Which of the Beatles do you think had the best songs? Top 10 Songs You Didn't Know Were Written by John Lennon kzread.info/dash/bejne/gK13lceGm5zJpqg.html Top 10 Songs You Didn't Know Were Written By George Harrison kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnutrqeupNbXfLQ.html

@markzappasodi

3 ай бұрын

Yes.

@sejrec56

Ай бұрын

I always knew who wrote what with the Beatles , lol So not something I didn't know what songs each of them wrote, but I'm an obsessive fan.

There simply aren't enough words to describe the joy that Paul's music has brought to me in my life.

What's weird is when I heard Badfinger's "Come and Get It," as a child, I got confused because I swore that was a Beatles song, but my older siblings kept telling me it wasn't. It has an undeniable Beatles sound.

@patmanchester8045

3 ай бұрын

yeah. I have always thought you can tell a Paul McCartney song when you hear it. Thay have that "Paul" sound.

@xenotbbbeats7209

3 ай бұрын

@@patmanchester8045 It's the rhythmic happy piano chord beat. Someone told me John got sick of it.🤣🤣

@UseByDate-Expired

3 ай бұрын

Is it possible you heard Paul's version, bootlegged? Paul made his demo of the song, come and get it, as a blueprint for Badfinger and insisted they do it note for note the way he did it. He did the same for Mary Hopkin with "Goodbye", insisting it be done the way he did it.

@KeithSpinneyMusic

Ай бұрын

@@xenotbbbeats7209 Someone was wrong. Paul recorded the demo alone in Abbey Road, playing all the instruments. John wasn't present.

@modernretroradio993

Ай бұрын

Paul recorded the demo for Badfinger and insisted they play it exactly like his, which they did.

I've known this talent since 1964 & now I'm 70! Beatles Forever~

Wow, Paul certainly has a knack for songwriting, I love many of the tunes on this list. He's 81, and is still continuing to thrive away, doing what he loves. ❤

@Freyja_M4106

3 ай бұрын

Word, but i gotta say m pretty much done giving Ringo a pass on his shitty musik. Being one the last Beatles shouldn't guilt us into hearing more crap just because he is Ringo an he said "peace and love"!

@modernretroradio993

3 ай бұрын

Check out "Electric Arguments."

@MrBigShotFancyPants

2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty much done giving Paul a pass on his limited musical ability. I think maybe he ordered the hit on John just to be the most relevant Beatle left. Yet George still blows him away... imo ​@@Freyja_M4106

The Beatles music spoke the words of hope from all the innocents who died in crazy wars then and now. Love is all you need!

20. Mine for Me 19. 4th of July 18. Penina 17. Let’s Love 16. Catcall 15. Giddy 14. If I Take You Home Tonight 13. Love in the Open Air 12. On the Wings of a Nightingale 11. It’s for You 10. Veronica 9. Six O’Clock 8. I Wanna be Your Man 7. Songbird in a Cage 6. I’ll Keep You Satisfied 5. Woman 4. A World Without Love 3. Goodbye 2. Like Dreamers Do 1. Come and Get It 😊

@cynskeptical

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

This guys throwaway songs are better than most peoples best songs. Whoever is 2nd behind McCartney is a hell of a long way behind.

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

That would be John Lennon. Although many lists apparently rank Bob Dylan above both of them.

@alexharvey1787

Ай бұрын

@@jp3813 Yes mate, Lennon for sure. Dylan was a good lyricist I think, but as far as voice range and versatility goes he is surely miles behind McCartney and Lennon. Also McCartney can play every instrument

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

@@alexharvey1787 This is about songwriting though.

@alexharvey1787

Ай бұрын

@@jp3813 very true. I was edging off topic.

Paul was the driving force behind the Beatles. He far surpassed Lennon. The man continuous to put out incredible music.

His mind just keeps on going. I was lucky enough to touch one of his early pianos at the r&r hall of fame museums. I’m an old man but I cried touching a part of history

a genius pure and simple.. we will miss him when he goes..

