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| Northern Songs - Hits written by The Beatles 1962-2002 |
This is a chronological listing of hits written (but not necessarily recorded) by The Beatles. Anything written by one or more Beatles and debuted on record (not necessarily by them) before the group split in April 1970, is included. The main exceptions are the early Plastic Ono Band singles, which clearly belong to Lennon's solo career and not to the Beatles, and therefore are not included.
All original Beatles singles have been more-or-less constantly available since release, but from time to time are reissued or given an extra promotional push. However, they retain their original catalogue numbers. All original Beatles singles have been available on 7" since release, on CD since 1989 and cassette since 1992. During the 1980s there was a programme of 20th-anniversary reissues, many of which charted.
All songs credited as written by
Lennon/McCartney unless otherwise noted.
* indicates a song not (at that time) available in a version by
The Beatles themselves.
| 1960s |
1962
11.10.62 The Beatles Love Me Do (17)
1963
17.01.63 The Beatles Please Please Me (2 / NME 1)
18.04.63 The Beatles From Me To You (1)
02.05.63 Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas Do You Want To
Know A Secret? (2 / NME 1)
01.08.63 Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas Bad To Me* (1)
29.08.63 The Beatles She Loves You (1)
12.09.63 The Fourmost Hello Little Girl* (9)
- was one of the songs from the rejected Decca audition tapes
17.10.63 Cilla Black Love Of The Loved* (35)
07.11.63 Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas I'll Keep You
Satisfied* (4)
14.11.63 Rolling Stones I Wanna Be Your Man* (12)
- first non-Liverpool act to score with a L/M song
05.12.63 The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand (1)
26.12.63 The Fourmost I'm In Love* (17)
1964
09.01.64 The Dowlands All My Loving (33)
12.03.64 Peter And Gordon A World Without Love* (1)
- Peter is the brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane
Asher
26.03.64 The Beatles Can't Buy Me Love (1)
30.04.64 Ella Fitzgerald Can't Buy Me Love (34)
- first established act to hit with a Beatles cover
04.06.64 Peter And Gordon Nobody I Know* (10)
11.06.64 Applejacks Like Dreamers Do (20)
- another song from the Decca audition tapes
16.07.64 The Beatles A Hard Day's Night (1)
23.07.64 Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas From A Window*
(10)
06.08.64 Cilla Black It's For You* (7)
20.08.64 The Naturals I Should Have Known Better (24)
03.12.64 The Beatles I Feel Fine (1)
1965
16.05.65 The Beatles Ticket To Ride (1)
29.07.65 The Beatles Help! (1)
30.09.65 PJ Proby That Means A Lot* (30)
21.10.65 Matt Monro Yesterday (8)
04.11.65 Marianne Faithfull Yesterday (36)
- Originally offered to Billy J Kramer, who turned it down.
"Yesterday" is listed in the Guinness Book Of Records
as the most covered song of all time.
09.12.65 The Beatles Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out (1)
09.12.65 The Hollies If I Needed Someone* (20)
23.09.65 Silkie You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (28)
23.12.65 Peter Sellers A Hard Day's Night (14)
1966
13.01.66 Overlanders Michelle (1)
13.01.66 David And Jonathan Michelle (11)
13.01.66 St Louis Union Girl (11)
03.02.66 Truth Girl (27)
24.02.66 Peter And Gordon Woman* (28) - McCartney
10.03.66 Three Good Reasons Nowhere Man (47)
- the Beatles released this song as a single in the USA but
not in the UK
16.06.66 The Beatles Paperback Writer (1)
11.08.66 The Beatles Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (1)
11.08.66 Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers Got To Get
You Into My Life (6)
1967
23.02.67 The Beatles Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields
Forever (2)
23.03.67 Otis Redding Day Tripper (45)
12.07.67 The Beatles All You Need Is Love (1)
29.06.67 Young Idea With A Little Help From My Friends
(10)
29.06.67 Joe Brown With A Little Help From My Friends (32)
19.07.67 Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen When I'm Sixty Four
(43)
29.11.67 The Beatles Hello Goodbye (1)
13.12.67 The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Double EP (2)
20.12.67 Ray Charles Yesterday (44)
1968
13.03.68 Cilla Black Step Inside Love* (8)
20.03.68 The Beatles Lady Madonna (1)
31.07.68 Ray Charles Eleanor Rigby (36)
04.09.68 The Beatles Hey Jude (1)
02.10.68 Joe Cocker With A Little Help From My Friends (1)
04.12.68 Marmalade Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (1)
18.12.68 Bedrocks Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (20)
1969
08.01.69 Wilson Pickett Hey Jude (16)
