THE SONGS LENNON AND McCARTNEY GAVE AWAY
The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away was a conceptual compilation album containing the original artist recordings of songs composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the 1960s that they had elected not to release as Beatles songs. The album was released in the UK in 1979. With the exception of “I’m the Greatest”, a Ringo Starr album track written for him by John Lennon in 1973, all songs were recorded and released as singles during the active Beatles years in the 1960s. A similar but less comprehensive compilation, The Stars Sing Lennon & McCartney, had been released on EMI’s mid-price Music for Pleasure label in 1971. (More from Wikipedia)
I don’t know anything about the Fourmost except that I think they were the band that I saw in an early booklet or paper about the Beatles who were holding their guitars as though they were violins. I haven’t been able to find that photo on the Internet though. “Hello Little Girl” by the Fourmost opens Side 2 of an album called The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away.
(June 2015)
