wanted Love Me Do.

]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:37:25 +0100 fabfouremily on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59171 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59171 Wildcat - apologies for going off topic a bit back there upthread. And no, my interest in The Beatles as the awesome band that the were (are?), is not bigger in any way because of the possible relationship between Brian and Pete, or Brian and John, or Brian and any other person for that matter. Nor do I think that anybody's interest in the group is down to that.

]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:00:19 +0100 Wildcat on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59162 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59162 GREAT News, meanmistermustard, and I'm glad to have read it here first - Amazon had better have my replacement copy in the mail the day it gets there!

Nothing more I wanted to add to this discussion, except that, as usual, I overlook the obvious:

Joe - If they'd wanted an early collaboration to be their first single, they couldn't have chosen much better than I Saw Her Standing There. Imagine how that would have sounded to listeners in 1962.

I withdraw my earlier rationale, and laugh at my own ignorance in completely forgetting 'I Saw Her ...]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:15:55 +0100 meanmistermustard on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59154 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59154 The 50th anniversary pressing of Love Me Do is being rereleased on 22nd October after the previous one was recalled just before release. You can preorder it the official beatles store.

]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:52:20 +0100 meanmistermustard on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59144 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59144 Lyrics back then werent that big a deal and no one now is claiming the lyrics were great, not even Paul went that far (i think he said something about its basicness and simplicity making it work - something like that). I think it was more about the feel of the song and the fact it was their song.

I'll Be On My Way is looked down at for its "June light, moonlight" cuplets; its a nice song, a highlight from the bbc album, but a buddy holly impersonation, there is nothing special about, certainly not back in '62. LMD has some originality ...]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:54:15 +0100 Von Bontee on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59143 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59143 Was "Love Me Do" really better than "Thinking of Linking" or those other unheard LenMac songs, though? I've never heard them so I have no idea.

I'm allowing my own prejudices to creep into this, I know - my peculiar preference for some kinda pop-song symmetry. Again, to my sensibility, a "Love Me Do" with three differing bad verses instead of the same one repeated really would've been more satisfying instead of three times as bad, as mathematics would suggest. And come on, 'do/you/true' is a terrible (or at least terribly lazy) rhyme, especially when the mere TITLE of "Thinking of ...]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:45:11 +0100 meanmistermustard on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59142 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59142 George Martin had the final say on what the first single was but the beatles really pushed for Love Me Do to be the single ahead of How Do You Do It and credit to GM for being willing and going with it.

I think LMD was the best they had at the time, thats what been said by George Martin for the last 30 years. The only others from the Please Please Me album kicking about finished were PS I Love You & Ask Me Why. The other Lennon and McCartney numbers werent that good, especially if we look at ...]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:45:26 +0100 Joe on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59141 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59141 It's an interesting theory, but surely Lennon and McCartney wouldn't have let sentimentality dictate their choice of first single. At any rate, they didn't have the luxury of choice. EMI and George Martin totally called the shots back then. The Beatles were just a bunch of teenagers and 20-somethings with barely any studio experience, on whom a producer was taking a chance to revive his ailing record label.

Even if he had much influence in the song choices, Brian Epstein wouldn't have risked them screwing up this chance by issuing a single which he and the group didn't think stood a ...]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:51:07 +0100 Wildcat on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59138 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59138 That article provided a wealth of information, another great reference source worth saving. I can't believe I forgot to listTelstar, a huge influence on so many beginning young artists. I also didn't know Carole King was singing on records back then. I have to say I agree with

 Von Bontee. It's a merely competent performance at best, giving no indication whatsoever of their true potential, and the lacklustre delivery doesn't do it any favour.

But what about the other eligible early Lennon/McCartney tunes, such as Misery, or There's A Place? Not stellar material to be sure, but  There's A Place had more energy and ambition ...]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:41:38 +0100 meanmistermustard on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59131 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59131 From what i understand the music in 1962 was pretty safe and similar. LMD has been praised for being different to what was out there at the time of release; the charts were filled with unambitious, empty tracks that did little to really excite the youngsters. Thats not to say it was awful, more pleasant but lacking a kick. LMD suggested something different was coming; it wasnt a substantial change more suggestive. The Please Please Me single and later lp of the same name pretty much blew the doors open for many of the youngsters.  

Its difficult looking back as we now live in a ...]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:08:59 +0100 Von Bontee on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59130 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59130 Hm, it COULD be that I'm comparing it unfairly to later triumphs. I hate that it's so...unambitious. One terrible verse and they repeat it THREE TIMES?! Like, is that really the best they could've done? With a recording contract and a career on the line, yet. And I'd find the lyrics easier to ignore if the song had a bit of ENERGY in it, y'know? Like "Please Please Me" or "Boys", something exuberant like that.

]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:04:11 +0100 Wildcat on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59129 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59129 mr. Sun king

In 1962, the US Top 40 Records included songs as varied as Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, the Four Season's Sherry, Elvis' Good Luck Charm, and Dion's The Wanderer alongside Mr. Acker Bilk's (?) Stranger On the Shore, Ray Charles' I Can't Stop Loving You, Mancini's Moon River and Bobby Vinton's Roses Are Red.

America was ripe for a change in popular music, because the Beachboys and Bob Dylan had their first big hits in 1963, before we had yet heard of The Beatles. So whether Love Me Do "sucked" or not, maybe one's subjective taste ...]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:48:17 +0100 mr. Sun king coming together on Love Me Do - 50 years on http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59128 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/love-me-do-50-years-on/page-3/#p59128 To attempt to return to topic - would Love Me Do be viewed better if they didn't release their later Magnus Opus' like Revolver, Abbey Road, Pepper; the albums that make LMD seem so trite and simplistic in comparison. Is there some form of comparison going on to make so many of us here say this song (not in these words, but in meaning) sucks. Is it revisionist views that are making everyone dislike it, or is it just legit fluff?

]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:03:30 +0100