Beatles People

[Lake View Too]

One of the things I always found interesting ( or, dare I say it, fab) about the Beatles, was the number of named people you could find in their songs. It was like they were characters in a play. Besides "the one and only Billy Shears", how many of them do you remember?

 

[Bob]

i'm working on it

 

[DD]

Off the top of my head...

Pam
Michelle
Jude
Mary
Prudence
Eleanor
Loretta
Julia
Rita

 

[Desso]

Vera, Chuck, and Dave
Charles Hawtrey, Doris
Jojo
Peter Brown
Maxwell Edison
Lucy
Mr. Kite
Joan
Rose and Valerie
Father McKenzie
Mr. Parker
Mao
Dr. Robert
Sadie
Desmond and Molly Jones
Captain Marvel

 

[DD]

Martha
Beethoven

 

[Lake View Too]

The earliest one, I believe, was "Anna", on the VJ record :"Introducing the Beatles" (before Capitol Records got them). There's "Long Tall Sally", but that's a cover. There's a Doctor, a Sargeant, and at leat three or four misters (Mean Mister Mustard) Somebody keep count...

 

[Desso]

Mr. Heath, Mr. Wilson
Mcgill, Lil, Nancy
Daniel, Danny
Rocky
Martha was a sheep dog
Pablo Fanque
Albert
Edgar Allen Poe
Dennis O'Dell
B B King
Doris Day
Matt Busby

 

[Desso]

Walter Raleigh
Lear
Krishna
Dylan, Mr. Jones
Any more?

 

[Lake View Too]

OK, Desso, you got quite a few. Can you quote me which songs these came from: Peter Brown, Rose and Valerie, Mr. Parker, Albert, Dennis O'Dell , Matt Busley, and Lear? I thought I was thoroughly versed in all things Beatle. One of the more obscure songs, "You Know My Name" featured Danny Blofeld.

 

[Lynnie]

So, do you think these are people they met along the way? Or, as Ringo did, got high and met along the way?

I have never thought about this. LVT, I think the documentary carries on this evening; maybe this will be broached?

Musical geniuses, most definitely!