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That is, the Beatles' tributes to black music......

In this delightful little column, Uncle Dislo will guide you by the hand, but socially distanced (only very long-armed DeBaseriani, please...) along the well-trodden discography of the Four in search of the influences of "black" music that often colored it and the covers of songs by American black artists, discovering, for example, their fondness for the repertoire of female vocal groups, for whose songs they didn't hesitate to give masculine versions, leaving the lyrics as they were, sung originally by girls talking to their boys.
Sometimes we will include original tracks but performed with decidedly black techniques, especially vocal, but also instrumental.
Enough chit-chat, let’s proceed............

The Beatles — Please Mr. Postman

Brazen cover of a strong piece from the Marvelettes' repertoire, where they reproduced both the solo part and the call-and-response with the chorus exactly, without changing anything from the original and even making the backing vocals as feminine as possible, with George and Paul in the harmonies often overpowering the solo singer, deconstructing and reconstructing the original version...