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"From Me vĩ đại You"

US picture sleeve

Single by the Beatles
A-side"Please Please Me" (US 2nd release)
B-side"Thank You Girl" (UK & US 1st release)
Released
  • 11 April 1963 (UK)
  • 27 May 1963 (US)
  • 3 January 1964 (US "Please Please Me" single)
Recorded5 March 1963
StudioEMI, London
GenreMerseybeat[1]
Length1:56
Label
  • Parlophone (UK)
  • Vee-Jay (US)
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)George Martin
The Beatles singles chronology
"Please Please Me"
(1963) 		"From Me vĩ đại You"
(1963) 		"She Loves You"
(1963)

"From Me vĩ đại You" is a tuy nhiên by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in April 1963 as their third single. It was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The tuy nhiên was the Beatles' first number 1 hit on what became the official UK singles chart but the second, after "Please Please Me", on most of the other singles charts published in the UK at the time. "From Me vĩ đại You" failed vĩ đại make an impact in the United States at the time of its initial release. Instead, a 1963 cover version released by Del Shannon resulted in the song's becoming the first Lennon–McCartney tune vĩ đại enter the US pop charts. The Beatles' original was rereleased in the US in January 1964 as the b-side vĩ đại "Please Please Me", and reached number 41.

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Composition[edit]

Lennon and McCartney began writing "From Me vĩ đại You" while on a coach heading vĩ đại Shrewsbury as part of the Beatles' tour with Helen Shapiro. The title was inspired by the name of the letters section of the New Musical Express, which they had been reading: "From You vĩ đại Us".[2] McCartney noted that their early songs tended vĩ đại include the words "I", "me" or "you" in them, as a way of making them "very direct and personal" vĩ đại the band's fans.[3]

In his 1980 interview with Playboy, Lennon recalled writing the song:

We were writing it in a siêu xe I think, and I think the first line was mine. I mean I know it was mine. [Hums melody of first line.] And then after that we took it from there. It was far bluesier phàn nàn that when we wrote it. The notes—today you could rearrange it pretty funky.[4]

Before that interview, Lennon had stated, "We nearly didn't record it because we thought it was too bluesy at first, but when we'd finished it and George Martin had scored it with harmonica, it was alright."[citation needed]

McCartney also talked about rearranging the tuy nhiên in 1964:

"From Me vĩ đại You"—it could be done as an old ragtime tune—especially the middle eight—and so sánh we're not writing the tunes in any particular idiom. In five years' time we may arrange the tunes differently. But we'll probably write the same old rubbish![5]

Singer-songwriter Roger Greenaway recounted a story:[further explanation needed]

John and Paul were sitting at the back of the coach and Kenny Lynch, who at this time fancied himself as a songwriter, sauntered up vĩ đại the back of the coach and Kenny Lynch ... decided he would help them write a tuy nhiên. After a period of about half-an-hour had elapsed and nothing seemed vĩ đại be coming from the back, Kenny rushed vĩ đại the front and shouted, 'Well, that's it. I am not going vĩ đại write any more of that bloody rubbish with those idiots. They don't know music from their backsides. That's it! No more help from me!'[6]

Regardless, the tuy nhiên was regarded by the Beatles as innovative and catchy enough vĩ đại be released as a single. This was one Lennon–McCartney tuy nhiên that the duo truly co-wrote; McCartney described it as "very much co-written".[3]

Melody and lyrics[edit]

"From Me vĩ đại You" comprises five verses and two bridges. The size is Intro V V B V V B V Coda. The first half of the fourth verse is instrumental. The last half of each verse is a mini-refrain, while the lyrics of the bridges are identical. The verses each consist of a rather short eight measures played in C major. In the bridge the tuy nhiên modulates vĩ đại the subdominant (IV) key: F major. The tonic-subdominant modulation is almost a cliché, but Lennon & McCartney avoid the cliché by going another route from I vĩ đại IV phàn nàn the standard I–I7–IV. At the bridge's climax, the chord changes are accompanied by "woo!" Another characterising element in the bridge is the augmented chord – a Gaug – that ends the bridge and leads back vĩ đại trang chủ key (C major).[7] Lennon plays prominent harmonica solos during the beginning, middle and over of the tuy nhiên, as he did with "Love Me Do".

