The songs released by The Beatles and Paul McCartney have been part of the playlists of millions of people around the world for decades. But which songs are on Paul’s own jukebox? He once mentioned six songs that are part of it, and Rock and Roll Garage compiled what he said about them and his connection to the musicians who recorded them. 6 songs Paul McCartney said are on his jukebox Elvis Presley "All Shook Up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23zLefwiii4&pp=ygUcRWx2aXMgUHJlc2xleSAiQWxsIFNob29rIFVwIg%3D%3D The first song mentioned by Paul in an interview with Adam Buxton was Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up". He said: "I’ve got an old jukebox. So “All Shook Up” by Elvis takes me back and lifts my spirits." The song was written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis, being released as a single in 1957. It was a hit and topped the United States Billboard Top 100 for nine weeks at the time. At the time his band was formed by Scotty Moore (Guitar), Bill Black (Double Bass) and D.J. Fontana (Drums). Like most of the Rock musicians from his era, McCartney was deeply influenced by Elvis Presley. During the same interview, The Beatle revealed that the American musician was one of the coolest people he had the chance to meet. The Fab Four was invited to go to his house in Beverly Hills in the 60s and they even jammed with him for a while. In the following years Presley recorded a few Beatles songs. Some of them were “Hey Jude”, “Something”, “Yesterday”, “Get Back” and “Lady Madonna”. Little Richard “Lucille” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydBkmgJi-g&pp=ygUcTGl0dGxlIFJpY2hhcmQg4oCcTHVjaWxsZeKAndIHCQmNCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D Of course, Little Richard is also on McCartney's jukebox and the Beatle was always a huge fan of his music and singing. "Little Richard happens to also be on this jukebox. 'Lucille' and 'Good Golly, Miss Molly' are serious recordings. I love them." "Someone said that Little Richard had actually given you some instructions for how to hit that extremely high wail that you do on some of the Beatles tracks. I just copied him. I just copied him and I just admitted. So he always said 'you know, I taught Paul everything he knew'. I said 'Yes, you did, Richard'”. One of the godfathers of Rock and Roll music, Little Richard was extremely influential and certainly music wouldn't have been the same without him. The Beatles had the chance to even be his opening act in the early 60s, McCartney once recalled they learned a lot from him, also that he was a "total nutcase" but a great guy. "Lucille" was released in 1957 and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" in 1958. Gene Vincent "Be Bop a Lula" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWFlLYZm0tA&pp=ygUcR2VuZSBWaW5jZW50ICJCZSBCb3AgYSBMdWxhIg%3D%3D Gene Vincent's biggest hit "Be Bop a Lula" is also there and McCartney recalled the good memories he has from that record. 'Be Bop A Lula' by Gene Vincent, just because it’s the first record I bought, ever. I remember going into Currys, going around the back with a little record department and buying it, taking it home and just being so thrilled with it," he said. The track was released by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps in 1956. The song was part of the soundtrack of the famous Hollywood movie "The Girl Can't Help It", which is also one of Paul's favorite movies. In an interview with Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood, Paul recalled that Gene could be a little paranoid sometimes. They had the chance to meet him back in the 60s and saw some strange things happening. The musician died in 1971 at the age of 36, a victim of internal bleeding and heart failure. Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0&pp=ygUgQm9iIER5bGFuICJMaWtlIGEgUm9sbGluZyBTdG9uZSI%3D "Then, you know, through the years, maybe, Bob Dylan stuff, 'Like a Rolling Stone'. Those kind of records are fantastic," Paul McCartney said. The Beatles were deeply influenced by Dylan and had the chance to meet him in the early days of their career. Although they were making a different kind of music, the American songwriter inspired them because, on his first records, he showed that it was possible to write your own songs that didn't necessarily have to be about love. During the same conversation, Paul said that like Elvis, Dylan also was one of the coolest people he meet. He talked about that experience in an interview for the Beatles Anthology released in 1995 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). “It was a great honor to meet him. We had a crazy party the night we met, I thought I’d got the meaning to life that night. I went around trying to find our roadie (saying to him) ‘Mal, Mal get a pencil and a paper, I got it!’ Mal was a bit out (of himself) and he couldn’t find a pencil and paper anywhere.” “Eventually in the end of the evening he found it and I wrote down my message for the universe, you know. I said (to the roadie), ‘Keep that in the pocket’. The next morning he said ‘Paul, do you wanna see?’. I said ‘What?’, he said ‘That bit of paper’. I said ‘Oh yeah!’ I had written ‘There are seven levels’,” Paul McCartney said. Although they had the chance to meet from time to time, Dylan was more close to the late George Harrison. They worked together a few times and then were part of the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. The Beach Boys "God Only Knows" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5UqaBfolcc&pp=ygUXZ29kIG9ubHkga25vd3MgcGF1bCBtY2M%3D “Pet Sounds” is definitely right up there. "God Only Knows", I just think is a supreme creation. And I had the privilege of doing a charity gig where Brian was on it. And we sang it together. I tell you… In rehearsal, I couldn’t hold it together. I started crying, I was standing at the mic with Brian." "And you know, the lyrics 'Life could show nothing to me, so what good would living do me'. It was what I was supposed to be singing with him. So I had to kind of burst through it, but I think that one is an incredible song. I think the whole album is incredible. There’s so much stuff, Bob Marley (too), you know…," Paul McCartney said. McCartney always shared his love for The Beach Boys and especially for Brian Wilson, who was the mastermind behind their praised records. He even said once that "Pet Sounds" was the album that he used to educate his kids musically. When they were old enough he gave to each one of them a copy of the album. As he said, he had the chance to perform that track live with Brian Wilson in the United States in the early 2000s.
