She loves you

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She loves you
The Beatles
publication 23 Aug 1963 (UK)
length 2 min 22 s
Genre (s) Rock 'n' Roll , Beat , Pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney

She Loves You ( English She loves you ) is a song by British band The Beatles from 1963. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney is subject to the customary to Beatles times Copyright Lennon / McCartney . The song was released in the UK on August 23, 1963 on a single with I'll Get You on the B-side . The single became the best-selling single of 1963 in Britain and the Beatles in their homeland at all. It marked the beginning of a number of sales records. The single, which had pre-orders of 500,000 copies, stayed at number 1 on the record retailer charts for six weeks . In total, the single remained in the charts for 31 consecutive weeks, including 18 weeks in the top three.

composition

Lennon and McCartney wrote She Loves You on June 26, 1963 after a concert with Roy Orbison and Gerry & The Pacemakers in Newcastle upon Tyne . The first ideas came up on the tour bus, and the following night Lennon and McCartney completed the song in a hotel room. The unusual idea of writing the song from the third person goes back to Paul McCartney. Compared to their producer George Martin , the Beatles had to push through the unusual final chord of the song, which the latter considered to be too jazzy .

occupation

admission

On July 1, 1963, the Beatles recorded She Loves You on a two-track tape at Abbey Road Studios in London . The tape with the recording session is considered lost. Sound engineer Norman Smith recalled having a quick look at a sheet of She Loves You lyrics before the start of the recording session and after seeing the many "Yeah, yeah, yeahs" he judged he wouldn't like the song . When the Beatles recorded the first takes a short time later, however, Smith suddenly changed his mind.

The exact number of takes is not known, as the master tape is considered lost. The Beatles recorded at least three tapes for She Loves You and I'll Get You , which were recorded on the same day.

On July 4, 1963, George Martin cut a new version from various takes of the recording session of July 1, 1963 and mixed it for the upcoming single release in mono . A stereo version was not made for the time being. Since the master tapes disappeared a short time later under unexplained circumstances, a real stereo version has never been produced since then. Instead, several so-called "mock stereo versions" appeared, which were mixed from the mono version.

German version

Single "She Loves You", Odeon

The German sub-label of EMI , Odeon , demanded that the Beatles to German to sing in order to gain a foothold in the German music market. Against her express will, the corresponding recordings took place on January 29, 1964 in the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris .

She Loves You was translated into German by radio presenter Camillo Felgen from Radio Luxemburg . On the eve of the recording, Felgen met with the Beatles to discuss the translation. Paul McCartney had only one wish: Felgen should avoid the sound “ch” in the translation, as the Beatles could not pronounce it correctly. The Beatles then left a bottle of Dimple for the translator . At around one o'clock in the morning the Beatles reappeared in Felgen's hotel room to rehearse his now completed translation on the spot. McCartney demanded that the title line “She loves you” be changed to “She loves you” because of the unpronounceable “ch”, to which Felgen replied: “No, that doesn't work. This is Berlin dialect . Nobody from Cologne buys that! "

It was the only time the Beatles recorded outside of London . Since the original She Loves You master tapes were already missing at this point , the Beatles were forced to re-record the music. On the same day the Beatles also took the German version of I Want to Hold Your Hand (Come give me your hand) (the A-side of the single) as well as English Can not Buy Me Love on.

In the USA , She Loves You was released on September 16, 1963 on the small label Vee-Jay Records , but was initially unable to place itself on the Billboard charts. It wasn't until the Beatles' next single (I Want to Hold Your Hand) reached number 1 on the singles charts in the United States that She Loves You was in enormous demand and the song was listed in the American charts for 15 weeks.

A version of the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 was released in 2013, which the band had recorded for the BBC radio station .

Cover versions

None of the numerous cover versions of She Loves You ever made it to the charts, although it was interpreted by well-known musicians, including Neil Sedaka and Peter Sellers . The Beatles themselves quoted She Loves You in the fadeout of their hit All You Need Is Love (1967).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Spizer: Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records . 498 Productions LLC, New Orleans LA 2011, ISBN 978-0-9832957-0-9 . P. 24.
  2. ^ For a musicological analysis of the Beatles recording, see: Ansgar Jerrentrup: Development of rock music from the beginning to the beat . Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag, 1981 (Cologne contributions to music research, vol. 113), also Diss. Phil. University of Cologne 1980, pp. 201f; Score transcription of the recording pp. 242–244
  3. ↑ Interview with Camillo Felgen for the audio book The Beatles - Die Audiostory , Lübbe Audio 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-3818-4 .