beatles tell me why if i fell i should have known better

It is really about this girl – not about Cyn. This one has the same chord sequence – just around D and D minor and E minor, those kinds of things. In My Life was the first one that worked as a ballad. “That’s my first attempt to write a ballad proper. The catalogue number was Parlophone DP 562.

It was made for export purposes, but a number of record dealers began shipping the discs back into the UK for resale. ‘If I Fell’ performed better in Norway, where it was a chart-topping single in its own right.Ī rare UK single, with ‘Tell Me Why’ on the b-side, was pressed in the UK by EMI and released on 4 December 1964. ‘If I Fell’ was also the b-side of the ‘And I Love Her’ single, which reached number 12 on the Billboard chart. The US soundtrack LP was issued on 26 June. ‘If I Fell’ was the third song on the UK version of the A Hard Day’s Night album, which was released on 10 July 1964. Neither rendition was included on the Live At The BBC collection. The second performance took place on 17 July at the BBC Paris Studio, London, and was first broadcast on 3 August. The first was taped on 14 July 1964 at Broadcasting House, London, and was transmitted two days later on the Top Gear programme. The Beatles recorded ‘If I Fell’ twice for BBC radio. Lennon took the low harmony, allowing McCartney to dominate the verses.

The two-part harmony vocals was sung by Lennon and Paul McCartney into a single microphone. However, home demos recorded by John Lennon early in 1964 contained the passage.

The song’s acoustic introduction – which is not repeated elsewhere in the song, musically or lyrically – made its first appearance on take 11. On the same day they also recorded ‘Tell Me Why’ and the second and final remake of ‘And I Love Her’. ‘If I Fell’ was recorded in 15 takes on 27 February 1964.

On 8 April 1988 John Lennon’s lyrics for ‘If I Fell’, written on the back of a Valentine’s Day card, were sold at Sotheby’s in London for £7,800.

Beatles tell me why if i fell i should have known better