02.04.69 Mary Hopkin Goodbye* (2) - written by McCartney
23.04.69 The Beatles with Billy Preston Get Back (1)
04.06.69 The Beatles Ballad Of John And Yoko (1)
25.10.69 Trash Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight (35)
08.11.69 The Beatles Something / Come Together (4) - "Something"
by Harrison
| 1970s |
1970
10.01.70 Badfinger Come And Get It* (#4) - McCartney
14.03.70 The Beatles Let It Be (#2)
20.06.70 Shirley Bassey Something (#4) - Harrison
25.07.70 Ray Morgan The Long And Winding Road (#32)
1971
02.01.71 Shirley Bassey The Fool On The Hill (#48)
15.05.71 Stevie Wonder We Can Work It Out (#27)
1974
27.07.74 David Cassidy Please Please Me (#16)
23.11.74 Elton John Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (#10)
1976
06.03.76 Emmylou Harris Here There And Everywhere (#30)
13.03.76 The Beatles Yesterday (#8) - first UK single
release
27.03.76 The Beatles Hey Jude (#12) re-entry of 1968
hit
27.03.76 The Beatles Paperback Writer (#23) re-entry of
1966 hit
03.04.76 The Beatles with Billy Preston Get Back (#28) re-entry
of1969 hit
03.04.76 The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny
Lane (#32) re-entry of 1967 hit
10.04.76 The Beatles Help! (#37) re-entry of 1965 hit
10.07.76 The Beatles Back In The USSR (#19)
31.07.76 Steve Harley Here Comes The Sun[/b] (#10) -
Harrison
20.11.76 Rod Stewart Get Back (#11)
27.11.76 The Four Seasons We Can Work It Out (#34)
- last two from the V/A film soundtrack "All This And
World War II"
1977
12.11.77 DBM Disco Beatlemania (#45)
- a disco medley of Beatles songs
1978
07.10.78 Earth Wind & Fire Got To Get You Into My Life
(#33)
- from the V/A film soundtrack "Sgt Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band"
1979
24.11.79 Dollar I Wanna Hold Your Hand (#9)
| 1980s |
1981
21.03.81 Elton John Band ft John Lennon I Saw Her Standing
There (#40)
- originally released Feb 1975 as b-side of Elton John Band's
"Philadelphia Freedom" (#12)
18.04.81 Starsound Stars On 45 (#2)
- "soundalike" medley including the following
Lennon/McCartney songs: Drive My Car / Do You Want To Know A
Secret / We Can Work it Out / I Should Have Known Better /
Nowhere Man / You're Going To Lose That Girl.
31.10.81 Gary "U.S." Bonds It's Only Love (#43)
1982
05.06.82 The Beatles Beatles Movie Medley (#10)
- megamix comprising: Magical Mystery Tour / All You Need Is
Love / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away / I Should Have Known
Better / A Hard Day's Night / Ticket To Ride / Get Back.
16.10.82 The Beatles Love Me Do (#4) re-entry of 1962
hit
1983
22.01.83 The Beatles Please Please Me (#29) re-entry of
1963 hit
23.04.83 The Beatles From Me To You (#40) re-entry of
1963 hit
03.09.83 The Beatles She Loves You (#45) re-entry of
1963 hit
01.10.83 Siouxsie and the Banshees Dear Prudence (#3)
1984
25.02.84 Tina Turner Help (#40)
1987
04.04.87 Ferry Aid Let It Be (#1) - charity ensemble
for the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster Fund
18.07.87 The Beatles All You Need Is Love (#47) re-entry
of 1967 hit
1988
14.05.88 Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends / Billy
Bragg with Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home (#1) - both
tracks from the V/A charity compilation "Sgt Pepper Knew My
Father"
04.06.88 Tiffany I Saw Him Standing There (#8)
1989
25.02.89 Bananarama and LaNaNeeNeeNooNoo Help! (#3) - charity
single in aid of Comic Relief.
| 1990s |
1990
17.03.90 Candy Flip Strawberry Fields Forever (3)
11.08.90 Wet Wet Wet I Feel Fine (30) - Double-A with
"Stay With Me Heartache"
20.10.90 Paul McCartney Birthday (29) - originally
recorded by The Beatles on their self-titled 1968 album
1991
16.03.91 Scritti Politti ft Shabba Ranks She's A Woman
(20)
1992
15.02.92 Michael Jackson Come Together (3)
- double-A with Remember The Time
03.10.92 Betty Boo I'm On My Way (44)
- This is a Boo original but the main mix morphs into
"Lady Madonna" for the last 40 seconds or so. Full
writers credit reads Boo/Coxon/Lennon/McCartney. The mixes which
do not use the Lady Madonna section do not have a
Lennon/McCartney credit.
1993
06.02.93 Tom Jones All You Need Is Love (19) - charity
single for Childline
1995
12.08.95 Suggs I'm Only Sleeping (7)
23.12.95 The Smokin' Mojo Filters Come Together (War
Child) (19)
- one-off supergroup featuring Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and
Noel Gallagher. Was in the charts at the same time as the
Beatles's "comeback" single "Free As A Bird"
1997
16.08.97 Wet Wet Wet Yesterday (4)
13.12.97 Blackstreet (Money Can't) Buy Me Love (18)
1998
22.08.98 Justin This Boy (34)
| 2000s |
2002
01.11.02 Will Young & Gareth Gates The Long
And Winding Road (1)