Thank You Girl
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| “Thank You Girl” | ||
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| B-side to "From Me to You" by The Beatles | ||
| Released | 11 April 1963 (UK) 27 May 1963 (US)[1] |
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| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 5 March 1963 |
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| Genre | Beat, Rock and roll | |
| Length | 2:01 | |
| Label | Parlophone R4949 Vee-Jay 522 |
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| Writer | McCartney-Lennon | |
| Producer | George Martin | |
"Thank You Girl" is a song by The Beatles and released as the B-side of "From Me to You", which was recorded on the same day (5 March 1963). It wasn't on a British Beatles album, but was featured as the second track on The Beatles' Second Album in the US. As the B-side to "Do You Want to Know a Secret?", it hit #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1964.
Originally titled "Thank You, Little Girl",[2] John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song as a tribute to the band's many female fans. McCartney said, "We knew that if we wrote a song called, 'Thank You Girl' that a lot of the girls who wrote us fan letters would take it as a genuine thank you. So a lot of our songs were directly addressed to the fans."[3]
Lennon said the song was originally intended as a single: "'Thank You Girl' was one of our efforts at writing a single that didn't work. So it became a B side or an album track."[4] In April 1972 he told Hit Parader, "[This was written by] Paul and me. This was just a silly song we knocked off."
Both "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl" were credited to McCartney-Lennon, as were all the songs on the Please Please Me album. The songwriting credit would be permanently changed to the more familiar Lennon/McCartney for their next release, the "She Loves You" single.
[edit] Personnel
- John Lennon – double-tracked vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonica
- Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass
- George Harrison – lead guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums
- Credits per Ian MacDonald[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://stevesbeatles.com/vinyl/american/singles.asp Beatles US singles
- ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books, 28. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- ^ Thank You Girl. The Beatles Interview Database. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
- ^ Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press, 169. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, Second Revised Edition, London: Pimlico (Rand), 80. ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
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