From '' The Beatles Vol. I ''
Released: 2007
Tracks
01. She Loves You
02. Yesterday
03. Help
04. Something
05. Lady Madonna
06. The Long And Winding Road
07. Yellow Submarine
08. Let It Be
09. And I Love Her
10. Here Comes The Sun
11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
12. Hey Jude
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"Help!" is a song by The Beatles that served as the title song for both the 1965 film and its soundtrack album.
It was also released as a single, and was number one for three weeks in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
"Help!" was written primarily by John Lennon, but credited (as were all Beatles songs written by either person) to Lennon/McCartney.
The title was "out of desperation".
In 2004, "Help!" was ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Cover versions
In 1968 Deep Purple recorded a cover version for their album Shades of Deep Purple.
In 1970 The Carpenters recorded a cover version for their album Close to You.
In 1975 Caetano Veloso released a cover on his album Joia.
In 1976 Henry Gross covered it for the musical documentary All This and World War II. John Lennon once stated that this was his favourite version of the song. Harrison and McCartney perform backing vocals.
In 1976 The Damned covered the song for the B-side of "New Rose."
Dolly Parton included a bluegrass version of "Help!" on her 1979 Great Balls of Fire album.
In 1980 John Farnham released the song as a piano-based ballad recorded at a much slower tempo.
In 1984 Tina Turner released a version of the song recorded with The Crusaders that peaked at #40 in the UK. The song was included on European editions of her album Private Dancer.
In 1985 Roy Orbison Performed a version of the song at much slower tempo for the Television Documentary Everyman: John Lennon "Journey In The Life," which aired on December 6th.
In 1989 the song was recorded by Bananarama alongside French & Saunders and Kathy Burke and released as the official Red Nose Day single to raise money for Comic Relief. French, Saunders and Burke were credited as Lananeeneenoonoo (a parody of Bananarama who they had imitated in the French & Saunders television programme). This version reached #3 in the UK charts.
In May 1990, Kylie Minogue performed her band's arrangement of the song before a crowd of 25,000 at the John Lennon: The Tribute Concert on the banks of the River Mersey in Liverpool.
In 1991 Waltari covered "Help!" on their debut album, Monk Punk.
In 1995 88 Fingers Louie recorded a version on their first full-length release, Behind Bars.
In 1995 Little Texas recorded a version of the song for the Beatles tribute album Come Together: America Salutes the Beatles.
In 1995, Swedish pop group Roxette recorded an acoustic version during their session at the Abbey Road Studios. It would not be commercially available until 2006, when it was finally released on The Rox Box/Roxette 86-06 box set.
In 1998 The Punkles did a punk cover of this song on their first album.
In 1999 Claire Martin recorded a slowed-down cover on her album Take My Heart with Noel Gallagher on guitar.
In 2000 Tsunku and 7HOUSE covered "Help!" on their Beatles' cover album, A Hard Day's Night.
In 2003 Art Paul Schlosser recorded a parody of "Help!" called "Smelt" which appears on on his Words of Cheese and Other Parrot CD.
In 2004, Westlife performed the song on their Turnaround Tour.
Silverstein released a cover version on their fourth album, A Shipwreck in the Sand.
"Help!" has also been covered by Michael Stanley, dc Talk, Alma Cogan, Rick Wakeman, Howie Day, McFly, Fountains of Wayne, John's Children - Marc Bolan and Peter Sellers.
The Rutles' song "Ouch!" is a tongue-in-cheek parody of this song.
Cultural references
American author Mark Z. Danielewski frequently refers to this song in his novel House of Leaves.
The song featured in "Cutting It Close", an episode of Full House, when Jesse Katsopolis breaks both of his arms in a motorcycle accident and has to adjust to a life in which he always needs assistance.
The lyrics are quoted in the film Yellow Submarine; when Young Fred knocks on the Beatles' door, he says, "Won't you please, please help me?"
In the Powerpuff Girls episode "Meet the Beat-Alls", a military sergeant says "Help, we need somebody, help, not just anybody, help, we need the Powerpuff Girls."
In the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Jolly Boys' Outing", Mickey Pearce sings "Won't you please, please help me?" to a sleeping Albert, prompting Albert to tell him to "Get off, you noisy little git!" The version playing on the radio as Mickey sings is the Bananarama cover version rather than the original.
Several Major League Baseball teams (notably the New York Yankees) play the song when the opposing manager/pitching coach go out for a mound visit.
The release year of the song was asked as the final ¥ 5,000,000 question in the fictitious version of Who Wants to be A Millionaire, as depicted in the Mainland China sitcom iPartment.
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Ken Boothe - You Keep Me Hanging On (The Supremes Cover)by TheCoverHeaven11,981 views
No suena mal pero ps... no es lo mismoo
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EddieHead9 4 months ago
Me encanta!!!!
lucitazara 4 months ago
No suena mal, pero no suena mucho a mariachi.
tbcpuebla 4 months ago
suena muy bien
loschingones3 4 months ago
suuenaa boniitto!
tisdale1998 4 months ago
la verdad no suena mal.. osea da mucha risa, pero en vdd seria un muy buen cover al puro estilo MEXICANO! :D
AndiieRouGe 5 months ago
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jessimtm 5 months ago
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rodrigoco1239 7 months ago