^ The Coasters: The Complete Singles As & Bs 1954-62, Acrobat Licensing LTD., ADDCCD3180, 2016, UK.^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, June 22, 1957.^ Leiber & Stoller interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969).The song was sung by season 10 American Idol contestant Scotty McCreery during the Leiber & Stoller week of the competition. For the 1995 Doc Pomus tribute album Till The Night Is Gone - A Tribute To Doc Pomus released by Rhino Records, The Band also recorded a cover, which later appeared on the re-release of their 1996 album High on the Hog. The song appeared on Jerry Lee Lewis's 1995 album of the same name. "Young Blood" was performed by Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids (as "Johnny Fish and the Fins") in a Season Two episode of Happy Days. The Grateful Dead are known to have soundchecked the song. "Young Blood" has been covered by several other artists, including a live performance by Leon Russell at the 1971 Concert for Bangla Desh, who was accompanied by a stageful of world-class musicians including George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr another performance was included in Russell's three disk set Leon Live a 1983 version by Beach Boys guitarist Carl Wilson that served as the title track to Youngblood (his second solo album) and a version by Bruce Willis in The Return of Bruno (1987). Ĭash Box called it "a straight ahead rock -out version of a great song." Chart history It was released as a single, reaching the Top 20 in the United States and the Top 10 in Canada. Personnel per The Beatles Bible Bad Company cover "Young Blood"īad Company recorded the song on their 1976 LP Run with the Pack. Paul McCartney – backing vocals, bass guitar.John Lennon – backing vocals, rhythm guitar.George Harrison – lead vocals, lead guitar.It was recorded at the BBC Paris Studio, London on June 1, 1963, and George Harrison is the lead vocalist on this recording the tempo is moderately fast, considerably faster than in the original. Ī previously unreleased version performed by The Beatles (for the BBC radio show Pop Go the Beatles broadcast on June 11, 1963) is included on their album Live at the BBC, released in 1994. It is one of twelve songs recorded by them in July 1962 on a tape, which was re-purchased by Paul McCartney at a Sotheby's auction in 1985. The Beatles played "Young Blood" in their Cavern Club repertoire. The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe. The Coasters' version is ranked #414 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the group's only song on the list. It topped Billboard's R&B chart and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their version can also be heard on The Very Best of the Coasters album. This song is compared to the cleaner cut song "Standing on the Corner" from the musical The Most Happy Fella. "Young Blood" was originally recorded by The Coasters and released as a single together with " Searchin'" in March 1957 by Atco Records (#6087). The lyrical theme is one typical of early rock and roll: boy meets girl, then meets girl's father, who does not approve of boy so the boy departs, but cannot stop thinking about the girl, declaring "You're the one, you're the one, you're the one." Musically, the song follows a minor blues structure, built mostly around three chords (i7, iv7, V7) except for the bridge (IV, VI, III, V).
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