Radio Play

[mindgames]

Once upon a time, Darky said to me "both ('Maybe I'm Amazed' and 'Band on the Run') are over played on the radio". I said "Funny, I've never heard either one on the radio." This led me to thinking: Just how many Beatles and solo songs have I heard on there? Well, here's the list.

Beatles

Love Me Do
P.S. I Love You
Please Please Me
I Saw Her Standing There
Do You Want to Know a Secret
Twist and Shout
From Me to You
She Loves You
It Won't Be Long
All My Loving
Please Mr. Postman
Till There Was You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
This Boy
Can't Buy Me Love
Hard Day's Night
I Should Have Known Better
If I Fell
And I Love Her
I Feel Fine
She's a Woman
I'm a Loser
I'll Follow the Sun
Rock n Roll Music
Eight Days a Week
Ticket to Ride
Help
Act Naturally
Yesterday
We Can Work It Out
Day Tripper
Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
Michelle
In My Life
Paperback Writer
Yellow Submarine
Eleanor Rigby
Taxman
Here There and Everywhere
Good Day Sunshine
Got to Get You Into My Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
When I'm Sixty-Four
Good Morning Good Morning
A Day in the Life
All You Need is Love
Hello Goodbye
I Am the Walrus
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool on the Hill
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Revolution
Back in the USSR
Ob La Di, Ob La Da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Revolution 1
Get Back
Something
Come Together
Here Comes the Sun
Let It Be
Across the Universe
The Long and Winding Road

John Lennon

Instant Karma
Imagine
Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Number Nine Dream

Paul McCartney

Another Day
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Live and Let Die
Helen Wheels
Wonderful Christmas Time

George Harrison

My Sweet Lord
What is Life
Give Me Love
You
Ding Dong, Ding Dong

Ringo Starr

You're Sixteen
Christmas Time is Here Again



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[SF4-EVER]

What about Ringo's "Photograph" and "It Don't Come Easy"? Also, some of these songs are played much more often than others: every time my favorite radio station announces they'll be playing a John Lennon song, I know it's going to be "Imagine."

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[darkhorse]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By mindgames:
This led me to thinking: Just how many Beatles and solo songs have I heard on there?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Did you really think about that? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

Seriously, we have all kinds of stations here... The "young and modern" ones just don't play the Beatles at all... there are others that just play latin music... and then there are the ones that play "oldies" or "AOR" music... There you get Beatles and solo Beatles. I recall having listened frequently to most of their songs... "Boys", "Love You To", the short ones like "Dig It", "Maggie Mae", "Wild Honey Pie" and the like, "All I've Got To Do", "Not A Second Time", "Don't Bother Me", "Hold Me Tight", "When I Get Home", "Matchbox", the reprise from "Sgt. Pepper" and "Baby You're A Rich Man" are the ones that I don't remember being played on the radio. Yeah, we get lots of Beatles in some stations... Even tracks from the Anthology and from Live At The BBC.

As for solo, the most frequent are:

from John,
Imagine
Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
Give Peace A Chance
Jealous Guy
Mind Games
Whatever Gets You Through The Night
#9 Dream
Stand By Me
Woman
(Just Like) Starting Over
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

from George,
My Sweet Lord
What Is Life
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
Blow Away
All Those Years Ago
Got My Mind Set On You
When We Was Fab
Handle With Care

from Ringo,
Photograph
You're Sixteen
It Don't Come Easy
Only You

and Paul's the most played. From what I can recall,
Maybe I'm Amazed
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Another Day
Mary Had A Little Lamb (HUGELY played!!! A big hit here, even one of the main themes for a dancing show called "Música Libre")
My Love
Hi, Hi, Hi
Band On The Run
Jet
Bluebird
Mrs Vandebilt
Let Me Roll It
Listen To What The Man Said
Silly Love Songs
Let 'Em In
Mull Of Kintyre (another HUGE hit that apparently didn't work out well in the US)
With A Little Luck
Coming Up
Ebony And Ivory
Tug Of War
Pipes Of Peace
So Bad
The Man
Say Say Say
My Brave Face
Hope Of Deliverance
Off The Ground
Young Boy
The World Tonight
Try Not To Cry

and lots of live stuff from the four of them... Oh that would be all... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/rolleyes.gif


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[This Message Has Been Edited By darkhorse On October 07, 2001 02:58 PM]

They tend to play a lot more McCartney-written Beatles songs on the radio here. Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Let It Be, etc. I did hear Across The Universe the other day, sometimes they'll play a few of the early tunes. Not many solo songs at all, besides Imagine and the usual others.

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[jtal909]

Those are the songs that get played the most everywhere. They are the most commercial of the catalogue. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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[bearkat77]

I agree, jtal909. The Beatles songs played the most here are the commercially successful ones. The same holds true for their solo works.

There really needs to be a Beatles radio station in every cornor of the world. That way no one will be deprived of great music.

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On my flight to the US last year (I think the leg from Brisbane to Tokyo) I tuned in to one of the radio stations available through the thing you plug into the armrest of your seat... and I'm not sure what station it was but the entire thing consisted of some kind of Lennon-McCartney special... and for hours on end all they did was play solo songs from John and Paul, they just kept alternating between the two - and I was in heaven for the whole 10 hours of that flight, they had to drag me off when it landed. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/grin.gif

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[This Message Has Been Edited By Nowhere Man On October 08, 2001 03:09 PM]

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
they had to drag me off when it landed.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

*dragging NWM from plane*
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream3.gif NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

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[mindgames]

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
*dragging NWM from plane*
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream3.gif NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

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That's a pretty accurate description.

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[SF4-EVER]

Boris, didn't you know all radio stations time it so a Beatles song comes on just as you have to turn off the radio?

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[HMVNipper]

Boy, I remember years ago, maybe in the 80s sometime, some radio station here in NYC was changing their format, and they went "all Beatles" for a couple of months...I think they were going from a country format to a soft rock format, and used the "all Beatles" format as a transition...

I was pretty happy about that, set my clock radio to wake me up on that station every morning! I was so disappointed when they stopped that idea!!

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[alliesun]

I listen to the classic rock/oldies stations here, and to be honest, I'm convinced that the only album/cd these stations own is "1". I know that's not true, but whenever I hear a Beatles song - it can always be found on "1". Maybe I'm just not listening to the right stations, or at the right times.

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[darkhorse]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SF4-EVER:
Boris, didn't you know all radio stations time it so a Beatles song comes on just as you have to turn off the radio?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>It's true!!!



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It's a conspiracy!

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[McCharlenstar]

Around here the stations(rock)will play mostly McCartney solo(lots of wings stuff)or the Beatles#1 hits only. It always makes me turn the radio up LOUD!!!

"The way she looked..was way beyond compare!!

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[This Message Has Been Edited By McCharlenstar On October 20, 2001 03:35 AM]