Couple of things - I said Chet AIKENS when I should’ve said ATKINS. Apologies. Also Bert Lahr was the cowardly lion - not Frank. I hate getting things wrong. So sorry. Also, after doing more research, I’m going to change my thoughts about George Harrison and Mama You Been On My Mind. I think he was familiar with the Joan Baez recording, now that I’ve listened a bunch more. His playing and phrasing sound way more like hers than Dylan’s. Also much thanks to my son, Miles who said “Mom, instead of just listing these songs and giving their timestamp, composer and who you think they learned it from - why not make a longer video where you sit at your piano and talk about each song more in depth.” ❤

I just wanna say that no matter how the algorithm treats this video, I absolutely love that this video exists

You did a great job on this! In August of '79, I had the pleasure to meet John Lennon and Yoko Ono when my band was playing in Tokyo. They stayed for 3 hours. Before they left John bowed and told us "All musicians are my friends" He was a musician first and also a very cool guy.

Yes, Ringo was always there with the beat the entire time. George Martin was quoted once, “I cannot recall ever having to stop a recording take during any session because Ringo missed a beat.“

Watching Paul come up with "Get Back" while noodling on the bass gave me goosebumps.

I too watched 'Get Back' at least three times. For anyone who's ever been in a band, - the repetition, the sometimes tedious process of collaboration, the goofing around, are all so familiar. But I also found it incredibly moving at times. That moment where Paul is working on the music for what would soon become 'The Long And Winding Road', and Ringo, fed up with yet more badgering from Michael Lindsay-Hogg about the proposed concert, wistfully says, "See, I'd just watch an hour of him, just playing the piano", - honestly brought me close to tears. Such a beautiful moment.

Regardless of how long the doc was most musicians would never get bored... and all musicians who are also Beatles fans certainly wouldn't. That is one of the special things about the Beatles. They always kept us wanting more.

This is huge, a dissertation, and brilliantly augments the Beatles documentary. One of the things I found most interesting was how important their playing around was to their creative process. Jazz musicians need to spend more time engaging in child-like play, and not only goal-oriented “practice.”

Radio stations in the UK in the 1950’s and early 1960’s did not play rock n roll music. At least not in Liverpool. Brian Epstiens record store had some rock records , but American record companies had little interest in exporting the music. Mick Jagger told a story about being a twelve year old boy and hanging out at the docks and trading 45 rpm records with American sailors. He said “ as a youngster who ever had the latest records was the coolest kid. “The biggest influence on the members of the Stones, Beatles et al , was Radio Luxembourg. After midnight the station would play the newest rock records from America, but only folks on the English coast could hear the station. I can only imagine what it must have been like , as a teenage English boy hearing Johnny B. Good for the first time. Thank you for your in depth research and archiving the early influences on the Beatles. I am 70 years old and have followed their music since their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, way back in 1964. Even then I knew this was a different kind of pop band. They changed my life and the world.

Love what you have done here. I'm 77 years. I lived through this era. I use to dance to these songs on American Bandstand when it was in PHL. I am also jazz pianist and play many of these song in my band. I have learned so much from you Amy. Thanks.

it was very inspiring to see that one of the greatest bands in history spent a great deal of their time enjoying the music of other people. loved this analysis of it

Great work! One of my favorite moments was Ringo saying he could just watch Paul play piano for an hour.

I saw The Beatles live 1964 in Stockholm. I was 12 years old. All my life Beatles have been my best friends through all events, good and bad. Thanks for your great work with this video. You are such a great musician and music lover, and I will follow you! Lots of love from Stockholm Sweden, and happy Christmas!💥

You madam, are a complete Beatles nerd, and it takes one to know one, great video!

The Get Back documentary was such a treat after living with the Let It Be film for 50 years. As a musician and Beatles fan since the beginning it was inspirational to watch. Anyone who has rehearsed and gigged in a band will recognise a lot of what is going on. Thanks for your views I really enjoyed it.

I will never tire of intense analysis of Beatles work. I share your love of this group that will never have an equal.

Thank you for this Aimee. Your heartfelt, genuine curiosity drives this and makes it a significant contribution to my life-long appreciation of the Beatles. - Paul

Love the video. Personally, the documentary helped me to realize how great McCartney is as an artist. Out of this world.

