Comments on: Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!

By: Ed Harris

Ed Harris — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:53:30 +0000

There was a book published in the mid 1970s covering Beatles songs and recordings and Apple Record releases. The book properly documented the writer credits. Apparently, for over a decade, it had been missed that Little Richard deserves royalties. Someone working for him or his songwriting company noticed this because of that book. And Little Richard started receiving royalty payment.

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Fri, 26 May 2017 17:11:40 +0000

The American album Beatles VI just listed as “Kansas City”. One good thing about the US versions is this turned out to be a great opening to that album. Pure adrenalin.

By: oldFartBassPlayer Walt

oldFartBassPlayer Walt — Fri, 19 May 2017 18:29:06 +0000

Anybody else remember seeing the Beatles live on the 60s American music show “Shindig”,
doing a great version of this song?

Also did “Boys” and “I’m a loser”. Its on YouTube, search for Beatles, Shindig

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Wed, 18 May 2016 10:48:27 +0000

As someone else said this is one of The Beatles greatest rock covers. Paul McCartney’s vocals are amazing with the classic early Beatles back up vocalists, (in this case John and George), answering the lead singer, Paul.George Harrison’s Lead Guitar work is wonderful. I instantly loved this song from the first time I obtained “Beatles For Sale”.

By: jennifur Sun

jennifur Sun — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:59:01 +0000

oh gosh you are going to hate be big time, but except for George Martins piano and George Harrisaons lead guitar i never really like this verson of the song. much prefered the orginal one.

By: Mark Schaberg

Mark Schaberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:16:09 +0000

Another fun fact. This song is played at Kauffman Stadium, in Kansas City, Mo, after every win by the Kansas City Royals baseball team. Its great hearing it blasted from the stadium PA while the team shakes hands and celebrates a victory. When the team loses, they play ‘Kansas City’ by Wilbert Harrison.

By: Wm. Clark

Wm. Clark — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:20:17 +0000

Well, first off, the concert was in Missouri, not Kansas. Second correction is that it was held in Municipal Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri not Memorial Stadium.

By: Michael A. Ventrella

Michael A. Ventrella — Sun, 11 May 2014 02:12:33 +0000

I remember when this first came out, it only listed “Kansas City” and then later pressings added “Hey Hey Hey Hey” — was there a lawsuit or was this just cleared up? I remember being confused when I first saw it, because I thought it was just one song.

By: metzgermeister77

metzgermeister77 — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 04:05:50 +0000

One of the Beatles’ greatest rock covers, with a fantastic raw vocal by… Paul?!

Seriously, though, this track is why I’ve never understood the general perception that John was the rocker and Paul was the balladeer. Paul could rip it up with the best of them.

By: maggie Rae

maggie Rae — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:43:39 +0000

I love the Beatles version of Kansas City Hey-Hey-Hey. I didn’t know that this is a cover of Little Richard’s recording. But I heard Richard’s song for the first time today. I noticed that Richard says: “yeah now child” and the Beatles say: “yeah now pal”, which never made sense to me. Now that I’ve heard Little Richard’s song, I wondering if the Beatles just misunderstood what Richard was saying, and thought he said “pal” instead of “child”. At first I thought Richard was saying “gal”, which rhymes with “pal”.

By: Michael McLellan

Michael McLellan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:35:48 +0000

I saw the Beatles in Kansas City and it was unbelievable. l also was lucky enough to see them two years later in St. Louis just about five concerts before they quit touring for good. great times!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:05:48 +0000

The concert took place Kansas City Athletics (now Oakland) Memorial Stadium. Owner Charles Finley had his picture with a Beatles wig printed on the tickets with this quote:
“Today’s Beatle Fan is tomorrow’s baseball fan”. I did not go, but my best friend did.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:40:02 +0000

Good point. Thanks Andrew. There’s an article on the extra concert date here: http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/17/live-municipal-stadium-kansas-city/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:24 +0000

It might be worth mentioning the Kansas City concert where the promoter paid The Beatles a huge amount of extra money in order to play this song at the show. I’m not sure about the details, but it’s a fairly significant story about the song imo

By: SD

SD — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:29:47 +0000

Handclaps are missing (you hear them the last half minute of the song).