Here's a look back at all the songs I played at the start of each morning show with Breakfast with Behka and The Beatles. On Monday, I played "Run for Your Life".

This song was the last track on the 1965 album Rubber Soul. The lyrics to this one are very possessive: "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man." The line was taken from an early Elvis Presley song, "Baby, Let's Play House" (written by Arthur Gunter). Lennon designated this song as his "least favourite Beatles song" in a 1973 interview and later said it was the song he most regretted writing. He also stated that the song was one of George Harrison's favorite songs on Rubber Soul at that time, despite Lennon's dislike of it. John would revisit this theme in a more apologetic fashion with his post-Beatles song "Jealous Guy".

On Tuesday, I played "Lonesome Tears in My Eyes".

"Lonesome Tears in My Eyes" is a song written by Johnny Burnette, Dorsey Burnette, Paul Burlison and Al Mortimer. It was first released by co-writer Johnny Burnette and his Rock 'n' Roll Trio in March 1957. The Beatles version was recorded "live in studio" for the BBC radio program Pop Go The Beatles on 10 July 1963, and later transmitted on 23 July. In 1994, their recording was commercially released on the album Live at the BBC. The song also influenced a later Beatles song, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" in that the outro guitar riff to that song was inspired by the corresponding intro guitar riff on "Lonesome Tears in My Eyes".

On Wednesday, I played "Yesterday".

According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it. As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled "Scrambled Eggs" (the working opening verse was "Scrambled Eggs/Oh, my baby how I love your legs"), was used for the song until something more suitable was written.  It was never released as a single in the UK because the group felt it didn't fit in with their style.  It has since been covered more than 2,000 times by other artists.

On Thursday, I played "Good Night".

John Lennon originally wrote the song as a lullaby for his five-year-old son Julian. George Martin's arrangement is excessively lush, and intentionally so. Lennon is said to have wanted the song to sound "real cheesy", like a Gordon Jenkins-esque Old Hollywood production number. The musicians play the following instruments: twelve violins, three violas, three cellos, one harp, three flutes, one clarinet, one horn, one vibraphone, and one string bass. The Mike Sammes Singers also took part in the recording, providing backing vocals. Ringo became the third member of the group (after Paul McCartney and George Harrison) to record a song credited to the group without the other members performing (Lennon was the fourth with "Julia"). The song ends with Starr whispering the words: "Good night... Good night, everybody... Everybody, everywhere... Good night."

On Friday, I played "Devil In Her Heart".

The song was originally recorded as "Devil in His Heart" in Detroit by The Donays for Correc-tone Records. The song was later picked up by the New York City label Brent and was re-released in August 1962, as "(There's a) Devil in His Heart" with the B-side "Bad Boy". This pairing also appeared in the United Kingdom on the Oriole label in 1962. The record was not a hit on either side of the Atlantic. As "Devil in Her Heart", the song was performed  with George Harrison on lead vocals. It was recorded and issued on their second UK album, With the Beatles, in November 1963.

Let me know if there's something you want to hear next week. We'll start up again on Monday at 6:00 a.m.

Devilly yours,
Behka

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