Surfer Girl

[Rocker]

Let It Be: "Across The Universe" had been around, "I've Got A Feeling" was left over- Lennon's part- from earlier.

Don't forget "One after 909" which was one of the earliest things the Beatles did

[Surfer Joe]

Wow- how did I miss that?

[hypehat]

Most of the 'Long Medley' from Abbey Road is stuff from Rishikesh - mostly the Lennon numbers.

There's also, from my rather mild forays into lennon bootlegs, a large amount of recycling - Hey Bulldog's chorus was originally something called 'She Can Talk To Me' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqW39eGSd0&feature=PlayList&p=E389B5A656ACC04B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

and the bridge of 'Real Love' originated here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPoLDiGeLoY

Also, What Goes On from Rubber Soul apparently dated back from 1963.

I would also be willing to bet that rather a lot of Plastic Ono Band/Imagine had been written during his Beatles days, judging by the lack of material he had on the last two records. 'Look At Me' was another Rishikish one, so he says.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Is the question, "what's the first song BW wrote?," or, "what's the first song he wrote/released as the bboys?"

My original point was that if Surfer Girl was ealier that Surfin', then it had to have a different name / lyrics. Or no name / lyrics at all.

By the ay,  he must have been writing songs for years before his first release, and I like to think that a lot of ideas that appeared in BBs albums were conceived by BDW back in the 50s. Had BB scholars existed in the 60s, and had they scrutinized his life as a teen, they would have probably pointed that only three songs on Shut Down vol 2 were actually new 

That is exactly what Mr. Hood said . "Brian wrote those songs long before the Beach Boys."  Can you imagine if an AGD-type bitching about how little of those albums was new? 

I once began to work out which was the last Beach Boys album that was was 100% new material - no melodies or indeed recordings recycled from earlier sessions (covers don't count, adaptations a la "Surfin' USA" do) - and I do believe I got back to Friends... and that was discounting the "CIFTTM" riff in "Little Bird". 

Nice! Is there one before that that has all original material? WH, SS, PS, and Summer Days all, from the top of my head, have recycled material. What about Today?

Could be... could very well be.

[donald]

I remember when Start Me Up was considered proof that the Stones stilll had "it".  But I later read that it was around for quite some time before they finished it.