In this Beatles podcast episode, Mary Devlin joins us for a songwriter’s conversation about That Means a Lot, one of the more interesting Beatles deep cuts. As usual, there is more here than meets the eye, and we have a sharp discussion about songwriting, social media, and Beauty and the Beast.

We cover:

-How That Means a Lot could be Paul's response to Ticket to Ride

-Is there a number of chords you need to have a good song?

-PJ Proby’s version of the song

-The Beatles’ multiple attempts to record the song, including a Beatles first

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On this episode of our Beatles podcast, we take a song Peter barely knew and turn it into one of the most spirited conversations in the series. On Bad Boy, Note by Note brings in Jesse Pollack from All You Need Is Pod to talk about this iconic track, one of the last of its kind.

We cover:

-Larry Williams’ original versus the Beatles version and what changed in the arrangement

-John Lennon’s vocal performance and the debate over where it ranks among Beatles covers

-The emergency Help-era session, Beatles VI, and the rush to get the song to America

-The Hohner Pianet C, the Studer tape machine, and a new recording technique

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In this Beatles Lecture Series, “Yes It Is” stops sounding like a simple warning about a color and starts sounding like grief masked as control, with the lecture arguing the real “it” is pride and the performance carries a ghost-like weight. You also get a guided listen through the three-part harmony, why it feels unusually crunchy and a little unstable, how it shifts between tight clusters and barbershop-like movement, and the question of how much George Martin may have shaped what we’re hearing.

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