Today in Music (1965): The Beatles released Help!

Help! (UK version) The Beatles

Released in UK: August 6, 1965 Peak: -- US, 19 UK, -- CN, 111 AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.9 UK Genre: pop/rock

Tracks: Click on a song title for more details. Help! [2:21] The Night Before [2:36] You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away [2:11] I Need You [ 2:31] Another Girl [2:08] You’re Gonna Lose That Girl [2:20] Ticket to Ride [3:12] Act Naturally [2:33] It’s Only Love [1:58] You Like Me Too Much [2:38] Tell Me What You See [2:39] I’ve Just Seen a Face [2:07] Yesterday [2:07] Dizzy Miss Lizzy [2:54] Total Running Time: 33:44 Also from This Era: Yes It Is [2:40] PM1 I’m Down The Players: John Lennon (vocals, guitar) Paul McCartney (vocals, bass) George Harrison (guitar, vocals) Ringo Starr (drums, vocals)

Rating for UK Version: 4.205 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings) Quotable: "Reflects the toll [of] the most popular band…but…The Beatles turn their pain into some of their finest work." – Lori Latimer, Ink Blot Magazine Awards for UK Version: (Click on award to learn more).

Help! (U.S. soundtrack) The Beatles

Released: August 13, 1965 Peak: 19 US, -- UK, 1 CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 3.0 US Genre: pop/rock

Tracks: Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to charts. Help! [2:21] The Night Before [2:36] From Me to You Fantasy (instrumental) (Lennon/McCartney, arranged by Thorne) [2:08] You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away [2:11] I Need You [ 2:31] In the Tyrol (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) [2:26] Another Girl [2:08] Another Hard Day’s Night (Lennon/McCartney, arranged by Thorne) [2:31] Ticket to Ride [3:12] The Bitter End/You Can’t Do That (instrumental) (Ken Thorne, Lennon/McCartney), arranged by Thorne) [2:26] You’re Gonna Lose That Girl [2:20] The Chase (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) [2:31] Songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney unless noted otherwise. Total Running Time: 28:43 The Players: John Lennon (vocals, guitar) Paul McCartney (vocals, bass) George Harrison (guitar, vocals) Ringo Starr (drums, vocals) Ken Thorne (composer and conductor on instrumental tracks)

Rating: 3.700 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the U.K. Version: "Like almost everything that the Beatles did from this record on, [this album is] not merely good, but groundbreaking." JA "Of course, it's essential – as are…all the Beatles’ albums." JE "They all have songs that you absolutely need. Help! is no exception." LL "The harmonies [are] stellar [and] the individual vocal performances are…solid." MU However, despite "those fantastic melodies and ringing guitars that keep up the light-hearted pop facade, [the album also] reflects the toll that being the most popular band in the world was taking on The Beatles." LL "It’s Lennon’s desperate state of mind that drives this album." LL "But in the fashion of all the great ones, The Beatles turn their pain into some of their finest work." LL About the U.S. Soundtrack: The U.S. soundtrack jettisoned "Act Naturally," "It’s Only Love," "You Like Me Too Much," "Tell Me What You See," "I’ve Just Seen a Face," and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy." "You Like Me Too Much," "Tell Me What You See," and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" were on the U.S. album Beatles VI, released two months before Help!. "It’s Only Love" and "I’ve Just Seen a Face" were added to the U.S. version of Rubber Soul. "Yesterday" and "Act Naturally" didn’t emerge on a U.S. album until a year later on Yesterday and Today. Reissues In 2004, the Capitol Records Vol. 1 box set gathered the U.S. albums Meet the Beatles, The Beatles’ Second Album, Something New, and Beatles ‘65 on CD for the first time. In 2006, the Capitol Records Vol. 2 box set gathered the U.S. albums The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help!, and Rubber Soul on CD for the first time. The Songs Here’s information on the individual songs.

Help! The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: single (7/19/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: “I’m Down” Peak: 13 BB, 13 CB, 2 GR, 11 HR, 1 CL, 13 UK, 11 CN, 18 AU, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 1.04 UK Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 114.4 video, 374.00 streaming Covered by: Deep Purple (1968), Henry Gross (1976), John Farnham (1980, #8 AU), Tina Turner (1984, #40 UK), Bananarama (1988, #3 UK, 25 AU), U2 (1989), Extreme (1993), Little Texas (1995), Eric Bazilian (2020)

