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from Part IV - The Beatles’ Sound
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
The Beatles – which is to say John Lennon and Paul McCartney – dabbled in songwriting individually, prior to their joining forces in the Quarry Men in 1957. Paul had famously composed a ditty called “I Lost My Little Girl,” a skiffle-styled number that may have been influenced by the recent death of his mother when he was fourteen. John less famously wrote a song of which no record exists, titled “Calypso Rock.” In both instances, the two aspiring tunesmiths employed current styles as models for their compositions. (Calypso, embodied by Harry Belafonte, was a popular musical style in the USA and UK, coinciding with the nascent – and more popular – skiffle and rock ’n’ roll eras.) It was quite natural for aspiring songwriters to draw upon styles of the day that drew their interest, distinct from the prevailing pop and jazz sounds.
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