This got started as the Day Tripper instrumental bridge, available as a separate selection.  I then decided to expand to the complete song.  This was the flip side of We Can Work It Out single, and also appeared on:
a "Beatles oldies" LP (Parlophone label, UK) in late 1966 for the Christmas market there when it was apparent that the Beatles would have no new record out then;
Yesterday and Today (Capitol label, U.S.), the album which started out with the notorious "butcher" cover

Later expanded to the complete song (in a separate selection).  One of the guitar parts in this excerpt is a Mixolydian scale (one whole octave plus a fifth), and in expanding to the full song, I shifted the last note of that "octave plus fifth" scale so that it began and ended one sixteenth note earlier.

Once suggested by George Martin as a Beatles’ single, but the Beatles chose to release Please Please Me, a Lennon-McCartney composition, instead.  How Do You Do It turns up on Anthology 1, and on 5 Jan 2002 I discovered that the opening chord in that version has a C in the bass line where my version (already on the web) has an A bass (for A minor chord).  Anyway, this version reached me as a nice song which is obscure. (A version was released c. 1964 by Gerry and the Pacemakers.)

Partly based on the version heard in the movie "A Hard Day’s Night", just before the Beatles’ own version.  In Jan 2002, I read that this was the last Lennon-McCartney song written for George Harrison to sing; an earlier such song was Do You Want to Know a Secret.

On the "Let It Be" album, which was originally called "Get Back".  The bass line (much of which is "pedal point") is not something I commonly do, but I still thought this song should have had more exposure than it got.

Originally done by Barrett Strong in 1960, although the version you are reading about is based on the Beatles’ version, which was on:
    With the Beatles (Parlophone label, UK)
    The Beatles’ Second Album (Capitol label, U.S.)
I did this selection because I found it interesting that the piano notes stayed the same even as the chords changed.  The dissonances in this piece also got to be interesting as I made this arrangement.

I did this song for the drum beat occurring in the part in which was sung "This happened once before...", which occurs right at the song start. It was on:
    Beatles for Sale (Parlophone label, UK)
    Beatles ’65 (Capitol label, U.S.) 

Composed by George Harrison, and I had a complete arrangement by the time he died (29 Nov 2001), but after some thought, I padded out the music in the fadeout on 8 Jan 2002. This version was inspired by a demo I had heard on the "Beatle Brunch" radio program, so there is somewhat more piano heard in this than on the version released by the Beatles.

Was in "A Hard Day’s Night" movie, and is on these albums:
    A Hard Day’s Night (Parlophone label, UK), the one where ALL the songs’ composing credits were Lennon-McCartney!
    A Hard Day’s Night (United Artists label, U.S.), in which part of the album is instrumental music from the movie soundtrack.
    Something New (Capitol label, U.S.)

Like How Do You Do It, this is based on the version on Anthology 1.  In 1965, there was a released version by P. J. Proby.

Never a single that I know of, it was on:
    Beatles for Sale (Parlophone label, UK)
    Beatles VI (Capitol label, U.S.)
It starts with a drum-beat instrumental.

Is in the "Help!" movie (and also on the Parlophone and Capitol label albums called "Help!" in the UK and the U.S. respectively). It’s done in the movie scene where someone is sawing (through the floor from below) around Ringo (while the Beatles are singing that song). But that could not be a live performance, since (for example) Paul McCartney is seen at a piano and is also seen playing a guitar. (By the way, the Capitol album has only 7 songs by the Beatles and, like the United Artists album "A Hard Day’s Night", is filled out with instrumentals from the soundtrack.)  The song doesn’t break neatly into segments of four measures, and at the end of each of 2 occurrences (in the Beatles’ version) of the lyric "The way you treat her, what else can I do", you may think there is a measure missing.

This is the flip side of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” single (Capitol label, U.S.), but “This Boy” is the flip side of that single on Parlophone label, UK.  The song is also on some albums:
   Please Please Me (Parlophone label, UK)
   Introducing the Beatles (Vee-Jay label, U.S.)
   Meet the Beatles (Capitol label, U.S.)
On the “Meet the Beatles” album, the 1st song is “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, in treble-and-bass stereo; and the 2nd song is the one you are reading about, in voice-and-instrument stereo (not what I heard on the “Please Please Me” CD for the song you are reading about – which, by the way, is NOT on the Capitol-label album “The Early Beatles”, released 1965, because it was already on “Meet the Beatles”).
I decided to do this song because, in December 2001, I heard (on WQSR-FM in Baltimore) “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” using the same style.  I later used that style in that Christmas song and a version of Happy Birthday, both of them also on this site (look for Christmas and Happy Birthday pages).