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About the Song: This wasn’t just the title song for the Beatles’ second film; this “was John Lennon in the psychiatrist’s chair.” KL It’s odd that such a “confessional song became the title for a silly James Bond spoof…The funny thing is, it works both ways – as a young man's personal statement about learning to open up to others, and as the frantic theme for an exotic espionage chase comedy starring those lovable mop-tops.” JE “The brash arrangement disguises Lennon’s desperation” AM in “one of his most earnest and painful pleas for emotional salvation.” LL Writer Ian MacDonald called it “the first crack in the protective shell Lennon had built around his emotions during the Beatles’ rise to fame.” WK As Lennon said in a 1980 Playboy interview, “The whole Beatles thing was just beyond comprehension. I was subconsciously crying out for help.” WK “I didn’t realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie.” KL John Lennon and Paul McCartney had agreed at the onset of the Beatles to share writing credits on their compositions, but this was primarily by John. Paul did, however, provide the countermelody arrangement. WK Paul has also said he didn’t realize until years later that the song was actually John calling out for help. SF In a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon said of this and “Strawberry Fields Forever” that “they were the ones I always considered my best songs. They were the ones I really wrote from experience and not projecting myself into a situation and writing a nice story about it.” FB trailer for the movie However, he also said, “I don’t like the recording that much; we did it too fast trying to be commercial.” FB Critic Dave Marsh disagreed, saying, “’Help!’ isn’t a compromise; it’s bursting with vitality…[Lennon] sounds triumphant, because he’s found a group of kindred spirits who are offering the very spiritual assistance and emotional support for which he’s begging. Paul's echoing harmonies, Ringo's jaunty drums, the boom of George's guitar speak to the heart of Lennon's passion, and though they cannot cure the wound, at least they add a note of reassurance that he's not alone with his pain.” WK For an idea what the song could sound like slowed down, check out Tina Turner’s recording on her 1984 Private Dancer album. The song was nominated for Grammys for Contemporary Rock & Roll Group Performance and Vocal Group Performance as well as an Ivor Novello Award. It didn’t win any of them, but was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.

The Night Before The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965) Peak: 38 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 42.29 streaming About the Song: "The jaunty The Night Before and Another Girl" AM are "two very fine tunes that simply update his melodic signature." AM They might both be "unremarkable without…George’s killer guitar work." LL

You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973) Peak: 8 CL, 10 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, -- video, 153.99 streaming Covered by: The Silkie (1965, #10 BB, 28 UK), Joe Cocker (1991), Elvis Costello (1995), Eddie Vedder (2002, #5 AA, 40 AR, 30 MR) About the Song: “Like the previous album's ‘I’m a Loser,’ You've Got to Hide Your Love Away was Lennon's nod to the influence of Bob Dylan.” CD The simultaneously “plaintive” AM and “charmingly ramshackle” AD song was “supposedly written about Beatle manager Brian Epstein’s homosexuality. It is an acoustic number so tender, it hurts just to think about it.” LL

I Need You The Beatles

Writer(s): George Harrison Lead Vocals: George Harrison Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965) Peak: 38 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 30.51 streaming About the Song: George is “starting to contribute quality compositions [like] I Need You.” DBW “It's a very simple song, but…sounds nice.” AD

Another Girl The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965) Peak: 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 17.00 streaming About the Song: “Another Girl“ features “a great guitar solo by Paul.” DBW

You’re Gonna Lose That Girl The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965) Peak: 18 CL, 10 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 46.59 streaming About the Song: “John is absolutely vicious in his delivery of You're Going to Lose That Girl,” MU “the kind of song McCartney effortlessly tosses off.” AM It demonstrates that “John's lyrics are advancing rapidly.” JA “if not quite a classic [it] is at least hugely charming and enjoyable, with some fine Beatles harmonies and playful vocals all round.” AD

Ticket to Ride The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Recorded: 2/15/1965 Lead Vocals: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Released: single (4/9/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Help! (U.S. soundtrack, 8/13/1965), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: “Yes It Is” Peak: 11 BB, 11 CB, 3 GR, 11 HR, 1 CL, 13 UK, 11 CN, 13 AU, 7 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 0.75 US, 0.9 UK, 1.75 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 81.40 video, 186.88 streaming Covered by: Carpenters (1969, #54 BB, 78 CB, 86 HR, 19 AC), Maroon 5 (2014)

