Song

Bad Boy

Release date: 14 June 1965

"Bad Boy"
Single by Larry Williams
B-side "She Said Yeah"
Released 1959
Format 7" single
Genre R&B
Label Specialty Records 658 (US)
London HLU 8844 (UK)
Writer(s) Larry Williams
Larry Williams singles chronology
"I Was a Fool"
(1958)
"Bad Boy"
(1959)
"Steal a Little Kiss"
(1959)
"Bad Boy"
Song by The Beatles from the album Beatles VI
Released June 14, 1965
Recorded May 10, 1965 at Abbey Road, London, England
Length 2:21
Label Capitol ST-2358 (US)
Producer George Martin
Beatles VI track listing
You Like Me Too Much
(3)
"Bad Boy"
(4)
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
(5)

"Bad Boy" is a song composed and recorded by Larry Williams. The song was recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California on August 14, 1958. The musicians on the recording included Williams on vocals and piano, Earl Palmer on drums, Rene Hall on guitar, Jewell Grant on baritone sax, Plas Johnson on tenor sax, and Ted Brinson on bass. The record did not break the Top 40 charts in the United States.

"She Said Yeah" was originally the B-side of the Larry Williams single, and has been covered by the Rolling Stones and the Animals, amongst others. McCartney himself covered the song on 1999's Run Devil Run.

The song, recorded between 1957 and 1958, also appears on the 1992 compilation of the same name.

©1965 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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