Bad Boy

This is the second Larry-Williams-done-by-Beatles selection which I have arranged for this site.  I listened to the track on Past Masters Volume One CD, and this selection was also on:
   LP “Something New” (Capitol, U.S.)
   EP (extended play) “Long Tall Sally”

This is the third Larry-Williams-done-by-Beatles selection which I have arranged for this site.  It is written up in my notes for Bad Boy.

Was last cut on side 1 of “Smiley Smile” album, thus putting it just ahead of “Good Vibrations”.  This is the version I originally did on University of Delaware PLATO system (now defunct), using a program called “Musimatic” and a clarinet-like waveform (converted here to Hammond organ), c. 1980.  If you have the “Smiley Smile” album, check the harmony which first occurs 17 seconds into the song and you will know why I picked that song.

See notes for version 1.  The version you are reading about was done with piano waveform, in 2001 using NoteWorthy Composer.  Both versions are much simpler than the original cut by the Beach Boys.

Surfer Moon, The

Was on the “Surfer Girl” album in 1963, and (2 years before Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday” with the Beatles) had bowed-string instruments  Like “Heroes and Villains”, I transposed ½ step down.

Little Saint Nick backing

The song originally was on the Beach Boys Christmas album, and later, the backing appeared on “Stack-o-Tracks”.  And like I already did for 2 other Beach Boys selections, I transposed ½ step down.

I heard the beginning of this in October 2003 at Jason’s Woods (where I had gone for haunted attractions).  This excerpt is 37 seconds long.

On 30 December 2005, I was driving on old U.S. route 1 from Jennersville towards West Grove, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and I had tuned in radio station WVCH (740 AM, Chester, Pa.) in an attempt to get Christmas music/programming, and I accidentally pulled in an excerpt of the instrumental you are reading about, from another 740 AM radio station (CHWO, Toronto, Ontario, Canada).  Later, I was able to get someone in Canada to listen to the excerpt which was already on THIS web site, and I was then notified that it was "Surfer's Stomp" by the Marketts and was used at 7 PM Eastern time at the beginning of that station's "Flash Back" program.  In making the full arrangement you find on this web site, I used a stereo CD.

When You Wish Upon a Star

When You Wish Upon a Star

Was in 1940 “Pinocchio” movie.  My idea was to imitate Four Freshmen harmony, and I did this using Hammond organ waveform, since this site is not able to have voices on it.

The Washing Song

The Washing Song

Was in “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs” movie.  This version is based on 78 RPM, 7 inch record which was on Peter Pan label of 1950s vintage.

 Mickey Mouse Club

Mickey Mouse Club

This was done on University of Delaware PLATO in the 1980s, and I revived that version when I decided to set up a Disney page.  It is based on a 1950s-vintage record  (noting that Disneyland opened in 1955).

A Pirate's Life

A Pirate's Life

Based on what I heard at “Pirates of the Caribbean” in Adventureland (in Disneyland and in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World).

Wonderful World of Color

Wonderful World of Color

Based on memory of the opening to a 1960s Sunday night program (yes, it was Disney’s).

energy-exhibit excerpt

energy-exhibit excerpt

This is from Epcot's exhibit "Universe of Energy", in "Ellen's Energy Adventure" film, featuring Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye "The Science Guy", right next to its mentioning 900,000 B.C.  (I first saw this exhibit in 2006, and a year later, when the Spaceship Earth ride was not available yet, I went to this exhibit twice in a row, then got a paper towel from a restroom and wrote notes on it.)

I couldn’t top the versions by Percy Faith & His Orchestra (1960) or the Lettermen (vocal, 1965) or the Ventures (1969), so I thought of an apparently-obscure version which was on WDEL-AM radio in 1964, and (based on it) used the key of G major and the notes which appear (in the version you are reading about) in the lead-guitar part. I put the melody and harmony together in a part which uses Hammond organ waveform.  That version on WDEL was by Jimmy and the Jays (?), and I have never seen that name in print.

Same as the version I had done in 1998 with this exception:
The lead guitar is changed to "chorused piano", which sounds like a xylophone, thus closer to the 1964 version I wrote of earlier. I had  to double each note in the (previous) guitar part one octave higher and also bump up the dynamics of that part to make it comparable to the (previous) guitar part.

This arrangement is based on the version on the Peter Pan label in the 1950s; there is a transition missing which would appear in, say, the Boston Pops recording of such. On the Peter Pan label, it was 1st song of 2 on the same side of a 45 RPM record (the other song was Grandfather's Clock); on the flip side were Arkansas Traveler and Red River Valley in that order.