The challenge is writing for someone other than yourself and it's a perfect fit. Paul's versatility upgrades his musicianship. Very generous.

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

Many times, the song was already written before an artist was chosen.

Even though many Paul's post Beatles songs in 80s and On were no comparison to his solo and Wings era. Few good tunes scattered throughout last 20 years , but should still not take away from the huge and fantastic or beautifully written catalog of some of the best songs ever written with Lennon. Timeless, and will be loved forever much longer after all of us are gone . For future generations for ever! A collaboration by the Beatles and our creator ! The magic of the joining up of McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr was a miracle to have even happened ! But most likely will never happen like that again.

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

Don't forget George Martin.

@sejrec56

Ай бұрын

@@jp3813 absolutely correct and George Martin (the real 5th Beatle)

@kingshearer2

Ай бұрын

yes they were smoking some great stuff back then

Has any other artist given so much away. Take You Home Tonight is beautiful. Love in the the Open Air is also a stunningly gorgeous piece. I love John, George and Ringo but in all truth could they have written such material in such vast quantity and quality. McCartney is absolute genius.

@paulwalker9421

3 ай бұрын

Ringo said they would not have produced so much music if it had not been for Paul.

@triplejazzmusicisall1883

3 ай бұрын

Good ol' Ringo always just happily being straight forward. I admire him and thanks for your reply. It certainly is pretty much a known truth amongst Beatle fans. I hope you have a great week.,@@paulwalker9421

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

@@paulwalker9421 Although I believe The Beatles recorded slightly more songs by John.

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

Somebody said that Barry Gibb gave away more songs & hits to other artists. Prince was also up there.

@triplejazzmusicisall1883

Ай бұрын

@@jp3813 Yes that's true and a good point. I know Prince wrote (or gave) Manic Monday to the Bangles. People who share art are the best. Cheers.

In the same way as Elvis was recognised for his being 'different ' ,so were the Beatles who stood out as a multi talented group of boys whose sound, style and humour was such that they were instantly recognised.

This is just one more reason I believe Paul is the greatest musical composer of all time. I'm sure Bach and Mozart would agree.

Macca is the greatest songwriter in the history of modern music!

@modernretroradio993

3 ай бұрын

I think The Bee Gees -- Barry Gibb, particularly -- eclipse McCartney when it comes to songs that were written for other artists. Countless hits.

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

Apparently, many rank Bob Dylan higher.

@modernretroradio993

Ай бұрын

@@fshoaps I think U2's Bono is the best rock lyricist of all time.

@fshoaps

Ай бұрын

@@modernretroradio993 I think it’s John Lennon. And I think Bono might just agree.

@rupertschwarz1176

Ай бұрын

McCartney is alway so good to listen, but Lennon wrote the more interesting songs. Together they worked magic.

Paul knew Cilla when she was a hatcheck girl called Cilla White at the Cavern!

Veronica is such a great song, and it's about Alzheimer's. The lyrics are brilliant, and the music matches.

Paul McCartney once said he has many unpublished, half finished and finished songs, and I can believe that. I once saw him on The South Bank Show, compose a song on the spot on a piano on the show, in front of Melvin Bragg. Diana Krall is the wife of Elvis Costello, whom Paul McCartney also wrote songs with and collaborated with musically, recording together. Long Tall Sally is a Beatles EP not an album. EPs were four songs on 7 inch single format, common until the introduction of 12 inch singles.

@jp3813

Ай бұрын

Prince also has tons of unreleased material in his vault even after decades of releasing albums almost annually and also giving away songs to other artists. Apparently, him & Paul are neck & neck when it comes to sales. Of course, that doesn't count The Beatles.

@kingshearer2

Ай бұрын

He probably had the song already rattling in his head

Wow! This was very educational! Thanks!

