Title: “Yesterday”: The Most Recorded Song of All-Time - Neatorama
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“Yesterday”: The Most Recorded Song of All-Time
Tags: Deezen, Eddie Deezen, Yesterday, Paul McCartney, Beatles
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Content: It's too soft. I need a good rocker, a shuffle or something.” Although “Yesterday" has been covered by thousands of different and diverse artists, only four versions have actually made the charts: those by the Beatles, Matt Monro, Ray Charles and Marianne Faithfull. “It was the only song I ever dreamed,” said McCartney. True- “Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream. Paul woke up one morning, late in 1963 in the attic bedroom of Jane Asher's house (Jane was his then-girlfriend) with a complete melody in his head and set some nonsense lyrics to it. The original title was actually “Scrambled Eggs.” Although the melody was magnificent, Paul's original lyrics were slightly sophomoric: “ Scrambled eggs, oh you've got such lovely legs, scrambled eggs.