
Hans Hot 100 Beatles Songs- #54: ‘Michelle’
The Countdown so far- 100-‘Any Time At All’/ 99- ‘No Reply’ / 98- ‘You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]/ 97- ‘The Inner Light’ / 96- ‘ You Won’t See Me’ / 95- ‘Baby’s In Black’/ 94- ‘Sexy Sadie’ / 93- ‘I Need You’ / 92- ‘Love Me Do’/ 91- ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey’/ 90- ‘Doctor Robert’/ 89- ‘There’s A Place’/ 88- ‘Good Day Sunshine’ 87- ‘It’s Only Love’ 86- ‘I Want You [She’s So Heavy] 85-‘Yer Blues’ / 84- ‘From Me To You’/ 83-‘She’s Leaving Home’/ 82-‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite’/ 81-‘I’m So Tired’/ 80-‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ 79- ‘Baby, You’re A Rich Man’ 78- ‘Yellow Submarine.’ #77 ‘Things We Said Today.’ #76: ‘When I’m Sixty- Four’ #75: ‘Happiness IS A Warm Gun’ 74: ‘I Will’ 73: ‘Within You Without You’ 72: ‘ This Boy’ 71: ‘And I Love Her’- #70: ‘Fixing A Hole’ #69- ‘Drive My Car’ 68: ‘I Should Have Known Better’ #67: ‘Getting Better’ #66: ‘If I Needed Someone’ #65: ‘I’m Down, #64: ‘Good Morning Good Morning.’ #63:’ Hey Bulldog’ #62: ‘The Long And Winding Road’ #61:’ The Fool On The Hill’ #60: ‘Get Back’ #59: ‘Eight Days A Week’ #58:’ Because” 57:’Two Of Us’ 56: ‘Girl’ 55: ‘Come Together’ 54: ‘Michelle’
#54: ‘Michelle’- Another song from the brilliant Rubber Soul album- at #56 ‘Girl’- its hard to pick between ‘Girl’ and ‘Michelle’ – toss a coin. This is a Paul McCartney written tune-with John Lennon writing the middle eight. ‘Michelle’ won a Grammy for Song Of The Year in 1967. It was never released as a single in the US- but again- here is one that if they had it would have rose to the top- like it did in a half dozen countries in Europe.
You know when the Andy Williams cheesy-smiling easy going style of entertainers start covering your songs you’ve gone a ways on from ‘Love Me Do’ to this. ‘Michelle’ was one of the first Beatles songs to soon become a standard. Evolution of the songwriters.