“New” Beatle Songs for New Year’s Eve

• “New,” Paul McCartney. From the album New.

• “What’s the New Mary Jane,” psychedelic trifle left off the White Album and beloved of bootleggers until the Anthology 3 set made it legit.

• “Good News,” Ringo Starr (from Vertical Man, 1998)

• “New York City,” John Lennon & Yoko Ono (from Some Time in New York City, 1972)

• “New Blue Moon, from George Harrison’s Traveling Wilburys (Vol. 3, 1990)

“New Way to Say I Love You,” Billy Preston (Let It Be’s fifth Beatle) & Syreeta.

“Something New,” the third British and fifth American Beatles album.

plus “Ding Dong, Ding Dong,” George Harrison. An actual New Year’s Eve song that never caught on:

Ring out the old

Ring in the new

Ring out the old
Ring in the new

Ring out the false
Ring in the true
Ring out the old
Ring in the new

Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong

Yesterday today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday
So ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the false
Ring in the true
Ring out the old
Ring in the new

Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong
Ding dong, ding dong