Today in Music (1964): The Beatles released A Hard Day's Night

A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles

A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. Soundtrack)

Released: June 26, 1964 Peak: 114 US, -- UK, 1 CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, -- UK, 4.1 world (includes US and UK) Genre: pop/rock Total Running Time: 29:29

Tracks on U.S. version of A Hard Day’s Night: Click on a song title for more details. A Hard Day’s Night [2:34] Tell Me Why [2:09] I’ll Cry Instead [1:45] I Should Have Known Better (instrumental) [2:10] I’m Happy Just to Dance with You [1:56] And I Love Her (instrumental) [3:46] I Should Have Known Better [2:43] If I Fell [2:19] And I Love Her [2:30] Ringo’s Theme (This Boy) (instrumental) [3:10] Can’t Buy Me Love [2:12] A Hard Day’s Night (instrumental) [2:06]

Rating for U.S. version of A Hard Day’s Night: 3.558 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings) Awards for U.S. version:

A Hard Day’s Night (UK version)

Released: July 10, 1964 Peak: -- US, 121 UK, --, 11 AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.75 UK, 0.75 world (includes US and UK), 28.92 EAS Genre: pop/rock Total Running Time: 30:10 <

Tracks on UK version of A Hard Day’s Night: Click on a song title for more details. A Hard Day’s Night [2:34] I Should Have Known Better [2:43] If I Fell [2:19] I’m Happy Just to Dance with You [1:56] And I Love Her [2:30] Tell Me Why [2:09] Can’t Buy Me Love [2:12] Any Time at All [2:11] I’ll Cry Instead [1:45] Things We Said Today [2:35] When I Get Home [2:17] You Can’t Do That [2:35] I’ll Be Back [2:24] Also from This Era: Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand [2:19] PM1 Sie Liebt Dich [2:20] PM1 Long Tall Sally [2:00] PM1 I Call Your Name [2:09] PM1 Slow Down [2:55] PM1 Matchbox [1:57] PM1

Rating for UK version of A Hard Day’s Night: 4.317 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings) Quotable: "This is the sound of Beatlemania in all of its giddy glory" – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com Awards for UK version:

Something New

Released: July 20, 1964 Peak: 2 US, -- UK, 2 CN, --AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, -- UK, 3.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: pop/rock Total Running Time: 24:27 <

Tracks on Something New: Click on a song title for more details. I’ll Cry Instead [1:45] Things We Said Today [2:35] Any Time at All [2:11] When I Get Home [2:17] Slow Down [2:55] Matchbox [1:57] Tell Me Why [2:09] (39 DF) And I Love Her [2:30] I’m Happy Just to Dance with You [1:56] If I Fell [2:19] Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand [2:19] The Players: John Lennon (vocals, guitar) Paul McCartney (vocals, bass) George Harrison (guitar, vocals) Ringo Starr (drums, vocals)

Rating for Something New: 3.776 out of 5.00 (average of 7 ratings)

About the Movie Village Voice film critic Andrew Sarris called A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles’ first film, “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.” FB The Daily Mail declared the Beatles “as funny as the Marx Brothers.” FB The idea was to follow a fictional account of the Beatles for two days, effectively capturing what it was like for them to live their lives in a fish bowl. Filmed under the working title Beatlemania, it acquired its name from a comment from Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr. After a day of strenuous filming, he said, “It’s been a hard day’s night, that was!” FB Another account, however, suggested that it was after a day in the recording studio and he was possibly quoting the title of Eartha Kitt’s “I Had a Hard Day Last Night.” KL About the UK version of A Hard Day’s Night Regarding the soundtrack, A Hard Day's Night was the third Beatles LP released in the U.K. and "the first and only album to solely feature Lennon/McCartney originals." MU To confuse matters, though, the U.S. version of the album was the soundtrack for the movie of the same name and consequently chopped out a few songs to make way for George Martin instrumentals. Either way, "only the first seven songs are actually in the movie and they are the strongest of the bunch." AZ When viewed as a full work, though, the album "stands as a testament to [Lennon & McCartney’s] collaborative powers – never again did they write together so well or so easily." AM This is "yet another high-point for John, Paul, George, and Ringo – four fab fellows who hit the highest heights imaginable." AZ "A Hard Day's Night showed a band on the verge of breaking new creative ground, a group that still had fun making old-fashioned pop records." RV The "syrupy pop-song covers are gone, largely replaced by memorable, tightly crafted masterpieces" JA "performed with genuine glee and excitement." AM "All of the disparate influences on their first two albums…coalesced into a bright, joyous, original sound, filled with ringing guitars and irresistible melodies." AM "This is the sound of Beatlemania in all of its giddy glory." AM "In the flurry of experimentation that dominated Sgt. Pepper, The White Album and the supreme lyrical achievements of Revolver, The Beatles’ first masterpiece frequently gets lost in the shuffle." RV "It's so easy to underestimate this album [and] overlook how great The Beatles were so early in their career because" IB "as the original boy band, the adoration of pre-adolescent girls made The Beatles seem a trifle bit silly." RV "With no song running over three minutes in length, The Beatles follow a simple yet powerful rule in rock: Get in, get your message across, and get out. There's no need to pad any of these 13 songs with…extended guitar solos or spotlights on drum work. (Sorry, Ringo - no offense meant.) If anything, these short blasts of power-pop leave the listener wanting more - even today…it's still powerful." DV "These songs are all catchy" MU and "the melodies forceful and memorable." AM "Virtually everything could be a single." TM About the U.S. version of A Hard Day’s Night While the UK release was a full-fledged studio album, the U.S. version – released a couple of weeks in advance of the UK version – was an actual soundtrack, including those songs actually featured in the film as well as a handful of instrumentals. The latter are completely unnecessary, rendering the U.S. album far inferior. About Something New Released just weeks after the U.S. version of A Hard Day’s Night, the material here, despite the misleading title, isn’t new. There are five songs from the U.S. soundtrack plus some of the material from the initial UK release. This album does include the new August ’64 single Matchbox / Slow Down and a German version of “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” but those are hardly improvements over the #1 singles “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Can’t Buy Me Love,” as well as “I Should Have Known Better,” which were all featured on the UK and U.S. versions of A Hard Day’s Night. 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.

