BEATLES CAN'T BUY ME LOVE 7" FACTORY SAMPLE + OTHER 7"

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45'S: (vinyl graded first then label):

1. 1964 Beatles CAN'T BUY ME LOVE / YOU CAN'T DO THAT. UK PARLOPHONE (WITH FACTORY SAMPLE STICKER)...... EX+ /EX

2. 1965 Beatles DAY TRIPPER / WE CAN WORK IT OUT .UK PARLOPHONE.... EX+/EX

3. 1967 Beatles ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE / BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN. UK PARLOPHONE ....EX+ /EX 

"Can't Buy Me Love" is the title of a song composed by Paul McCartney[1] (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and released by The Beatles on the A side of their sixth British single, "Can't Buy Me Love/You Can't Do That."

 History

 Recording

"Can't Buy Me Love" was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France,[2] where the Beatles were performing 18 days of concerts at the Olympia Theatre. At this time, EMI's West Germany branch, Odeon, insisted that the Beatles would not sell records in any significant numbers in Germany unless they were actually sung in the German language[3]and the Beatles reluctantly agreed to re-record the vocals to "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" prior to them being released in Germany. George Martin travelled to Paris with a newly mastered rhythm track for what was to be “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand”. “Sie Liebt Dich” (She Loves You) required the Beatles to record a new rhythm track as the original two track recording had been scrapped[2]. EMI sent a translator to be present for this recording session which had been hurriedly arranged to tie in with the Beatles Paris commitments. This was accomplished well within the allotted studio time allowing the Beatles an opportunity to record the backing track (with just an English guide vocal) to the recently composed "Can't Buy Me Love".[4][2] McCartney's final vocal was overdubbed at Abbey Road Studios, London, on 25 February.[5] Also re-recorded on this day at Abbey Road was George Harrison's modified guitar solo, although his original solo can still just be heard in the background on the recording as it had bled onto the basic backing track via the group microphones. Helen Shapiro, a friend of the Beatles and present at this overdub session, says that Ringo Starr also added extra cymbals “over the top” and that “apparently this was something he did quite often on their records”.[6] "Can't Buy Me Love" is also the only English-language Beatles track that the Beatles themselves recorded in a studio outside the UK, although the instrumental portion of the Beatles' B-side "The Inner Light" was recorded in India by Indian session musicians.

 Writing

While in Paris, The Beatles stayed at the five star George V hotel and had an upright piano moved into one of their suites so that song writing could continue.[7] It was here that McCartney wrote "Can't Buy Me Love." The song was written under the pressure of the success achieved by "I Want to Hold Your Hand" which had just reached number one in America. When producer George Martin first heard "Can't Buy Me Love" he felt the song needed changing: “I thought that we really needed a tag for the song’s ending, and a tag for the beginning; a kind of intro. So I took the first two lines of the chorus and changed the ending, and said “Let’s just have these lines, and by altering the second phrase we can get back into the verse pretty quickly”. And they said, “That’s not a bad idea, we’ll do it that way”.[4] The song's verse is a twelve bar blues in structure, a formula that The Beatles would seldom apply to their own material.[8] It was also one of the first Beatles songs not to include any other singers other than the lead vocalist (in this case, McCartney).

 Song meaning

When pressed by American journalists in 1966 to reveal the song's "true" meaning, McCartney denied that "Can't Buy Me Love" was about prostitution, stating that, although it was open to interpretation, that suggestion was going too far, saying: "The idea behind it was that all these material possessions are all very well, but they won't buy me what I really want."[9] Although he was to later comment: "It should have been 'Can Buy Me Love' " when reflecting on the perks that money and fame had brought him.[5]

The line "I don't care too much for money / Money can't buy me love" expresses the opposite sentiment from their earlier cover, "Money (That's What I Want)".

 Credits

• John Lennon – acoustic rhythm guitar
• Paul McCartney – double tracked vocal, bass,
• George Harrison – electric rhythm guitar, double tracked lead guitar
• Ringo Starr – drums

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