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The Beatles recorded "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at EMI Studios in Studio 2 on 17 October 1963. This song, along with the single's B-side, "This Boy", was the first Beatles song to be recorded with four-track technology. The two songs were recorded on the same day, each needing seventeen takes. [19]
Coincidental with the song's climb up the Canadian charts on 10 December, Walter Cronkite decided to transmit the piece again on the CBS Evening News, [39] and the resulting interest led to the rush-release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand"—only weeks before the Beatles' arrival [40] —on 26 December 1963.
In December 1963, Capitol Records released the song in the United States as the B-side on the label's first single by the Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand". While the A-side topped the US Billboard chart for seven weeks starting 1 February 1964, "I Saw Her Standing There" entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 February 1964, remaining there for ...
The Beatles landed at JFK Airport on February 7, 1964, greeted by 3,000 of the fans that had sent “I Want To Hold Your Hand” to the top of the Hot 100, and America’s love affair with the Fab ...
For instance, Lennon's jamming on a piano together with Paul McCartney led to creation of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1963. We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song.
I want to ad, regarding the stealth Hammond RT-3 organ on I Wanna Hold Your Hand, where nay sayers point to the existing, very brief outtakes of the recording, you will note that if you listen closely to John's Guitar in its "pre-superimosed state" play around with the intro bar chords C7 to D7 (where he primarily hits the bottom two strings ...
You tell two particularly poignant anecdotes about John and Paul from around this time. One is that their meeting in L.A. in 1974 may have been a factor in John going back to Yoko.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1963) " I'll Get You " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles , written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney , [ 2 ] and released by the Beatles as the B-side of their 1963 single " She Loves You ". [ 3 ]