I'll Cry Instead

13 tracks
Side one "A Hard Day's Night" "I Should Have Known Better" "If I Fell" "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" "And I Love Her" "Tell Me Why" "Can't Buy Me Love" Side two "Any Time at All" "I'll Cry Instead" "Things We Said Today" "When I Get Home" "You Can't Do That" "I'll Be Back"

“I'll Cry Instead”

Single by The Beatles
from the album A Hard Day's Night

Released

20 August 1964

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Recorded

1 June 1964,
EMI Studios, London

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Length

2:09

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The Beatles singles chronology

"I'll Cry Instead"
(US-1964)

"Matchbox"
(US-1964)

“	We were going to do this in the A Hard Day's Night film, but the director Dick Lester didn't like it, so we put it on the flip side of the album. I like the middle eight of that song.	„
—John Lennon, The Beatles Off The Record, p.90, 2000

“	I wrote that for 'A Hard Day's Night,' but Dick Lester didn't even want it. He resurrected 'Can't Buy Me Love' for that sequence instead. I like the middle-eight to that song, though that's about all I can say about it.	„
—John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, 1980

“	Next recording was 'I'll Cry Instead', for the LP. This was taped in two parts — 'Section A' and 'Section B' — for editing together at a later date. Six takes of 'A' and two of 'B' saw the song through to satisfactory completion.	„
—Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions, p.44, 1988