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G.A. De Forest · 02-19-2013, 12:37 PM

You might be thinking of the Four Seasons -- who still made more modern music to the Beatles. 'Love Me Do' was like a poor imitation of Sonny Boy Williamson and 'Please please Me' of the Everly bros, which started off as a soppy Roy Orbison ballad until George Martin improved it out of sight -- as he did to their music over the next eight years. Why did they call themselves the Three Everlys? Over their first two years of world fame the Beatles tried and retried Music Hall (When I'm '64 and many more in the mid-late Sixties), show tunes (Till There Was You, All my Lovin'), soul (You've Really Got a Hold On Me, Chains...), country & western (Act Naturally, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby...), Europap (Michelle, Girl) and other genres without getting one right. The Beach Boys and Rolling Stones syncopated their beats from soul and jazz, unlike the Beatles who played a flat, very simple beat -- and this comes from Bill Wyman if you can't hear it for yourself.

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G.A. De Forest Groupie Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 4	So what's Brian Wilson got to do with doo-wop? You might be thinking of the Four Seasons -- who still made more modern music to the Beatles. 'Love Me Do' was like a poor imitation of Sonny Boy Williamson and 'Please please Me' of the Everly bros, which started off as a soppy Roy Orbison ballad until George Martin improved it out of sight -- as he did to their music over the next eight years. Why did they call themselves the Three Everlys? Over their first two years of world fame the Beatles tried and retried Music Hall (When I'm '64 and many more in the mid-late Sixties), show tunes (Till There Was You, All my Lovin'), soul (You've Really Got a Hold On Me, Chains...), country & western (Act Naturally, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby...), Europap (Michelle, Girl) and other genres without getting one right. The Beach Boys and Rolling Stones syncopated their beats from soul and jazz, unlike the Beatles who played a flat, very simple beat -- and this comes from Bill Wyman if you can't hear it for yourself.