Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of the Day. She Loves You is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by English rock group the Beatles for release as a single in 1963. The single set and surpassed several records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States as one of the five Beatles songs that held the top five positions in the American charts simultaneously on 4 April 1964. It is their best-selling single in the United Kingdom, and was the best selling single there in 1963. In November 2004, Rolling Stone ranked She Loves You number 64 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In August 2009, at the end of its Beatles Weekend, BBC Radio 2 announced that She Loves You was the Beatles all-time best-selling single in the UK based on information compiled by The Official Charts Company. Lennon and McCartney had started composing She Loves You after a 26 June 1963 concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle upon Tyne during their tour with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the Pacemakers. They began writing the song on the tour bus, and continued later that night at their hotel in Newcastle. In 2000, McCartney said it began with Bobby Rydells song Forget Him and the call and response pattern, and that as often happens, you think of one song when you write another ... Id planned an answering song where a couple of us would sing she loves you and the other ones would answer yeah yeah. We decided that was a crummy idea but at least we then had the idea of a song called She Loves You. So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it—John and I, sitting on twin beds with guitars. It was completed the following day at McCartneys family home in Forthlin Road, Liverpool. Like many early Beatles songs, the title of She Loves You was framed around the use of personal pronouns. But unusually for a love song, the lyrics were not written in the first person; instead the narrator functions as a helpful go-between for estranged lovers: You think you lost your love,Well, I saw her yesterday.Its you shes thinking of –And she told me what to say.She says she loves you .This idea was attributed by Lennon to McCartney in 1980: It was Pauls idea: instead of singing I love you again, wed have a third party. That kind of little detail is still in his work. He will write a story about someone. Im more inclined to write about myself. Lennon, being mindful of Elvis Presleys All Shook Up, wanted something equally as stirring: I dont know where the yeah yeah yeah came from [but] I remember when Elvis did All Shook Up it was the first time in my life that I had heard uh huh, oh yeah, and yeah yeah all sung in the same song. The song also included a number of wooooos, which Lennon acknowledged as inspired by the Isley Brothers recording of Twist and Shout, which the Beatles had earlier recorded, and which had been inserted into the groups previous single, From Me to You. As Lennon later said: We stuck it in everything. McCartney recalls them playing the finished song on acoustic guitars to his father Jim at home immediately after the song was completed: We went into the living room [and said] Dad, listen to this. What do you think? And he said Thats very nice son, but theres enough of these Americanisms around. Couldnt you sing She loves you, yes, yes, yes!. At which point we collapsed in a heap and said No, Dad, you dont quite get it!. EMI recording engineer Norman Smith had a somewhat similar reaction, later recounting, I was setting up the microphone when I first saw the lyrics on the music stand, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah! I thought, Oh my God, what a lyric! This is going to be one that I do not like. But when they started to sing it—bang, wow, terrific, I was up at the mixer jogging around. The yeah, yeah, yeah refrain proved an immediate, effective, infectious musical hook. Unusually, the song starts with the hook right away, instead of introducing it after a verse or two. She Loves You does not include a bridge, instead using the refrain to join the various verses. The chords tend to change every two measures, and the harmonic scheme is mostly static. The arrangement starts with a two-count of Ringo Starrs drums, and his fills are an important part of the record throughout. The electric instruments are mixed higher than before, especially McCartneys bass, adding to the sense of musical power that the record provides. The lead vocal is sung by Lennon and McCartney, switching between unison and harmony. George Martin, the Beatles producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison. They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George [Harrison] doing the sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord. It was just like a Glenn Miller arrangement. The device had also been used by country music-influenced artists in the 1950s. McCartney later reflected: We took it to George Martin and sang She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeeaah ... and that tight little sixth cluster we had at the end. George [Martin] said: Its very corny, I would never end on a sixth. But we said Its such a great sound, it doesnt matter. The song was recorded on 1 July 1963, less than a week after it was written. It was done on a two-track recording machine; documentation regarding the number of takes required and other recording details does not exist. Standard procedure at EMI Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape for singles once they had been mixed down to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of four Beatles songs that were released as two singles: Love Me Do, P.S. I Love You, She Loves You, and Ill Get You. These tracks only exist as a mono master, although several mock-stereo remixes have been made by EMI affiliates worldwide, including a few made in 1966 by Abbey Road engineer Geoff Emerick. Mixing was done on 4 July. The German division of EMI (the parent of the Beatles British record label Parlophone Records) decided that the only way to sell Beatles records in Germany would be to re-record them in the German language. The band thought it unnecessary, but were asked by George Martin to comply, recording Sie Liebt Dich on 29 January 1964, along with Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand, at the Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris. They recorded new vocals over the original backing track to I Want to Hold Your Hand but She Loves You required them to record a new rhythm track as the original two-track recording had been scrapped.[16] Both songs were translated by Luxembourger musician Camillo Felgen, under the pseudonym of Jean Nicolas. youtube/watch?v=QoF-7VMMihA
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