I have a great personal Ronnie Hawkins story. I was 18. Working on a show called, Secret Service. I was on a n hour break amd sat down to eat. This old guy cokes in amd I assumed he was crew. He sat down with me and we talked for over an hour. The first ad came in and says, Mr. Hawkins they are ready for you. He gets up says how much he enjoyed talking too me. And got on stage and started to play. They were shooting a scene that took place at a Ronnie Hawkins concert.

They were young, full of juice & incredibly bright, in an era when writing really gorgeous $ongs mattered. Thank you for the detailed analysis!

Watching the documentary it is both obvious and incredible that none of these guys were even 30 yet - they had incredible depth and breadth of music knowledge, such pure love and joy for all of it, and yet a sadness and weariness that punched through on occasion. Thanks for this amazing video! ❤

What a great video, Aimee! Loved it! Especially liked your closing insights about the dynamics in the group. I saw a video on KZfaq where an aging Joni Mitchell was asked what her musical influences were as a child. She replied that her family had very few records in the house at the time. I can relate. BUT, I realized years ago that, despite many fewer options to listen to music, for my generation born smack in the middle of the 20th century -- we were exposed to a much wider range and diversity of music through television variety and movie musicals (because you watched what was on!) and even at school. So, I was exposed to the music all the way back to Stephen Foster to “the Gay 90s” to George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin -- to Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor -- to, of course, the music of my parents’ era (Sinatra, etc.) -- and then the early days of Rock ‘n Roll (Buddy Holly, et. al.). As an educator, I found that many young people today, despite streaming music, don’t even know who the Beatles were, not to mention the likes Sinatra and beyond.

What you have done here is wonderful! So, a friend of mine asked me what I thought of GET BACK DOC….My reply was ITS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. In the end I watched it on Disney plus 5 TIMES THROUGH ALL 8 hours of it. It was as close as I could get to my dream of being in the room when the Beatles recorded. The Beatles are the reason I started playing music when I was 12 in 1965, I am still playing gigs. I consider them in a class by themselves. Also even further my Father and his whole family was from Liverpool….my uncle was what they called a “Cunard Yank” merchant sailors bringing American records back to England. Anyway this showed the vast knowledge of music the Beatles had. Well done , fantastic! PS…ITS CHET ATKINS with. T , not Aikens.

One thing I noticed when I watched the Get Back film is how they found time to actually write and complete any songs with all the messing about they did in such a short time like two weeks, it just shows how they managed to write so many songs in the 7 years they spent recording.

I've listened to the Beatles since the Ed Sullivan show and throughout their career. They were the first band to give me chills up and down my spine and still do to this day. In my heart a musician is good, really good when they can do that. You gave me a similar feeling with your video. I will now consider you the 6th Beatle.

Amazing research, Aimee! You knocked this one out of the park!

You have just created an amazing document. This needs to go viral. I'm going to watch it over and over. Thank you so much for creating it.

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Loved this video.

Great video, hoping the algorithm will be merciful

My god Amiee! well done! as a Beatles fan of about 57 years give or take, I can’t thank you enough for this… I must say that I had never put that much time into contemplating the music that they listened to…oh sure, I was aware of their influences, but never stopped to consider how much, or what that looked like. As a musician myself I’m a bit embarrassed…but more than that I am in this moment, feeling grateful that you have taken us by the hand on this journey… I have been following you for about 5 or 6 years. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

Well, that was fun. This should have more views - thanks for posting the reminder... I was busy all day, and was looking back thru my feed tonight, and saw your follow-up about the Beatles vid being published earlier. It was cool to see their cover jams cataloged like this, one after the other. And it was especially nice for John to give the project his approval, in that early quote about how you can listen for the Beatles' influences in their music: Will do, John... thanks for the invitation! And thanks, Aimee, for putting this together.

I haven’t seen the documentary yet but am a serious Beatles student (arranging 50 songs for solo guitar at the moment). Very impressed at your detailed research. I agree with your perceptive observations at the end. One of the big ‘what ifs’ is how would the Lennon/McCartney catalogue have differed if they had involved George earliern; it cannot go unnoticed that a 3rd of the Beatles most frequently downloaded songs are Harrison compositions. Serious respect Aimee!

