Anna (Go to Him)
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"Anna (Go to Him)" | ||||
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Song by The Beatles | ||||
Album | Please Please Me | |||
Released | March 22, 1963 (mono) April 26, 1963 (stereo) |
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Recorded | February 11, 1963 | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 2:54 | |||
Label | Parlophone | |||
Writer | Arthur Alexander | |||
Producer | George Martin | |||
Please Please Me track listing | ||||
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“ | February 11, 1963: John Lennon had a particularly heavy cold, clearly indicated by his between-takes chatter on the preserved session tapes. So how did they keep going? Norman Smith (EMI recording engineer) remembers. 'They had a big glass jar of Zubes throat sweets on top of the piano, rather like the ones you see in a sweet shop. Paradoxically, by the side of that, was a big carton of Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes which they smoked incessantly.' [...] John sang lead vocal on Arthur Alexander's 'Anna (Go To Him)', recorded in three takes. | „ |
—The Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn, 1988 |
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