“ I Call Your Name ” is a song by The Beatles . Written mainly by John Lennon , authorship is listed as Lennon - McCartney . [1] [2]
| I Call Your Name | |
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| Single Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas | |
| Side “A” | Bad to me |
| Side B | I Call Your Name |
| Released | July 26, 1963 |
| Format | 7 ” |
| Recorded by | June 26, 1963 |
| Genre | pop music beat music |
| Producer | George Martin |
| Composer | |
| Songwriter | Lennon - McCartney |
| Label | Parlophone r5049 |
| I Call Your Name | ||||
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| Executor | The beatles | |||
| Album | Long Tall Sally (mini album) | |||
| Date of issue | June 19, 1964 | |||
| Date Recorded | March 1, 1964 | |||
| Genre | rock music beat music | |||
| Song language | ||||
| Duration | 2:09 | |||
| Label | Parlophone GEP 8913 (mono) | |||
| Author | Lennon - McCartney | |||
| Composer | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| Album track listing “ Long Tall Sally (mini-album)” | ||||
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Content
Create, record, and release a song.
Lennon wrote the song before the band, eventually called The Beatles. In a 1980 interview with David Schiff, Lennon recalled: “This is my song, written when there were no Beatles, no band. I just came up with it. This is my attempt to compose something in the blues style; and “bridge” (middle eight) was written for her when it was planned to include her in the album a few years later. The first part was written before Hamburg. This is one of my first attempts to write a song. ” ( English That was my song, when there was no Beatles and no group. I just had it around. It was my effort as a kind of blues originally, and then I wrote the middle eight just to stick it in the album when it came out years later. The first part had been written before Hamburg even. It was one of my first attempts at a song. ) [1] [3] The creation time of the main part of the song dates back to March or April 1957, when John Lennon his first guitar appeared, before or during the creation of his first band, The Quarrymen . [four]
In 1963, Lennon gave the song to Billy J. Kramer , who performed with The Dakotas , another group from Liverpool that signed with Parlophone and worked on recordings with George Martin . Kramer released a song on side “B” of the single, where on side “A” another song by Lennon and McCartney was released - “ Bad to Me ”. [five]
Lennon did not like the arrangement that The Dakotas recorded; he was also not pleased that the song was placed on the less "prestigious" side of the "B" single. Thus, on March 1, 1964, The Beatles recorded their version of the song. On record, George Harrison played the 12-string ' Rickenbacker 360/12 electric guitar ; it was the first record where subsequently the famous guitar model sounded for the first time in the world. [6]
There are several differences between the monophonic and stereo mixes of the song in The Beatles: the opening guitar riffs are slightly different, and the cobella comes on the mono mix sooner than on the stereo mix.
The song was first released in the United States by Capitol Records on The Beatles' Second Album (released April 10, 1964), a little later in the UK on the Long Tall Sally mini-album (released June 19, 1964). [7] The song also entered the 1988 Past Masters compilation.
"Bridge" ( Eng. Middle eight ) in the song is The Beatles first attempt to write ska -style music. [five]
It was planned to include the song in the soundtrack of A Hard Day's Night , but film director Richard Lester removed it from there.
Membership
- John Lennon - vocals , rhythm guitar
- Paul McCartney - bass
- George Harrison - Solo Guitar
- Ringo Starr - drums , cowbell
- George Martin - record producer
- Norman Smith - Sound Engineer
- Given by Ian MacDonald [8]
Cover versions
- The Mamas & the Papas recorded a cover version of the song in 1966 for their debut album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears . The song in this recording ends with the phrase “I call your name ... ye-ah!” [9] (in imitation of the widely known “Beatles” “Yeah, yeah, yeah” from the song “ She Loves You ”).
- Ringo Starr in 1990 recorded a version of the song for a television show dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, as well as the 50th anniversary of the birth of John. The record, produced by Jeff Lynn , was attended by a "supergroup", which included Jeff Lynn, Tom Petty , Joe Walsh and Jim Keltner .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sheff, 2000 , pp. 169-170.
- ↑ Miles, 1997 , p. 46.
- ↑ I Call Your Name - The Beatles Bible
- ↑ I Call Your Name by The Beatles. The in-depth story behind the songs of the Beatles. Recording History. Songwriting History. Song Structure and Style.
- ↑ 1 2 Lewisohn, 1988 , p. 41.
- ↑ Eriksson, Björn The Beatles and their Rickenbacker Guitars . Rickbeat.com (1999). Date of treatment October 27, 2011. Archived on October 8, 2012.
- ↑ Lewisohn, 1988 , p. 200.
- ↑ MacDonald, 2005 , p. 114.
- ↑ Gilliland, 1969 , show 36, track 5.
Links
- Gilliland, John The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. . Pop Chronicles . Digital.library.unt.edu (1969). Archived on October 8, 2012.
- Lewisohn, Mark. The Beatles Recording Sessions. - New York: Harmony Books, 1988 .-- ISBN 0-517-57066-1 .
- MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. - Second Revised. - London: Pimlico (Rand), 2005 .-- ISBN 1-84413-828-3 .
- Miles, Barry. Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. - New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997 .-- ISBN 0-8050-5249-6 .
- Sheff, David. All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. - New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000 .-- ISBN 0-312-25464-4 .