It Was 50 Years Ago Today...

Don't get too excited about my blog being back... it's not. My writing rut most certainly continues. Sorry. I can still make lists, though... and as I sit here watching the 50th Anniversary Beatles special on CBS I thought I'd rank my Top 50 Beatles songs just for the hell of it: 

1. Please Please Me – a perfect record; arguably one of the purest, most genuine musical compositions of all time
2. I’ll Follow the Sun
3. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - my favorite song on my favorite album
4. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away – John Lennon channeling his inner Bob Dylan
5. Got to Get You Into My Life
6. We Can Work it Out
7. I Saw Her Standing There
8. I Will – I sang this one to my oldest daughter every single night until she was three
9. Penny Lane
10. Let It Be - I often wonder if Paul McCartney knew it was over when he penned this one
11. All My Loving
12. Here There and Everywhere
13. I Should Have Known Better – how can you not love any song with a harmonica?
14. Paperback Writer
15. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End – “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”
16. I Feel Fine
17. Here Comes the Sun – George Harrison at his absolute finest
18. Fixing a Hole
19. The Long and Winding Road
20. Eight Days a Week
21. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
22. Do You Want to Know a Secret
23. Twist and Shout – four words: “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
24. Real Love
25. Revolution
26. In My Life - an amazing nugget stuck smack-dab in the middle of "Rubber Soul" (Side Two)
27. From Me to You
28. Ballad of John & Yoko
29. Blackbird
30. Ticket to Ride – always reminds me of the Eddie Murphy “5^th Beatle” skit on Saturday Night Live
31. Her Majesty – the single best 23-second ditty this side of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
32. Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
33. Getting Better
34. Can’t Buy Me Love – if only because it was the theme song to one of my favorite 80’s movies
35. Free as a Bird – the only Beatles single I actually purchased myself (since it wasn’t released until 1996)
36. Hello Goodbye
37. Across the Universe
38. Hey Jude
39. Nowhere Man
40. Julia – a wonderful song about Lennon's mother; I used to sing to my niece of the same name when she was a baby
41. If I fell
42. Eleanor Rigby
43. Drive My Car
44. I Want to Hold Your Hand – pointless and uber-poppy, but a sentimental favorite nonetheless
45. Yesterday
46. Good Morning, Good Morning
47. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
48. With A Little Help From My Friends - because I had to get Ringo in here somewhere
49. A Day in the Life
50. Day Tripper