KOMM, GIB MIR DEINE HAND
“Komm, gib mir deine Hand” / “Sie liebt dich” (English: “Come On, Give Me Your Hand” / “She Loves You”) was a single released on 5 March 1964 by The Beatles in Germany. They are the German language versions of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You”, respectively, and were translated by Luxembourger musician Camillo Felgen, under the pseudonym of “Jean Nicolas”. “Sie liebt dich”, along with the original “She Loves You” B-side “I’ll Get You”, was released as a single in the United States on 21 May 1964. This release reached No. 97 in the Billboard Hot 100. Both tracks are currently available on the Past Masters double CD compilation by The Beatles. (More from Wikipedia)
The Beatles are well known for honing their craft in the clubs of Hamburg, Germany in the very early 1960’s, as well as in their hometown of Liverpool. Still, there was some question back then as to whether they could be successful selling records in a non–English-speaking country, so the Fab Four were cajoled by their manager Brian Epstein and their producer George Martin into recording German-language versions of two of their biggest hits, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” in January 1964. “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand” was later released on the band’s American album, Something New about six months later.
(April 2013)
