Originals Week: To Do It First Child
{Jun 02}
1960s george harrison, james ray, originals week, the beatles No Comments
Up until now we’ve been dealing with songs that were mostly covered on top of each other. Aretha covered Otis two years later. The Monkees covered Neil Diamond directly after he recorded it. Why don’t we bridge the gap a bit and also discuss one of the best bands of all time, shall we?
The Beatles.
Everyone knows the story of the dynamic of the group, but this is pivotal to the point of this song so let’s discuss it again briefly and kind of haphazardly. The band was Paul and John. That’s pretty much it. Ringo was a media darling, did a good job making recognizable drumbeats part of rock music, and mostly expand the role of the drummer in the band. George Harrison pushed them into new genres and kept his lead guitar a signature sound of The Fab Four. But in the end, it was the songs that made The Beatles great and Paul & John were the driving force behind that. It’s not like they didn’t let the others try: Harrison had at least one track of his on most of The Beatles albums and Ringo eventually scored with two, one of which became a better known Beatles song. But in the end, it was the Paul & John songs that sold the records and had the critics in awe. Imagine then who had the pull in the band? If John came up with an idea for a song, do you think they would go for it? Of course! If George did? Probably not so much. Now, this is not the way it went down for them, but it’s a rough sketch to get my point across.
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