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"All My Loving"
Single by The Beatles
from the album With The Beatles
Released 22 November 1963
Recorded 30 July 1963
Genre Rock and roll
Length 2:04
2:07 (untrimmed stereo version)
Label Parlophone
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer George Martin
Music sample
"All My Loving"
With The Beatles track listing

"All My Loving" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney[1] (credited to Lennon/McCartney), from the 1963 album With The Beatles. Though it was not released as a single in the UK or US, it drew considerable radio airplay and that prompted EMI to issue it as the title track of an EP.[2] The song was released as a single in Canada, which was imported into the United States in enough quantities to peak at No. 45 on the U.S. Billboard "Hot One Hundred" in April of 1964.[3 ][4]

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Composition

According to journalist Bill Harry, McCartney wrote the lyrics while shaving,[5 ] though McCartney told biographer Barry Miles that he wrote them while on a tour bus.[1] He also said, "It was the first song I'd ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some kind of accompaniment. I've hardly ever done it since either."[1] The lyrics follow the "letter song" model as used on "P.S. I Love You",[2] the B-side of their first single. After arriving at the location of the gig, he wrote the music on a piano backstage.[1]

McCartney originally envisioned it as a country & western song, and George Harrison added a Nashville-style guitar solo.[1][2] John Lennon's rhythm guitar track uses quickly strummed triplets similar to "Da Doo Ron Ron" by The Crystals, a song that was popular at the time.[2]

Recording

The Beatles recorded the song on 30 July 1963 in eleven takes with three overdubs. The master take was take fourteen overdubbed on take eleven.[6] It was remixed on 21 August (mono)[6] and 29 October (stereo).[7]

A slightly longer stereo edition of the song, featuring a hi-hat percussion introduction not found on the common stereo or mono mixes was released in Germany and the Netherlands in 1965 on a compilation album entitled Beatles' Greatest.[8]

Releases and performances

"All My Loving" was originally released in the UK on 22 November 1963 on With The Beatles.[9 ] The first US release was on Meet The Beatles!, released 20 January 1964.[9 ] The song was the title track of the All My Loving EP released in the UK on 7 February 1963.[9 ]

"All My Loving" was The Beatles's opening number on their debut performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964;[10] the recording was included on Anthology 1.[11 ] The group also performed "All My Loving" three times for BBC radio, once in 1963 and twice in 1964. The final version, which was recorded on 28 February 1964, was included on Live at the BBC.[12 ]

An instrumental version of this song appears in the movie Magical Mystery Tour.

According to Alan Weiss, a TV producer who happened to be there, "All My Loving" was playing on the sound system at Roosevelt Hospital emergency room when Lennon was pronounced dead after being shot on 8 December 1980.[13]

Reviews

"All My Loving" has been praised by multiple critics. Ian MacDonald said, "The innocence of early Sixties British pop is perfectly distilled in the eloquent simplicity of this number" and described the song as helping McCartney be seen as more of an equal to Lennon.[2] Richie Unterberger of Allmusic said it "was arguably the best LP-only track the Beatles did before 1964" and that if it was released as a single in America it would have been a huge hit.[14]

Personnel

Personnel per Ian MacDonald[2]

Cover versions

Group or artist’s name Release date Album Additional information
Annette Funicello 1964 Something Borrowed Something Blue
Scotty Anderson 2003-09-23 Classic Scotty[15]
Hollyridge Strings 1964-07-04 (single) One week at #93 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (July 4, 1964)[16]
The Trends 1964 (single)[17]
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass 1964-10 South of the Border[18]
Mike Baiardi 2009-01-27 Rockabye Baby! More Lullaby Renditions of The Beatles[19]
Suzy Bogguss & Chet Atkins 1995 Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles[20]
The Ballroom Band 1999-07-13 Swing[21]
Helloween 1999 Metal Jukebox[22]
The Punkles 2002 Punk[23]
Jim Sturgess 2007-09-18 Across the Universe[24]
Emilie Autumn 2007-08-03 A Bit O' This & That[25]
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 2001-03-20 Blow in the Wind[26]
Johnny Young 1967 (single) Top 10 hit in Australia[27 ]
The Downlands 1964-01 (single) Charted #33 January 1964 (UK)[27 ]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Miles 1997, p. 148.
  2. ^ a b c d e f MacDonald 2005, p. 94.
  3. ^ Castleman & Podrazik 1975, pp. 25, 347.
  4. ^ Wallgren 1982, p. 23.
  5. ^ Harry 2000, pp. 25–26.
  6. ^ a b Lewisohn 1988, p. 34.
  7. ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 37.
  8. ^ Schaffner 1977, p. 203.
  9. ^ a b c Lewisohn 1988, pp. 200–201.
  10. ^ Harry 2000, p. 1043.
  11. ^ Lewisohn 1995, pp. 32–33.
  12. ^ The Beatles Bible.
  13. ^ Mcleod 2005.
  14. ^ Unterberger 2009.
  15. ^ Anderson 2009.
  16. ^ "Billboard Hot 100". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3070268&cdi=8808260&cid=07%2F04%2F1964.  
  17. ^ Eder 2009.
  18. ^ Planer 2009.
  19. ^ Allmusic 2009d.
  20. ^ Erlewine 2009a.
  21. ^ Allmusic 2009a.
  22. ^ Hundey 2009.
  23. ^ Allmusic 2009b.
  24. ^ Erlewine 2009b.
  25. ^ Allmusic 2009c.
  26. ^ Bregman 2009.
  27. ^ a b Pop Archives 2009.

References

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Simple English

"All My Loving"
Song by The Beatles

from the album With the Beatles

Released 22 November 1963
Recorded 30 July 1963
Genre Rock and roll
Length 2:04
2:07 (untrimmed stereo version)
Label Parlophone
Writer Lennon/McCartney
Producer George Martin
With the Beatles track listing

"All My Loving" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney[1] (credited to Lennon/McCartney), from the 1963 album With the Beatles.

Contents

Writing

According to journalist Bill Harry, McCartney wrote the lyrics while shaving,[2] but McCartney told biographer Barry Miles that he wrote them while on a tour bus.[1] He also said, "It was the first song I'd ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some kind of accompaniment. I've hardly ever done it since either."[1] The lyrics follow the "letter song" model as used on "P.S. I Love You",[3] the B-side of their first single.


Lennon showed his love for the song in his 1980 Playboy interview:[4]

“ LENNON:"All My Loving" is Paul, I regret to say. Ha ha ha.

PLAYBOY: Why?

LENNON: Because it's a damn good piece of work....But I play a pretty mean guitar in back.

”

Personnel

Personnel per Ian MacDonald[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Miles 1997, p. 148.
  2. ↑ Harry 2000, pp. 25–26.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 MacDonald 2005, p. 94.
  4. ↑ Sheff 2000, p. 171.

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