John originally sang the, "Love me do" part just before the harmonica, but he could only sing, "Love me," before switching to harmonica. George Martin said that won't work, someone else will have to sing it, so Paul got the nod. Paul seems a bit nervous here.
@@superfanb5742 Wrong. The single came out in October of '62. The song later was part of their first album, Please Please Me, which was released in '63.
Paul wrote Love Me Do in 1958, but it was this year John added that harmonica that made the song from a rather forgettable tune to something quite unique for it’s time.
This is the first version with Ringo on drums September the 4th. September 11th was with Andy White on drums (a studio session drummer) and Ringo was on tambourine
@@blindowlvideos5813 Which was released? With Ringo or White on drums? The version which made #1 in the US. (and, as they say, the rest is amazing history...)
Love Me Do had in fact been attempted at an earlier audition/session at Abbey Road on 6 June 1962 featuring Pete Best on drums. That recording is available on Beatles Anthology Volume 1. Please Please Me and Ask Me Why were both also taped at the 6 June session but the recordings have long since been lost.
But, "Besame Mucho", survives, sounds great, and also appears on Anthology 1. Pete got a raw deal that day, though, as George Martin abruptly changed the arrangement for, "Love Me Do", which threw Pete as he'd not played the song that way. EMI engineer Norman Smith said, "The problem wasn't with how Pete was playing, but what he was being asked to play with the new arrangement." Unfortunately, Martin told Epstein that Pete could remain The Beatles drummer but that next time he'd use a session drummer (very common in those days) for their first recording, and JP&G seized on that, using it as a diabolical pretext to sack Pete. Total arseholes, the three of them were...Ringo, too, for stabbing his mate Pete in the back.
@@dogg-paws Okay, then spin this fact: George Martin rejected Ringo's version of, "Love Me Do", the same as he had rejected Pete's 3 months earlier. Martin, with McCartney in full agreement, said Ringo's timing was poor and could not be the official recording.
@@Cosmo-KramerHe didn’t reject a Ringo version, he just had a session drummer at the ready because he expected Pete to show up with The Beatles. George had no idea who Ringo was and just didn’t want to take any chances.
@@averyetvspecial1487 You're mistaken. George Martin booked the September 4th session for just the 3 guitarists, to be a prep session for the date-yet-TBD official recording session. Martin did *not* expect Pete to show up, he told Brian this prep session would only be for JP&G. The reason there was no date yet for the official recording session, which would include a session drummer in place of Pete, was because Martin didn't know if the one prep session on September 4th would be enough to get the 3 guitarists ready, as well as all the equipment and recording bugs worked out that they'd experienced at the June audition. Martin wasn't going to pay a pro drummer to come until everything was ready. But what happened was, as you said, Ringo showed up, unannounced to Martin. So Martin let Ringo record, "Love Me Do", thinking maybe he'll pass muster and he won't have to hire a session drummer, after all. Problem was, Ringo did not pass muster with Martin, he rejected it citing Ringo's poor timing. McCartney agreed that Ringo's timing was not good enough. That was Tuesday the 4th. Over the next couple days, Martin evaluated the guitarists and vocals on the recording, and decided they were ready. So he told Ron Richards to book a session drummer for the next Tuesday, September 11th. We know the timing was such because Andy White said in an interview, *"It was only a couple days before the September 11th session that I received a phone call from EMI, asking me if I could come in that day to record with The Beatles. It was the first time I'd been contacted about working with them, I'd never heard of The Beatles before."* So then, on the 11th, Ringo shows up and gets blindsided by the presence of Andy White there, to do all the drumming. JP&G didn't tell Ringo that he wouldn't be playing, out of fear he would quit the band. Ringo was livid, and sulked so demonstrably in the control room that the engineers threw him a bone by handing him a tambourine so he could go join his band on the recording. Ringo still says to this day that he's never forgiven Martin for rejecting his drumming in the beginning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What appears to me that standout from the Andy White recording is Paul’s bass sounds more prominent and during John’s harmonica solo, someone starts to clap to the 2nd/4th off beats.
I don't know why George Martin was so unimpressed with Ringo on this day. His playing here and on "How Do You Do It" is very competent. Though I will admit the sound on the Andy White recording is superior.
