With the Beatles / Meet the Beatles Trivia

1. What kind of flowers were mentioned in "Till There Was You"?

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Roses

Written in 1957 by Meredith Willson for the Broadway musical "The Music Man", it became a Beatles standard, and they performed it on their first "Ed Sullivan Show" performance. "Then there was music and wonderful roses They tell me in sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and you".

From Quiz Meet The Beatles

Answer: I Want To Hold Your Hand

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" was the newest single at the time. "She Loves You" was released on the sister album "The Beatles' Second Album".

From Quiz Still "With The Beatles"

Answer: William "Smokey" Robinson

Lennon was a big fan of "Smokey" Robinson of whom he covered "You Really Got A Hold On Me" on the same LP. It was an attempt "to do Smokey Robinson again" (as he said himself). His earlier attempt had been on the previous album ("Please Please Me"): the song was called "Ask Me Why" (which was also the flipside of their second single "Please Please Me") and it was inspired by Robinson's "What So Good About Goodbye".

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Dance

John Lennon was able to demonstrate his prowess on the harmonica in this song recorded in 1963. "Little child, little child, Little child, won't you dance with me?"

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Cry

John Lennon was a big fan of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and he wrote this song fashioned after their style. "You know you made me cry, I see no use in wond'ring why, I cried for you".

From Quiz Meet The Beatles

Answer: January 20, 1964

"The Beatles' Second Album" was released on April 10, 1964. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" was February 11, 1964. "Please Please Me" was released on March 22, 1963.

From Quiz Anatomy of an Album: "with the beatles"

Answer: The Marvelettes

"Please Mr. Postman" was a US number one hit for one week in 1961 for the Marvelettes. It did not chart in the UK. "Please Mr. Postman" was the first US number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for a Motown record label. The Marvelettes formed at the Inkster High School in Michigan in 1960 were: Katherine Anderson, Juanita Cowert, Georgia Dobbins, Gladys Horton and Georgeanna Tillman. Although the song was written by William Garrett, group member Georgia Dobbins reworked it for the group. She had to leave the group before the recording for family reasons and was replaced by Wanda Young. The song was then reworked a second time by Robert Bateman, Brian Holland and Freddie Gorman.

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Girl left

This was the first George Harrison written song to be recorded by The Beatles. "Since she's been gone I want no one to talk to me. It's not the same but I'm to blame, it's plain to see. So go away, leave me alone, don't bother me".

From Quiz Meet The Beatles

Answer: He wrote it in a hotel room while on tour

George fell ill while on tour. He was resting in his hotel bed and to keep from being bored, he starting playing with his guitar. That's how the song got started. However, Bill Harry, editor of the Liverpool paper, "The Mersey Beat", claimed that he kept urging George to write a song and not have John and Paul do all the work. Harry says George got so frustrated he wrote the song to shut him up.

From Quiz Still "With The Beatles"

Answer: Ringo Starr

John said in an interview in 1980 that he might have written this song for Ringo. Ringo was given the opportunity to sing one song per album (except on "A Hard Day's Night" but he had a major part in the film, and on "Let It Be") I don't count "Magical Mystery Tour" (in which he doesn't sing either) as an album although I know it was released as such in USA but I'm still referring to British releases.

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Call

Recorded in September of 1963 entirely by John Lennon, this was another Smokey Robinson inspired song. "Whenever I want you around, yeah. All I gotta do, Is call you on the phone, And you'll come running home".

From Quiz Meet The Beatles

Answer: All My Loving

Paul says he wrote this song during a bus tour. According to A-Z magazine, he wrote the song while he was shaving.

From Quiz Anatomy of an Album: "with the beatles"

Answer: Tchaikovsky/Berry

Track eight on the "meet the beatles" album is "Roll Over Beethoven", with the line "Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news" written by Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry's original recording was a number 29 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1956. It did not chart in the UK. It was the first Chuck Berry song to appear on a Beatles album in the UK. The highest and at the time of this quiz the only charted version of the song in the UK, was that by The Electric Light Orchestra which reached number six in 1973. This version reached number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 the same year.

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Tonight

Paul McCartney was a fan of the Shirelles, and fashioned this song after their style of music. "Hold me tight, Let me go on loving you, To-night to-night, Making love to only you".

