And I Love Her
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| Album | A Hard Day's Night | |
| Released | July 20, 1964 | |
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios February 25–27, 1964 |
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| Genre | Beat | |
| Length | 2:31 | |
| Label | Parlophone (UK) | |
| Writer | Lennon-McCartney | |
| Producer | George Martin | |
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| Single by The Beatles | |||||
| B-side | "If I Fell" | ||||
| Released | July 20, 1964 (US) | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Genre | Beat | ||||
| Label | Capitol 5235 (USA) | ||||
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"And I Love Her" is a song recorded by The Beatles and is the fifth track on their third album, A Hard Day's Night. It was released 20 July 1964 with "If I Fell" as a single by Capitol Records in the United States, reaching #12 in Billboard (see 1964 in music).
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[edit] Composition
This song was one of the first ballads with a title that starts in mid-sentence. Paul McCartney was pleased with himself that he came up with this clever idea.
A majority of this song switches back and forth between the key of E and its relative minor C#m. It also changes keys altogether just before the solo, to F. It ends, oddly, on the parallel major of the key of F's relative minor, D. (This device is called a Picardy third.)
The song was written mainly by McCartney, though John Lennon claimed in an interview with Playboy that his major contribution was the "middle eight" section ("A love like ours/Could never die/As long as I/Have you near me").
Beatles publisher Dick James lends support to this claim, saying that the middle eight was added during recording at the suggestion of producer George Martin. According to James, Lennon called for a break and "within half an hour [Lennon and McCartney] wrote...a very constructive middle to a very commercial song."[1]
McCartney, on the other hand, maintains that "the middle eight is mine.... I wrote this on my own."[2]
[edit] Releases
Different edits of this song have been released throughout the world; these differ in the number of times the closing guitar riff is repeated, and in McCartney's lead vocal being single- or double-tracked in the main verses of the song.
[edit] Credits
- Paul McCartney — Bass Guitar and Lead Vocal
- John Lennon — Acoustic Rhythm Guitar - Gibson J-160
- George Harrison — Acoustic Lead Guitar - Ramirez and claves
- Ringo Starr — Bongos
- George Martin — Producer
[edit] Covers
- As with many Beatles songs, this has been covered by many artists of varying style from RnB, Crooner, Pop and even Grunge. It was translated into a power ballad - of sorts - by Australia's John Farnham, on his Anthology #2: The Classic Hits album.
- Roberto Carlos made a cover, (Eu) Te Amo, in Portuguese and later in Spanish.
- Esther Phillips reversed the gender of the song in 1965; her "And I Love Him" reached #54 that year on the Billboard charts.
- In 1970, Rita Lee covered the song on her album "Build Up".
- In 1972, Bobby Womack covered the song for his hit album "Understanding".
- In 1981, Sarah Vaughan covered the song for her album The Songs of the Beatles.
- In 1995, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles covered the song on "Motown Meets the Beatles".
- In 2006, Barry Manilow covered the song for his The Greatest Songs of the Sixties.
- Also covered by The Wailers at Studio One in 1965.
- "And I Love Her" was slated to appear briefly in Across the Universe, with only its second refrain partially sung by Martin Luther McCoy, but it was removed during editing. It appears as a deleted scene on the DVD. It did, however, appear for a small section in the orchestral scoring of the movie.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Keith Badman, The Beatles: Off the Record, p. 90; cited in Bob Spitz, The Beatles, p. 488.
- ^ Barry Miles, Paul McCartney, p. 123; cited in Bob Spitz, The Beatles, pp. 488-489.