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About the Song: “Driven by an indelible 12-string guitar, Ticket to Ride is another masterpiece” AM from Lennon; indeed, it is “the best pop song The Beatles had written at this stage.” AD “Instrumentally, [the] off-beat rhythm was Ringo's masterpiece.” CD “The dragging beat…adds perfectly to the lyrics’ tortured confusion.” LL “Ticket to Ride” marks the moment “where it suddenly became obvious, to anyone paying attention, that being world-dominating pop stars wasn’t enough for this band…They were going to use their position…to bend and twist and pull the sounds on the radio, translating them into something new, something wild.” SG “It’s the sound of a band starting to bend pop music, not quite ready to break it yet.” SG “There are sounds on ‘Ticket to Ride’ that had never made it anywhere near the top of the charts before. There’s George Harrison’s glistening Rickenbacher riff – a starry-eyed jangle that helped make the world safe for the Byrds and for the psychedelic folk-rock hordes that would follow. There’s the low-end drone of the bass, which foreshadowed the Beatles’ interest in Indian ragas. There’s Ringo Starr’s awkwardly perfect stop-start drumming, which sends electric shocks pulsing all through the song. These things should’ve made brains explode when the Beatles suddenly brought them to the radio…‘Ticket To Ride’ resonated the way it did because the band figured out how to plug these impulses into one hell of a pop song.” SG This was the eighth #1 for the Beatles in the United States and their seventh in the UK. Their first trip to the top in the UK came only two years earlier in May 1963 with “From Me to You.” In the U.S., their run was even more impressive considering their first trip to the top was with “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in early 1964. Of course, the Beatles would go on to have more American #1 songs than any other group with 20, but even if their career had stopped here they’d have cemented their place as one of history’s most successful groups. John Lennon wrote “Ticket to Ride” based on a phrase he came up with years earlier. He talked about girls working the street in Hamburg, Germany. They had to have cards from medical authorities saying they had a clean bill of health. John called it “a ticket to ride.” TC It was reportedly one of his favorite songs. DM “’Ticket To Ride’ is a song about heartbreak.” SG “Like almost any break-up, ‘Ticket to Ride’ flickers between sadness and anger. The sadness is tentative, the anger mixed with denial, and you could read the perky coda as acceptance.” FT “Lennon opens it up by wailing, ‘I think I’m gonna be sad / I think it’s todaaaaaay.’ At the beginning of that line, he’s calm, sober, almost matter-of-fact. But by the time McCartney joins in on harmony, he’s wailing at the heavens. Throughout the song, Lennon tries to reconcile the idea that the girl is leaving, that there’s nothing he can do. And it sounds grown-up and mature, in ways that no previous Beatles song had done.” SG “The lead-weighted, hesitant rhythms match our not-quite-hero’s reluctance to meet the inevitable: he thinks it’s today, affecting vagueness when the matter is out of his hands. He doesn’t deny the rightness of his girl’s diagnosis – he hardly needs to, when his resentment at her newfound decisiveness seeps through every bar.” FT The group recorded it on February 15, 1965, supposedly in two takes. “Here, they ride their roots as a bar band in Liverpool and Hamburg to a new kind of glory.” DM Lennon sang lead, offering up “his most souful vocal ever” DM with Paul McCartney and George Harrison providing backing vocals. “Harrison’s twelve-string riffs give a touch of folk rock, McCartney adds a bluesy lead guitar and Lennon a driving rhythm. The real star of the track is Ringo, whose tempestuous drum patterns really push the urgency and anger in the song.” TC In the book The Beatles Recording Sessions, Paul is credited with suggesting the drum pattern to Ringo. Paul also plays bass, PW his usual instrument, and serves up his first lead guitar feature on a Beatles’ single. FB Music author Paul Williams says “the most distinctive element in the recording is the lead guitar riff that opens it and threads through it.” PW

Act Naturally The Beatles

Writer(s): Vonei Morrison, Johnny Russell Lead Vocals: Ringo Starr Released: B-side of “Yesterday” (9/13/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Yesterday and Today (US, 6/15/1966) Peak: 47 BB, 28 CB, 21 HR, 20 CL, 13 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 8.0 radio, -- video, 15.89 streaming First Recorded by: Buck Owens (1963, #1 CW)

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About the Song: “The Bakersfield bounce” AM of “the superfluous country number Act Naturally“ JA “adds new flavor [and is] an ideal showcase for Ringo’s amiable vocals.” AM The #1 country hit by Buck Owens was “the only cover version in The Beatles’ 1960s catalogue not to previously have been part of their live act.” UD “In 1989, Starr and Owens got together to record a new version of the song, accompanied by an entertaining Western video.” UD

It’s Only Love The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Rubber Soul (U.S. version, 12/6/1965) Peak: 31 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, -- streaming Covered by: Peter Cetera (2001)

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About the Song: “It’s Only Love has some haunting guitar sounds and a beautiful John vocal.” AD

You Like Me Too Much The Beatles

Writer(s): George Harrison Lead Vocals: George Harrison Released: Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 13.44 streaming About the Song: George’s other song, “You Like Me Too Much, re-introduces piano into a Beatles album and works as a very nice unassumingly enjoyable track.” AD Even if George’s “two contributions don’t touch Lennon and McCartney’s originals, they hold their own against much of their British pop peers.” AM

Tell Me What You See The Beatles

Writer(s): George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney, John Lennon Released: Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 12.32 streaming About the Song: “Even a…filler tune like Tell Me What You See is totally redeemed by the incredible harmony on the refrain line.” MU