A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: UK single (7/10/1964), US single (7/13/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: “Things We Said Today” (UK), “I Should Have Known Better” (US) Peak: 1 US, 13 CB, 2 GR, 13 HR, 1 CL, 13 UK, 11 CN, 16 AU, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 36.0 video, 255.30 streaming Covered by: The Supremes (1964), Peter Sellers (1965, #14 UK), Ramsey Lewis (1966, #29 BB, 10 AC), Billy Joel (1997, #85 AU), Goldie Hawn (1998)

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About the Song: The title cut from the Beatles’ third album and soundtrack to their first movie is a “tuneful ode of complaint...He’s groaning – cheerfully of course – about the trials of being an on-the-go pop idol.” TM “It’s a giddy adrenaline rush, and like everything that follows, it’s the very essence of pop.” TM According to an interview with Ringo in 1964, he said, “We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day…’ and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ‘Night! So we came to ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’” SF Before it was used for the movie or song title, John Lennon used it in his short story “Sad Michael,” saying “There was no reason for Michael to be sad that morning, (the little wretch): everyone liked him (the scab). He’d had a hard day’s night that day, for Michael was a Cocky Watchtower.” SF Lennon wrote the song with some contributions from Paul McCartney. WK It was the last to be composed for the movie’s soundtrack. SF Walter Shenson, the movie’s producer, told PBS that he’d asked John to write a song incorporating the movie’s title. He assumed it would take days or weeks to write, but John came in the next day with it. SF It featured “long, repeating notes, that are uncommon in pop music.” SF It featured double-tracked vocals by Lennon, which gives the effect of a duet, TM as well as lead and harmony vocals by McCartney. FB The unmistakable “mighty opening chord” WK was played by George Harrison on his Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar. H This was the Beatles’ first album to feature the distinctive sound, which “inspired countless guitarists including Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds.” H “That dramatic guitar chord…still jumps right out at you, slaps you in the face, and jump-starts your heart.” AZ “The chiming tones of” AD the “jangly guitars and Lennon’s irresistible rough vocals” IB make for “straight-ahead good-time rock and roll” MU on “the first pop song to end with a different chord than it started on.” RV

I Should Have Known Better The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: B-side of “A Hard Day’s Night” (U.S., 7/13/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Hey Jude (compilation, 2/26/1970) Peak: 53 BB, 43 CB, 84 HR, 9 CL, 1 AU, 12 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, -- video, 62.92 streaming

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About the Song: “Gushing pop giddiness…runs through I Should Have Know Better,” IB “sung by John. [Great] harmonica sound here, and the melody and vocals are both super strong. The instrumental break positively chimes and shines thanks to the guitar sound” AD and “the glorious harmonica.” H

If I Fell The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: B-side of “And I Love Her” (7/20/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) Peak: 53 BB, 64 CB, 59 HR, 8 CL, 1 AU, 17 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, -- video, 106.61 streaming Covered by: The Brothers Four (1966, #30 AC), Kevin Gilbert (1990), Sammy Kershaw (1995), Maroon 5 (2003)

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About the Song: The “gentle” AM and “powerfully poignant If I Fell“ H is “one of the most beautiful love songs out there.” DV It “features gorgeous harmony vocals by John and Paul” AD that are “sliding barbershop-style inner-voice harmonies.” TM

