{"id":35623,"date":"2026-03-09T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2026\/03\/remember-that-time-the-beatles-went-country\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:08:26","slug":"remember-that-time-the-beatles-went-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/remember-that-time-the-beatles-went-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember That Time The Beatles Went Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It might seem like artists crossing into country music is a new trend, but\u00a0<strong>The Beatles<\/strong>\u00a0first did it over 60 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1965, The Beatles recorded a cover of\u00a0<strong>Buck Owens&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0country hit\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Act Naturally&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The song appeared on their album\u00a0Help!,\u00a0which also doubled as the soundtrack to their hit movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buck first released&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Act Naturally&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;in 1963, and it quickly climbed to #1 on the country charts.&nbsp; The song helped launch Buck into one of the biggest country stars of the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when The Beatles recorded their version,&nbsp;<strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>&nbsp;handled the lead vocals.&nbsp; It was only the fifth time he had sung lead on a Beatles track at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then in 1989, Ringo and Buck recorded a duet version of\u00a0<em>&#8220;Act Naturally&#8221;<\/em>, which brought the song full circle.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Act Naturally (Remastered 2009)\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjJd8rZPcAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might seem like artists crossing into country music is a new trend, but\u00a0The Beatles\u00a0first did it over 60 years ago. In 1965, The Beatles recorded a cover of\u00a0Buck Owens&#8217;\u00a0country hit\u00a0&#8220;Act Naturally&#8221;.\u00a0 The song appeared on their album\u00a0Help!,\u00a0which also doubled as the soundtrack to their hit movie. Buck first released&nbsp;&#8220;Act Naturally&#8221;&nbsp;in 1963, and it quickly","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":35624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[10546,1790,10547,724],"class_list":["post-35623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-act-naturally","tag-help","tag-ringo-star","tag-the-beatles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 16:44:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/remember-that-time-the-beatles-went-country\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}