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Rock 'N' Roll Music


Rock 'N' Roll Music




Disc One: Side 1

  1. Twist and Shout (Russell/Medley)

  2. I Saw Her Standing There

  3. You Can't Do That

  4. I Wanna Be Your Man

  5. I Call Your Name

  6. Boys (Dixon/Farrell)

  7. Long Tall Sally
    (Johnson/Penniman/Blackwell)

Side 2

  1. Rock And Roll Music (Berry)

  2. Slow Down (Williams)

  3. Kansas City / Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
    (Leiber/Stoller/Penniman)

  4. Money (That's What I Want)
    (Bradford/Gordy)

  5. Bad Boy (Williams)

  6. Matchbox (Perkins)

  7. Roll Over Beethoven (Perkins)


Disc Two: Side 1

  1. Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Williams)

  2. Any Time At All

  3. Drive My Car

  4. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Perkins)

  5. The Night Before

  6. I'm Down

  7. Revolution

Side 2

  1. Back in the U.S.S.R

  2. Helter Skelter

  3. Taxman (Harrison)

  4. Got to Get You Into My Life

  5. Hey Bulldog

  6. Birthday

  7. Get Back

All songs composed by Lennon/McCartney unless otherwise specified.


Background

Capitol records next reissue was this two album set of The Beatles hardest rocking numbers. Included here for the first time on any American Beatles album is the song I'm Down, which was the B side to the Help! single. Speaking of singles, one single was released from this album Got To Get You Into My Life b/w Helter Skelter. With Paul McCartney's Wings tour coming to America during the summer of 1976, maybe Capitol records decided upon these two songs to coincide with the tour as well as renew interest in Beatlemania.


Incidentially, radio stations were caught off guard by this Beatles single. Many radio stations thought the single from this album was a brand new single by the Beatles fueling speculation that the band had reunited. Beatles fans knew better, knowing Got to Get You Into My Life was an album track from Revolver released 10 years earlier. Originally, the A side of this single was to have been the song Helter Skelter, which was also the title of a made for TV movie about Charles Manson and his disciples killing model Sharon Tate in 1968. However, because both songs featured Paul McCartney's voice, Capitol opted for the more commercially Got To Get You Into My Life.


John Lennon offered to design a cover for the Rock 'N' Roll Music album but was turned down, so instead, the cover featured drawings of the four Beatles on the foil-type cover with pictures of '50's memorabilia inside the fold out sleeve. Both the cover and the fold out pictures were enough for even Ringo to condemn it publicly.


Whatever the case, Rock'N'Roll Music ended up near the top of the music charts only to be kept away by Paul McCartney's Wings At The Speed of Sound album that was already sitting atop the charts.



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