She Said Yeah

From Wikipedia:

[…] “She Said Yeah” was originally the B-side of the Larry Williams [Bad Boy] single, and has been covered by the Rolling Stones and the Animals, amongst others. The Beatles loved the song and almost certainly performed it on stage and fully intended to record it. Paul McCartney in the liner notes to his album Run Devil Run said “Me and John [Lennon] particularly loved Larry Williams…Bony Moronie…John did Slow Down…I was always going to do She Said Yeah“. Roy Young (who was invited to join The Beatles) recorded a cover version in 1959. Paul McCartney finally recorded it in 1999.

From an interview with Laura Gross (promotional interview for “Run Devil Run” in 1999):

Laura Gross: She Said Yeah, which I thought is a very sexy song.

Paul McCartney: Yeah. Sexy song. Yeah, man. She Said Yeah was a Larry Williams song. And it was really one of my favourites of his. In fact it was my favourite of Larry’s. He did some other good songs like Bony Moronie and stuff, which were big hits. But it was always a song I loved. And always wanted to get round to doing. In actual fact, I think, I remember turning Mick Jagger on to it. Remember distinctively having him up in to a little music room and the bit I love dum, dum, tiddely dum, baah. ?…? I was dancing away, showing Mick and he loved it. So, yeah, my main recollection of She Said Yeah is just as it being really one of my favourite Larry Williams tracks. And he’s just a great vocalist, Larry, you know, it’s a storming track, the original. So that’s kind of faithful to, we messed around with it a little bit, but that’s sort of like my memory of the original.

On January 24th 1969, The Beatles recorded “She Said Yeah” during the Get Back Sessions.

Lyrics

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Bootlegs

Live performances

Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.

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