McCartney said of the song:

The thing I liked about "From Me vĩ đại You" was it had a very complete middle. It went vĩ đại a surprising place. The opening chord of the middle section of that tuy nhiên heralded a new batch for u. That was a pivotal tuy nhiên. Our songwriting lifted a little with that tuy nhiên.[5]

The idea of singing the song's opening lick—the "da domain authority gia domain authority gia dum dum da" part—was suggested by George Martin, the Beatles' producer. The group thought it unusual but put their trust in Martin. "In a way, this made [the Beatles] aware of George's enormous musical sense," EMI producer Ron Richards later said.[8]

In the tuy nhiên, the singer offers his love vĩ đại the object of his affections—he has "everything that you want". Although the tuy nhiên is based on singular first-person pronouns, it lacks a lead singer.

Recording and UK release[edit]

George Martin said of the tuy nhiên, "I asked them for another tuy nhiên as good as 'Please Please Me', and they brought u one—'From Me vĩ đại You.' ... There seemed vĩ đại be a bottomless well of songs."[9]

The recording on 5 March 1963 at EMI Studios in 6 takes with 7 edit pieces and went without a hitch and on 11 April Parlophone released "From Me vĩ đại You" in the UK as a single, with "Thank You Girl" on the B-side, catalogue number R5015.[10] Nine days later, it kicked off a twenty-one week lập cập in the British charts, reaching number one on 4 May, a position it would retain for seven weeks.

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"From Me vĩ đại You" featured Lennon playing harmonica in a Jimmy Reed-inspired blues style he had learned from Delbert McClinton, another American who was on the same bill with the Beatles in the early Sixties. "It's chiseled in stone now that I taught Lennon how vĩ đại play harmonica," McClinton said. "John said, 'Show u something.' I was in a pretty unique position, because there just weren't a lot of people playing harmonica in popular music."[9]

"From Me vĩ đại You" was the first Beatles tuy nhiên vĩ đại reach number one in the UK and is widely considered vĩ đại be their first chart-topping tuy nhiên, for although "Please Please Me" reached the summit on almost every chart, it was only number two on Record Retailer's chart, generally considered vĩ đại be the most authoritative for the time. "From Me vĩ đại You" would be the first of eleven consecutive British number one singles by the Beatles.

"From Me vĩ đại You" replaced Gerry and the Pacemakers' "How Do You Do It", a tuy nhiên that had been offered vĩ đại the Beatles (and even recorded by them, though it remained officially unreleased until 1995) but ultimately rejected by them in favour of "Please Please Me".[11] Gerry & The Pacemakers, who also hailed from Liverpool, were very much rivals of the Beatles in their early days—Gerry and the Pacemakers attained the first number one ("How Do You Do It") before the Beatles, and also claimed their second and third number ones before the Beatles did, slowly losing steam afterwards as Beatlemania launched and the Beatles dominated music worldwide in 1964.

A true indication of how successful the Beatles became thanks vĩ đại "From Me vĩ đại You" (though it would soon be overshadowed by "She Loves You" and "I Want vĩ đại Hold Your Hand") was expressed by McCartney: "The first time I thought we'd really made it, was when I was lying in bed one morning, and I heard a milkman whistling 'From Me vĩ đại You'. Actually, I'm sure that I once heard a bird whistling it as well. I swear I did!"[6]

First US release[edit]

When it released "Please Please Me" in the United States, Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles records for five years.[12] Despite the failure of "Please Please Me" vĩ đại catch on, Vee-Jay chose vĩ đại release "From Me vĩ đại You"; as a result, it was never turned down by Capitol, because it was never offered vĩ đại them.[13] "From Me vĩ đại You" was released on Vee-Jay 522, with "Thank You Girl" on the B-side, on 27 May 1963.[14] Even though Cash Box magazine called it a "Pick of the Week" when it was released, it initially failed even more miserably phàn nàn its predecessor; through the over of June, "From Me vĩ đại You" sold fewer phàn nàn 4,000 copies and had failed vĩ đại chart anywhere.[15]

