Title: Maggie May (folk song) - Wikipedia
Headings: Maggie May (folk song)
Maggie May (folk song)
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Content: It is sung in the third person and Maggie is transformed into a heroine whose departure from the streets is lamented ("some rotten Homeward Bounder has got his grip around her"). This version was performed by Kenneth Haigh in the original cast recording of the musical. The Bart version was regularly sung by Judy Garland, and was recorded by her on the Maggie May EP in 1964. The Beatles are known to have seen and discussed the Bart musical. The song was also recorded by The Searchers and by Hughie Jones of The Spinners (Jones later claimed that the real Maggie May lived in Duke Street and died in 1952). It was also recorded in several albums of sea shanties, by Cyril Tawney, Bob Roberts and others. The Beatles' version
"Maggie Mae"
Song by the Beatles
from the album Let It Be
Released
8 May 1970
Recorded
24 January 1969
Studio
Apple, London
Genre
Skiffle
Length
0:40
Label
Apple, EMI
Songwriter (s)
trad. arr. Lennon – McCartney – Harrison – Starkey
Producer (s)
Phil Spector
A brief extract was performed by the Beatles in a joking manner during their Get Back sessions, in early 1969, at a point in the proceedings when they were warming up in the studio by playing old rock and roll and skiffle songs that they had known and played in their teenage years. They adopt heavy scouse accents for the performance.