"Some Other Guy"

An-other thing I noticed when I listened to the first disc of Live at the BBC yester-day is that in the introduction of "Some Other Guy," the guitar plays the melody of the backing vocals from Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It."  As I discovered a couple years ago, the Beatles also did this in the last verse of "Long Tall Sally," but this version of "Some Other Guy" (recorded 19 June 1963, transmitted 23 June 1963) predates that.

The first Live at the BBC album also includes a version of "Long Tall Sally" (recorded 16 July 1963, transmitted 13 August 1963), but of the five recordings of the song that have been released, it's the only one that doesn't have this feature.  All the others do:

• Long Tall Sally EP version (recorded 1 March 1964)
• Anthology 1 live version (recorded 19 April 1964)
• On Air - Live at the BBC, Volume 2 live radio version (recorded 14 July 1964, transmitted 16 July 1964)
• Live at the Hollywood Bowl version (either 23 or 27 August 1964)

Evidently, this feature was added to "Long Tall Sally" sometime between July 1963 and March 1964.  Using it in "Some Other Guy" seems to be something of a trial version.

"Long Tall Sally"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

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I listened to Anthology 1 to-day.  I noticed a few things which I'll get around to posting eventually (I might wait until I listen to the album versions of the songs I found things in), but the most exciting thing I found is in the Beatles' cover of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally."

During the last verse (the second one that's mostly just "Gonna have some fun tonight"), the guitar part plays the melody of the backing vocals from Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It."  It's easier to hear in the version on Anthology 1, but it's also present in the EP version.