When Del Shannon released a cover version of "From Me vĩ đại You" on Bigtop Records in June , Vee-Jay tried vĩ đại stimulate more interest in the original, both by placing magazine ads and by sending out additional promotional copies of the 45 stamped with the words "The Original Hit".[15] But the biggest boost vĩ đại the Beatles' version came from Dick Biondi, who had played "Please Please Me" on WLS in Chicago. Biondi was fired by WLS in May and relocated vĩ đại KRLA 1110 in Los Angeles in June. He was able vĩ đại convince his new employer vĩ đại add "From Me vĩ đại You" vĩ đại its playlist, and it entered KRLA's "Tune-Dex" on 14 July,[15] spending six weeks on the chart and peaking at 32 on 11 August.[16]

Because of the airplay, and resulting sales, in Los Angeles, "From Me vĩ đại You" made the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks, peaking at number 116 on 10 August, the same time the single peaked in Los Angeles.[15] It was the first time the Beatles appeared on a national chart in Billboard.[17] The late attention in Los Angeles spurred sales of the 45; in the over, the original edition of "From Me vĩ đại You" sold approximately 22,000 copies, roughly three times as many as "Please Please Me" had.[15]

Second US release[edit]

Vee-Jay chose vĩ đại couple "From Me vĩ đại You" with "Please Please Me" when it re-released the single on 3 January 1964,[18] shortly after film of the Beatles had appeared on The Jack Paar Program, the NBC television prime-time version of Paar's previous Tonight Show.[19] Had Vee-Jay known how all-encompassing Beatlemania would become, it likely would have saved "From Me vĩ đại You" for use as an A-side, the way it did with "Twist and Shout" and "Do You Want vĩ đại Know a Secret". But even as a B-side, "From Me vĩ đại You" entered the Billboard chart on 7 March and peaked at number 41[17] and number 6 in Canada.[20] The double-sided hit sold approximately 1.1 million copies in 1964.[21]

Help![edit]

An instrumental arrangement, "From Me vĩ đại You Fantasy" is used in the film, Help!, arranged by Ken Thorne, and is track 3 of the original U.S. release of the soundtrack album. It appears during scenes of attempts vĩ đại remove the ring from Ringo's finger while he sleeps in the Beatles' communal apartment.

Album availability[edit]

"From Me vĩ đại You" made its first album appearance (overall) on the Canadian Twist and Shout LP in 1964. That same year, it made its US album debut on Vee-Jay's Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage; its first appearance on a "regular" US Beatles album wouldn't come until 1973 when it appeared on the double LP compilation 1962–1966. In 1966, "From Me vĩ đại You" was first issued in the UK on A Collection of Beatles Oldies, followed by the 1962–1966 compilation seven years later. The first release on CD was in 1988 when it was included in the Past Masters compilation. It was later released on the 1962–1966 double CD and the single CD compilation 1.

Alternative mixes[edit]

The mono version, which was issued as a single in 1963, has appeared on the 1988 issue of Past Masters, the 1962–1966 CD reissues, the 1 compilation released in 2000, and Mono Masters in 2009. The stereo version was included on the 1966 compilation A Collection of Beatles Oldies, the original LP issues of 1962–1966 in 1973, and the 2009 reissue of Past Masters. The intro vĩ đại the stereo version (recorded on two tracks) lacks the harmonica inserted into the mono mix.

Chart history[edit]

Personnel[edit]

  • John Lennon – vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonica
  • Paul McCartney – vocal, bass guitar
  • George Harrison – lead guitar
  • Ringo Starr – drums
Personnel per Ian MacDonald[35]

Del Shannon cover[edit]

"From Me vĩ đại You"
Single by Del Shannon
B-side"Two Silhouettes"
ReleasedJune 1963[36]
GenreRock and roll
Length2:00
LabelBigtop
Songwriter(s)McCartney–Lennon
Del Shannon singles chronology
"Two Kinds of Teardrops"
(1963) 		"From Me vĩ đại You"
(1963) 		"Sue's Gotta Be Mine"
(1963)

On 18 April 1963, the Beatles were one of 15 acts vĩ đại play at Swinging Sound '63, an all-star concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. They played "From Me vĩ đại You" and "Twist and Shout".[37] Del Shannon was also on the bill that night.[13] After the concert, he told John Lennon that he was going vĩ đại record "From Me vĩ đại You" because he liked the falsetto parts in the tuy nhiên.[13] At first, Lennon was flattered, but he quickly changed his mind, realizing that a cover version by Shannon might hurt the Beatles' chances of having a hit in the States.[13] As it turned out, Lennon was temporarily right, but neither artist's version was a big hit in America.

