Best abandoned Beatles titles, or ideas.

Best abandon Beathes titles, or ideas.

This is a carry-over from the Beatles trivia thread.

What other album titles are there besides "A Doll's House"?

"Beatles on Safari (or Parade?)"

"Everest" - would have been a cool album cover but the one used was better than anyone could have imagined at the time.

Film title "Eight Arms To Hold You". John couldn't imagine having to come up with a song with that title. It would have been interesting. This title is on the original Capitol single of "Ticket To Ride" as most of us know.

Tim

 

Telliot, you might wanna fix the title of the thread, I had no idea what it was about!

Beatles on Parade? I thought it was Beatles on Safari?! for Revolver, right?

 

I know the original title of Please Please Me was supposed to be
"Off the Beatles Track", a play on the phrase Off The Beaten Track...yuck!

 

It's Not Too Bad = Strawberry Fields

 

He Said He Said = She Said She Said

 

Hello Hello = Hello Goodbye

 

From "Laxton's Superb" to "I Don't Know" to "I Want To Tell You".

Harrison never seemed quite sure of his titles.

"What's the name of your new song George?"
......"I Don't Know".

 

Scrambled Eggs?

 

I love your legs.

 

From early version of "Yesterday"

 

This Bird Has Flown = Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

 

Child Of Nature = Jealous Guy

 

Hey Jules = Hey Jude

 

The Void - "Tomorrow Never Knows"

 

What a shame Mary Jane - What's the New Mary Jane

 

You Can Talk to Me = Hey Bulldog

 

Up Against It. The scrapped 3rd Beatles movie. Would've been interesting...

 

Seventeen - I Saw Her Standing There

mud-

 

Etcetera?

Will it ever surface? Does it exist?

 

Unless I am mixing my apple names/Beatles trivia again, "Granny Smith" was the working title of "Love You To". Laxton's Superb is also a type of apple. It's interesting how the Apple was making subtle appearances in 1966!

 

Actually Dave that's a new piece of Trivia to me. Thanks I didn't know that one!

 

There's much controversy over that.....in the Lewisohn book, it's called Mark 1.....there is no documentation of The Void on any EMI tape reels.

 

That's what it's called or known as the real slow sloshy sounding one that appears on Anthology 2 even but I thought that it could have been the working title that John had used for it. The story goes that on the reel tape box had written on it MARK 1.

 

I'm a "This Is Some Friendly" man myself.

 

George Martin later used the title Off the Beatle Track for a collection of easy-listening instrumental versions of Beatles songs ... a more appropriate use of the title, actually.

A couple others that haven't been mentioned:
-- The idea of Get Back as a Beatles album with no overdubs
-- Capitol's proposal for a live Hollywood Bowl album, which twice (1964 and 1966) made the acetate stage but was vetoed by George Martin and others in the UK before release