Billy Davis Junior have considered themselves big
Beatles fans for decades and now the duo are giving fans their take on 10 Fab Four classics in a new collection.
Marilyn and husband Billy have been performing medleys of
Lennon-McCartney classics during performances and albums for years. This Friday, BMG will release
Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons with songs like Got to Get You Into My Life, Yesterday, and their version of the classic And I Love Her” as a duet.
Billy and Marilyn recently sat down and talked about the songs included in the new collection:
Billy: We knew that Blackbird was more of a civil rights, human rights song that it was written for that. And then we started searching some of the other Beatles songs that kinda fit that program. Ticket to Ride, and we thought of Rosa Parks. The Long and Winding Road, with what s you going on, you think things have.
Paul and
McCartney took that song to #1 back in July of 1976 just before Marilyn and Billy hit it big with their single “You Don’t Have To Be A Star.” We had an opportunity a few years ago to interview Marilyn and Billy on BIG 95 KBGO. These two are incredible entertainers with a long legacy of entertaining legions of fans for the past fifty plus years.
Check out their version of “Silly Love Songs” on YouTube.
[Source: Classic Hits Today]