Monday Minutiae

39 Working Titles of Beatles Songs

This Song - Started Out As:

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  Cry For A Shadow- Beatle Bop


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  I Saw Her Standing There- Seventeen


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  Thank You Girl- Thank You Little Girl


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  I'll Get You- Get You In The End


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  It's Only Love- That's a Nice Hat-Cap


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  I've Just Seen A Face- Auntie Gin's Theme


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  Yesterday- Scrambled Eggs


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  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)- This Bird Has Flown


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  Think For Yourself- Won't Be There With You


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  Eleanor Rigby- Daisy Hawkins


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  Love You To- Granny Smith


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  She Said She Said- Untitled


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  Good Day Sunshine- A Good Day's Sunshine


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  I Want To Tell You- 1: Laxton's Superb 2: I Don't Know


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  Tomorrow Never Knows- 1: The Void 2: Mark 1


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  Penny Lane- Untitled


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  With A Little Help From My Friends- Bad Finger Boogie


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  Within You Without You- Untitled


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  A Day In The Life- In The Life Of...


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  Hello Goodbye- Hello Hello


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  Flying- Aerial Tour Instrumental


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  The Inner Light- Untitled


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  Only A Northern Song- Not Known


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  It's All Too Much- Too Much


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  Happiness Is A Warm Gun- Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand


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  Don't Pass Me By- 1: Ringo's Tune (Untitled) 2: This Is Some Friendly


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  Revolution 1- Revolution


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  Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - Untitled


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  Long Long Long- It's Been A Long Long Long Time


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  Good Night- Untitled


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  Two Of Us- On Our Way Home


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  Dig A Pony- All I Want Is You


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  For You Blue- George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)


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  The Ballad of John and Yoko- The Ballad of John and Yoko (They're Going To Crucify Me)


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  Oh! Darling- Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)


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  I Want You (She's So Heavy)- I Want You


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  Sun King- Here Comes The Sun-King


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  She Came In Through the Bathroom Window -Bathroom Window


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  The End- Ending

(from The Beatles Book of Lists by Stephen J. Spignesi)

Also, on this date in 1964, the Beatles held the top 5 spots on the American singles chart. 1 through 5 respectively were: Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand and Please Please Me.

The Beatles also have 15 songs in the Top 100, and positions 1 and 2 on the Billboard album chart.

The Beatles also become the only artists to have three consecutive No. 1 songs ("Can't Buy Me Love" took over the No. 1 spot from "She Loves You," which succeeded "I Want to Hold Your Hand.")

Yay Beatles!