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What You're Doing
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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. |
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—Paul McCartney, The Beatles Off The Record, p.135-36 (2000), 1964
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His [Paul's] song... I might have done something. |
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—John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, 1980
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'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. |
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—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now, p.175-76, 1997
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