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This song is credited to Lennon–McCartney. In late interviews, John Lennon said that he wrote it for Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas while on holiday in Spain. However, in a 1964 interview he said that he and Paul McCartney wrote it in the back of a van, so Paul contributed to it. Paul McCartney was present during the recording session at Abbey Road Studios. It became one of the first occasions a Lennon–McCartney composition made the US Top 40 recorded by an artist other than the Beatles (the first being "A World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon; another being "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin).
Billy J. Kramer recalled to the Daily Mail in December 2014: "John came to me on my 20th birthday when I was on tour with them and told me he'd written a song for me. "The next time I was recording at Abbey Road, he came and played it for me and we recorded it there and then. That was Bad to Me." Bootlegs exist of Lennon's original demo of the song, which was recorded on 31 May 1963. An acoustic demo from the same era was released on iTunes in December 2013 on the album The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963. The Swedish singer and composer Peter Lemarc said 30 years after the song's release that he heard the melody sung by Lennon in a demo from may 1963. "To hear Lennon sing it to an acoustic guitar, gave me shudders in the backbone" said Lemarc.
Since you posted this song, and thought that at an early age, I'm going to assume you have a "good ear" for music. What is your prefered period/genre?, if I may ask.
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[–] cynicaloldfart 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This song is credited to Lennon–McCartney. In late interviews, John Lennon said that he wrote it for Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas while on holiday in Spain. However, in a 1964 interview he said that he and Paul McCartney wrote it in the back of a van, so Paul contributed to it. Paul McCartney was present during the recording session at Abbey Road Studios. It became one of the first occasions a Lennon–McCartney composition made the US Top 40 recorded by an artist other than the Beatles (the first being "A World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon; another being "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin).
Billy J. Kramer recalled to the Daily Mail in December 2014: "John came to me on my 20th birthday when I was on tour with them and told me he'd written a song for me. "The next time I was recording at Abbey Road, he came and played it for me and we recorded it there and then. That was Bad to Me." Bootlegs exist of Lennon's original demo of the song, which was recorded on 31 May 1963. An acoustic demo from the same era was released on iTunes in December 2013 on the album The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963. The Swedish singer and composer Peter Lemarc said 30 years after the song's release that he heard the melody sung by Lennon in a demo from may 1963. "To hear Lennon sing it to an acoustic guitar, gave me shudders in the backbone" said Lemarc.
[–] lord_nougat [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Oh, how cool, I did not know any of that! I love hanging out at this pub!
And it makes sense that as a little kid, I totally thought that WAS a Beatles song.
[–] cynicaloldfart 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Since you posted this song, and thought that at an early age, I'm going to assume you have a "good ear" for music. What is your prefered period/genre?, if I may ask.