Jayne's take on this makes sense to me. Songs recorded by individual ex-Beatles after the band broke up certainly don't count as "Beatles songs." Neither, I'd imagine, do Beatles covers of songs by other writers, nor songs written by the Beatles but recorded and released exclusively by others. Your best bet is to stick with songs that were both written by and recorded by the Fab Four themselves.
Beatles-authored songs originally released by other artists -- Badfinger, Peter & Gordon, et al. -- are probably eligible on a technicality if there's a Beatles version on one of the Anthology albums. But it ain't necessarily so just because I say "probably." On the other hand, if you write a speech that includes a couple dozen indisputable titles and one or two borderline cases, I doubt that the latter will disqualify your entire entry.
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