Throwback Thursday 16.02.17
- Emma Calder
- Feb 16, 2017
- 2 min read
It's throwback day already! Let's check out what happening on the music scene in 1964...
Every music fan worth their salt knows all four Beatles. But not every music lover know there was a fifth Beatle. Jimmie Nicol is the man who filled in for Ringo Starr for 13 days during the band's 1964 world tour. And now his story is going to be made into a film.
The Beatles - Twist and Shout
It's almost impossible not to have a twist and jive to this classic Beatles hit. While the track was originally written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns in 1961, it was covered by the Liverpudlian boys on their first album Please Please Me.
The Beach Boys - I Get Around
Like most early Beach Boys songs, this does not have deep lyrical content; it's a fun song about a teenage lifestyle featuring friends, girls and cars. Musically, however, it was incredibly innovative, with an opening fuzz guitar, stop-start rhythms and a keyboard line working in and out of the song.
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
In 2015, Ray Davies told Rolling Stone that the lyric was inspired by watching girls dancing in a club. "I just remembered this one girl dancing," he said. "Sometimes you're so overwhelmed by the presence of another person and you can't put two words together."
The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk
The session to record this song was scheduled for May 20, 1964, but The Drifters lead singer Rudy Lewis was found dead that morning (the cause of death is unclear, but likely either a drug overdose or heart attack).
The session was rescheduled for the next day, and Johnny Moore was called in to replace Lewis. Moore was with The Drifters in 1958 when their manager fired everyone in the band and brought in new members. He was a convenient replacement for Lewis, and stayed on as their main vocalist.
This song was written by two Brazilian composers: Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote the music; and Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the lyrics in Portuguese. English lyrics were later written by their producer, Norman Gimbel.
It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles.
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