◇ image via WikipediaOh! Darling
Oh! Darling is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Slim Harpo, Charles Brown and Fats Domino. Those roots explain a lot about how Oh! Darling arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Since I've Been Loving You, Help!, Strawberry Fields Forever and Imagine, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bee Gees, Robin Gibb, Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Oh! Darling, reaching back through Slim Harpo and forward to Bee Gees. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Oh! Darling" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, appearing as the fourth song on their eleventh studio album Abbey Road (1969). It was written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Its working title was "Oh! Darling ". Although not issued as a single in either the United Kingdom or the United States, a regional subsidiary of Capitol successfully edited it as a single in Central America, having "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" as its B-side. It was also issued as a single in Portugal. Apple Records released "Oh! Darling" in Japan with "Here Comes the Sun" in June 1970.
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Oh! Darling connections
Oh! Darling grew out of Slim Harpo, Charles Brown and Fats Domino, shares an orbit with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Since I've Been Loving You, Help! and Strawberry Fields Forever, went on to shape Bee Gees, Robin Gibb, Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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