She Loves You

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SHE LOVES YOU
 
 
“She Loves You”  is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by English rock group the Beatles for release as a single in 1963.  The single set and surpassed several records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States as one of the five Beatles songs that held the top five positions in the American charts simultaneously on 4 April 1964.  It is their best-selling single and the best selling single of the 1960’s in the United Kingdom.  In November 2004, Rolling Stone ranked “She Loves You” number 64 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  In August 2009, at the end of its “Beatles Weekend”, BBC Radio 2 announced that “She Loves You” was the Beatles’ all-time best-selling single in the UK based on information compiled by The Official Charts Company.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Capitol Records was slow to lock up the Beatles recordings in this country.  This allowed small American labels to release many of the band’s early singles, notably “She Loves You” b/w I’ll Get You” on Swan Records, but also including Please Please Me b/w “From Me to You” and “Do You Want to Know a Secret” b/w “Thank You Girl” on Vee Jay Records, plus “Love Me Do” b/w P.S. I Love You and “Twist and Shout” b/w “There’s a Place” on Vee Jay’s subsidiary Tollie Records.  In fact, during that remarkable week in April 1964 when all of the top 5 songs on the Billboard singles chart were Beatles songs – in order, they were “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Twist and Shout”, “She Loves You”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, and Please Please Me – just 2 were Capitol releases (#1 and #4).  
 
(January 2013)
 
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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)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021