What Goes On

Today's song, "What Goes On", is the only Beatles song to be credited to John, Paul, and Ringo. It also features Ringo on vocals, giving the song a distinctive sound (sometimes I still have trouble telling Lennon and McCartney apart, but rarely George and never Ringo. They're too unique). Wikipedia tells us more about the songwriting credit:

Starr contributed to the lyrics, his first-ever composing credit on a Beatles song. However, when asked what his contribution was to the song, Starr jokingly stated, "About five words, and I haven't done a thing since." To his chagrin, the first pressing of the single accidentally omitted "Starkey" in the song-writing credit.

I'm rather fond of this one--not for its music style (it's very country western), and not necessarily for its lyrics, but because Ringo sings it. :) Overall, not a bad song; John wrote most of the lyrics during The Quarrymen days and dusted it off for a brush-up with the guys for Rubber Soul, so it does have an older feel stylistically, but it's not too distracting since they did a good job with its execution. :)

Well, that's all for today... See you tomorrow!

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