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{{Infobox song
| Name   = What You're Doing
| Cover  = 
| Artist  = [[The Beatles]]
| Album  = [[Beatles for Sale]]
| Released = 4 December 1964 <small>(mono and stereo)<small/>
| Recorded = 29–30&nbsp;September and 26&nbsp;October&nbsp;1964<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios]]
| Genre  = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length  = 2:30
| Writer  = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label  = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks  = {{Beatles for Sale tracks}}
}}


{{cquote|We wrote this one in Atlantic City like 'Every Little Thing'. It's not that Atlantic City is particularly inspiring, it's just that we happened to have a day off the tour there. Ringo does a nice bit of drumming decoration in the introduction, and I double-track on the vocal as well as playing some piano.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''The Beatles Off The Record'', p.135-36 (2000)|1964}}

{{cquote|His [Paul's] song... I might have done something.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews''|1980}}

{{cquote|'What You're Doing' was a bit of filler. I think it was a little more mine than John's, but I don't have a very clear recollection so to be on the safe side I'd put it as 50-50. It doesn't sound like an idea that I remember John offering, so it sounds like a way to get a song started, some of them are just that. 'Hey, what'cha doing?' You sometimes start a song and hope the best will arrive by the time you get to the chorus, but sometimes that's all you get, and I suspect this was one of them. Maybe it's a better recording than it is a song, some of them are. Sometimes a good recording would enhance a song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', p.175-76|1997}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_You%27re_Doing Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/wyd.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/what-youre-doing About 'What You're Doing' - Beatles Music History Website]

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