He hired him in case the drummer the Beatles had in mind wasn’t any good. After hiring him he didn’t want to waste his time so he played. He impressed Martin sufficiently though
The Andy White version is a bit snappier, 10 seconds faster. But it's not because of Andy, the band had played the song a while by then, so it would have come out the same with either drummer.
It wasn't exactly a drummers song, nothing that really showcased any drumming. It's basically a kick and a snare with one cymbal crash. Pete Best tried to make it into something more interesting on drums but he was all over the place. I think George Martin just wasn't ready to go through that again.
Andy White was such a competent drummer that he overwhelms the Beatles primitive style here. It's like putting a studio musician with a high school rock band.
"How Do You Do It" was a great song … for Gerry and the Pacemakers. After the Beatles refused to allow George Martin to release their version, Martin gave it to Gerry Marsden for his recording debut. The Beatles had done it as straight rock 'n' roll; Gerry gave it a more ragtime feel that really made the song work.
I'm a drummer and think Ringo is great here. It's not a difficult track at all, but the producers probably wanted to play it safe when calling in their trusted session drummer. Pete Best's recording was truly atrocious. I'm not sure I would have sacked him that quickly because there may have been some studio nerves and he was too tight to perform. Something that happens to new recording artists when the red light illuminates. But all in the history books now and an interesting study all these years later of exactly how to cultivate new talent that would shortly be the biggest in history.
I prefer this original acoustic version of Love Me Do with Ringo Starr on the drums over the one cut for the Beatles first album Please Please Me, when Andy White was used for the drumming with Ringo Starr on tambourine. Not a bad record, Love Me Do, with this original 45rpm single introducing the Beatles to the charts with the record reaching ,, number 17. Then of course it was onwards and upwards for the Beatles so no need to state anything further how they progressed from there!
I wonder why John and George are playing their electric guitars in the pictures when you clearly hear that they play acoustic guitars on the recording? It doesn't make any sense...
You are correct. These photos are from the same day in the studio that the Beatles recorded Love Me Do...but they did play acoustic guitars on this song as far as I know. I could not find any photos with the acoustics from this day they recorded Love Me Do. So these photos are probably from the session for How Do You Do It which was recorded the same day. We have no way of knowing 60 years later, but you made a good observation. Anyway these is how the Beatles looked while making their 1st record.
I have a theory. Let me know what y'all think. First, what do we know? It's documented that Ringo did a recording of, "Love Me Do", on his first visit to EMI on September 4, 1962, as the new drummer for The Beatles. George Martin rejected it the same as he had rejected Pete's recording, and he did so with Macca agreeing that Ringo's timing was not good enough for the recording. Martin then turned around and hired pro session drummer, Andy White, to come to the studio one week later, on September 11th, to do the official recording of the song, which he did. Ringo had not been told White would be there to take his place. It shocked and infuriated him because he thought he was going to get a second crack at the song. Ringo sulked so demonstrably in the control room that EMI engineers handed him a tambourine so that he could at least get out on the floor and be on the recording with his new bandmates, simply for the purpose of pacifying the livid Beatles drummer. Then, when it came time to release the single of the song and later the album on which it appeared, we get two different versions. The one on the album is definitely the Andy White version, as Ringo's tambourine can clearly be heard. But it was actually the UK single of the song that was the first version released, and that one has always been said to be Ringo's September 4th version, including in this video here. There're are a couple of problems with that, however, and this is where my theory comes in. The first problem is the question, why would George Martin (and Paul McCartney) change his mind from deeming Ringo's September 4th version as unsuitable to be released, to suddenly allowing it to be the initial UK single? That doesn't seem likely at all, especially given that he had White's September 11th version that he was quite happy with already in the can. It has been suggested over the years that the irate Ringo put up such a hissy fit and threatened to *quit the band* if his version was not released. And that JP&G therefore implored Martin to capitulate, ultimately persuading him to do so. That's certainly an interesting theory, but everything I know about George Martin tells me he would not give in to such pressure if it meant he'd have to allow an unsuitable recording to be released. And unfortunately, it doesn't jibe with the second problem, which is that Ringo states in his Anthology interview on the subject that he recorded *his* version AFTER White had recorded his, saying, "Andy hadn't done anything that great with the song that I couldn't practice it and copy his version for my recording." *Very interesting.* Then that means the UK single was *not* Ringo's September 4th recording. He must have recorded the song *a second time!* But given there's no documentation of this second Ringo recording, all we can really say is that it had to have been made off the books, after September 11th, and before the October 5th release date of the UK single. Somewhere in those 3 1/2 weeks *Ringo made a second recording,* which passed muster with Martin, unlike Ringo's September 4th recording. Why would Martin allow this? I contend JP&G begged him, citing Ringo's threat to quit as the reason a second recording by him *had* to happen, and assuring the EMI producer that this time Ringo's recording would meet his standards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know everything about this recording. All I know and what has been documented is that Ringo played the Sept. 4th session, George martin was unhappy with the sound and brought in Andy White a week later for a remake. Ringo might be mistaken on the history of the song and maybe doesn't remember accurately about who played on which recording session. It seems like Ringo did the first session and Andy White the later session. About why EMI released them as they did that would be a management decision and I am sure George martin was involved with that. It is possible the Beatles did pressure George martin to release the "Ringo" version for the single??? Good question and reasoning, but I don't really know. All documentation on this points to Ringo on Sept. 4th, and Any White on September 11th. There are documents stating the fee Andy White recieved for his session work on Sept. 11th, but no record of being paid for any session work on September 4th. So the drummer on September 11th was Andy White, and the drummer on September 4th was Ringo Starr. The Abbey Road payment card still exists on this record for Andy White. Ringo evidently has his info a little mixed on this session is my opinion.