I’m Happy Just to Dance with You The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: George Harrison Released: single (7/20/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) B-Side: “I’ll Cry Instead” Peak: 95 BB, 91 CB, 94 HR, 45 CL, 38 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 42.83 streaming About the Song: “Even the toss-off I’m Happy Just to Dance with You, [which was] handed over to George to provide him with a lead vocal, is graced with brilliant backup vocals.” JA “Enjoyable, but no all time world beating masterpiece.” AD

And I Love Her The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: single (7/20/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973) B-side: “If I Fell” Peak: 12 BB, 14 CB, 15 G, 16 HR, 3 CL, 15 CN, 9 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 5.0 radio, -- video, 288.17 streaming Covered by: Esther Phillips (as “And I Love Him,” 1965, #54 BB, 14 AC, 11 RB), Broken Bells (2014)

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About the Song: “The guitars sound nice all through” AD “the sappy but sweet” MU “ballad And I Love Her, [bringing] Paul very much to the fore with the vocal.” AD

Tell Me Why The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison Released: A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) Peak: 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 15.97 streaming About the Song: The “swinging” MU “Tell Me Why brings back memories of the earlier Beatles style as displayed on their first two records, [although this is a more] varied album than either of it's predecessors.” AD

Can’t Buy Me Love The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: single (3/16/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Hey Jude (compilation, 2/26/1970), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 4/2/1973), The Beatles 1 (compilation, 11/14/2000) B-Side: “You Can’t Do That” Peak: 15 US, 15 CB, 11 GR, 14 HR, 1 CL, 13 UK, 3 CN, 16 AU, 1 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 1.55 UK, 7.0 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 3.0 radio, 31.6 video, 192.81 streaming Covered by: Ella Fitzgerald (1964, #34 UK), Shenandoah (1995), Booker T. Jones (2014)

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About the Song: The Billboard Hot 100 chart for April 4, 1964, has been called “the most famous chart of all-time.” KL It marked the week that the Beatles soared to #1 with “Can’t Buy Me Love,” from #27 the week before. It was the biggest leap to the top in the history of the chart. It also made the Beatles the first act to score three consecutive chart-toppers. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” hit the top in February and stayed for 7 weeks. It was succeeded by “She Loves You” for two weeks, which succumbed to “Can’t Buy Me Love” which held on for five weeks. That, however, was only the beginning. Not only were “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” still in the top 5, but they were joined by two other Beatles’ tunes – “Twist and Shout” and “I Saw Her Standing There.” That gave the Fab Four the top five songs on the Billboard chart. They also had seven more songs on the Hot 100 for a total of twelve. The next week they added two more for a then-record fourteen songs on the chart. FB The glut of material was due to the success of “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” released by Capitol Records. Other record companies then released their Beatles’ product as well. “Can’t Buy Me Love,” however, was considered the official follow-up single to “Hand.” The song had the largest advance order in history with 2.1 million. FB The song also preceded the Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, and was featured on the soundtrack. It has been called “the first truly perfect marriage of rock music and celluloid.” TC Paul McCartney wrote the song while the group was touring in France in January 1964. They recorded it in Paris – the only Beatles’ session outside of London. TC The “R&B flavoured song” KL is “coated by Paul’s golden voice,” IB which is actually double-tracked instead of harmonies from John Lennon. KL It “practically burst forth with the joy of music making lost on most artists.” RV Packed with “uncontainable musical exuberance,” IB it “is a stone cold classic, wonderful from beginning to end and it’s only 2:14 long!” AD It also features “a memorable guitar solo from George Harrison and Ringo plays tom-toms as well as drums.” KL Producer George Martin suggested beginning the song with the chorus, “giving it not only a hook but also extra momentum.” TC Ella Fitzgerald covered the song, after which “it became OK for middle-of-the-road and jazz singers to do Beatles songs.” KL

Any Time at All The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) Peak: 26 CL, 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 15.51 streaming About the Song: “Lennon’s scathing” MU and “brash” Any Time at All“ AM is a “wonderful rocker” JA “with good John vocals.” AD

I’ll Cry Instead The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: B-side of “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You” (7/20/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (U.S. soundtrack, 6/26/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) Peak: 25 BB, 22 CB, 19 GR< 28 HR, 28 CL, 20 CN, 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 10.79 streaming Covered by: Joe Cocker (1965), Billy Joel (1983)

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About the Song: “The tough folk-rock of” AM “the rockabilly-tinged I'll Cry Instead“ IB makes for a “perfectly enjoyable with it's little charming guitar parts amid a shuffling rhythm.” AD It “gives a sneak peak at the bitingly good lyricist Lennon would become: ‘I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet/And I can't talk to people that I meet/And if I could see you now/I'd try to make you sad somehow/But I can't/So I cry instead.’” IB