I’ve Just Seen a Face The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney Released: Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Rubber Soul (U.S. version, 12/6/1965) Peak: 15 CL, 29 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 86.17 streaming About the Song: “McCartney's gift for melody was obvious in I've Just Seen a Face,” CD “a frighteningly modern-sounding semi-acoustic number,” JA which is “an irresistible folk-rock gem.” AM

Yesterday The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney Released: single (9/13/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965), Yesterday and Today (US, 6/15/1966), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: "Act Naturally" Peak: 14 US, 13 CB, 14 GR, 12 HR, 1 CL, 8 UK, 13 CN, 2 AU, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.2 UK, 1.2 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 10.0 radio, 56.6 video, 786.64 streaming Covered by: Matt Monro (1965, #8 UK), Marianne Faithfull (1965, #36 UK), Ray Charles (1967, #25 BB, 28 CB, 15 HR, 9 RB, 44 UK), Marvin Gaye (1970), David Essex (1976), En Vogue (1992, #73 BB), Michael Bolton (1992), Boyz II Men (1994), Billy Dean (1995), Wet Wet Wet (1997, #4 UK), Adam Levin with Tony Lucca (2012, #68 BB), Katy Perry (2014), Willie Nelson (2014)

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About the Song: The music for “Yesterday” came effortlessly to Paul McCartney. He was staying in an attic room in London on Wimpole Street while the Beatles were filming their Help! movie. Paul said he woke up one morning with the melody. SS He said, “[I] tumbled out of bed and put my hands on the piano keys and I had a tune in my head.” RSP He assumed he’d unconsciously plagiarized it, TB remembering one of the many jazz tunes his dad had known. RS500 As he told The Hollywood Reporter, “I…spent about three weeks asking all the music people I knew, ‘What is this song?’ I couldn’t believe I’d written it.” FB Once he knew it was original, Paul gave the song some dummy lyrics. He said, “the lyrics used to go, ‘Scrambled eggs, oh my baby how I love your legs.’” SS Once the Help! movie was done, Paul went on a European vacation at the end of May with his girlfriend Jane Asher. He finished the song over a two-week period. He said, this “was quite a long time for me. Generally, John and I would sit down and finish within three hours.” SS When the Beatles took a shot at it, Ringo couldn’t make the drums work and John struck out on the organ. RSP Lennon also disliked the song’s “mawkish sentimentality.” HL Paul even attempted giving it to blues shouter Chris Farlowe and fellow Liverpudlian Billy J. Kramer. HL Producer George Martin suggested trying it with a string quartet. Paul said, “We were a little embarrassed about it…We were a rock & roll band.” RS500 Martin convinced McCartney to try it, assuring him that they could always re-cut it if it didn’t work. HL It “was the start of a stellar series of McCartney ballads with strings (‘Eleanor Rigby,’ ‘She's Leaving Home’)” CD and also “suggested much more sophisticated and adventurous musical territory, which the group immediately began exploring with Rubber Soul.” AM While the song was included on the group’s Help! album, they decided not to release it as a single in England because they weren’t sold on releasing a full-on ballad that was really a solo recording instead of a band effort. SS They did, however, allow its release as a single in the United States, because they didn’t live there. SS Despite their reservations, it became one of the most successful ever. According to Guinness World Records, “Yesterday” is the most recorded song of all time RS500 with more than 2500 versions. RSP

Dizzy Miss Lizzy The Beatles

Writer(s): Larry Williams Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965), Help! (UK version, 8/6/1965) Peak: 13 CL, 38 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 12.54 streaming First Recorded by: Larry Williams (1958, #69 BB) About the Song: “Best known for his 1957 hit ‘Bony Maronie,’ Larry Williams provided three songs to be covered by The Beatles, all sung by John Lennon.” UD “The rocking…Dizzy Miss Lizzie,” JA “seemingly included for the hell of it” AD as the closing number on Help!, is “one of their best covers.” DBW It is a full-fledged “vocal scorcher” AD that “gives John an opportunity to flex his rock & roll muscle.” AM His “trademark raucous delivery was in stark contrast to the preceding song, Paul’s ballad ‘Yesterday.’” UD It “sounds like John’s…answer to Paul's ‘Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey’ vocal on Beatles for Sale.” JE “George’s stinging lead guitar work keeps the track at a frenzied level.” UD

Yes It Is The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison Released: B-side of “Ticket to Ride” (4/9/1965), Beatles VI (US album, 6/14/1965), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 46 BB, 65 HR, 37 CL, 36 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 7.96 streaming About the Song: A

I’m Down The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney Released: B-side of “Help!” (7/19/1965), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 17 CL, 19 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 5.50 streaming Covered by: Yes (1976), Aerosmith (1987) About the Song: A

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