In early June, Bigtop Records released Shannon's version of "From Me vĩ đại You" as the follow-up vĩ đại "Two Kinds of Teardrops." It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 June, becoming the first Lennon–McCartney composition vĩ đại make the American charts.[38] It spent four weeks on the chart and peaked at number 77.[38] It was even more successful in Chicago as it peaked at number 15 on the WLS "Silver Dollar Survey".[39][40]

Shannon's recording follows the Beatles' original almost verbatim, except for a slightly faster tempo and fade-out. "At that time no one had heard of the Beatles here (the US), but I knew they were great writers so sánh I just picked up on one of their songs," Shannon said later.[41]

Chart history[edit]

Chart (1963) Peak
position
Australia 21
Canada (CHUM Hit Parade)[42] 13
US Billboard Hot 100[36] 77
US Cash Box Top 100[43] 67

Later versions[edit]

Bobby McFerrin covered the tuy nhiên in his 1986 album, Spontaneous Inventions.

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In November 2008, a slowed-down cover version using only piano and vocals became the first Beatles tuy nhiên vĩ đại be used in a British advertising chiến dịch when it was used in John Lewis' Christmas marketing.[44]

On 4 March năm 2016, a remixed version of the tuy nhiên was released by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP.

American indie rock band Futurebirds included the tuy nhiên on its năm 2016 EP "Portico I".

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Pop/Rock " British Invasion " Merseybeat". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  2. ^ The Beatles 2000, p. 94.
  3. ^ a b Miles 1997, p. 148.
  4. ^ Sheff 2000, p. 168.
  5. ^ a b The Beatles Interview Database 2004.
  6. ^ a b Cross 2005, pp. 348–349.
  7. ^ Pollack 2001.
  8. ^ Spitz 2005, p. 387.
  9. ^ a b "72 – 'From Me vĩ đại You'". 100 Greatest Beatles Songs. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  10. ^ Lewisohn 1988, pp. 28, 32, 200.
  11. ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 18.
  12. ^ Spizer 2004, p. 14.
  13. ^ a b c d Spizer 2004, p. 30.
  14. ^ Wallgren 1982, p. 17.
  15. ^ a b c d e Spizer 2004, p. 31.
  16. ^ Spizer 2004, p. 41.
  17. ^ a b Whitburn 2002, p. 40.
  18. ^ Wallgren 1982, p. 22.
  19. ^ Spizer 2004, p. 90.
  20. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - March 9, 1964".
  21. ^ Spizer 1998, p. 20.
  22. ^ Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book (1940–1969). Turramurra: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  23. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - March 9, 1964".
  24. ^ "The Beatles - Salgshitlisterne Top 20". Danske Hitlister. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  25. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – From Me vĩ đại You". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 16 May năm 2016.
  26. ^ "Classifiche". Musica e dischi (in Italian). Retrieved 31 May 2022. Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Titolo" field, tìm kiếm "From u vĩ đại you".
  27. ^ Hung, Steffen. "charts.nz - Forum - 1963 Chart (General)". charts.nz. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  28. ^ "The Beatles – From Me vĩ đại You". VG-lista. Retrieved 16 May năm 2016.
  29. ^ Hallberg, Eric (1993). Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P.. 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans trăng tròn mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975. Drift Musik. p. 130. ISBN 9163021404.
  30. ^ Hallberg, Eric; Henningsson, Ulf (1998). Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74. Premium Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 919727125X.
  31. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 May năm 2016.
  32. ^ "The Beatles Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  33. ^ "Top trăng tròn Hit Singles of 1963". Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  34. ^ The 100 Best-Selling Singles of 1963
  35. ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 77.
  36. ^ a b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  37. ^ Lewisohn 1986, p. 149.
  38. ^ a b Whitburn 2002, p. 633.
  39. ^ WLS 1963a.
  40. ^ WLS 1963b.
  41. ^ tripod.com 2008.
  42. ^ CHUM Tribute Charts, August 12, 1963
  43. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 27, 1963
  44. ^ Turner 2008.

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External links[edit]

  • Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "From Me vĩ đại You"
  • Del Shannon - From Me vĩ đại You on YouTube
  • The Beatles - From Me vĩ đại You on YouTube