@captaincarl8230

3 ай бұрын

It certainly was and even met the man, Sir Paul that is. I hadn't heard some of these songs since some of them were in the UK and I'm in the US.

Members of Badfinger told me that McCartney was adamant that they reproduce it EXACLY as he did on his demo for them. They had to emulate it almost perfectly and it will be a hit, and they did, and it was!

@UCS0608

24 күн бұрын

That's a wellknown fact... 😁

Arguably the best song writer of all time.

Viewing your video feels like embarking on an evocative time-travel adventure, enabling us to revisit the opulence of Hollywood's past and celebrate the remarkable achievements of these actors in today's context.

Not hard to hear why he didn't record all these himself. There are a few good ones though. I have always loved Come and Get It by Badfinger, Good Bye by the adorable Mary Hopkin and Woman by Peter and Gordon in particular. And though it ain't much of a song, I Wanna Be Your Man is a fun rocker to dance to. So is The Beatles version.

Great content; thanks! As a life long McCartney/Beatles fan, this was a terrific compilation. I knew about a few of them, but loved learning about the others. Once you know it, you realize the distinctive McCartney sound in them.

Wow, this must be the first time that a Mojo video title wasn't entirely wrong! I've only heard half of these songs before. I knew they were written by Paul, but I had no idea of the existence of any of the others.

A World Without Love is the best of it all!!!

My two favorites are...' Goodbye' and ' World Without Love '...

Thank you for all this and eye-opener, even for a Beatles fan

@gdholmfirth

3 ай бұрын

If you're a Beatles fan, you knew most of these already.

Regarding "It's for You": Living in the U.S., I am more familiar with two other versions of this song than Cilla Black's. The first one was done by Three Dog Night on their first album in 1968. The second was by the group Springwell, released as a single in 1971. It was a note-for-note copy of the Three Dog Night version.

I believe that's Paul singing backup on Mine For Me.

Number 8 through number one are as well-known by McCartney fans as his songs as something like "Hey Jude". How could we possibly not know about the songs for Peter and Gordon and Badfinger?

Another thing you can add to Paul's long Genius list is how the songs he writes for other people actually fit their style perfectly. Paul's colaboration with Costello was awesome, and produced some great songs, Veronica amongst them. It also re booted his touring.

I never knew "Goodbye" was written by him.

FUN FACT: "Like Dreamers Do" was later given to the group the Applejacks, who had a hit single with "Tell Me When". As a follow up to that single, it became a Top 20 hit in 1964. You're welcome, Mojo (Filter)....😊

The implication of this list is that these are well-known songs that we'd be surprised to know were written by Macca. With the exception of the Badfinger song (a big hit) and The Everly Brothers song (a minor hit that I LOVE!), I was unaware of these songs' existence at all, let alone that McCartney wrote them.

@williamashton9235

3 ай бұрын

"Goodbye" was all over the radio in 1969.

@modernretroradio993

3 ай бұрын

@@williamashton9235 As a McCartney fan, I'm familiar with it by title but I couldn't begin to tell you how it goes.

Regarding "Woman": As one who has always been fascinated by different songs with the same title, I think it's interesting that John Lennon and Paul McCartney both wrote songs called "Woman" apart from each other. John's was a hit single from his "Double Fantasy" album. Paul has written or co-written two different songs called "Hold Me Tight", one by the Beatles and one by Wings,

Great clip Alan , great track 🎸🤘🏻

Surprised that Bad to Me didn’t make it, but fun list.

I didn't know Lennon/McCartney wrote I Wanna Be Your Man. The Beatles should've recorded that song with Ringo on vocals and put it on their second album, maybe even put clips of the song in a Beatles movie. They could be in a club either hanging out with other people or dancing. I don't know, maybe that's just crazy talk. If only I knew they had written that song.

@tomklopp4691

2 ай бұрын

It is on With the Beatles from 1963😁✌

It's a bit more difficult to be surprised by the Rolling Stones recording of "I Wanna Be Your Man" than by these others, as it was on the Beatles' first U.S.A. album, "Meet The Beatles". I don't know where it was on the British albums, but a person can look that up.

