http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/11/frank-ifield-the-wayward-wind/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/11/frank-ifield-the-wayward-wind/#comment-21033 AJ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:03:00 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/11/frank-ifield-the-wayward-wind/#comment-21033 The use of harmonica on this track is not a response to the Beatles. "Love Me Do" only made number 17 so why would a chart-topper like Ifield even bother responding to it? I don't think he, or the other balladeers of the period, even considered the Beatles as a threat at that point.<BR/>The use of harmonica in "Love Me Do" came from Frank Ifield's "I Remember You". Of course both were following Bruce Channel's "Hey Baby".<BR/>But the point is- the Beatles were influenced by Frank Ifield, not the other way round. The use of harmonica on this track is not a response to the Beatles. “Love Me Do” only made number 17 so why would a chart-topper like Ifield even bother responding to it? I don’t think he, or the other balladeers of the period, even considered the Beatles as a threat at that point.
The use of harmonica in “Love Me Do” came from Frank Ifield’s “I Remember You”. Of course both were following Bruce Channel’s “Hey Baby”.
But the point is- the Beatles were influenced by Frank Ifield, not the other way round.

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