Archive for January 24th, 2010
Scrambled eggs is the original name of a song written in by Paul McCartney in 1964, and recorded by The Beatles in 1965. It is one of a half dozen most performed songs, along with being the having the most cover versions of all time, being covered by more than 3000 times.
This controversial song almost didn’t make it as John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr felt it wasn’t like any Beatles song to that time. After the song kicked around for a bit was finished using Pauls’ Epiphone Texan acoustic guitar, and recorded by Paul by himself using the same acoustic guitar and being accompanied by a string quartet.
Despite being recorded in 1965 and because it wasn’t accepted by the other Beatles along with others, it wasn’t release in the UK as a single until March of 1976 ten years later.
A poll taken by a BBC radio station in 1999 stated this song was voted the Best Song of the 20th Century.
Having just the melody with no lyrics the song was titled Scrambled Eggs as a joke until it got its’ real name. The name of the song is “Yesterday”.