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21 November 2012
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Yeah I think so too, or at least it should have been an A side of SOME single.
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7 February 2014
Offline Ob la di Ob la da has hit single written all over it. Actually, as I’m sure many of you know, a group called Marmalade recorded it and had a number 1 hit with it.
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1 November 2013
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All right, this was THE BEATLES. Anything they released automatically became a hit. They could have released Revolution 9 /What’s The New Mary Jane and people would have bought it. And even not being so crazy, most of their songs could have been hits after 1964
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6 February 2014
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3 May 2012
Offline OneCoolCat said
This Boy
I’m not so sure. I love the song, I think it’s lovely and the harmonies are fantastic, but the success of its A-side goes to show that the teenagers listening to the Beatles by this point wanted something more fiery I think. Not to say it wouldn’t have sold, but I think it suits being a B just fine. After Please Please Me , I think releasing this would’ve been seen as ”going back” slightly.
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Offline I think what would have been very interesting, especially in 1969/1970, would have been to release You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) as an A side with something purposely “weak” as the B side (like an edited version of Revolution 9 ) , so DJs couldn’t create an alternate A side by playing the B side.
Imagine DJs having to say, “So OK folks, here’s the new single by the Beatles – this one is different – let us know what you think!” and then playing YKMNLUTN
You have to wonder how high or low on the charts it would have gone.
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1.50pm
28 January 2013
Offline B-Sides get no love from a casual fans. Some of my favorite songs from 1963 were all B-sides. If This Boy was backed with another song, then it would’ve been a hit.
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2.27pm
7 February 2014
Offline I think Across The Universe would have made a good single.
2.30pm
3 May 2012
Offline BBCSessions1963 said
B-Sides get no love from a casual fans. Some of my favorite songs from 1963 were all B-sides. If This Boy was backed with another song, then it would’ve been a hit.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I adore This Boy . It’s beautiful. I think it’s the first song of theirs that I really liked, actually. I just don’t think it would’ve done so well in the charts. I dunno, maybe I’m wrong.
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6.09pm
3 February 2014
Offline It Wont Be Long
All My Loving (was in Canada, of course)
You’re Gonna Lose that Girl
You Wont See Me
Got to Get You Into Life (It was in 70s, and a hit)
Lucy in Sky
Back in USSR
Ob-Bla-Di
Dont Let Me Down
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8 February 2014
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8 February 2014
Offline tulane said
I think Across The Universe would have made a good single.
Do you mean the Past Masters version. What would be the B-side. Perhaps, “Only A Northern Song .”
I suggest, “Glass Onion ,” / “Rocky Raccoon .”
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4 February 2014
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ptybeatle said
Hi this is the biggest panamanian (pty, code for Panama) beatle fan saying hello, I consider that “Rain “, the B-side of “Paperback Writer “, would have made a good and chart topper single.
That’s what I was thinking. 
Linde said
Here Comes The Sun , It Won’t Be Long , maybe even No Reply , Drive My Car , Michelle (for a long time I thought DMC and Michelle both were singles!), Saw her standing there..Oh and of course Revolution 9 . Obviously.
Of course… It would’ve been but was probably too long for a single… 
11.50am
5 February 2014
Offline So what are some singles you wished they released that they didn’t?
I’ve got a few:
I Saw Her Standing There / Twist And Shout – imagine this as their debut single!
I’ll Be Back / Any Time At All
No Reply / Every Little Thing
The Night Before / You’re Going To Lose That Girl
If I Needed Someone / Drive My Car
Taxman / She Said She Said
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds / Fixing A Hole
Hey Bulldog / Across The Universe
Helter Skelter / Yer Blues
Two of Us / One After 909
Here Comes The Sun / You Never Give Me Your Money
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1 November 2013
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3 June 2014
Offline A-side/B-side, unless otherwise noted.
In My Life /If I Needed Someone
What You’re Doing /Every Little Thing
Eight Days A Week /Words Of Love
Things We Said Today /I’ll Be Back
All My Loving /All I’ve Got To Do
I Saw Her Standing There /There’s A Place
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds /Within You Without You
Getting Better /She’s Leaving Home
While My Guitar Gently Weeps /Glass Onion
Birthday /Helter Skelter (Double A-side)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun /Piggies
Hey Bulldog /It’s All Too Much
You Never Give Me Your Money /I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Here Comes The Sun /Oh! Darling (Double A-side)
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1 November 2013
Offline Linde said
Here Comes The Sun , It Won’t Be Long , maybe even No Reply , Drive My Car , Michelle (for a long time I thought DMC and Michelle both were singles!), Saw her standing there..Oh and of course Revolution 9 . Obviously.
Of course… It would’ve been but was probably too long for a single…
It could work if it is both the A and B side
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1 May 2011
Offline As there was already a similar thread on songs that would have should or could have been singles i’ve merged them together. Hope thats ok.
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1.26pm
17 October 2013
Offline Good stuff …….except for Piggies and Savoy Truffle ….. George’s representation is about right without these two.
3.52pm
15 May 2014
Offline Von Bontee said
Ha ha yeah, the very thought of hearing “Walrus” on the radio in ’67 – I can imagine all those teenagers fiddling with their transistor-dials, trying in vain to get better reception when that shortwave-static/”King Lear” bit begins!
I read your post… and I can’t stop laughing!
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