What an amazing musical document you have created here. Fascinating! Thank you!

Ringo's introduction to 'Act Naturally' is hilarious and very clever.

Thank you Aimee. So much background information. Much work to do this. Good job!

Aimee, I just discovered you yesterday because Rick Beato was raving about you in one of his videos. I watched several of your videos these past two days and really love them! You speak my language and discuss music the way I like to discuss it. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing you thoughts and talents with us!

“Wiggles like a glow worm, dances like a Spinning Top” Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry (also covered by the Beatles) Maybe it’s a goof take after 1 too many jazz cigarettes? Great Video. Thank you Aimee!

“Hamburg Made the Beatles,” Lennon famously said - and it was those 8-hour sets where they learned the range of song styles and arrangements that infused their craft. “We were the biggest song thieves ever,” was something McCartney once said. They knew how to use inspiration as the foundation.

First and foremost... thanks for making this video. An amazing idea... done so well. 1. I don't think you can read anything into the way Paul is singing that Bobby Darin song. He clowned around with ridiculous vocal styles quite often - with old songs that he loved as well as with his own songs. 2. Chart info on "Blue Suede Shoes". In the US... Carl Perkins released his "Blue Suede Shoes" in January of 1956. By April it had sold over a million copies and peaked at #1 on the country chart and at #3 on the Billboard top 100. It was the first million selling country song to cross over to both the rhythm and blues and pop charts. The first four songs that Elvis released on singles in 1956 all went to #1 on the Billboard hot 100 ("Heartbreak Hotel" #1 for 8 weeks in April - June), ("I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" #1 for 1 week in July), ("Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" #1 for 11 weeks in August - November). The Elvis version of "Blue Suede Shoes" was released on September 8th, 1956... and peaked at #20 on the Billboard hot 100. So in terms of chart success and record sales - Carl Perkins' original version did a LOT better than Elvis' version... in the US. However - in the UK... the two versions were on the charts at the same time. Perkins' record first charted on May 24th, 1956 in the UK - and Presley's version first charted on May 31st, 1956. Carl's peaked at #10 while Elvis' peaked at #9. So John, Paul, George & Ringo were listening to both versions at the same time in 1956. 3. "Shake Rattle and Roll" was also on Elvis Presley's first album in the UK (it was not on the US version of his 1st LP). So The Beatles may have heard the Elvis version just as much - or more than the others. They all LOVED Elvis when he came on to the scene. Interesting side note: McCartney purchased the rights to "Blue Suede Shoes" in 2003. 4. While McCartney used some of the lyrics from the old Dekker poem - he did add some new ones as well. There are just 8 lines in Paul's "Golden Slumbers" song. Four of them are from the old poem - and four of them are his own new lyrics. He starts the song with his 4 new lines: "Once there was a way To get back homeward Once there was a way To get back home." The other 4 lines that come from the poem are... "Sleep pretty WANTONS, do not cry And I will sing a lullaby Golden slumbers KISS your eyes Smiles awake you when you rise." There were three other lines from the poem that Paul did not use at all: "Rock them, rock them, lullaby. Care is heavy, therefore sleep you, You are care, and care must keep you" Paul also changed two of the words in the 4 Dekker lines that he did use. He changed "wantons" to "darling" - and he changed "kiss" to "fill". And the music and melody for this Beatles track was entirely Paul's creation. So I'd put the song writing credit at perhaps 75% McCartney - 25% Dekker.

I was hesitant to watch this video but once I started watching it I couldn’t stop. This was great! Thank you!

as an old guy it always makes me smile to see young folks discover the Beatles. in 1964 I got to see the Beatles at the cow palace in San Francisco. ticket price $6.00 (not a typo). everything you heard about the screaming girls is correct. they opened with "well, she was just 17"....... and from that point on all you heard was this freak show of screaming girls. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, and I did get my $6 worth. lol

You put a huge amount of work into this, Aimee. If anyone ever doubted your passion for music and sharing insights to enable us to grow musically, this would dispel any such thoughts. Thank you for creating a separate documentary, which is what the results of your efforts are.

