Hold Me Tight is a rock and roll song by English rock group the Beatles from their 1963 album With the Beatles. It was first recorded during the Please Please Me album session, but not selected for inclusion and re-recorded for their second album. Hold Me Tight was composed principally by Paul McCartney in 1961, and was part of the Beatles stage act until 1963. They attempted to record it for their début Please Please Me but the 13 takes recorded were deemed unsatisfactory, and the tape was destroyed. Seven months later, they recorded a further nine takes, and the final version is an edit of the sixth and ninth takes from the second attempt, varispeeded up a semitone to F major. Both McCartney and John Lennon, at one time or another, shared their low opinion for the song, and in a 1980s interview with Mark Lewisohn, McCartney says, I cant remember much about that one. Certain songs were just work songs, you havent got much memory of them. Thats one of them. In Barry Miles Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, the songwriter calls it a failed attempt at a single which then became an acceptable album filler.[5] Lennon in 1980 said That was Pauls....It was a pretty poor song and I was never really interested in it. In their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler call it the albums poorest track, saying it fails because McCartneys vision of the complete tune obviously sagged somewhat. They also claim that McCartneys singing was out of tune. However, Ian MacDonald redeems it in his book Revolution in the Head, in which he writes: Play it loud with the bass boosted, and you have an overwhelming motoric rocker strongly redolent of the bands live sound. McCartney wrote a different song called Hold Me Tight for a medley included on the 1973 Wings album Red Rose Speedway. youtube/watch?v=afk72imrK60
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