Your Favorite Beatles 45

[Jubal Slate]

Help/I'm Down got me into The Beatles but I'll have to go Paperback Writer/Rain for the win.

Here's a list to jog your memory: http://www.beatlesagain.com/bt45s.html

[San Antone]

Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever

[Jubal Slate]

Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever

Great choice! Yeah, that's way up there for me.

[San Antone]

Great choice! Yeah, that's way up there for me.

Your choice could have been mine, two really good songs, but SFF is my favorite Beatles song. 

[Sergeant Rock]

I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There

Sarge

[North Star]

Another vote for Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever

[Sammy]

With a little help from my friends/A day in the life.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Get Back/Don't Let Me Down, hands-down.

[Ken B]

This is shocking to me. Penny Lane is my favourite Beatles song, but I always felt like the odd man out.

[Jubal Slate]

This is shocking to me. Penny Lane is my favourite Beatles song, but I always felt like the odd man out.

Well, I think SFF is carrying that single to the top.

[Ken B]

Well, I think SFF is carrying that single to the top.

Yes. That would be more consistent with Beatles fans getting everything wrong 

[Jubal Slate]

Yes. That would be more consistent with Beatles fans getting everything wrong 

Living is easy with eyes closed.

[The new erato]

So many strong candidates here. Ill go for Paperback Writer/Rain. Certainly their most underrated single.

[Hollywood]

Unfortunately my favorite Beatles song, Hold Me Tight, was never released on a 45 but it was on their first album Meet the Beatles. Back in the 1960s our next door neighbor worked at Capitol Records in Hollywood and he would always give us LPs and 45s that he brought home from work. One of the LPs he gave me was Meet The Beatles and I still have it. When I wasn't listening to my classical albums, I was playing my Meet the Beatles. For me it was always the 4 Bs: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and the Beatles. 

[Elgarian]

Hello Goodbye/I am the walrus.

Two associated memories:

1. I used to spend a lot of time in a ramshackle cafe with some friends at university during the time when the single was around, and when 'Hello Goodbye' played on the jukebox, the mood always lightened, and lots of interesting eye contact was made across the room. Also I love the daft video of them miming to it, wearing their Sgt Pepper suits and looking curiously disconnected.
2. I was one of the 2 or 3 people who adored the Magical Mystery Tour film on its first TV showing, and 'I am the Walrus' was of course the great highlight. As I think John Lennon said later: 'What the heck was it doing on a B-side?' - or words to that effect.

But also, I have a lot of sympathy for the Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields vote.

[The new erato]

Strawberry Fields/Walrus are my two favorite Beatles songs, but I'm not so hot on their couplings, particularly Hello/Goodbye which IMO is downright weak.

[Green Destiny]

I would choose Nowhere Man/What Goes On - Not a big fan of the B-Side but Nowhere Man is my favourite by the Beatles by far.

[Elgarian]

... Hello/Goodbye which IMO is downright weak.

Lennon thought so too ... but weak or not, I can't help feeling good whenever I hear it, so what can a chap do?

And then again, thinking along these lines, I remember sitting in the kitchen revising for some exam or other when this wailing raw harmonica sound came out of the radio, and the hair on my neck was bristling, and I thought 'What the hell is THAT?'

It was 'Please please me'. Life-changing moment. I could still, some days, call it my favourite. Before there was Elgar, there was The Beatles.

[Karl Henning]

This is shocking to me. Penny Lane is my favourite Beatles song, but I always felt like the odd man out.

The barber just shaved another customer.

[Karl Henning]

Living is easy with eyes closed.

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