🥰3 times so far for me too. I got chills watching Get Back come to life. 58 years ago I became a Beatles fan, love them more than ever!

Aimee, you are just the BEST! I love so much how you DUG in with your research on these songs. Love too your deep appreciation for the Beatles 'process.' Your comments are touching and wonderful...

Something like the Beatles happens only once period, and I'm pleased that it happened during my lifetime.

Great work. Congratulations and thank you!!!

Your comments at the end are so apt and insightful. I really enjoyed this.

It really pleases me to see others love The Beatles like I do. Thanks for this video.

Another, often over looked, element that separated the Beatles from nearly all other groups at that--or any other time, is the sheer number of hours, days, weeks, months and years they put into their musical career. They were hard working day and night boys from Liverpool. Thank you for this.

Great work, research, and insight. I'd like to throw this out: being a bit older (born '65) I can tell you that through/until my generation, we knew standards through performance more than recordings. Television variety shows were inescapable, as present as reality TV today, and we saw old movies not only on television but on the big screen, as they were in constant re-release. At school we sang every song from "The Music Man" and "The Sound of Music" in music class (every day!) and at Sunday dinner at Morrison's Cafeteria an old blue-haired lady played the Great (and Not So Great) American songbook on a spooky organ. (When I asked her for the Beatles once, she responded with "Michelle" and "Yesterday"). And of course, Muzak (actually the "Beautiful Music" radio format) was everywhere, though not when the Beatles were coming along. So I knew the music of Sinatra or Dean Martin or Ella Fitzgerald right through my skin long before ever really hearing their records, even on the radio. By seven or eight I'd have known "Tea For Two" very well without knowing a recording of it. Really enjoying your channel!

Aimee as a Producer/writer and musician I found this to be so entertaining, and I have to congratulate you for your warmth and charm as you deliver your insights with such humility...thank you 🙏

This video is a work of love and a necessary reference to appreciate the Beatles’ rich musical background. Excellent.

This is such a treasure! So well made. Thank you!

This is how they played on stage for 8 +hours in Hamburg this documentary opened my eyes to this, they actually remind me of a human iPod on shuffle. Show me a band that can do this! Great video, watching all the way from UK.

This is a brilliant piece of work you have done. Such a wonderfully researched assessment of this astonishing documentary. Congratulations on all you have done here and thank you.

Thanks for your research and in fact we had hundreds of bands on merseyside covering songs each group built on a sound they liked ,the origin of the songs were blues, jazz,r&b,r&r,folk,music hall,popular music, film music, it was jack Hylton , Nat Gonella, George Formby from the North West .In the Cavern Club a jazz club in 1957 we had trad and blues,then modern jazz before skiffle and then Merseybeat.Merseybeat involved talent from all over the N.W. it was a lost Art Movement killed off by the need to make and sell millions of pop records it took the Beatles years to Get Back and that is what its all about. We had writers,poets,musicians,painters,actorsall in local meeting places together.The interaction was unique. The Beatles did tell it as it was or could have been, it was about a beat and so much more. Thanks

Looks like you've become smitten with the Fab Four now, since your great analysis of Paul's AMAZING vocal abilities.

Thank you Aimee Nolte Music. Truly a labor of love.

Wow, I'm late watching this video so I don't know that you'll see this, but I found it very, very intriguing. As someone who lived thru Beatlemania as a teenager I thought I had heard it all, but I love that you showed me so many new things that I hadn't seen when I had twice watched the Get Back videos. One of the things that wasn't pointed out perhaps because it wasn't relevant to the theme of your video, is that I noticed Paul actually writing the beginning of the Get Back song! We saw a Beatle composing a Beatles song! It's amazing too that after all of these years Paul is still singing a few of the old songs they grew up with in at least his soundchecks, one being Midnight Special. Thank you for all the hard work you did researching this, now I have to watched the Get Back videos for a third time! I too never get bored with it.

That care/carry/heavy/weight connection is awesome! This is wonderful, Aimee.

What an absolutely wonderful video with so much fascinating information. By the end I was in tears when you gave your heartfelt assessment of the Fab Four. Thank you so much.

