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Released in 1988

Just Because

Written by Bob SheltonJoe SheltonSydney Robin

Last updated on September 2, 2016


Album This song officially appears on the CHOBA B CCCP Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 1988

Master album

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This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:

From Wikipedia:

Just Because” is a song written by Joe Shelton, Sydney Robin and Bob Shelton and originally recorded by Nelstone’s Hawaiians ( Hubert Nelson and James D. Touchstone) in 1929 and later recorded by The Shelton Brothers in 1933. Some sources say that Sydney Robin wrote the song alone and the Sheltons added their name when they recorded it. […]

Elvis Presley recorded the song on September 10, 1954 at the Sun Studios; while it was never released on Sun, it was included on Elvis’s first album, Elvis Presley after he signed to RCA. Paul McCartney later recorded the song in a style that was similar to that of Presley’s version on his Choba B CCCP allbum. […]

Paul McCartney recorded “Just Because” in 1987 for his Choba B CCCP album. From the liner notes of this album:

That’s All Right Mama/Just Because

Paul sings Presley – and two songs from the birth of the legend when Elvis was signed to Memphis-based Sun Records. Owner/producer Sam C Phillips had insisted that if he could discover “a white man with the negro feel”, he’d become a millionaire. He felt that in 19-year-old Elvis Presley he had found such a person.

Paul’s ‘one-take sessions’ have much in common with how Phillips initially recorded Elvis live in the studio. As such, these two tracks come much closer to faithfully recreating the atmosphere synonymous with the legendary Sun Sound rather than concentrating on merely duplicating the sound and nothing else.


Lyrics

Well, well, well,

Just because you think you're so pretty,

And just because your momma thinks you're hot,

Just because you think you've got something

That nobody else has got,

Well you know you made me spend all my money.

You laughed and called me old Santa Claus.

Well, I'm telling you,

Baby, I'm through with you.

Because, well, well, just because.


Well just because you think I'll be lonesome

And just because you think that I'll be blue

Just because you think I'll be foolish

To stay at home and wait around for you

Well, I'm telling you,

Baby, I'm through with you.

Because, well, well, just because.


Well now you making me drop all my girlfriends

You laugh and call me old Santa Claus

You've caused me to lose all my women

And now, now you say we are through.

Well, I'm telling you

Baby, I'm through with you

Because, well, well just because.

Well there will come a time when you'll be lonesome

And there will come a time when you'll be blue

There will come a time when old Santa

He won't pay the bills for you

Well you said that I'm foolish

Honey, you laughed and called me old Santa Claus.

I'm telling you, yeah, I'm through with you

Because, well, just because.


Well, just because you think you're so pretty

And just because your mama thinks you're the hottest thing in town

Just because you think you've got something

That nobody else has got,

You made me spend all of my money.

You laughed and called me your old Santa Claus.

Well, I'm telling you, baby, I'm through with you

Because, well, well, just because

Because, well well, just because.

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Just Because” has been played in 27 soundchecks.


Going further

Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989

With 25 albums of pop music, 5 of classical – a total of around 500 songs – released over the course of more than half a century, Paul McCartney's career, on his own and with Wings, boasts an incredible catalogue that's always striving to free itself from the shadow of The Beatles. The stories behind the songs, demos and studio recordings, unreleased tracks, recording dates, musicians, live performances and tours, covers, events: Music Is Ideas Volume 1 traces McCartney's post-Beatles output from 1970 to 1989 in the form of 346 song sheets, filled with details of the recordings and stories behind the sessions. Accompanied by photos, and drawing on interviews and contemporary reviews, this reference book draws the portrait of a musical craftsman who has elevated popular song to an art-form.

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