Songs and notes and links

The list of songs came from the Wikipedia page and notes might be added to later.

1. "Girl"

From The White Album, 1968

This is the song Charles Manson cited as an inspiration for his psychopathic actions. It's in an irritating place on the third side of The White Album. For kids used to CDs, there's no such thing as "a third side," but for albums, the order of songs was hard to get around. No programming past something, no touching a button for "skip." It was between "Sexy Sadie" and "Long, Long, Long (Time)."
Lyrics

While Wikipedia's a good source, there's something else on Beatles songs, and that's Alan Pollack's musicological notes. He looks at the songs from a technical musical standpoint. Here's a tiny bit of what he wrote about this one:

Also special is the way in which the song opens in the midst of the action without an intro, or even a downbeat from which the singer can grab his opening cue note; somewhere on the studio tape I'll bet someone plays the note 'A' for Paul just before they start. Clearly, the Boys liked this trick sufficiently to reuse it from time to time; just browsing among the two dozen-odd songs we've looked at in this series, there's "She Loves You", "It Won't Be Long", "Any Time At All", "No Reply", and "You're Going To Lose That Girl". In "All My Loving" (as in "No Reply"), the abruptness of the effect is enhanced by the first chord not being the tonic chord — i.e. I — of the home key. (click for more)

This song's in the movie twice by different characters, and this is the movie-song order...

just an instrumental in the movie

Lyrics

(featuring, in the film, a brief segment of "She Loves You" performed by Joe Anderson)

33. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

John Lennon, an excellent BBC News piece with photos, from 2005, the 25th anniversary of his death. (Still there in 2022.)