@@blindowlvideos5813 Well, there were limited pressing of the single, and being on the album is more prestigious so it would not surprise me if Ringo claims to be on the latter when in fact he's on the former. The dude's very insecure about his drumming--always has been.
I thought Martin was displeased with Pete Best's drumming and told Brian Epstein that he was going to provide a session drummer for recordings. This was before Best was fired and replaced by Ringo. I got this from listening to Martin on the 'Compleat Beatles' documentary.
@@ktcarl That is correct, Martin did not like Pete's June 6th recording of, "Love Me Do", and told Epstein afterward that he'd hire a session drummer to sub for him on the record. But he didn't hire one to be there for The Beatles next visit, on September 4th, which according to Martin was only supposed to include the 3 guitarists in the band, so he could prep them for the official recording to take place on an as yet undetermined future date. Much to Martin's surprise, Ringo showed up expecting to drum--Martin didn't even know Pete had been replaced, and he said he was shocked to learn that because he had deemed Pete as the most marketable member of the band. In interviews that took place years later like the one you referenced, Martin didn't admit it, but he allowed Ringo to record his version of, "Love Me Do", that day, and Martin rejected it the same as he had rejected Pete's 3 months prior. Even Paul McCartney had agreed with Martin that Ringo's timing was not good enough for the record. But, during that session Martin didn't tell Ringo he'd be hiring a session drummer to sub for him at the next session. Martin did feel comfortable enough with the guitar parts and vocals by that point, however, and told the band he'd bring them back to do the official recording. Martin privately told Epstein that he'd be getting a session drummer to replace Ringo, and Eppy told JP&G. But JP&G told Eppy to conceal that from Ringo, lest he would quit the band. So Ringo, who already assumed his September 4th version was fine, now was under the impression he'd get to do a second version at the next session. So that's what went down at the September 4th session. According to session drummer, Andy White, he was not contacted until Thursday the 9th, when he was booked to come in to do the official recording of, "Love Me Do", on Saturday the 11th. Well, Ringo showed up with his bandmates on the 11th, and was incensed to find a session drummer there. He has said in interviews, *"I thought they were pulling a Pete Best on me."* The rest of which I covered in my original comment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@Cosmo-Kramer That makes sense to me. I remember Ringo being perturbed about White being there. There were a lot of eggshells trampled on in those weeks. Glad that J,P&G insisted on Ringo being on the recordings.
@@blindowlvideos5813 Is this that sounds the promo single? It is wonderful. I understood that the master no longer exists and these are the only copies that sound this good.
Past master came out in the 1980's. But they used the original "Ringo" version from Sept. 4th 1962. The single that was released in the USA in 1964, is from the Sept. 11th session (1962).
the bass is out of tune and 'pokes out' of the mix, the drums and vocals are all less strident than the Andy White version. If this version had stood it wouldn't have been a hit, and there may have been no Beatles. George Martin knew what he was doing.
No actually this song is the single version that JUST john and Paul made this wasn’t all four of them. Hear drums? Didn’t think so. Know your stuff before you post videos and put full (inaccurate) descriptions
