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"It Won't Be Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released as the opening track on their second UK album With the Beatles (1963), and was the first original song recorded for it. [1] Although credited to Lennon–McCartney , it was primarily a composition by John Lennon , with Paul McCartney assisting with the lyrics and ...
The single by the Cookies was a popular cover song for Liverpool bands after its release in November 1962, [4] and was included briefly in the Beatles' live sets. [5] They recorded it on February 11, 1963 in four takes, the first proving to be the best. Lennon played the introduction on harmonica.
"Ticket to Ride" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit (and eighth in total) in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and ...
"I'll Be Back" is a song written by John Lennon, [2] [3] with some collaboration from Paul McCartney [4] (credited to Lennon–McCartney). It was recorded by the English rock band the Beatles for the soundtrack album to their film A Hard Day's Night (1964) but not used in the film.
"Long, Long, Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison , the group's lead guitarist, while he and his bandmates were attending Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 's Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India , in early 1968.
The song is a piano ballad in the style of McCartney's Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road". [8] [9] After forming the band Wings with Linda in the summer of 1971, [10] McCartney included "My Love" in the set lists for the group's two concert tours in 1972.
Lennon, years later, remarked: "To this day, I have no idea what [Aeolian cadences] are. They sound like exotic birds." [4] The actual meaning of the term "Aeolian cadence" is that a major key song resolves on the vi chord, which is the tonic chord of the relative minor key (the Mahler ends on the major tonic with an "added 6th," not on a VI ...
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" earned the Carpenters a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus in 1971. It became the first of three Grammy Awards they would win during their careers. [14] The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on August 12, 1970. [15]