Excellent ...<rubs hands> ... the indoctrination begins as planned

Converse College professor David Berry is adamant that The Beatles hit,
"She Loves You," isn't your average teeny bopper song.

Slip Kid...

Ol' Converse!
A private four-year women’s liberal arts college with a coed graduate
program.

Undergraduate degrees:
-Bachelor of Arts
-Bachelor of Science
-Bachelor of Fine Arts
-Bachelor of Music

Graduate degrees:
-Master of Music
-Master of Arts in Teaching
-Master of Education
-Master of Liberal Arts
-Education Specialist Degree in Administration and Supervision
-Education Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Certification
-Education Specialist Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy

The total full-time faculty is a whoppin' 72.

Wow, undergraduate student fees for 2005-2006 is $21,176.

"Lead, follow or get out of the way" <----<<<< Converse motto

The tune, which lasts exactly two minutes and 21 seconds, includes the
kind of innovative techniques -- like mixing blues, folk, a bit of jazz
and a guitar sound bite just to keep the listener guessing -- that made
The Beatles famous.

Berry is teaching a four-week interim on The Beatles so students better
understand how George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John
Lennon became spokesmen for a large proportion of the 1960s youth.

When explaining the music theory and thoughts that went into "She Loves
You," Berry tells his class that what "seemingly is a teeny bopper
song, really isn't at all."

Berry points to the subtle arrangement changes, with several key
changes and the way the song ends on a sixth chord, which is relatively
unheard of.

"Not to mention the fact that the song was written in the third
person," Berry said. "What other song can you think of is written in
the third person? I can't think of another love song written in the
third person."

saki...

I think he means "about a third party", though the style isn't all that
rare. Paul actually cited Bobby Rydell's "Forget Him" as an inspiration
for the subject of "She Loves You" (though Paul may be a tad mixed up on
his chronology---didn't "She Loves You" actually precede "Forget Him"?)

In any case some third-party song seems to have captured Lennon's and
McCartney's fancy at the time they were writing "SLY". Here's an example
of a much earlier one from 1925 by Irving Berlin, though in this case the
besotted paramour knows that the girl loves him and doesn't have to be
told:

Lucky Boy she's a beautiful thing/Lucky boy will you give her a ring?/
Lucky boy we suppose in the Spring you will take your pride and joy/On a
train and her leather suitcase/Will contain bits of satin and lace/It's
as plain as the nose on your face/How we envy you Lucky Boy!

saki...

Better than waking up with a tune by Bobby Goldsboro in your head.

Slip Kid...

Usually the mere mention of a song gets it in my head.

Um, thanks, Honey...
...I miss you...

I can say no more.

Slip Kid...

Me neither, too.

Berry's obvious enthusiasm for The Beatles has resonated with his
students, many of whom were Beatles fans before they enrolled in the
class and nearly all of whom are fans three weeks into the interim.

"Before, I wasn't a fan. Now I'm a Beatles fanatic," said junior Sam
Chapman. "I would say I've done a 180 (degree turnaround). I have a big
appreciation for them now. They've grown on me."

Berry requires his class to listen to, and remember, the exact titles

Excellent ... ... the indoctrination begins as planned