"She's a Woman" ( Rus. She is a woman ) - a song by The Beatles , recorded and released by The Beatles at the end of 1964 on the B side of the single " I Feel Fine "; the single was the latest release of The Beatles records in 1964. The song was written by Paul McCartney (authorship is listed as " John Lennon and Paul McCartney "). The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the frequent hit in the rotation of music radio stations.
| She's a woman | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beatles Single | ||||
| Side "A" | " I Feel Fine " | |||
| Released |  November 23, 1964  November 27, 1964 | |||
| Format | 7 '' | |||
| Recorded by | October 8, 1964 Abby Road , London | |||
| Genre | rock | |||
| Duration | 2:59 | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| Composer | Lennon - McCartney | |||
| Songwriter | and | |||
| Label | Capitol 5327 (US) Parlophone R5200 (UK) | |||
| The Beatles Singles Timeline | ||||
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Content
- 1 Songwriting
- 2 Publishing a song (releases)
- 3 List of recording participants
- 4 cover versions
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Songwriting
The song was an attempt by Paul McCartney to imitate Little Richard's vocal style. This is the reason why the song is sung in such a high register - even for McCartney's tenor vocal range. In some duplicate recordings of a song (especially in recordings of concert performances) a longer ending is added. John Lennon noted: “We were so excited to say“ turn me on ”( Rus. Transform me ) - you know, about marijuana and all that ... that with us it just became an expression in conversation” [1] .
The structure of the song is quite simple, with a melody driven mainly by McCartney's voice. His bass and piano play accompaniment with emphasis on the “drums” of the 1st and 3rd beat, and Lennon's rhythm guitar plays chords on the “unstressed” 2nd and 4th beat of the beat. George Harrison plays a light guitar solo during the middle eight-bar section .
Publish a song (releases)
The single “ I Feel Fine / She's a Woman” was released in the USA by Capitol Records label on November 23, 1964, in the UK by Parlophone label on November 27, 1964 [2] .
On the LP album, the song first came out in the USA, on the album released by Capitol , Beatles '65 , where it is included as a “ duophonic ” mix with reverb added; the mix was made by Capitol sound engineer Dave Dexter Jr. (Dave Dexter, Jr.). A “true stereo” version of the song was released in 1988 on CD Past Masters, Volume One . There is another stereo version that sounds the same, but with an initial tempo count that McCartney says - it is present on the box set released on a CD containing the group's EP albums. The sound of a song being played on a tape recorder can be heard in a scene in a cave in the movie Help! . In the UK, a song on an LP disc was first released in 1978 on the Rarities album in mono sound as part of the Beatles Collection box set, and then this collection was released separately.
The Beatles began to include the song in their concert performances in 1965. The sound of the song is distinguished by a characteristic percussive sound (can be described as “chunk!”) From Lennon’s guitar Rickenbacker 325. Two of the versions of the concert performance of the song were included in the live albums of Live At the Hollywood Bowl and Live at the BBC , another (from the first of two performances in the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo in 1966) was included in Anthology 2 .
List of contributors
- Paul McCartney - vocals , bass , piano
- John Lennon - Rhythm Guitar
- George Harrison - Solo Guitar
- Ringo Starr - drums , en: chocalho (a type of shaker )
- George Martin - Producer
- Norman Smith - Sound Engineer
- the list is given by Ian MacDonald [3]
McDonald is not sure whether McCartney or Harrison play guitar solos on record. He writes that "judging by the sound and style of the game," this is possible McCartney [3] .
Cover versions
An instrumental cover version of a jazz-fusion song is included in Jeff Beck's 1975 album Blow by Blow ; The version was often aired by American " album-oriented rock " radio stations. Also en: latin jazz -style covers were recorded by Joe DeRenzo on his album Core Beliefs and ESC on their collection with Beatle covers Step Inside LOVE . A pop reggae version was recorded by Scritti Politti with Shabba Ranks . A cover version of the song was recorded by José Feliciano , as well as ( Chet Atkins, instrumental on the 1966 album Picks on the Beatles ). Other artists who recorded cover versions of the song include, for example, The Churchills , duet Jess & James, and singer Chikezie , who performed her cover version in season 7 (2008) of the American Idol television song contest.
McCartney performed the song on the 1991 “official bootleg” Unplugged .
Notes
- ↑ Beatles for Sale . The Beatles Interview Database (1980). Date of treatment September 27, 2009. Archived September 22, 2012.
- ↑ Beatles, The - I Feel Fine (Vinyl) at Discogs
- ↑ 1 2 MacDonald, 2005 , p. 133.
- ↑ Chet Atkins - Peaks On The Beatles
Literature
- MacDonald, Ian . Brain Flip: The Beatles and the Sixties = Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. - 2nd ed. - London: Pimlico, 2005 .-- 554 p. - ISBN 1-844-13828-3 .
Links
- The Beatles Bible: “She's a Woman” . The Beatles Bible. Date of treatment July 23, 2012. Archived September 22, 2012.
- Lyrics for "She's a Woman" . stevesbeatles.com. Date of treatment July 23, 2012. Archived September 22, 2012.
- Alan W. Pollack. Notes on the song "She's a Woman" . Date of treatment July 23, 2012. Archived September 22, 2012.