What about Love Of The Loved also recorded by Cilla Black There is actual audio of the Beatles doing this song.

Regarding Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas: If I recall correctly, Lennon and McCartney wrote two other songs they did, "Bad to Me" and "From a Window". The non-Beatles artist with whom I most associate "I Call Your Name" is the Mamas and Papas. I am also familiar with a version by another American group, the Buckinghams.

Ser Paul McCartney it's a gift to the world

Paul mc cartney genius love New musical Express

What a great list!❤

On the Wings of a nightingale is such a wonderful song. It brings a lot of childhood memories. Didn‘t know that Macca wrote it.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

3 ай бұрын

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS ONE WAS A STINKER AND WAS SURPRISED AT WHO HE WROTE IT FOR. THE EVERLYS WERE ONE OF PAULS IDOLS. HE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER 4 SURE. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO COMMENT BACK SO DON'T. EVERYTHING PAUL WROTE IN YOUR MIND WAS GOLD. THE FACT THE SONG WENT NOWHERE FOR THEM ONLY PROVES I'M RIGHT. SONGS DON'T LIE. STEP INSIDE LOVE WAS ANOTHER STINKER WRITTEN FOR CILLA BLACK. IT WAS A DUD THAT WENT NOWHERE AS WELL. I'M ALSO A BIG BEATLES & MCCARTNEY FAN. I JUST TELL IT LIKE IT IS. NOW PROVE ME WRONG AND REPLY BACK WITH ONE SONG YOU THOUGHT HE WROTE THAT WAS A STINKER. THERE ARE OTHERS.

@ichbinich3166

3 ай бұрын

@@TRICK-OR-TREAT236 No, I really like the song. There are a lot of Macca songs which I personally don't like. Silly Love Songs e.g. Or Waterfalls. or After the Ball or ObladiOblada or, or. or.... But Wings of a nightingale is a nice one IMO.

We can hear McCartney's compositional voice in practically all of these examples, either stylistically, lyrically or instrumentally; his body of work has become genuinely recognizable to the extent that newer composer/performers emulate him today, such as Emily Linge... KDM

What about 'Bad to Me"? By Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.

Interesting video! 😁

I was waiting for the song by Phoebe Snow ..''Every Night'', which I believe was written by Paul McCartney and he had his own version of it.......

Sir Paul McCartneys "throw away" songs are gold compared to most artists

Pretty hard not to know that "I Wanna Be Your Man" was at least written by Lennon/McCartney, simply because The Beatles also recorded it on "Meet The Beatles" (or whatever other album title was used depending on which side of the ocean the album was released)

Came and get it is one of my favorites songs of Macca. Wonderful.

Difícil. Tánto Paul como John são gênios

I read that Badfinger didn't like the song and Paul had to shove it down their throats. A great song IMO.

Nice ❤ Thank you 😊

InThey have forgotten cilla black she recorded 2 songs by paul "love of the loved" & "step inside love" & peter & gordons "nobody i know" & "i don't want to see you again"

Great !

Mine for Me...the excerpt you played of the melody sounds like it was taken from the verses to the song "It Never Rains in California" by Albert Hammond, [1972]. on "Giddy" excerpt Daltry singing "My baby left me for another guy" sounds like a snippet from "Mercy Mercy Mercy" verses, a jazz song written by Joe Zawinul (lyrics by Gail Fisher) coververd by Cannon Ball Adderly, and made popualr as a "rock" song by the Buckinghams; on 1967. Like the line in that song that goes "My baby, when she walks by" same notes.

Wings of a nightingale were done well by Everly bros who John and Paul were very influenced by.

The BJK & The Dakotas song that Lennon was dissatified with and that The Beatles recorded and released on the 'Long Tall Sally' E.P. (not album) was "I Call Your Name", not "I'll Keep You Satisfied".

