Album This song officially appears on the Beatles VI (Mono) Official album.
Timeline This song was officially released in 1965
This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:
May 10, 1965
Get Back sessions - January 24, 1969 - Day 13
Jan 24, 1969
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Help! (Mono)
Officially appears on Long Tall Sally
Unreleased song
January 1967 • From The Beatles Monthly Book
From Wikipedia:
“Bad Boy” is a song composed and recorded by Larry Williams. The song was recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California on August 14, 1958. The musicians on the recording included Williams on vocals and piano, Earl Palmer on drums, René Hall on guitar, Jewell Grant on baritone sax, Plas Johnson on tenor sax, and Ted Brinson on bass. The record did not break the Top 40 charts in the United States.
“She Said Yeah” was originally the B-side of the Larry Williams single, and has been covered by the Rolling Stones and the Animals, amongst others. The Beatles loved the song and almost certainly performed it on stage and fully intended to record it. Paul McCartney in the liner notes to his album Run Devil Run said “Me and John [Lennon] particularly loved Larry Williams…Bony Moronie…John did Slow Down…I was always going to do She Said Yeah“. Roy Young (who was invited to join The Beatles) recorded a cover version in 1959. Paul McCartney finally recorded it in 1999.
The song, recorded between 1957 and 1958, also appears on the 1992 compilation of the same name.
Covers
The Beatles
“Bad Boy” is one of several Larry Williams songs which the Beatles covered during their career. Along with “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy“, “Bad Boy” was recorded by the band on May 10, 1965 (Larry Williams’ birthday), and was originally intended for a solely American release; however, “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy” featured on the British Help! album that year. “Bad Boy” was first released on Beatles VI in June 1965. It eventually got a UK release on A Collection of Beatles Oldies in December 1966. It is also available on the 1988 release, Past Masters, Volume One. […]
From The Usenet Guide to Beatles Recording Variations:
- [a] mono 10 May 1965.
US: Capitol T 2358 Beatles VI 1965.
UK: Parlophone PMC 7016 Collection of Oldies 1966.- [b] stereo 10 May 1965.
US: Capitol ST 2358 Beatles VI 1965.
UK: Parlophone PCS 7016 Collection of Oldies 1966, Parlophone PSLP 261 and PCM 1001 Rarities 1978-79.
CD: EMI CDP 7 90043 2 Past Masters 1 1988.[a] has bass and drums mixed louder.(Curious fact: this song was available in the US for about a year and a half before the rest of the world including the UK. It’s not the only song released first in the US, as some others from the Help! and Revolver albums in progress were sent out to fill in Capitol’s albums, but this is the only case where the song wasn’t actually used for the UK album.)
A bad little kid
Moved into my neighborhood
He won't do nothing right
Just a sitting got to look so good
He don't wanna go to school
And learn to read and write
Just sits around the house and plays
That rock and roll music all night
Well he put thumb tacks on teacher's chair
Put chewing gum in little girl's hair
Now Junior, behave yourself!
Buys every rock and roll book
On the magazine stand
Every dime that he gets
Oh he's off to the jukebox man
Well he worries his teacher
Till at night she's already to poop
From rocking and a rolling
Spinning in a hula-hoop
Well his rock and roll has gotta stop
Junior's head is hard as rock
Now Junior, behave yourself, ow!
Gonna tell ya mamma
You'd better do what she said
Get to the barber shop
And get that hair cut off your head
You shoot the canary
and you fed it to the neighbor's cat
You have the cocker spaniel
A bath in mother's Laundromat
Well ya mamma said it's gotta stop
Junior's head is hard as a rock
Now Junior, behave yourself! Woo
Official album • Released in 1965
2:17 • Studio version • A • Mono
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Official album • Released in 1965
2:17 • Studio version • B • Stereo
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
A Collection of Beatles Oldies (Mono)
LP • Released in 1966
2:18 • Studio version • A • Mono
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
A Collection of Beatles Oldies (Stereo)
LP • Released in 1966
2:18 • Studio version • B • Stereo
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Official album • Released in 1988
2:21 • Studio version • B
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Official album • Released in 2006
2:17 • Studio version • B2006 • Stereo • 2006 remaster
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer Ted Jensen : Remastering
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Official album • Released in 2006
2:17 • Studio version • A2006 • Mono • 2006 remaster
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer Ted Jensen : Remastering
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Mono Masters (Mono - 2009 remaster)
Official album • Released in 2009
2:17 • Studio version • A2009 • Mono • 2009 remaster
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer Paul Hicks : Remastering Guy Massey : Remastering Steve Rooke : Remastering Sean Magee : Remastering Allan Rouse : Project co-ordinator
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Past Masters (Stereo - 2009 remaster)
Official album • Released in 2009
2:21 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 remaster
Paul McCartney : Bass, Hohner pianet electric piano Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine John Lennon : Rhythm guitar, Vocals George Harrison : Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Norman Smith : Recording engineer Paul Hicks : Remastering Guy Massey : Remastering Steve Rooke : Remastering Sean Magee : Remastering Allan Rouse : Project co-ordinator
Session Recording & mixing: May 10, 1965 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
A/B Road Complete Get Back Sessions - Jan 24th, 1969 - 3 & 4
Unofficial album • Released in 2004
4:27 • Rehearsal • Jan.24 - D4-14 - Bad Boy 24.98
Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Help! - Studio Sessions - Back To Basics
Unofficial album • Released in 2011
2:22 • Alternate take • Rs From Take 4 Rock N Roll Music Stereo
Unofficial album • Released in 2012
3:37 • Studio version • 24.01.69) (Ambient Stereo
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.
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