Artist: Beatles
Author: John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Label: Apple
Year: 1968
Working title: Hey Jules; written to comfort Julian, five year old son of divorcing John & Cynthia Lennon.
Covers:
Wilson Pickett [top 20 R&B & NL; with Duane Allman on guitar; recorded at FAME in Muscle Shoals; Phil Walden was the first to notice the historical value; he'd just lost his main client Otis Redding in a plane crash and signed Duane as a solo act on the spot; Phil who'd started his own record company (Capricorn) and studio (with house drummer Jai Johanny Johanson, alias Jaimoe) in Otis's home base Macon, GA urged Duane to form his own band there; Jaimoe was the first one in, so Pickett's Hey Jude was responsible for launching The Allman Brothers Band]
Bing Crosby [on lp Hey Jude Hey Bing]
Elvis Presley [on Elvis Now]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)