I saw her standing there

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I saw her standing there
The Beatles
publication March 22, 1963
length 2 min 54 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Please Please Me

I Saw Her Standing There ( English I saw her standing there ) is a song by British band The Beatles , the 1963 is the first song on their first album Please Please Me was released. It was largely composed by Paul McCartney and published under the credit of Lennon / McCartney .

background

Paul McCartney had the idea for the song in 1962 after a concert in Southport . He took the bass melody from the Chuck Berry song I'm Talking About You . In September 1962 he completed the song together with John Lennon . Lennon expressed his displeasure with McCartney's opening line of the song, which was originally

"Well she was just seventeen
Never been a beauty queen"

"She was just seventeen and never a beauty queen"

read. They changed the line like this:

"Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean"

“She was just seventeen; you know what I mean"

which McCartney liked because of the ambiguity of the statement.

By the end of 1962, the song was in the Beatles' live repertoire. A private recording of a concert at the Liverpool Cavern Club appeared on bootlegs . This version is significantly slower than the later studio version. In this version, Lennon played the harmonica instead of the rhythm guitar .

admission

Ten of the fourteen songs from the Beatles' first album Please Please Me recorded the band on February 11, 1963 in London's Abbey Road Studios - including I Saw Her Standing There . The producer was George Martin , assisted by Norman Smith . The band recorded a total of nine takes , the first of which was ultimately selected for release. On this take, the Beatles recorded additional hand clapping.

The later famous Paul McCartney counting in “One, two, three, four!” was added to the recording afterwards and comes from take nine of the session.

publication

On March 22, 1963, I Saw Her Standing There appeared on the Beatles' first album Please Please Me . In December of that year, it appeared on the B-side of the single I Want to Hold Your Hand in the US , reaching number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

On November 1, 1963, I Saw Her Standing There appeared on the EP The Beatles (No. 1) in Great Britain and reached number 24 on the charts.

For BBC Radio , the Beatles recorded eleven additional versions of I Saw Her Standing There under live conditions , one of which was recorded on October 16, 1963 on the album Live at the BBC . In 2013 another version appeared on the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 .

Two further versions were published in 1995 as part of the Anthology series: A live recording, which was made on October 24, 1963 in Stockholm during the first tour of Sweden , was published on Anthology 1 . Take nine of I Saw Her Standing There appeared as the b-side of the single Free as a Bird .

Cover versions

Since its release in 1963, numerous cover versions of I Saw Her Standing There have appeared . Most commercially successful in 1988 was an interpretation by the American singer Tiffany , which was published under the title I Saw Him Standing There . On the Billboard Hot 100 , its version was placed 7th; in Germany it reached number 40.

Posthumously reached 1981, a live version on Single Place 40 of the UK singles charts was the last in 1974 when Lennon's larger presence. As a surprise guest he played three tracks with Elton John at his concert in Madison Square Garden on November 26, 1974, of which I Saw Her Standing There was first released in 1975 as the B-side of the Elton John single Philadelphia Freedom . Lennon explicitly announced the song as a McCartney composition.

Paul McCartney added I Saw her Standing There to his live repertoire in the 1980s and has played it regularly ever since. He released several live albums that include it. At a live performance in Liverpool in 2008, he was accompanied by Dave Grohl on drums.

Further interpretations have been made by Alvin and the Chipmunks (1964), Daniel Johnston (1985), The Tubes (1977), The Punkles (1998), Peter Grant (2006), Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis (2006) or Allister (2006) . A version of The Who , which was made for the film The Kids Are Alright , remained unreleased.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I Saw Her Standing There . on Beatlesbible.com; accessed on April 9, 2020
  2. ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1 .
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ I Saw Her Standing There on www.coverinfo.de