I Saw Her Standing There
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“I Saw Her Standing There” | |||||
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Single by The Beatles | |||||
A-side | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | ||||
Released | 29 November 1963 (UK) 13 January 1964 (US) |
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Format | 7" | ||||
Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 17 October 1963 |
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Genre | Beat | ||||
Length | 2:55 | ||||
Label | Parlophone R5084 | ||||
Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||
Producer | George Martin | ||||
The Beatles singles chronology | |||||
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“ | That's Paul doing his usual job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler.' I helped with a couple of the lyrics. | „ |
—John Lennon, 1980 |
“ | I wrote it with John. We sagged off school and wrote it on guitars. I remember I had the lyrics, 'Just seventeen/Never been a beauty queen,' which John... it was one of the first times he ever went, 'What? Must change that!' And it became, 'you know what I mean.' | „ |
—Paul McCartney, 1988 |
“ | Sometimes we would just start a song from scratch, but one of us would nearly always have a germ of an idea, a title, or a rough little thing they were thinking about and we'd do it. 'I Saw Her Standing There' was my original. I'd started it and I had the first verse, which therefore gave me the tune, the tempo, and the key. It gave you the subject matter, alot of information, and then you had to fill in. So it was co-written... and we finished it that day. | „ |
—Paul McCartney, 1994 |
Watch the Beatles performing I Saw Her Standing There: