To help promote the Dakotas’ single, The Beatles also released their recording of the song on a 1963 broadcast of the BBC radio show Side by Side, but their version was never officially released until more than 30 years later on their 1994 album, Live at the BBC.Regarded as the most influential band of all time, The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. chart, for Kramer and The Dakotas, just under The Beatles’ “From Me to You,” which held the top spot. In 1963, British pop singer Billy Kramer and his band the Dakotas released the song “I’ll Be On My Way,” as a B-side to their hit debut single “Do You Want to Know a Secret.” It was one of several songs penned for the group by Lennon-McCartney, including “Bad To Me,” “I Call Your Name,” “I’ll Keep You Satisfied,” and “From a Window.” Black continued to release new music through her 16th and final album, Cilla All Mixed Up, which was released several years before her death in 2015. In 1966, Black also recorded the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song “Alfie” from the film of the same name, starring Michael Caine, and later went to work as a television host. Lennon and McCartney even wrote a few songs for Black, including “Love of the Loved” in 1963 and “It’s For You,” which was released a year later and also features McCartney on piano. Supported by her friends The Beatles, the late Liverpool singer Cilla Black started her career as a singer in 1963. In addition to the initial American Songwriter list of 6 Songs You Didn’t Know Lennon and McCartney Wrote for Other Artists in 2022, here’s a look at five more songs by other artists that are credited to Lennon-McCartney.ġ. Proby (“That Means a Lot”), The Applejacks (“Like Dreamers Do”), among other acts. 2 single “Goodbye,” The Strangers with Mike Shannon (“One and One is Two”), singer P.J. Lennon-McCartney also offered songs -many of which became hits- to singer and fellow Liverpool friend Cilla Black, along with Mary Hopkin (also produced by McCartney) and her No.

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