which is restricting you from ‘running around’, which is what the singer is being tempted to do. "We'd done the whole album and Diana said, 'Well, we still need one more song from somewhere.' The September 9th, 2009 remastered version on CD brought the album into stereo for the first time in the US, the vinyl edition coming out on November 13th, 2012. The third appearance of the song was on the BBC show “Pop Go The Beatles,” recorded June 17th and aired on June 25th, 1963. second BBC appearance, recorded on April 1st, 1963, was on the BBC show “Side By Side,” although it didn’t air until May 13th. In their lean, early years, The Beatles were always on the hunt for new music to learn in order to perform it in their “stage act.” Through those early times, as they gained confidence and exposure, they became quite in high demand locally, as well as in Hamburg, Germany. were released in this portable format, "Chains" being on one of them. were songwriting partners who worked in the legendary Brill Building in New York City. After two verses, the bridge is sung solo by George, which when repeated later in the song, has a different set of lyrics. Being fresh in their minds, it was chosen to grace their first British album “Please Please Me” as well as their first American LP. This week Blogging the Beatles is starting a new regular feature: The “Who Wrote It?” quiz, which will ask you who wrote the songs on each album the Beatles made. The results are shown to be very well rehearsed, as not much time beforehand could have been used to perfect it. During the third verse, Lennon’s rhythm guitar breaks up somewhat, which may be a hint to the mystery voice that is heard just as the second bridge starts. Ms Devaney wrote: “The Abbey’s Beatles heritage and the building itself are of huge significance to our community. Both of these features would be used to better effect in the near future as well as throughout their career. These liner notes also indicate that it was George Harrison, not Paul, who saw the potential in The Cookies' single "Chains" and thereby purchased the record at "NEMS" record shop in December of 1962. So in the last gasps of their Cavern Club days, they added the song “Chains” to their, by now, huge repertoire. The next US appearance of the song came with the Vee Jay double-album compilation “The Beatles vs. "Anna" PREVIOUS - NEXT "Boys", CLICK HERE to hear the author's new album "Clarity". "'Chain Reaction' was never originally meant to be on the album," Barry Gibb later revealed in 1000 UK Number One Hits. It was a hit for the American girl group the Cookies in 1962 and in 1963 the Beatles recorded the song for their debut album. This version of the album was only available for a short time and is quite collectible today. Vee Jay's "Introducing The Beatles" album, The Beatles with Helen Shapiro (next to Ringo) on the set of the British TV show "Ready Steady Go". The American girl group The Cookies probably wouldn’t fit into anyone’s list of favorite rock and roll groups, as it surely didn’t with The Beatles either. This album included "Chains" and was prepared utilizing half-speed mastering technology from the original master tape on loan from EMI. Between approximately 9:00 and 9:30 pm, four takes of the song were performed, although the first was deemed the best. 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