Harry Nilsson – All for the Beatles (1964)

I stopped making videos since years, uploading my old videos every now and then, but for this one I couldn’t resist. Using CPU windows 7 and old software programs. Not a nice melody or incredible music, but it is historic! It is a rock ’n’ roll song from 1964, which was written by Harry Nilsson and John Marascalco. It was released on a single with the alternative title Stand Up and Holler under Nilsson’s pseudonym „Foto-Fi Four“ and was sold as a magazine gimmick together with a synchronized Standard 8 mm film of The Beatles arriving in USA. The rhythm is similar to Not Fade Away, a Buddy Holly cover by The Rolling Stones, and is thus based on Bo Diddley’s song Bo Diddley. A cover version was later released as All for the Beatles (Stand Up and Holler) by the The Originals. The song, which preempted the later friendship and collaboration of Nilsson with The Beatles, was not a commercial success, but the single became a sought-after collectible“.