On Saturday, 26 August 2023 at 20:06:52 UTC+1, Bruce wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HyjUZ60AdI
Its well known that The Beatles first UK tour in February 1963 was supporting (as 4th on the bill) British songstress Helen Shapiro.
EMI A&R man Norrie Paramor asked them to compose a song for her which was "Misery"
Paramor rejected it for Shapiro as being "unsuitable" but another artist on the same tour---Kenny Lynch----recorded it instead thus becoming the first artist to cover a Beatles song.
But to be accurate I have a date of 15 March 1963 for the Lynch release and 22 March the definite release date of "Please Please Me" the first Beatles LP (that contains "Misery")---thus making the Lynch 45 the first released version of the song
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