On this day in 1966, vocal tracks for one of the songs to appear on the legendary Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were recorded. This song was originally titled "Daisy Hawkins", but its author, Beatle Paul McCartney, decided to change it to its now more familiar title. Which turned out to be a good decision. I mean, if Paul hadn't changed the song's original title, it would sound terribly awkward. Consider this lyric: "Daisy Hawkins, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been..." Doesn't really roll off the tongue as smoothly as "Eleonor Rigby, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been", right?
Yeah, I know, I just had a recent post on Eleonor Rigby. Well, I just guessed this piece of trivia might be interesting to some people, so there. Anyway, if you're wondering how the hell Paul came up with the title "Eleonor Rigby", Beatle lore has it that he saw the name Rigby on a clothes shop in Bristol. Similarly, I've read somewhere long ago that another classic Beatle song we now know as "Yesterday" was originally titled "Scrambled Egg". Weird, huh?
Guess I'll be doing some digging up on Beatle song titles now, huh?
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