I'll get you

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I'll get you
The Beatles
publication November 12, 1963
length 2 min 02 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album The Beatles' Second Album (USA)
The Beatles Beat (D)

I'll Get You ( English ; "I will get you") is a song by the British band The Beatles , which was released in 1963 on the B-side of the single She Loves You . It was composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and published under the author's name Lennon / McCartney .

background

Aunt "Mimi's" home at
251 Menlove Avenue

John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed I'll Get You at Lennon's aunt Mimi Smith's house at 251 Menlove Avenue . I'll Get You is based half on the musical ideas of Lennon and McCartney. Lyrically, just like She Loves You , it often contains the word Yeah , which was then associated with the band in the early days of the Beatles.

The Beatles added I'll Get You to their live repertoire.

admission

I'll Get You was recorded on July 1, 1963 at London's Abbey Road Studios with producer George Martin . Norman Smith was the sound engineer for the recordings, his assistant was Geoff Emerick . It is not documented how many takes the Beatles recorded, as the master tape is considered lost.

The song was mixed on July 4, 1963 in mono by George Martin. A stereo version of I'll Get You does not exist, instead a so-called "fake stereo version", which was mixed from the mono version, appeared on the album The Beatles' Second Album in the USA . This version was then used in Germany for the album The Beatles Beat .

The working title of the song was Get You In The End .

Occupation:

publication

The single She Loves You / I'll Get You was released on August 23, 1963 in Great Britain, on August 31 in Germany and on September 16 in the USA on Vee-Jay Records .

On February 23, 1964, the EP The Beatles' Sound was released in Germany , which includes the song I'll Get You .

In the USA I'll Get You was also released on the local third album The Beatles' Second Album on April 10, 1964.

On April 14, 1964 I'll Get You also appeared on the German compilation album The Beatles Beat .

In the UK I'll Get You was first released on an album on October 12, 1979 ( Rarities ).

The album Anthology 1 , released on November 20, 1995, contains a live recording of October 13, 1963 in mono, which was recorded during the television program Sunday Night at the London Palladium .

The Beatles recorded five additional versions of I'll Get You for BBC Radio under live conditions , of which the recording was made on September 7, 1963, at the BBC Playhouse Theater, London, on the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 Released on November 8, 2013.

Cover versions

  • The Smithereens - B-Sides The Beatles
  • The Merseyboys- 5 Great Songs Composed By John, Paul & George

literature

  • Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head . ISBN 978-0-09-952679-7 . Page 85–86
  • Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years . ISBN 0-600-61207-4 . Page 42

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mixtures of the Beatles songs 1963
  2. ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles Music & Film. P. 28.
  3. ↑ The Smithereens - B-Sides The Beatles
  4. ↑ The Merseyboys- 5 Great Songs Composed By John, Paul & George