I've Just Seen a Face

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"I've Just Seen a Face"
"I've Just Seen a Face" cover
Song by The Beatles
from the album Help!
Released August 6, 1965
Recorded June 14, 1965
Genre Rock
Length 2:07
Label Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin
Help! track listing
Side one
  1. "Help!"
  2. "The Night Before"
  3. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
  4. "I Need You"
  5. "Another Girl"
  6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl"
  7. "Ticket to Ride"
Side two
  1. "Act Naturally"
  2. "It's Only Love"
  3. "You Like Me Too Much"
  4. "Tell Me What You See"
  5. "I've Just Seen a Face"
  6. "Yesterday"
  7. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"

"I've Just Seen a Face" is a song by The Beatles. It appears on their 1965 album, Help!, as well as the American release of their album Rubber Soul from the same year.

"I've Just Seen a Face" was written by Paul McCartney[1][2] (credited to Lennon-McCartney), and features McCartney on vocals. Before its release, the song was briefly titled "Aunty Gin's Theme," after his father's youngest sister, because it was one of her favorites.[3][4]

The Help! version was recorded on 14 June 1965, at Abbey Road Studios in London in the same session with "Yesterday."[5]

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[edit] Credits

[edit] McCartney live versions

The song has remained a favourite of McCartney's as indicated by live performances during his solo career. It as one of only five Beatles numbers performed on his Wings Over America Tour in 1976. Post-Beatles live versions appear on the 1976 album Wings over America, on the 1991 album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), and on the 2005 DVD, Live In Red Square.

[edit] Cover versions

Notable covers of "I've Just Seen a Face" have been done by The Charles River Valley Boys, The Dillards, Arlo Guthrie and Warren Zevon, Holly Cole, The Living End, Kenny Rankin, Eddie Vedder, Lucy Kaplansky, Gray Matter, John Pizzarelli and Thrice. Travis used the section of "Had it had been another day..." in "All I Want to Do Is Rock."

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Barry Miles (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 200. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6. 
  2. ^ David Sheff (interviewer) (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press, 195. ISBN 0-312-25464-4. 
  3. ^ Bill Harry, (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing, 559. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2. 
  4. ^ Ian MacDonald (1994). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 123. ISBN 0-8050-2780-7. 
  5. ^ Mark Lewisohn (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books, 59. ISBN 0-517-57066-1. 
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