Episode 100: “Love Me Do” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Beatles to Germany
They recorded seven songs at that session in total, two of them were just by the Beatles. One was a version of Ainci's Suite, an old standard which Jean Vincent had recorded fairly recently. The other was the only track ever credited to Lennon and Harrison as co-writers. On their first trip to Hamburg, they'd wanted to learn Man of Mystery by the Shadows. It came out in the UK while they were in Germany, so they asked Rory Storm to hum it for them. He hummed a few notes, and Lennon and Harrison wrote a parody of what Storm had sung called Beatlebop - later renamed Cry for Shadow.
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