The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Yesterday.” “Yesterday” is on The Beatles “Help!” album. “Yesterday” is the most famous song by The Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney. Paul woke up one morning with the tune for “Yesterday” in his head. He went to the piano and started to play it. The original name for the song was “Scrambled Eggs” “Scrambled Eggs, oh you’ve got such lovely legs” The song lyrics took a little longer to work out. None of the other Beatles had anything to do with the recording of “Yesterday”and George Martin pulled Beatles manager Brian Epstein aside and suggested it be released as a Paul McCartney solo single. That didn’t go down well with Epstein and it was released under The Beatles. Paul McCartney: vocal and acoustic guitar/ Tony Gilbert, Sidney Sax: Violins/ Kenneth Essex: viola/ Francisco Gabarro:cello. The song was recorded June 14th and 17th, 1965 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “Yesterday” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ***** a classic.

• “Yesterday” would be a number 1 hit for The Beatles in the United States but was never released as a single in the United Kingdom.
• “Yesterday” was recorded a couple of hours after Paul had shouted out “I’m Down.”
• This song was that The Beatles recorded that captured the attention of everyone. It was also a  turning point for The Beatles in their recordings. This would be the most covered Beatles song. Even John Lennon during the early post-Beatle days when he was feuding with Paul would admit that this was a great song. John also said he never wished he had written it. After “Yesterday” anyone who hadn’t taken The Beatles seriously, were now.
• Rolling Stone Magazine ranked “Yesterday” at #4 on their “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” list. Spignesi and Lewis in their ‘100 Best Beatles Songs” had it ranked at #4 also. It’s hard to argue with that. What a great great song.
• There have been over 2500 covers of “Yesterday.”
• The b-side to “Yesterday” in America was “Act Naturally.”
• Length of song: 2:03.

Yesterday {Lennon-McCartney}