| Lyrics: P.S. I Love You |
Performed by: The Beatles; The Smithereens
Written by: John Winston Lennon; Paul James Mccartney
Credits: Lennon, John Winston (Songwriter); Mccartney, Paul James (Songwriter); BEECHWOOD MUSIC CORPORATION (Publisher); LENONO MUSIC (Publisher)
| Wikipedia: P.S. I Love You (The Beatles song) |
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 Original "Love Me Do" 45 |
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| Single by The Beatles | ||||||||||||
| from the album Please Please Me | ||||||||||||
| A-side | "Love Me Do" | |||||||||||
| Released | 5 October 1962 | |||||||||||
| Recorded | 4 and 11 September 1962 Abbey Road Studios, London |
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| Genre | Beat | |||||||||||
| Length | 2:06 | |||||||||||
| Label | Parlophone R4949 Tollie 9008 (USA) |
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| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | |||||||||||
| Producer | Ron Richards | |||||||||||
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"P.S. I Love You" is a song composed principally by Paul McCartney[1], recorded by the The Beatles and released on 5 October 1962 as the B-side of their "Love Me Do" single. It is included on their 1963 album Please Please Me. It was later included on the Beatles compilation Love Songs.
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The version featured on the single and album was recorded in ten takes on 11 September 1962 at Abbey Road Studios, London. Session drummer Andy White gave the recording a lightweight cha cha treatment,[2] and consequently it misses the distinctive heavy drum beat that characterised most of their early music. Ringo Starr plays maracas.
Martin was not physically present at the session, which was run by Ron Richards in his absence. Richards told the group that the song could not be the A-side of their single because of an earlier song of the same title, so it was relegated to the B-side[3] (even though other titles had and have been used for multiple hit songs without legal difficulties).
The Beatles (with Starr playing drums) also recorded this song at the BBC on 25 October 1962, 27 November 1962, and 17 June 1963 for subsequent broadcast on the BBC radio programmes Here We Go, Talent Spot, and Pop Go The Beatles, respectively.
Written in 1961, while Paul McCartney was in Hamburg, this song is sometimes considered to be a dedication to his then-girlfriend Dot Rhone.[2] However, McCartney denies this; he described "P.S. I Love You" as
| “ | a theme song based on a letter... It was pretty much mine. I don't think John had much of a hand in it. There are certain themes that are easier than others to hang a song on, and a letter is one of them... It's not based in reality, nor did I write it to my girlfriend from Hamburg, which some people think.[4] | ” |
John Lennon said about this song:[citation needed]
| “ | That's Paul's song. He was trying to write a "Soldier Boy" like The Shirelles. He wrote that in Germany, or when we were going to and from Hamburg. I might have contributed something. I can't remember anything in particular. It was mainly his song. | ” |
("Soldier Boy" was a US #1 single for the Shirelles in 1962.)
With a pleasant sounding melody, the verse and chorus could be considered typical McCartney, and its lyrics were popular with female fans.[2] The young Lennon and McCartney would often introduce what might be considered incongruous sounding jazz chords into their early compositions (almost certainly McCartney's influence, as he was the more advanced musician at this early stage[5]) as is the case here inserting C#7 (on "write") between the chords G and D in its opening chorus.
The Beatles admired Buddy Holly and the Crickets (best demonstrated by their cover of Words of Love on the Beatles for Sale album). Writer Jonathan Cott suggested that the "P.S." part of the song was a subtle reference to "Peggy Sue", from the lyric "I love you, Peggy Sue".[6]
On its 20th anniversary, Parlophone re-issued "P.S. I Love You" as a picture disc, and shortly afterwards as a 12-inch disc.
| Year | Chart | Peak position |
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| 1962 | UK Singles Chart | 17 |
| 1964 | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 10 |
| 1982 | UK Singles Chart | 4 |
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