The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby.” This was the final song on The Beatles “Beatles For Sale” album and the final song released during their extremely productive 1964 year. “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” was a cover of a Carl Perkins song. The song sung by George Harrison was recorded on just one take. Carl Perkins original was released in 1958. The Beatles were big Carl Perkins fans, especially George. The song was part of The Beatles live repertoire in 1961-62 and then again in 1965-65. It would be replaced in 1965 in concert by “If I Needed Someone”-which would become the George song in concerts. John Lennon: acoustic rhythm guitar and tambourine/ Paul McCartney: bass guitar/ George Harrison: vocal and lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. The song was recorded on October 18th,1964 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars **1/2.

•  The song was never released as a single.
• “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” did not make Rolling Stone Magazines “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” or Spignesi and Lewis’- “100 Best Beatles Songs” list. Neither list ranked covers. This song wouldn’t have made it even if they had.
• Length of song: 2:23.

Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby {Perkins}