Lady Madonna

"Lady Madonna" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. In March 1968 it was released as a mono non-album single, backed with "The Inner Light". The song was recorded on 3 and 6 February 1968, before the Beatles left for India, and its boogie-woogie style signalled a more conventional approach to writing and recording for the group following the psychedelic experimentation of the previous two years. [Wikipedia]

Lady Madonna is a song by The Beatles, written by McCartney and led on vocal by Paul McCartney. Boogie-woogie piano, Fats Domino tribute; saxophone quartet. Paul McCartney composed and sang lead on Lady Madonna during early 1968, drawing from the boogie-woogie piano tradition of Fats Domino and early rhythm-and-blues styles. The song's direct sexual imagery and driving rock-and-roll arrangement provided sharp contrast to the experimental psychedelia of Sgt. Pepper and served as the Beatles' return to blues-based material. (nges, Harrison fitted this text to a serene melody his Indian musicians recorded in Bombay Kozinn 1995, p.170)

The session work falls within the band's The White Album (1968) period, recorded 3 Feb 1968 at EMI Studios + Trident Studios (Soho). George Martin (with Chris Thomas covering) produced; Ken Scott (early), Geoff Emerick walked off — replaced engineered. For session-by-session detail, see Mark Lewisohn's account on p.132 of The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (excerpt below). Recorded 3 February 1968 in Studio Three at Abbey Road, the track featured Ringo Starr's crisp drumming and a distinctive honky-tonk piano performance. The session required careful timing to capture McCartney's lead vocal and the accompanying band arrangement with precision, utilizing the Abbey Road recording facilities. (who stated flatly that it was far too late to make the change because the Emerick 2006, p.578) (The Beatles’ Records 221 by McCartney ar Lennon before he would abandon his native Most MacDonald 1994, p.118)

In the canonical discography it on the single Lady Madonna. Documented alternate versions include Anthology 2 (1996), Mono Masters (2009 box), White Album 50th Anniversary (2018). Mono and stereo histories vary by era — see the dedicated section below. Lady Madonna stands as one of the White Album's most commercially oriented rockers. Paul McCartney lead vocals appear in 65 canon songs total. The song's driving rhythm and blues-inflected arrangements situated the Beatles within rhythm-and-blues tradition while marking their return to explicitly sexual content after mid-1960s psychedelia.

• A cover version of the song performed by Aretha Franklin was used as the theme song for the ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire from 1993 until 1996.

Cover-version mentions extracted from the Wikipedia article. For comprehensive cover catalogs see SecondHandSongs.

Other recordings sharing era, vocalist, writer, key, studio, or producer with this one. Higher scores indicate stronger overlap on documented attributes.

• Back in the U.S.S.R. (score 13)
• Blackbird (score 11)
• Helter Skelter (score 11)
• Hey Jude (score 11)
• Honey Pie (score 11)
• I Will (score 11)
• Martha My Dear (score 11)
• Mother Nature's Son (score 11)