Talk:Don't Pass Me By

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"Don't pass me by" can scarcely have been a hit in "Scandinavia", since there is no Scandinavia-wide chart. It was a number one hit on the Polish chart that appeared in Billboard (or so I read in Goldmine magazine), but the "Scandinavia" story seems highly dubious. Juryen 20:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps it was a number one hit in multiple Scandanavian countries, and whoever added that was just saving keystrokes. Danthemankhan 16:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

It cannot possibly have been a number one hit in Norway, since our most reliable (only?) chart was based on single sales, and the song wasn't released as a single in Norway. Could it be a DJ or airplay number one? I don't think so; I've never heard that Norway had either a radio or a club chart in the sixties. Juryen 21:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Since no one has come up with the chart this information could possibly have been based on, I'm striking that part, and since I don't know how reliable the Polish charts were (or, indeed, my how reliable memories of an article in Goldmine that I read two years ago or more), I'm putting that the song was "apparently" a Polish number one. Juryen 10:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBC transcript

I was under the impression that having extended quotes like the one in this article was not smiled upon in Wikiland. It is certainly a fascinating fact, but I think it would be better summarized, with the full transcript being linked to. As it is it takes up too much of the article, methinks. Danthemankhan 16:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Beginning in Yellow Submarine

Why is the citation needed tag after the statement that A Beginning was used in Yellow Submarine? A couple seconds of it are clearly there between the Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby sequences, in the shot of the sun rising over Liverpool. 71.192.64.235 01:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It's needed because, as it says on the edit page, "Encyclopedic content must be attributable to a reliable source." You may say that there are a lot of unsourced statements in WP. My reaction? We need to fix that. — John Cardinal 04:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What about the song?

I shall leave the copyright/citation discussion to you more oval-headed Wikians. I simply cherish the refreshing difference in the few songs Ringo sang from the childish sing-song of early Beatles fair. I first heard this song after I got back from New Zealand, and it reminded me, (and still does), of typical British Country Pub entertainment--(whotever).--W8IMP 01:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Most Beatle songs elicit some emotion in me and I love them for that, but that's not something I (or any other editor) should add to WP. Describing how the songs move a particular editor is not the job of an encyclopedia. Such descriptions fall in the category of original research and Wikipedia disallows it (see WP:OR). There are sites that welcome listener comments/opinions, including Amazon.com and Songfacts.com and probably hundreds of others, and they serve a useful purpose, but they aren't encyclopedias. John Cardinal 03:05, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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