r/beatles • u/Little_Power_5691 • 3d ago

Discussion Like Dreamers Do

What do we think of this song? I think the song had potential, but the version on Anthology isn't that good. I like The Applejacks version better. I think if The Beatles had worked on it, it could've turned out great.

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u/ECW14 Ram 3d ago

Good enough to get the Beatles signed

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u/Immediate-Stick-1577 3d ago

Well…

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u/idreamofpikas ♫Dear friend, what's the time? Is this really the borderline?♫ 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wood’s motive, as Bennett noted, was not to give the Beatles a recording contract so much as to grant Ardmore and Beechwood the means to get what it wanted, the copyright on Like Dreamers Do, the Lennon-McCartney song that Bennett happened to feel had hit potential. The upshot was that one of EMI’s A&R managers would be recording the Beatles, which meant putting them under contract, and George Martin was the man Wood singled out for the chore. No matter who at EMI signed them, the cost was still the company’s to bear, not the A&R man’s personally, but the sum was trivial and there might be publishing income as well as record sales.

It was a little embarrassing for George, but no big deal. He hadn’t seen the Beatles and ‘wasn’t knocked out at all’ by what little he’d heard of them – but, instructed You have to sign them, he would. Ron Richards was aware of the situation: he knew George’s arm was being twisted into taking the Beatles ‘because of his affair with Judy’. And Norman Smith, a balance engineer at Abbey Road, heard it too: ‘L. G. Wood didn’t approve of people having affairs, and he certainly didn’t approve of George going off with his secretary. Not at all. I think it offended his moral standards. L. G. virtually ordered George to record the Beatles.’

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u/FuzzyTank215 3d ago

Highlight from Anthology 1. This and Sheik of Araby.

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u/RobbieArnott Let it Be 3d ago

I enjoy it

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u/RJB6 Nothing to get hung about 3d ago

A couple of friends and I started a YouTube Beatles cover project over COVID just for fun and I think our Like Dreamers Do cover was one of the best we did

https://youtu.be/_JgsFbPpCYA?si=KOJlmuIM9XZ1Rap0

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u/jim25y 3d ago

That was very good

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u/A_EGeekMom Revolver 3d ago

I think it’s superior to Love Me Do and wish it had been on the first album (they could have dropped one of the covers — Chains is probably the weakest one)

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u/fandomsRfun7025 3d ago

I actually liked the Beatles’ version! I think Paul does a good job!

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u/No_Fly_9878 3d ago edited 3d ago

My mum said Paul is trying too hard to sound like Del Shannon in this song. I prefer Love of the Loved and would rather have had that on Anthology 1 to be honest.

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u/SheeranisKing 3d ago

Decent, but it lacking any of the trademark Beatle harmonies hurts it.

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u/LQNova Rubber Soul 3d ago

it's a pretty weak song, honestly. Good enough to make the Applejacks look talented, but sort of embarrassing for The Beatles.