I call your name

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I call your name
The Beatles
publication April 10, 1964 (USA),
June 3, 1964 (Germany),
June 19, 1964 (Great Britain)
length 2 min 09 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album The Beatles' Second Album (USA),
Long Tall Sally ( EP - UK)

I Call Your Name ( english I call your name ) is a song by British band The Beatles , in 1964 on their third American US album The Beatles' Second Album , and at its fifth British EP Long Tall Sally was published. It was composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and published under the author's name Lennon / McCartney . The song was first published by Billy J. Kramer .

background

Aunt "Mimi's" home at
251 Menlove Avenue

I Call Your Name was one of the first songs Lennon / McCartney wrote. The main musical ideas come from John Lennon. The song was probably written in the house of John Lennon's aunt "Mimi".

The Beatles offered the song Billy J. Kramer on the June 26, in 1963 production directed by George Martin I Call Your Name and the other Lennon / McCartney -Kompositio n Bad to Me grossed. The connection to Kramer was made through Brian Epstein , who was also his manager. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also present during the recording session. The two songs were released as a single on July 26th and peaked at number one on the UK charts, with Bad to Me being the A-side of the single. Bad to Me reached number ninth in the US charts in 1964.

During the recording of the Beatles on March 1, 1964, John Lennon decided to take over the intro and guitar solo from the Billy J. Kramer version . In the middle part of the song, the Beatles played a ska rhythm that was used in Jamaica in the early 1960s , but it did not become prominent in Great Britain until the late 1970s.

Originally it was planned to use I Call Your Name for the film A Hard Day's Night , so on March 3, 1964 a mono mix was made for the film company United Artists , but it was not used. After the song A Hard Day's Night was recorded, I Call Your Name was dropped for the film.

The EP Long Tall Sally , which was released on June 19, 1964, contains three foreign compositions, the Lennon / McCartney composition I Call Your Name was used as the fourth song , so that it was no longer used for the album A Hard Day's Night , although the stereo mixdowns for the album on June 22, 1964 also included the mixdown of I Call Your Name .

I Call Your Name was not included in the group's live repertoire in 1964.

admission

I Call Your Name was recorded on March 1, 1964 in London's Abbey Road Studios (Studio 2) with producer George Martin . Norman Smith was the sound engineer for the recordings. The band recorded a total of seven takes , with the seventh take being used for the final version.

The US release of I Call Your Name was done by Take 7 on March 4, 1964 a mix in mono and on March 10, 1964 in stereo .

The song for Great Britain was mixed on June 4, 1964 in mono and on June 22, 1964 in stereo, with takes 7 and 5 being mixed together. The stereo mix took place three days after the EP Long Tall Sally was released .

The individual mixes differ in the volume of the cowbell and the guitar playing at the beginning, with the two stereo versions the vocals are mixed differently.

In addition to I Call Your Name , I'm Happy Just to Dance with You and Long Tall Sally were recorded on March 1, 1964 , the entire recording of the three songs took place between 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m., with I Call Your Name recorded last has been.

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publication

In the USA I Call Your Name was released on the local third album The Beatles' Second Album on April 10, 1964, the mono and stereo versions of the song are early mixes.

On June 3, 1964, the single Long Tall Sally / I Call Your Name was released in Germany, which reached number 7 in the German charts.

In Great Britain the EP Long Tall Sally was released on June 19, 1964 , on the I Call Your Name is included. In Germany the EP was only released in August 1964.

The British stereo version was first released on June 10, 1976 on the compilation album Rock 'n' Roll Music .

The Beatles recorded another version of I Call Your Name for BBC Radio on March 31, 1964, at the Playhouse Theater , London, under live conditions . This version has so far only been published on bootlegs .

Cover versions

The following is a selection:

literature

  • Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head . ISBN 978-0-09-952679-7 . Page 114
  • Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years . ISBN 0-600-61207-4 . Pages 41, 42, 45, 46

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UK single Billy J. Kramer - Bad to Me / I Call Your Name
  2. ↑ Mixtures 1964
  3. ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles Music & Film. P. 28.
  4. ↑ The Mamas and the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears '
  5. ↑ The Buckinghams - King of a Drag