Can't Buy Me Love
March 16, 1964 (USA) March 20, 1964 ( GB)
Can not Buy Me Love ( German Can not buy me no love ) is a song by British band The Beatles, released on the March 16, 1964 in the U.S. and on 20 March 1964 in the UK as a single and immediately to the number-one hit. On the B - side of the single is the song You Can not Do That.
History
The title was taken largely on January 29, 1964 in the " Pathé Marconi Studios " in Paris. Producer was George Martin. The Beatles were part of a 18-day exposure to the "Olympia" in the city. It was the first and only time that the band has recorded outside of the UK. The recording of Can not Buy Me Love was the recording of the two German versions of the songs She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand ( She loves you and Come give me your hand ) preceded it. Since these recordings vonstattengingen faster than planned, time was still in the studio to Can not Buy Me Love take, which was only recently been written by Paul McCartney in the Hôtel George V in Paris. In this session came four recordings of the piece. Added a new guitar solo by George Harrison and a vocal track by McCartney On February 25, 1964 in London "Abbey Road Studios " the fourth recording in overdub process. Harrison used his new twelve-string Rickenbacker 360-12 for the solo.
The song was one of the first in pop music, which started in place of the verse and the chorus.
As 1966, the presumption arose, the song RELATES of prostitution, McCartney replied that the song only describe that he could despite the commercial success of the Beatles not buy anything he wanted. In later years, he qualified this statement and remarked jokingly that he could have called the song actually " Can Buy Me Love ".
Can not Buy Me Love was the fourth single by the Beatles, which was also placed in the UK at number one in the singles charts, and her third single, which sold over one million copies. In the U.S., the single reached number one in the charts. There, more than two million copies of the single were sold in the first week after publication. In the UK there were over one million pre-orders for the single.
On 4 April 1964, the single debuted at number one on the U.S. singles chart, the Beatles occupied the top five spots of the charts; a never since attained event in the singles charts; this was the highlight of the British Invasion:
A week after the chart entry had the Beatles a total of 14 singles on the U.S. singles charts. Can not Buy Me Love was released in July 1964 on the album A Hard Day 's Night. The piece was fixed in 1964 and 1965 to live repertoire of the Beatles.
Anthology
As part of the Anthology series, an alternative version of the play has been published. They chose it from the second version of the four recordings of 29 January 1964. This version differs by a more blue -oriented vocals of McCartney and through the existing backing vocals here which came from John Lennon and George Harrison.
Cover versions
- Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song in 1964 in their repertoire. He appeared on their live album Ella at Juan -Les-Pins, as well as on the studio album Hello, Dolly.
- Tom Jones recorded the song and it has been published in his version on numerous compilation albums.
- The Supremes took him to live for her album A Bit of Liverpool.
- Michael Bublé sang the song in 2005 to a big- band arrangement of John Clayton and David Foster. It can be heard on his album It's Time, and in a live version on Caught in the Act.
- The King's Singers released an a cappella version of the song on their album The Beatles Connection