Originally Posted by
chaim
You mentioned "Little child"... If the following songs weren't by the Beatles, I don't think many people would "give them the time of day". They aren't mentioned often even now:
"Tell me why", "I'll cry instead", "When I get home, "I'm a loser", "Baby's in black", "I don't want to spoil the party", "Another girl", "Wait", You won't see me", "Love you to", "Yellow submarine", "Doctor Robert", "When I'm 64", "Lovely Rita" (I love the lyric), "Baby, you're a rich man", "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da", "The continuing story of...", ""Don't pass me by", "Cry baby cry", "Only a Northern Song", "It's all too much"...
Now, let me tell you just one more thing. Here in Finland we make sure that people start hating the Beatles when they're young. How do we do it? We use this music book in schools where the Beatles song is Ob-la-di Ob-la-da. (There may also be Let It Be) We keep singing that in classrooms with our pupils until we're certain that yet another generation hates the Beatles.