1965 Top Ten Songs: Yesterday (#1)

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Oh, come on, what did you think would top the list of songs that are now 60 years old? Listen, I’m crazy but I’m not nuts! For the last time, let’s go back to 1965 and the song that I think shines brightest from things released that year. #1: Yesterday - The Beatles You probably know that Paul McCartney started this with nonsense lyrics: “Scrambled eggs, oh yeah, baby, how I love your legs.” What the song became, however, is one of the greatest songs of the rock era. You can probably sing this song backwards in your sleep. Yes, “everybody” knows it. And, when a song is that familiar, it can cause a dulling of the senses to the greatness of the song. Seriously, have you listened to what a great song something is or have you gone, “Oh, crap, they’re playing THAT again!!” It’s really easy to do the latter, and quite hard to do the former. In the case of “Yesterday,” it is reportedly THE most-covered song of the rock era, bar none. You can hear a cover of it and probably turn it off in three notes, realizing it’s not good (looking at you, Michael Bolton ). But occasionally we need to divorce ourselves from that musical familiarity and listen to a song as if we’re hearing it for the first time. That’s when this song will hit you between the eyes. No matter how many times you’ve heard it. Thanks for reading. Yesterday Written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) Recorded by the Beatles From Yesterday and Today, 1965 Why she had to go, I don’t know: