Love of the Loved

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LOVE OF THE LOVED (The Poppees)
 
 
“Love of the Loved”  is a song written mainly by Paul McCartney, credited to Lennon–McCartney.  It is one of his earliest compositions and featured in the Beatles live act in their early days.  Cilla Black recorded it for her debut single, which was produced by George Martin.  It was not a big hit for her, reaching #35 on the UK Singles Chart.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Bomp! Records released a single for the Poppees in March 1975 (just the third single for Bomp), “If She Cries” b/w “Love of the Loved”.  The young producer for the 45, Craig Leon, who also played piano on the “B” side, was the producer for the seminal first album by Ramones the following year.  Their second single for Bomp later in 1975 – “Jealousy” b/w “She’s Got It” – was produced by Cyril Jordan of the Flamin’ Groovies; the first 45 on Bomp! Records was by this band and was released in December 1974.
 
The closest that the Poppees ever came to covering a Beatles song is when they recorded "Love of the Loved", an obscure Lennon/McCartney song that the Beatles never recorded.  (Actually, it turns out that this song was included among the 15 songs on their famed Decca Records audition tape; Pete Best was still drumming then, so it wasn’t really the Beatles that we all know at that point).  Instead, they passed it along to Cilla Black, a protegé of their manager Brian Epstein who had been a coat-check girl at the legendary Cavern Club, where the Beatles were honing their skills in 1961.  Though virtually unknown on these shores, Cilla Black was the only important female artist to emerge from the British Invasion – and the second-biggest-selling recording artist out of Liverpool (after you know who) – and has been a beloved entertainer in England for decades.  While “Love of the Loved” wasn’t a big hit, her version of “Anyone Who Had a Heart”, which came out in January 1964, eclipsed the original by Dionne Warwick and became the biggest selling record in Britain by any female artist in history:  Cilla Black sold 800,000 copies of the single in England and another 1,000,000 worldwide.
 
(December 2010)
 
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There are a few YouTube clips out there though.  “Love of the Loved” is a classic Beatles-style Poppees performance; see it (audio only) at www.youtube.com/watch?v=trjeGWsuAAk .  This is actually a Lennon/McCartney composition, but most of their songs were not.  
 
(December 2012)
 
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The first single by the Poppees, If She Cries” b/w “Love of the Loved, was just the third to be released on Bomp! Records
 
   (December 2013)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021