Beatles Week: Part Two

There's a story going back to 1964 when Lennon & McCartney were writing hits for others, like "A World Without Love" for Peter & Gordon and "Bad To Me" for Billy J. Kramer, where critics were claiming these songs were only hits because of The Beatles' names attached to them. So, as a fake out, McCartney wrote "Woman" for Peter & Gordon under the alias Bernard Webb. When it only reached #28 in the U.K., the same critics said, "See?," while those more understanding blamed the song itself, saying it wasn't one of McCartney's bettter tunes. The U.S thought better of it and "Woman" peaked at #14.

I think "Woman" is an amazing record and I fell deeper in love with it when I heard Frankie Siragusa cover it 2020.

At the time, Frankie Siragusa played drums for The Posies, and he released a solo album in 2020 called "Goodbye My Love: Lost Songs Of Lennon & McCartney, Covered and Rediscovered" with a little help from Jellyfish's Roger Joseph Manning and Keith Sletterdahl from The 88. On the surface it looks like another attempt to record those great early sides that The Beatles gave away to the likes of Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, & Peter & Gordon, except this is unbelievably good! The whole record is worth your time.