Things We Said Today The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: Paul McCartney Released: B-side of “A Hard Day’s Night” (UK, 7/10/1964) A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) Peak: 23 CL, 36 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 38.80 streaming Covered by: Bob Dylan (2014) About the Song: There are “two memorable ballads” AD Paul’s “catchy” MU “Thing We Said Today and John’s “I’ll Be Back,” “both with clever ascending hooks.” JA The former “sounds crystal clear and beautifully recorded.” AD

When I Get Home The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964) Peak: 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 9.12 streaming About the Song: This song and “You Can’t Do That” are “the two weakest links in the whole album chain – not necessarily bad songs, but just not of the same caliber as the rest of the material.” DV

You Can’t Do That The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon Released: as the B-side of “Can’t Buy Me Love” (3/16/1964), The Beatles’ Second Album (U.S. album, 4/10/1964), A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation, 2023 reissue) Peak: 48 BB, 77 CB, 36 CL, 33 CN, 21 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 14.81 streaming About the Song: “John’s You Can't Do That is a relentless, powerful rocker,” DBW although it and When I Get Home are “the two weakest links in the whole album chain – not necessarily bad songs, but just not of the same caliber as the rest of the material.” DV

I’ll Be Back The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: A Hard Day’s Night (UK album, 7/10/1964), Beatles ‘65 (US album, 12/15/1964) Peak: 21 CL, 22 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 18.11 streaming Covered by: Shawn Colvin (2004) About the Song: John’s “I’ll Be Back” and Paul’s “Things We Said Today” are both “memorable ballads” AD with “with clever ascending hooks.” JA

Long Tall Sally The Beatles

Writer(s): Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman, Robert Blackwell Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney Released: The Beatles’ Second Album (U.S. album, 4/10/1964), Long Tall Sally (EP, 6/19/1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 1 CN (EP) Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 6.30 streaming Sales (in millions): -- First Recorded by: Little Richard (1956, #6 BB, 1 RB)

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About the Song: This “was a staple of The Beatles’ live set from the very earliest formative years until they stopped touring in 1966. Indeed, it was the last song they played at their final concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in August 1966. When Paul and John first met, back in the summer of 1957, ‘Long Tall Sally’ was among the songs Paul played to John, after which, John invited him to join his band, as Paul told Playboy in 1984: “I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. ‘Long Tall Sally’ and ‘Tutti-Frutti,’ that got me in. That was my audition.” UD

I Call Your Name The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: The Beatles’ Second Album (U.S. album, 4/10/1964), Long Tall Sally (EP, 6/19/1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 1 CN (EP) Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 4.16 streaming

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Slow Down The Beatles

Writer(s): Larry Williams Lead Vocals: John Lennon Released: B-side of “Matchbox” (6/19/1964), Long Tall Sally (EP, 6/19/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 25 BB, 34 CB, 23 HR, 16 CL, 1 CN (EP), 39 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 3.10 streaming First Recorded by: Larry Williams (1958) About the Song: “Recorded during the same sessions as the soundtrack to A Hard Day’s Night, the Long Tall Sally EP featured John’s ‘I Call Your Name’ alongside three covers – ‘Long Tall Sally,’ ‘Matchbox,’ and this Larry Williams number sung by John. Ted ‘King-Size’ Taylor from a rival Liverpool group told Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn how The Beatles came to watch his band, and “all sat in a row and took down one line each of all the songs we did – ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy,’ ‘Slow Down,’ ‘Money,’ all of those – and the next time we saw them they were playing all our stuff.” UD

Matchbox The Beatles

Writer(s): Carl Perkins Lead Vocals: Ringo Starr Released: single (6/19/1964), Long Tall Sally (EP, 6/19/1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) B-Side: “Slow Down” Peak: 17 BB, 17 CB, 16 GR, 22 HR, 26 CL, 6 CN, 1 CN (EP), 29 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 2.34 streaming First Recorded by: Carl Perkins (1957 as the B-side of “Your True Love”) About the Song: “One of a number of Beatles covers of Carl Perkins songs, ‘Matchbox’ features Ringo on vocal duties. Perkins himself was invited along to the session, although remained strictly an observer. ‘Carl came to the session,’ the drummer said in 1964. ‘I felt very embarrassed. I did it just two days before I went into the hospital [with tonsilitis] so please forgive my throat.’” UD

Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jean Nicolas, Heinz Hellmer Lead vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: single (March 1964), Something New (U.S. album, 7/20/1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: 37 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 6.18 streaming About the Song: This is a re-recorded version of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in German.

Sie Liebt Dich The Beatles

Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jean Nicolas, Lee Montague Lead Vocals: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Released: single (March 1964), Past Masters Volume One (compilation, 3/7/1988) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 2.58 streaming About the Song: This is a re-recorded version of “She Loves You” in German.

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