The Beatles Song Of The Day: “Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!

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The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” “Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” appears on the album “Beatles For Sale.” The song was written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Richard Penniman aka Little Richard. The original version was called “K.C. Loving” by Little Willie Littlefield. The Beatles styled their version after Little Richard’s version. Little  Richard recorded the two songs together as a medley in 1959. The Beatles toured with Little Richard in the early 1960’s and saw Little Richard perform this in concert. Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers [The Beatles} recorded it in May 1961 in Hamburg, Germany. The Beatles had the song on their set list for concerts in 1961-62. John Lennon: backing vocal and rhythm guitar/ Paul McCartney: lead vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: backing vocal and lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. The song was recorded on October 18th,1964 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin. The Beatles recorded this on one take. Paul and the boys outdid Little Richard on this one. A pretty good cover.

Rating “Kansas City/ Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ****

  • The song was never released as a single.
  • The length of the song: 2:38.
  • The song did not Rolling Stone Magazine’s “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” or Spignesi and Lewis’ “100 Best Beatles Songs’ lists -they didn’t rank covers.

Kansas City/ Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! { Leiber-Stoller/Penniman}

Ah, Kansas city Gonna get my baby back home, yeah, yeah I’m going to Kansas City Gonna get my baby back home, yeah, yeah Well, it’s a long, long time since My baby’s been gone

Ah, Kansas City Gonna get my baby one time, a-yeah, yeah I’m going to Kansas City Get my baby one time, yeah, yeah It’s just a-one, two, three, four Five, six, seven, eight, nine

Hey hey hey hey (hey hey hey hey) Hey, baby (hey, baby) Ooh, now girl (well, girl) I said, yeah, now, pal (well, pal) Now, now, now, now, tell me baby What’s been wrong with you?

Hey hey hey hey (hey hey hey hey) Hey, baby (hey, baby) Ooh, now girl (well, girl) I said, yeah, now, pal (well, pal) Now, now, now, now, tell me baby What’s been wrong with you?

Well, I said bye (bye bye, bye bye, bye bye) Bye bye, baby, bye bye (bye bye, bye bye, bye bye) Whoo, so long (so long, so long, so long) Bye bye, baby, I’m gone (bye bye, bye bye, bye bye) Yeah, I said bye bye, baby Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye now, bye (bye bye, bye bye, bye bye) Bye now, baby, bye bye (bye bye, bye bye)