Great recording. This is certainly an electric steel guitar, so recorded after 1932. It’s possibly the trio pictured at 1:36. That lick at 2:05 is amazing.
The Beatles really knew what they were doing here in '64. The first self-reference appears in If I Fell: "I found that love was more than just HOLDING HANDS". This is about "I Want to Hold your Hand".
I don't think this is my favorite Beatles song, but this is the only one that makes me break out in a grin when it comes on. Maybe that is the definition of favorite.
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Interesting when you listen to the early audition tapes George sang a lot of leads he was close to an equal third in vocals then when John and Paul started recording their stuff, and naturally singing it, George had to write his own songs just to have presence on the albums. I love every single song George recorded as a Beatle not a bum tune in the bunch. One of my favorite Beatlemania-era songs is All My Loving for the part where George comes in and sings duet with Paul.
John did not like this song, although he said it was a favorite of George. During the Playboy Interviews he noted that it was a "throwaway song," while the interview noted that the controversial lyric line was from an Elvis Presley song (Baby Let's Play House). It goes. . . "Now listen to me, baby Try to understand I'd rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man"
I literally just learned tonight that George Martin played the piano on this tune on an overdub apparently. I was 12 when this came out, we lived in Madrid, Spain at the time and I used to tune into Radio Caroline on my tiny crystal radio I would clip to our steam heat radiator for a common ground. Magical days back then . . .
One of my favorites. It's just a long bridge begging for a verse or refrain, then resolves to a refrain that just turns out to also be a bridge to the next bit, and by the time you think you are starting to figure it out, it ends. Sting said in an interview that music must have surprises to be worth listening to, and this one is surprises from beginning to end.
The verse lyrics are some of the worst he ever wrote as a Beatle, which he acknowledged. The tune is super cute though and quietly one of my favourites.
We actually had a jukebox in the cafeteria in highschool and someone would play this everyday .half the kids loved it, me especially, but half the kids hated it and would boo and yell to get it off😂😂
