And I Love Her
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| Single by The Beatles | ||
| from the album A Hard Day's Night (UK) Something New (U.S. |
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| B-side(s) | "If I Fell" | |
| Released | 20 July 1964 (US) | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Recorded | Abbey Road 1964 | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | 2:31 | |
| Label | Parlophone (UK) Capitol (US) 5235 |
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| Writer(s) | Lennon-McCartney | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
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| The Beatles singles chronology | ||
| "I'll Cry Instead" (US-1964) |
"And I Love Her" (US-1964) |
"Matchbox" (US-1964) |
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"And I Love Her" (file info) |
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| A Hard Day's Night track listing | ||
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"And I Love Her" is a song 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 pop songs with a title that starts in mid-sentence.[citation needed] Paul McCartney was pleased with himself that he came up with this clever idea.
It is also notable for its complex structure. This song has no obvious key signature, but rather a pedal point signature that 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.
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.
[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 2006, Barry Manilow covered the song for his The Greatest Songs of the Sixties.
[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.
