That is the Beatles' tribute to black music...

In this delightful little column, Uncle Dislo will guide you by the hand, but keeping a distance (only DeBaserians with very long arms, please...) along the well-trodden discography of The Fab Four in search of the influences of "black" music that often tinted their work and of covers of songs by American black artists, discovering, for example, their fondness for the repertoire of female black vocal groups.
Sometimes we will include original tracks but performed with distinctly black techniques, especially vocal ones, but also instrumental.
So, enough chit-chat, let’s continue...

Beatles - Boys [FULL HD] w/ lyrics

A classic example of a shameless cover, without even attempting to render a text originally sung in the female perspective into the male, a detail highly appreciated since then in some gay communities, especially in the U.S.A.
It was entrusted to the raspy voice of Ringo Starr, with the remaining three Beatles harmonizing exactly like the original performers, the Shirelles, icons of doo-wop and shoo-wap.