From Quiz Anatomy of an Album: "with the beatles"

Answer: John, George, Paul and Ringo

The photograph of The Fab Four, John, George, Paul and Ringo, on the album cover of the "with the beatles" album, was shot in a corridor of the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth, UK. The photograph was taken by photographer Robert Freeman in 1963 for which he was paid £75. He had recently been taking photographs of Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. The fall of Khrushchev and the rise of The Beatles in 1964 is purely coincidental. The alternative answers are the order of The Fab Four on other albums. George, John, Paul and Ringo ("Help!"). John, Ringo, Paul and George ("Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"). George, Paul, Ringo and John ("Abbey Road"). I know you will be checking them now.

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Every night

Singer Neil Young performed "It Won't Be Long" as his first song in front of an audience at his school cafeteria. "Ev'ry night when ev'rybody has fun, Here am I sitting all on my own, It won't be long yeh, yeh".

From Quiz Meet The Beatles

Answer: It Won't Be Long

John and Paul sang duet on "Little Child" and "This Boy". Paul sang lead on "I Saw Her Standing There".

From Quiz Anatomy of an Album: "with the beatles"

Answer: The Rolling Stones

"I Wanna Be Your Man" was a number 12 hit for the Rolling Stones on the UK chart in 1963. It did not chart in the US. Ringo gets to sing his one song again. This time it is a Lennon/McCartney song with John Lennon playing a Hammond organ on the track. It became The Rolling Stones' first UK Top 20 hit when it entered the chart on the 14 Nov 63. This was over two weeks before Ringo's version on the "with the beatles" album entered the UK album chart on the 30 Nov 63. In the US it was the B-side of The Rolling Stones' number 48 hit "Not Fade Away" in 1964.

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: That boy

Sung in three part harmony by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, "This Boy" later became known as "Ringo's Theme" after his performance in the film "A Hard Day's Night". "That boy took my love away, Though he'll regret it someday, But this boy wants you back again".

From Quiz Anatomy of an Album: "with the beatles"

Answer: "Roll Over Beethoven"/"Devil In Her Heart"

On the "with the beatles" album George Harrison sings lead vocal on track 8. "Roll Over Beethoven" written by Chuck Berry and track 12. "Devil In Her Heart" written by Richard Drapkin. "Devil In Her Heart" was written by Richard Drapkin as "Devil In His Heart". It was first recorded by the US girl group The Donays in 1962 but did not chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 or the UK chart. John Lennon takes the lead vocal on all of the alternative song titles, "It Won't Be Long"/"All I've Got To Do", "Little Child"/"Please Mister Postman" and "Not A Second Time"/"Money (That's What I Want)".

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Inside

The first Beatles song to catch on in the US, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote it in Jane Asher's basement. Jane was Paul's actress-girlfriend at the time. "And when I touch you I feel happy inside. It's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide".

From Quiz Anatomy of an Album: "with the beatles"

Answer: Smokey Robinson

"You've Really Got A Hold On Me" written by William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. was a number eight hit for The Miracles on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. It did not chart in the UK. With a slight change to the title "You Really Got A Hold On Me" was the first song recorded by The Beatles for the "with the Beatles" album in July 1963. This was not the first time The Fab Four had recorded the song. They made four recordings of it for the BBC, the first of which was in May 1963 for the BBC radio show "Pop Go The Beatles". John Lennon takes the lead vocal with George Harrison on close harmony and Paul McCartney on backing vocals.

From Quiz Remembering the Beatles - "Meet the Beatles"

Answer: Miss you

While it was one of the most popular songs of 1963, it was never issued as a single record. "Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you; Remember I'll always be true".

From Quiz Meet The Beatles

Answer: 'Til There Was You

This was written by Meredith Wilson for "The Music Man".

From Quiz Still "With The Beatles"

Answer: John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination

"With The Beatles" was released on 22nd November 1963. Do I have to say more. Of course it was JFK's assassination. As for the other answer options, only one occured in 1963: Edith Piaf's death (on 11th October). War in Viet-Nam really started in 1964 and the Aberfan disaster occured on 21st October 1966 (a tip of coal waste slid onto the village of Aberfan in South Wales destroying the school and killing 116 children).

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