“I only play three chords on the guitar and three on the piano. “I wrote ‘Don’t Pass Me By’ when I was sitting around at home,” said Starr. When Starr was asked if he would write any songs for The Beatles, Paul McCartney interjected with his “Don’t Pass Me By” lyrics singing, Don’t pass me by / Don’t make me cry / Don’t make me blue. The song was first mentioned in a 1964 interview with the band on the BBC radio show Top Gear. Though Starr also wrote and co-wrote a number of songs for The Beatles, including “Octopus’s Garden,” “Maggie Mae,” “Dig It,” and “Flying,” when it came to “Don’t Pass Me By,” it took four years before it was recorded and released. The first song recorded for the album was a country waltz, “Baby’s In Black,” recorded with Lennon and McCartney singing their vocal parts through the same microphone, simultaneously. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartneyīy the time The Beatles were recording Beatles for Sale, they had already met Bob Dylan and were influenced by more folk and country, which has some inflections on the album. “ Baby’s In Black,” Beatles for Sale (1964) He also added more country twang to his song “So Wrong For So Long,” which he co-wrote with Dave Stewart for his 2017 album, Give More Love.Ĭountry always surfaced in one way or another with The Beatles, which is evident on these five tracks recorded by the four.ġ. The biggest country fan in The Beatles may have been Ringo Starr, who wrote and co-wrote a few country-bent songs for the group and released a country and western-influenced solo album, Beaucoups of Blues, in 1970. Post-Beatles, Paul McCartney’s band Wings hit the country singles chart with “Sally G,’ featuring Nashville musicians Johnny Gimble, Lloyd Green, and Bob Wills, while John Lennon once wrote a letter to Waylon Jennings in 1975 hinting at a song he wished he had covered-perhaps Jennings’ hit “I’m a Ramblin’ Man,” released a year earlier.
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