Those were the days is also from McCartney. He also wrote songs for Michael Jackson.

Very interesting

And what I love is he doesn’t read music! Amazing talent x

"Like Dreamers Do" was recorded by The Applejacks.

I never heard "mine for me" so you're off to a bad start. And the "Bad Finger" song you played from "The Magic Christian", I've know from the start was written and produced by Paul McCartney after I watched the film when it first came out at the theater. "'U'm Ringo." They played that song “Come And Get It” during the scene where they pumped thousands of gallons of offal and feces from the Chicago Stock yards and meat packing plants in a giant above ground pool and then dropped a million dollars in the middle of the putrid pit and showed people diving into it to get as many bills as they could get. "OK, I got to the end of your video and the only other song I remembered and liked was the Peter and Gordon song "A World Without Love." Still I clicked like and upped your algorithm with a comment. Mate, I'll never forget my sister visiting with her friend Shirley while her brother Perry, my brother Bobby and I were outside on the porch laughing at them and mimicking them while they listened to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" over and over when the 45 record first came out..

Now I don't feel so silly that I grew up thinking "If You Want It" was Paul McCartney.

It’s For You, was also recorded by 3 DOG NIGHT

'It's for you' is a masterpiece. The song could have been written by Bacharach/David.

Absolute Genius

Of the 20, I knew about 17. Of the 17, I have copies of 15 of them.

This would be a solid greatest hits collection for another band.

Why did “Girlfriend” by Michael Jackson not get included in this list?? 👀😭

@misterchris3491

2 ай бұрын

Maybe because McCartney recorded it first with Wings

This should have been called... "Top 20 Songs You Didn't Know and Were Written by Paul McCartney"

The Beatles never recorded "I'll Keep You Satisfied."

@markzappasodi

3 ай бұрын

Thank you. I was going to say that but I checked if someone had commented about it before me. Good catch!

He is a pure genius

There are some problems with this video. The section on "I'll Keep You Satisfied" appears to be all about "I Call Your Name". The section on "6 O'Clock" is missing the header. I know you push out a lot of content, watchmojo, but at least get someone to run their eye over it before you upload.

Girlfriend .....from Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" 1979

It's astounding just how much of rock music that is taken for granted, was actually single-handedly influenced by McCartney's efforts as one of its chief architects; even if The Beatles were to be partially disregarded for said influence, there are no shortage of projects were McCartney himself had something to do with.

I was hoping to find a version of Macca's Soldier of Love, made famous by Pearl Jam.

Woman, A World Without Love, & Come & Get It are the only songs I have heard & listening to the other selections I know why.

@Polyphemus47

3 ай бұрын

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" ~Thumper

Thank you for this video. I knew most of them were by Paul but some were indeed unknown to be. However, there is a mistake in the information, as Linda never composed any song with Paul. I know she got the credit for business reason, and Paul was sued for this reason, as she was not a composer. So, it is not correct to insist she was his partner because...she was not.

💛Paul we Love you 4- Ever

No. 20 songs I didn't know, period.

I must admit that 11 of those, I did not know at all, first time i hear of them.

Well done, Billy

10 I quite like as Elvis Costello gives it some welly.

Paul has a certain musical style that one can hear the musical arranging

How can you possibly know that I don't know these songs were written by McCartney?

@cisium1184

Ай бұрын

Heck I’ve never even heard of most of them.

WOW....

Obviously Paul is a genius

16 did not have me tapping my feet whatsoever.

I Went looking for Paul's version of Panin'a probably Seven years ago and, I instead found Calos and Mende's Version Instead. my big question is how did the song become Pernin'a? is it just a language thing ?

Tanks I fought there would be surprises for me, but there was!

Only 2 I’ve ever heard of

This shows how musically wise McCartney was, he gave away the clinkers.

Falto la de Daniela

Wish he'd recorded 1,4 and 8.