Youngblood
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Young Blood is a song written by the songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, together with Doc Pomus, in 1957.
Musically, the song follows a minor blues structure, built mostly around three chords (im, ivm, V) except for the bridge (IV, VI, III, V). The lyrical theme is one typical of early rock and roll: boy meets girl, then meets girl's father, who does not approve of boy - so the boy departs, but cannot stop thinking about the girl, declaring: "She's the one, she's the one, she's the one".
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[edit] The Coasters' version
"Young Blood" was originally recorded by The Coasters, and released as a single together with "Searchin'" in May 1957 by Atco Records. Their version can also be heard on The Very Best of the Coasters album.
[edit] The Beatles' cover version and song comparison
The Beatles played "Young Blood" in their Cavern Club repertoire.[1] It is one of twelve songs recorded by them in July 1962 on a tape, which was purchased by Paul McCartney at a Sotheby's auction in 1985.
A previously-unreleased version performed by The Beatles (for the BBC radio show Pop Go the Beatles broadcast on June 11 1963) is included on their album Live at the BBC, released in 1994. It was recorded at the BBC Paris Studio, London on June 1 1963, and George Harrison is the lead vocalist on this recording; the tempo is moderately fast, considerably faster than in the original.
[edit] "Young Blood" in comparison to "I Saw Her Standing There"
When they wrote songs for The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were sometimes influenced by other songs. The first line of the lyrics of "Young Blood" is I saw her standing on the corner, and oh looky there! concludes the first verse. Collectively, this is similar to the repeated title lyric of the Lennon/McCartney song I Saw Her Standing There.
[edit] References
- ↑ Cavern Timeline. Retrieved on November 3, 2006.
