Songs Mentioning the Beatles: Pop Hates the Beatles

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Someone accurately predicted this song would show up. It’s easy to see why this one is a shoo-in: it’s a comedic tune, and it mentions the Beatles in the title. So congratulations, @mininifty you win the psychic award. Here’s today’s song. Pop Hates the Beatles - Allan Sherman Allan Sherman was popular in his day, yet he hasn’t remained in most people’s memories. (Mine excluded because I love parodies.) His best-known song was “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp).” The first thing I saw him do was “Strange Things in My Soup” on David Frost’s talk show in the late 60s/early 70s. That was a spoof of “Strangers in the Night.” He took a slap at Sinatra and Jackie Gleason with the album title For Swingin’ Livers Only! (since Gleason had an orchestral album called Music for Lovers Only and Sinatra had one called Music for Swingin’ Lovers). The song, however, is aimed right at the Beatles. The final line, about sending the Beatles to a barber, is indicative of what a lot of parents didn’t like about the Beatles: they had (gasp) LONG HAIR. Yeah, never mind all those early US presidents that had something beyond the standard boot camp haircut (or wigs that made it look like they had longer hair). Other than that, most of the parental complaints about the lads from Liverpool were identical to what they said about Elvis. Or Sinatra before him. Allan Sherman died very young, at the age of 48, from heart problems. He’d been mostly forgotten even at the time of his death (in 1973). He hasn’t been forgotten by those who like a laugh. Pop Hates the Beatles Based on “Pop Goes the Weasel” Written by Allan Sherman and Lou Busch Recorded by Allan Sherman From For Swingin’ Livers Only!, 1964 BEATLE REFERENCE LYRICS: the entire song Ringo is the one with the drum: