Despite a reservation, which was not taken into consideration, Jim McCartney loved the song which would become one of the group’s biggest hits.
The impact of Beatles It didn’t just happen in music. Distinctive aspects of culture, especially in his native England and the United States, were altered with the rise of John Lenon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison AND Ringo Starr.
Representing this is one of the objectives of the documentary Beatles ’64coming out on Disney+ next Friday (29th). The film focuses on the musicians’ first visit to the United States, in February 1964.
A story told by Paul McCartney, during a video preview released online, serves as an example of what is narrated in the first paragraph of this text. It may seem silly nowadays, but for its time it represented a curious change.
In his report (via American singer-songwriter), Paul recounts an interaction with his father, Jim McCartneyin 1963. John joined in on the conversation, which concerned Jim’s reservations about the lyrics to one of the Beatles’ first – and biggest – hits. His most illustrious son initially recalls:
“We had composed the song “She loves you” in the next room and my father was in the other room. So we went and played it for him for the first time.”
Jim liked what he heard. The choir “She loves you, yes, yes, yes”sung in the first seconds of the song, it is truly irresistible. However, Paul’s father suggested changing the lyrics, which, in his opinion, were too informal — or rather, “Americanized” — too much:
“When we finished, he said, ‘Guys… that’s really good, but can’t you sing ‘she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah’? There’s already too many of those Americanisms out there.”
The Beatles and the hit “She Loves You”
The suggestion was not accepted and Jim McCartney must not have taken it badly. After all, the “Americanized” “She Loves You” broke numerous sales records in the UK and, of course, the US. On British soil it is the best-selling single in the band’s history and throughout the 1960s by any artist. Already in the songs of Uncle Sam, it was one of the five songs of the group to simultaneously occupy the top five positions of the charts, on April 4, 1964: an unprecedented feat until then.
About the documentary
Beatles ’64 it has a direction Davide Tedeschi and production of Martin Scorsese. Its premise, as already noted, is to address the cultural impact of the Beatles in the United States, particularly during and after their trip to the country in February 1964. There they stayed for three weeks and recorded historic performances on television . plan The Ed Sullivan Show. This period is cited as the beginning of so-called Beatlemania in the USA, a phenomenon already experienced in the UK.
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Source: Terra
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