You're Going to Lose That Girl

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You're Going to Lose That Girl
The Beatles
publication 0August 6, 1965 ( UK )
August 12, 1965 ( D )
length 2 min 18 s
Genre (s) ballad
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Producer (s) George Martin
Label Hörzu (D),
Parlophone (UK)
album Help!

You're Going to Lose That Girl ( English ; you are about to lose your girl ') is a song by British band The Beatles in 1965, which on the album Help! appeared.

background

“The lyrics are an advance, story-wise, on She Loves You , where someone is mistreating his girl […]” (“The text is a further development, in relation to the story, compared to She Loves You , where someone is mistreating his girl treated [...] "). There it was said “She said you hurt her so” (“She said you hurt her so”). Here it says u. a .: “If you don't treat her right” (“If you don't treat her right”).

composition

John Lennon : "That's from me." " You're Going to Lose That Girl was written by John and Paul together in John's house in Weybridge [...] It was John's idea, Paul estimates that John is about sixty percent and he himself forty percent contributed to it. "

The in 4 / 4 - stroke wrote song is in E major and G major company and has a length of 2:18 minutes. The tempo is given as moderato  , the genre of the song is a ballad .

text

"Mostly written by John, the song is about a warning to an unnamed man that if he didn't treat his girlfriend better, John would take care of her - bringing up a theme he first saw in She Loves." You had sketched. "

occupation

Cast list:

admission

The recording was made on Friday, February 19, 1965 in Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios . Only two takes were recorded in total . George Martin was the producer and Norman Smith was the sound engineer . The song was mixed on February 20, 1965 in mono and on February 23, 1965 in stereo .

publication

In Germany the LP Help! published on August 12, 1965 ( Hörzu SHZE 162), in Great Britain on August 6, 1965 ( Parlophone PMC 1255 [mono], PCS 3071 [stereo]).

Reviews

“[...] has a lot more substance than most of the other pieces on the album; In any case, it is not a filler. "

- Ian McDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon 

“Catchy song, nicely sung by John with a very good falsetto […]”

"Catchy song, nicely sung by John with a very good falsetto [...]"

- Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics 

Cover versions

Stars on 45 covered parts of the piece on their medley Stars on 45 in 1981 . The Rutles released a tribute called Now She's Left You .

Others

“The Beatles sang You're Going to Lose That Girl in one scene in Help! who played in a recording studio and was actually shot at Twickenham Studios in London . The song is interrupted when the gang who are following Ringo cut a hole around his drum kit in the ceiling of the room below. "

On October 5, 1965, the single You're Going to Lose That Girl / Tell Me What You See was released in Japan .

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 . Something, Rostock 2007, ISBN 978-3-936300-44-4 .
  • 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 .
  • 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 2. Help! through revolver (1965-1966) . Gearfab Books, Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-1-983704-55-0 .
  • 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 .
  • Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide. An Anthology of Original LP Releases in more than 40 Countries 1962–1972 . Print Competence, Mühlenrade 2004, ISBN 3-9809137-1-6 .
  • Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide II. An Anthology of Original Singles and EP Releases in 58 Countries 1961–1973. Print Competence, Mühlenrade 2005, ISBN 3-9809137-2-4 .
  • 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
  • John Pring, Rob Thomas: The Beatles Story. Band history | Albums | Backgrounds . Knesebeck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95728-176-0 .
  • David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview . Hannibal, Höfen 2002, ISBN 3-85445-202-0 .
  • 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. ↑ On the US-American record the title is "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" (Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always , p. 222).
  2. ^ Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics. The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs , p. 98
  3. ^ Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962–1970 , p. 48, v. 12
  4. ^ Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962–1970 , p. 61, v. 9
  5. ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview, p. 202
  6. ↑ Barry Miles: Paul McCartney. Many years from now , p. 235
  7. ↑ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores , pp. 1107-1111
  8. ↑ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores, pp. 1107-1111; John Pring, Rob Thomas: The Beatles Story. Band history | Albums | Backgrounds , p. 103; Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The Song Lexicon, p. 166
  9. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs, p. 234
  10. ^ NN: The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ , p. 217
  11. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years , p. 56
  12. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song , p. 79
  13. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. Das Song-Lexikon, p. 166. Instruments from: Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 2. Help! through Revolver (1965–1966) , p. 32
  14. ↑ Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 2. Help! through Revolver (1965–1966) , p. 32
  15. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The Song Lexicon , p. 166
  16. ^ Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years , p. 56
  17. ^ Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?) , P. 66; Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland , p. 40; Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always , p. 786
  18. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, p. 62; Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road. A History of The Beatles on Record , p. 32
  19. ↑ p. 166
  20. ↑ p. 98
  21. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song , p. 79
  22. ↑ Japanese single: You're Going to Lose That Girl / Tell Me What You See