I think another reason they knew so many older songs is from John, Paul and George's time playing in Hamburg (Ringo wasn't in the group yet). They had to play ungodly sets (eight or twelve hours a pop) without any breaks six days a week, so they had to know a LOT of songs to keep from repeating themselves too much. I can't even imagine how grueling that would have been, but they came out of the other side of it with an enormous library of old songs to use as inspiration later in their career.

This is really a wonderful exploration of the rich musical soup in which "The Beatles" marinated.

You know what you left me captivated on your presentation and more so at the end. Thank you so much! It is what I have felt like for a long time inside about the Beatles and Music my whole life! You are Phenomenal in bringing this forth!!

Wonderful, just love your deep dive here!

Thanks for the incredible research! SO enjoyed this!!!

As a Brit born in the UK in 1948 I grew up listening to these Lads, first heard them in either 1962 or 63, Love Me Do, before that was My Bonny with Tony Sheridan. Masterpieces in music that people will be listening to in decades ahead.

Thanks so much, Aimee for this video and of course all your videos. I didn't know the depth of your admiration for The Beatles. I do now know that we both are true fans. Bless your kind heart!

a wonderful "labor of love" by Aimee....Thank You !

There's a good reason why the Beatles were so good and so special, and you illustrate so spectacularly well one of the main reasons... how the four of them just absorbed the history of popular music. Having that at their fingertips gave them an advantage in their songwriting and musical arrangements that few others had or have since. Thanks for this wonderful and informative video.

Looked at it about 5 times by now, and will see it many many times more. Loved your take on it, thanks!

Thank you for speaking so clearly. I don't need hearing aids or headphones most of the time, but some people don't enunciate clearly, so even when loud, I struggle to follow them. You are crystal clear over my phone speakers so I can easily take in your sentences. Ok - 5 minutes in - for me, this is probably the most interesting and brilliant KZfaq video I have ever seen.

I really enjoyed this. I am currently watching 'Get Back' for the third time, and really noticed how they all seemed to really light up playing the old songs, so this was a perfectly timed video for me to come across in my recommendations. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it all together! I do really appreciate how much work went into it, and seriously, everyone should watch it to the very end! 'Liverpool was a fishing/merchant town'. Liverpool was granted city status in 1880 and was a *major* Port City in the UK. By the time The Beatles were growing up it was in decline, but still had many large ships docking from the States and elsewhere, and kids who were into music did indeed skive off school and go down to the docks to see what 45's they could get hold of from ship's crew members. Liverpool had a huge and long-settled Irish population by the time of these recordings, and their influence was everywhere, particularly in the Liverpool humour, and love of music, so even when I watched the 'Let it Be' film as a kid it came as absolutely no surprise to me that John broke into Danny Boy during the rooftop concert. P.S I have just finished the first episode so I don't feel able to comment on what I feel was overall a great/fascinating coda as it relates to John and how he behaved toward's George after George returned to the band, but I will definitely bear it in mind as I go forward. I also think your English friend John gave you some accurate/great insights. E.G I went 'YES!' when you mentioned the radio show 'Family Favourites' which he told you about.

One of the fascinating aspects of the Beatles legacy is the trouble some people go to in order to extract more details from their story. It might seem silly to some but it reflects the devotion of their fans. This is another great example. Thanks for your effort!

Your take at the end of your video hit home and gave me new perspective. Thank you!

Holy crap Aimee: I've admired your brain for years, but now I absolutely love you for this..

What a quality video, is amazing, thank you so much Aimee!

Aimee, loved this post! I'm on my fifth pass of Get Back! I saw the original documentary in the summer of 1970 as a 6 year old in the movie theaters. This was in León Guanajuato, México. Chester Burton Atkins aka Chet Atkins, his last name is pronounced with a soft A...like apple, alone....Great Post!

Great video Aimee! ❤

Wow! That's dedication. Probably just another day in the life of a KZfaq Content Creator!

George Martin once observed that when these four young men were together in the studio, something magical and mystical happened. I like that. He was describing a feeling he had about the synergy produced by the group. I admire your dive into the Beatles' creative pool, Aimée. A labour of love!

