Ipod Shuffle 22: The Beatles 02 Quiz

Answer: Hold Me Tight

"Hold Me Tight" first appeared on their 1963 album "With the Beatles" and in America was on the "Meet the Beatles" album. The band recorded the song for "Please Please Me" but left it off that album. They re-recorded the song for "With the Beatles". McCartney wrote the song back in 1961 and The Beatles used it in their stage act.

In the definitive book of Mark Lewisohn's called "The Beatles Recording Sessions", McCartney said this about the song: "I can't remember much about that one. Certain songs were just 'work' songs, you haven't got much memory of them. That's one of them."

Answer: One After 909

In the 1980 "Playboy" interview, Lennon said he wrote the song when he around seventeen. The band recorded the song in 1963, but were unhappy with the results and shelved the song. It was until 1969, during the "Get Back" sessions, that the band finally resurrected the song for inclusion on what would ultimately become the 1970 album "Let It Be".

Answer: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

The Beatles brought in session musicians for "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". The band was unhappy with the take and re-recorded the song. According to the liner notes on "Anthology III", which is where you can hear this version of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", this was the first time The Beatles and Martin used outside musicians on a recording and then left that recording unreleased.

Famously, Eric Clapton plays lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and Paul is the only Beatle on the studio version of "Yesterday". He is backed by string musicians.

Answer: She Said She Said

The Beatles and Peter Fonda were on an acid trip, and Fonda made the comments that he knew what it was like to be dead, to which Lennon responded "You're making me feel like I've never been born".

Fonda said this about the experiences he had with The Beatles in Rolling Stone Magazing: "I finally made my way past the kids and the guards. Paul and George were on the back patio, and the helicopters were patrolling overhead. They were sitting at a table under an umbrella in a rather comical attempt at privacy. Soon afterwards we dropped acid and began tripping for what would prove to be all night and most of the next day; all of us, including the original Byrds, eventually ended up inside a huge, empty, sunken tub in the bathroom, babbling our minds away. I had the privilege of listening to the four of them sing, play around and scheme about what they would compose and achieve. They were so enthusiastic, so full of fun. John was the wittiest and most astute. I enjoyed just hearing him speak and there were no pretensions in his manner. He just sat around, laying out lines of poetry and thinking - an amazing mind. He talked a lot yet he still seemed so private."

Fonda's comments disturbed Lennon. Lennon later said: "We didn't want to hear about that! We were on an acid trip and the sun was shining and the girls were dancing (some from Playboy, I believe) and the whole thing was really beautiful and Sixties. And this guy - who I really didn't know, he hadn't made 'Easy Rider' or anything - kept coming over, wearing shades, saying 'I know what it's like to be dead,' and we kept leaving him because he was so boring. It was scary, when you're flying high: 'Don't tell me about it. I don't want to know what it's like to be dead!" (This quote is from "The Beatles Anthology").

Answer: Wait

The Beatles wrote "Wait" in 1965 for the "Help!" film and album. However, they ultimately rejected the recording because they were unsatisfied with the song. After finishing the 1966 album "Rubber Soul", they found they were one song short and they wanted to finish "Rubber Soul" for the Christmas market.

The Beatles took the initial recording of "Wait", added some overdubs, and included it on "Rubber Soul". For my money, "Wait" is better than several songs that actually did make it onto "Help".

Answer: When I'm Sixty-Four

There are two songs Paul wrote when he was a teenager that The Beatles recorded professionally. The first one was "I'll Follow the Sun". The second was "When I'm Sixty-Four", a song which Lennon said in 1980 he would never write that type of song. Paul's father turned 64 in 1966.

Answer: No Reply

"No Reply" is the opening track to the 1964 album "Beatles for Sale". In 1972, Lennon said "I remember Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, 'You're getting better now - that was a complete story.' Apparently, before that, he thought my songs wandered off." Lennon also said that he drew inspiration from the 1957 song "Silhouettes".

Answer: Revolver

The Beatles' record normally had one to two Harrison songs per album. "The White Album" features four Harrison songs, two for each album. "Revolver" features three Harrison songs, the most of any of their single albums. These are "Taxman", "Love You To", and "I Want To Tell You".

Answer: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles issued a total of seven studio albums from 1963 to 1967 in England. These were "Please Please Me", "With The Beatles", "A Hard Day's Night", "Beatles for Sale", "Help!", "Rubber Soul", and "Revolver".

Capital of America, however, by shifting songs and including tracks from their singles, managed to pump out ten studio albums by the band. After "Sgt Pepper", however, with one exception, The Beatles releases were the same in both America and England.

In 1967 The Beatles recorded the EP "Magical Mystery Tour". In America, Capital included several singles, making "Magical Mystery Tour" a full length studio album. When The Beatles issued their discography on CD, "Magical Mystery Tour" is the only American album that is now considered part of their official discography.

Answer: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill

At the end of each guitar/banjo bridge on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", The Beatles feature pre-recorded mandolin sounds made with a Melletron. However, when whoever was running the Meleotron released the button, causing the mandolin sound to drop immediately, rather than a natural stop.