![]() ![]() Cilla subsequently passed this audition and signed a recording contract with Parlophone Records. In July 1963, Cilla Black recorded the song during her first ever recording session at Abbey Road Studios. The critic Robert Christgau called it one the Beatles' greatest covers. ![]() One of the versions was included on the album Live at the BBC, released in 1994. The Beatles recorded "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" three times for the BBC in 1963, with John Lennon on lead vocals each time. The song, along with " Some Other Guy", became a standard on the 1960s Mersey scene, particularly at the Cavern Club, and was covered by Cilla, Sam "T-Bird" Jensen, the Beatles. ![]() It features Johnny Kidd on vocals, Mick Green on lead guitar, Johnny Spence on bass and Frank Farley on drums. Johnny Kidd & the Pirates released the song as a single in 1962. Featuring only blues chords, it begins as an apparent 12-bar blues, but then diverges from that standard structure into a more distinctive composition. It was originally released in the United States in 1961 and in the United Kingdom the following year, as the B-side of " You Better Move On".Īs well as having Rhythm and Blues in the title, the song is itself an R&B number. " A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" is a song written by Terry Thompson and first recorded by US soul singer Arthur Alexander. ![]()
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