A New Bay Has Come Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ticket To Ride

The correct lyric "She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care", is from the song "Ticket To Ride" (1965). The meaning of the lyric is unclear. McCartney hinted that it might be about a train ticket to Ryde on the Isle of Wight, a place he used to visit regularly. Lennon offered a more salacious meaning. Regardless, the song was the third number one in the US for the Beatles in a string of six.
"Ticket to Ride" was the Beatles' first song that was longer than three minutes.

(I always wondered how she could have a stick in her eye and not care...)

Answer: Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner but he knew it wouldn't last

The lyric I was singing, "Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a woman but Sara knew it wouldn't last" might not have been too far off the mark as there is a lyric later in the same song, "Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man". This line was actually sung by Lennon on the album version of the song as "Sweet Loretta Fart, she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan."
"Get Back" was a watershed song in the Beatles' repertoire. This was to be the name of the album that eventually became "Let It Be" (1970) as the album started out as a "getting back" to their roots theme, but this changed as the album progressed. (In 2003 McCartney and Starr, as the remaining Beatles, gave permission for the song to have the Phil Spector production removed). This version demonstrates the stripped back version the Beatles originally wanted to create for the recording.
The song closed the "Let It Be" Movie (1970) and Lennon's comment, stated in the movie, "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition" was spliced into the album version of the song. (Unusually for any recorded song, the the single version is longer than the album version). Also at the end of the album version you can hear Paul say. "Thanks, Mo". This is directed at Ringo's wife Maureen who clapped throughout the song.
The distinctive tinkle of the keyboards is due to Billy Preston who was bought into the group by George to ease the tensions in the band.
The song is actually a rewrite of "Lady Madonna" (1968). While there has been speculation the song is about the rejection of Yoko Ono by McCartney, the lyrics started as a parody of Enoch Powell's immigration laws speech which was controversial at the time.

Answer: Paperback Writer

All the misheard lyrics quoted should have been sung as "Paperback Writer" which was a 1966 Number One song for the group. This was the group's eleventh US Number 1, the first Beatles Number One hit that was not about love (a challenge from McCartney's Aunt Lil) The harmonies were inspired by the contemporary success of the Beach Boys.
If you are lucky enough to have a US single sleeve, it appears Lennon and Harrison are playing left-handed as Capitol mistakenly reversed their sleeve photos.

Answer: Day Tripper

"Day Tripper", which was meant to feature on the "Rubber Soul" (1965) album, was a rushed record due to record company pressure to have another single on the market before Christmas 1965. The song never appeared on the album (despite the single and album being released on the same day).

The song is a play on words, ostensibly about people who take a trip on a ferry boat (Lennon's analogy) when in fact there is arguably an obscure drug reference: "Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now". The double A sided single made Number One in the UK but could only manage Number Five in the US.

Answer: A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray

Penny Lane is a real street in Liverpool, (where the street signs keep disappearing), which used to contain a bus terminus where Lennon and McCartney had to use to change buses to travel to each other's house. The song, as usual, was credited to Lennon-McCartney but McCartney wrote the song.

The song contains true life observations like the barber with pictures of customers' heads in his window, a bank (but the "Banker in a motor car" is fictitious) and a nurse selling Remembrance Day poppies. The nurse is believed to be a Beth Davidson, the girlfriend of Lennon's friend Pete Shotton. The song is unusual in that it is a Beatles' song without guitar: Lennon played piano and Harrison, a congo drum.

Answer: Across the Universe

The song was written in 1967 just prior to the Beatles visiting India. It appeared on various charity albums until it made it onto the "Let It Be" (1969) album albeit in a different format (The sitar was changed, the nature sounds removed and a choir added). "Jai guru deva om" is Sanskrit and while it has many interpretations, it is most popularly represented as "I give thanks to Guru Dev". There are two credits for background vocals on the original version: Gayleen Peese and Lizzie Bravo. Apparently, these were two girls that McCartney brought in from the street outside the recording studio.

Answer: Rock And Roll Music

"Rock and Roll Music" (1957) was a Chuck Berry hit recorded by The Beatles for the "Beatles for Sale" album. (This album was notable as it contained several rock, rhythm and blues covers). In the US, the song featured on the album "Beatles '65" which was essentially the same as "Beatles for Sale" minus a few tracks and others like "I Feel Fine" (1964) added. The Beatles recorded the song on Chuck Berry's 38th birthday and unlike Berry's original version which was sung in a very even tone, Lennon sung this as loud as he could.

"I've got a back seat, you can use it" should be sung as "It's got a back beat, you can't lose it".

Answer: Hmm, Hmm, Voodoo Llama

Correct lyrics and songs:
"Hmm, Hmm, Voodoo llama" should be "Hmm, Hmm Gurur Brahma" from Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" (1970).
"All I got is a boat of crab" is really "All I got is a photograph" from Starr's "Photograph" (1973).
"Hands on your buns, my hands on your buns", getting my mind out of the gutter is "Band on the run, the band on the run" from. (obviously), 'Band on the Run" (1973) by Paul McCartney.
Similarly "All we are saying, is keep on your pants" is Lennon's lyric "All we are saying is give peace a chance" from "Give Peace a Chance" (1971).

Answer: Ah, look at all the lonely people

"Eleanor Rigby" (1966) marked a departure point for the Beatles, moving from mainstream rock into a more experimental mode. A double string quartet and a theme of loneliness emphasised a break with pop music conventions. None of the Beatles played any of the instruments. (Ironically, Australian group Zoot did a hard rock version of the song). Probably due to its 'difficult' instrumentation, "Eleanor Rigby" was never performed live by The Beatles. McCartney wrote the lyrics, claiming Eleanor was named after Eleanor Bron, an actress that appeared in their movie "Help" (1965) and Father MacKenzie (originally Father McCartney) came from a phone book.

In a Liverpool cemetery where McCartney and Lennon would sometimes meet, there is a gravestone for Eleanor Rigby and one for a McKenzie.

The song original title was Miss Daisy Hawkins.

Answer: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Arguably the most discussed Beatle song of all time. John Lennon denied emphatically the title was a reference to LSD (Check the initials of the words in the title). The backstory was that Lennon's son Julian at four years of age brought a picture home he had drawn in nursery school. Julian explained that Lucy was a girl in his class who was in the sky and that certain shapes were diamonds. In 2009 Julian confirmed the identity of Lucy was Lucy Vodden (nee O'Donnell) who died of Lupus aged 46. Lucy did not know she had been immortalized in a song until she was thirteen.
"The girl with colitis goes by..." has been misheard. It should be "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes..."
"Please watch out, your Blackberry died" is really "A girl with kaleidoscope eyes". "Snoopy in the sky with Linus" is actually the title of the song as well as a line within it, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".
While the inspiration of the song is grounded in reality, the other images relayed in the songs cannot be dismissed as not drug-induced, although John admitted the "Girl with kaleidoscope eyes" was Yoko Ono. The imagery in the song was inspired by the imagery in Lewis Caroll's "Alice in Wonderland" (1865).