So very glad I got sidetracked when this popped up on my late night KZfaq scroll. I was born in 1948 England, so many of those early influences were also in my domain, and familiar to me although my experience was as a youngster in Croydon, Surrey rather than Liverpool. Radio plays and record shop listening booths were hugely important. Additionally, dance halls and coffee bars. Thanks for this great delve into those details that also took me in when I watched Get Back. Bloody marvellous! 👍 ✌️

I really appreciate the work you've put into this video, Aimee. I loved the Get Back documentary - there was something magical about it for me, totally immersive, like travelling back in time and being there. I love hearing your thoughts about it and that you've chosen to single out the non-Beatles songs in this way, and that you've tried to identify which versions of the songs the band would've most likely been familiar with. Regarding the Gilly Gilly Ostenfeffer song- I don't recall noticing it when I was watching the documentary, but I was very familiar with that song when I was a child. I was born in 71, in England, and I haven't thought about that song in decades - until now! But as a child I knew that song - everybody knew it- and now you've got me wondering how, why, where did I know it from? Max Bygraves was a very popular TV personality in the UK in the 70s so I'm assuming it must've been from him. Anyway, thanks for a great video, and as I said at the beginning, I have a huge amount of respect for the amount of work you've put into it.

Really enjoyed that mate. Great vid ❤

I am glad you enjoyed doing all that work and sharing it so brilliantly because that had to be tons of work. I sure missed alot when I watched the documentary! Thanks alot Aimee!

Hey Aimee. Thank you so much for taking the time to research these songs. You are so smart to have grabbed this information. It’s a snapshot in time when the Beatles took what they knew and passed it on in various forms but it will be watered down over generations. Your work should be a recognised footnote to the Get Back documentary. Many of your observations and appreciation of their talents brought a tear to my eye. You too are a musical sponge and long may you continue to share you knowledge 🎶😊

Thank you so much for putting together this video. Great work...! One of my first conscious memories here on mother earth was watching the Beatles play for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show. I had just turned 3years of age, and what they generated on TV was unbelievable. In their time together what they created was simply astonishing,and no person or group has, or will ever get anywhere close to what they (officially) recorded between September 1962 and August 1969. They were simply "the best ". Thanks again 👍🙏🎆

Thank you for brightening up my day Aimée. You really enjoy this music. Great video.

Thank you, Aimee!!! Now, I have to see the documentary again. ❤

I wasn't going to give this any attention, but I got distracted, cleaning house. A few minute into this, I thought it was cool that you picked up on all the goofing around and jamming they did in between songs. I loved these moments, too, because it gave them creative pauses in between consciously focusing on songwriting. I believe that they were giving their subconscious minds time to process and write bit and pieces and crystallize the songs they were writing, later. It's a fun, playful creative process of writing and arranging. It's nice, you can afford the studio time to play. She notes each of their rabbit trails, and brings the listener up on the history of those little Musica d as lliances very well!! Thank you for doing that! I was trying to Teel my kids of this as it was happening, but they passed by so quickly, it was an exercise in futility. I knew many of the songs they drifted into, but not all of them. This is a quite good supplement to the awesome LET IT Be movie on Disney+!!! 5 🌟 stars!!

a most fabulous video !!!...loved it !!

What a wonderful piece of musicology you have performed here.. thank you so much. Amazing commitment in time, analysis as well as presentation. Thank you Aimee.

Great work. I'm going to explore your video at length in the days to come...

The music of the Beatles is ENDLESSLY fascinating!

Amy, that was amazing. It brought tears to my eyes.What a massive project and fascinating journey you provided for us.

Hi Aimee. Very good job. Congratulations and thank you. Actually I wrote 2 books in French about the Beatle covers: 'The Beatles: Get Back to their roots - Les racines musicales de John, Paul, George and Ringo' (2020) and 'The Beatles: Get Back again to basics - Les racines musicales de John, Paul, George and Ringo' Vol. 2 (2021) and published them. I even tried to find a publisher abroad for my English version. I'm pleased to see that your detailed research and mine are quite similar.

Thanks for putting this all together like this - fascinating

Thank you, Aimee. This was very informative and interesting. This is the video I've been waiting for.

Just had a thought, Get Back was the first reality TV show. Great video, fascinating witnessing their creative sources.

Thank you! Deep diving the "lads" is my life's journey!