This boy

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This boy
The Beatles
publication May 10, 1971 ( D ),
November 29, 1963 ( UK )

B-side of I Want to Hold Your Hand

length 2 min 15 s
Genre (s) ballad
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Producer (s) George Martin
Label Odeon (D),
Parlophone (UK)
album Love Songs ,
Rarities ,
Past Masters • Volume One

This Boy ( English This Boy ) is a song by the British band The Beatles from 1963, which appeared as the B-side of the single I Want to Hold Your Hand .

background

George Martin , the producer of many Beatles songs, recalls: "They always experimented with exact harmony singing [...] all I did was change one or the other note." The sound engineer Geoff Emerick adds: "The song was quite demanding, and they sang an intricate three-part vocal line that George Martin - with considerable help from Paul - refined. George spent a lot of time with Lennon, McCartney and Harrison at the piano, carefully re-enacting each individual's vocal line and occasionally suggesting that a note be changed. "

composition

Lennon / McCartney is named as the writing team on the record label . “Just trying to write one of those three-part Smokey Robinson songs. Nothing in the text; only sound and euphony. ”“ It was a team effort. We wanted to do something with harmony singing because we loved harmonies and we got pretty good at them. [...] We wrote two voices and gave George [Harrison] the third to sing. "

Located in the 12 / 8 - clock wrote song is in D major company and has a length of 2:15 minutes. The tempo is given as Slowly , the genre of the song is a ballad.

text

In the song someone (“this boy”) complains that his love has been taken away by another (“that boy”). "[...] again John presented himself here as a 'looser' waiting for his loved one to return to him." The onomatopoeia in "cry-hi-hi-hi" is remarkable .

occupation

Cast list:

admission

The recording took place on Thursday, October 17, 1963 in Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios . A total of 17 takes were recorded. The producer was George Martin , sound engineer Norman Smith , second sound engineer Geoff Emerick.

publication

In Germany, the single I Want to Hold Your Hand / This Boy was only released on May 10, 1971 (Odeon 1 C 006-04752), in Great Britain on November 29, 1963 (Parlophone R 5084). In addition, the title was released in Germany on the LP Love Songs (Odeon 1 C 172-06550 / 1) in October 1977.

Reviews

"Like his British A-side, This Boy is also a whim piece of little importance."

- Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon 

“Yeah, a monster. Fabulous. "

“Yes, a monster. Fabulous."

- Paul McCartney in: Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles Recording sessions 

This Boy was one of our numbers with three harmonies. Harmonies were in the air back then. In all of Western music, harmony is something natural. "

- George Harrison in: The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology 

"[...] when I think of a couple of my songs - [...] like This Boy - I had written the finest melodies."

- John Lennon in: The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology 

Cover versions

George Martin arranged an instrumental version for the film A Hard Day's Night ; the title of this song is Ringo's Theme and is included on the American soundtrack LP. In 1971 Stevie Wonder released a version that reached number 13 on the American charts. In 1991 the band Deuces Wild , a project by Stefan Zauner and Aron Strobel ( Münchener Freiheit ), covered the song and reached number 80 in the German charts.

Others

On video-sharing sites is to see how George Harrison broadcasting This Boy viewed and commented on.

literature

  • Alan Aldridge (Ed.): The Beatles Songbook 2. The Beatles' colored text book. Volume 2 . German by Lutz-W. Wolff. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01746-5 .
  • Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always. Vol. II. Something, Rostock 2007, ISBN 978-3-936300-44-4 .
  • The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology. Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07132-9 .
  • Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962-1970 . Pierian Press, Ann Arbor 1980, ISBN 0-87650-104-8 .
  • Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics. The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-316-24716-0 .
  • Geoff Emerick , Howard Messey: "You make the Beatles". How I reinvented the band's sound . Blanvalet, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-36746-7 .
  • Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4 .
  • Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores . Hal Leonard, Milwaukee 1993, ISBN 0-7935-1832-6 .
  • Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3881-8 .
  • Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 1. My Bonnie through Beatles for Sale (1961–1964) . 2nd Edition. Gearfab Books, Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-1-5480-2393-5 .
  • Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. Hamlyn, London 1988, ISBN 0-600-55798-7 .
  • Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1426-7 .
  • Barry Miles : Paul McCartney. Many years from now . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60892-8 .
  • NN : The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ. Music Sales, London, undated
  • David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview . Hannibal, Höfen 2002, ISBN 3-85445-202-0 .
  • Stephen J. Spignesi, Michael Lewis: 100 Best Beatles Songs. A Passionate Fan's Guide . Black dog & Leventhal, New York 2004, ISBN 978-1-57912-842-5 .
  • Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road. A History of The Beatles on Record. 2nd Edition. Virgin, London 1983, ISBN 0-907080-96-0 .
  • Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song . Heel, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-500-X .
  • Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Digital printing service, Halle (Saale) 2002.
  • Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?) . Modern Music Cologne, Cologne 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years , p. 36: “They always experimented with close harmony singing […] all I did was change the odd note.”
  2. Geoff Emerick, Howard Messey: "You make the Beatles". How I Reinvented the Band's Sound, p. 126
  3. Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always. Vol. II, p. 906
  4. David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview, p. 199
  5. Barry Miles: Paul McCartney. Many years from now , p. 190
  6. Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores, pp. 954-957; Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. Das Song-Lexikon, p. 120; Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul, p. 204
  7. Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores, pp. 954-957
  8. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs, p. 78
  9. ^ NN: The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ, p. 189
  10. Cf. the translation “Ich hier” in: Alan Aldridge (Ed.): The Beatles Songbook 2. The Beatles' colored text book. Volume 2 . German by Lutz-W. Wolff, p. 173
  11. ^ Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962–1970, p. 52, v. 1: “That boy took my love away”
  12. Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song, p. 44
  13. ^ Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962–1970 , p. 53, v. 10
  14. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. Das Song-Lexikon, p. 120; Instruments: Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 1. My Bonnie through Beatles for Sale (1961–1964) , p. 112
  15. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, p. 36
  16. ^ Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?), P. 56; Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, p. 78; Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always . Vol. II, p. 906
  17. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, p. 37 ; Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road. A History of The Beatles on Record, p. 21
  18. ^ Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?), P. 68 ; Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, p. 95; Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always . Vol. II, p. 817
  19. p. 120
  20. p. 10
  21. p. 96
  22. p. 197
  23. George Martin in: The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology, p. 130: “I had worked out an instrumental version of This Boy as part of the background music I used in the scene where Ringo is walking along the river - we called this Ringo's Theme Piece that even hit the charts in America as an orchestral piece - I was really happy about that. "
  24. Stephen J. Spignesi, Michael Lewis: 100 Best Beatles Songs. A Passionate Fan's Guide, p. 143
  25. https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-157824