Kansas City (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Song) - The Beatles Version

The Beatles Version

"Medley: "Kansas City"/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey""
Song by The Beatles from the album Beatles for Sale
Released December 4, 1964 (1964-12-04)
Recorded October 18, 1964
Genre Rock and roll
Length 2:33 (mono version)
2:38 (stereo version)
Label Parlophone
Writer Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller/Richard Penniman
Producer George Martin
Beatles for Sale track listing
14 tracks
Side one
  1. "No Reply"
  2. "I'm a Loser"
  3. "Baby's in Black"
  4. "Rock and Roll Music"
  5. "I'll Follow the Sun"
  6. "Mr. Moonlight"
  7. "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!"
Side two
  1. "Eight Days a Week"
  2. "Words of Love"
  3. "Honey Don't"
  4. "Every Little Thing"
  5. "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
  6. "What You're Doing"
  7. "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby"

In 1964, The Beatles' recorded Little Richard's medley of "Kansas City" and "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey", a song they began performing in their early Hamburg days. Their version, which uses somewhat different lyrics, appears on the albums Beatles for Sale (UK) and Beatles VI (US) and as the B-side of the 1965 single "Boys". A live version, recorded in Hamburg in 1962, was released on Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. Other live versions appear on the album Live at the BBC and in the film Let It Be. The Beatles were also seen on the American television program Shindig! performing the medley live in October 1964.

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