Call Me

Candy

Based on the Four Freshmen version, which was cited in the writeup for “Call Me”.

Hey Look Me Over

Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo

Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo

From a 1950s movie, with this version based on a children’s record (on the Cricket label) of the 1950s.

Candyland Merry-Go-Round

Based on 1959 release by Smoky Robinson and the Miracles.  As explained in the story behind my arranging Beatles’ version of “Bad Boy”, deciding to arrange this was independent of my decision to arrange “Bad Boy”.

Based on 1933(?) version by Leo Reisman and his orchestra.  That version did include a vocal.

From “My Fair Lady”.  I tried to imitate style of Beatles’ song “I’m Only Sleeping” but it didn’t work out that well; however, I saw my way to making (here) a complete version of “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”, and I put in a guitar tag at the end in imitation of another Beatles’ song, “Another Girl” (from Help! movie & LP).

Appeared in the 1958 movie “Tammy and the Bachelor”.

I know of 1972 version by The July Four, but was this out earlier, say in 1966?  The version appearing on this site is only 1:32 long, which would be a little short for a 1960s 2-to-3 minute single.

Originally on University of Delaware PLATO, referred to in story about my first version of Beach Boys’ “Little Pad” on this site.  (There were a maximum of four simultaneously-sounding tones of that sawtooth waveform, and no percussion available.)  That PLATO version of “Gee” is restored here.  Song was done c. 1954 by The Crows, in an up-tempo doo-wop, and is in 1973 film “American Graffiti” but was not on that movie’s soundtrack album.

Based on 1933 version (a hit in 1947) by Ted Weems and his orchestra. On 2^nd go-around of the melody, I used a high-pitched melodic tom waveform to try to simulate a tambourine.

Was sung by Honore’ (played by Maurice Chevalier, for whom this became a “signature” song, in the 1958 movie “Gigi”).

Was on the Jubilee label (1950, give or take a few years?), performed by Sunny and His Gang.

Was done by Nat King Cole c. 1963. I transposed up ½ step after this arrangement was finished.

My arrangement of this, my favorite Bobby Darin song, was done before I learned of the movie of that name. The song is apparently based on the French “La Mer”, and it comes on when the movie reaches the part about the romance with Sandra Dee. Bobby Darin’s recording of this song was released 1959.

So This Is Love

This was recorded by The Castells, and was originally released in 1962.

Honey Halfwitch

This was a cartoon from 1966(?), although I found the music to be something of a “throwback”.

Marlena

This was recorded by The Four Seasons, and was originally released in 1963.

O Mari

This is an Italian song (I heard this at an Italian festival in 1986 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and I understand this was also done at a similar festival in Wilmington, Delaware).  The version I arranged here is based on the version (1957) by The Gaylords.

The best-known version of this was by The Hollies, but this is based on a less-known version (by Herman's Hermits).  Those 2 versions were released 1966.

I heard this at Storybook Land, which is along Black Horse Pike (US 40/322) in Pleasantville, New Jersey, not far from Atlantic City.

This is my next Four Freshmen imitation, with me coming up with a non-Christmas number after I had done "(The) Christmas Song" and "Mistletoe & Holly" on this site's Christmas page.  I was in the Bronx Zoo's Christmas display on December 29, 2006, when I came up with the opening (a take-off on the Four Freshmen doing "Candy" except that I start in F major instead of F minor).  On June 9, 2007, I was in the Paladin complex near Edgemoor (suburb of Wilmington, Delaware, and I had lived in that complex as a baby when it was the Clifton Park Manor Apartments), and I came up with some of the ending (last 2 measures along with the C-sharp-to-D-sharp step in the melody about 3 measures earlier.

I heard this (here repeated 12 times) playing in a loop on 103.3 FM when tuned into it along northbound I-95 in Marcus Hook and/or Chester, PA in December 2007. Apparently this was not the 103.3 FM which was playing Christmas music in the York/Lancaster/Harrisburg area.  Initiallly, I was thinking of the Beach Boys doing something like "Barbara Ann", until I listened more closely.
 

This was originally (?) c. 1959.  The lyrics I recall were "wiggle ... walk ... ponytail", with "ponytail" appearing where the organ harmony starts to appear in the version I am writing about here (i.e.,  in what I have arranged for this site).  Unfortunately, entering "wiggle walk ponytail" (omitting the quotation marks) in a search engine gets references to something else: the song "Chantilly Lace", a hit for the Big Bopper, who was killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959.