All My Loving

November 22, 1963

All My Loving (German: , All My Love ') is a song by British band The Beatles in 1963 was composed the song by Paul McCartney, but it is under the care usual when the Beatles Copyright Lennon / McCartney.. The song was first released on the second Beatles album With the Beatles.

Background

Basically All My Loving was the first peak under the McCartney compositions. The song was written in May 1963, during a Beatles tour with Roy Orbison. McCartney wrote - unusual for him - first the text. He composed the music in the backstage area of a concert hall on a piano parked there because he just did not have the guitar on hand.

All My Loving quickly became an integral part in the live repertoire of the Beatles and was also the first song that the band played on February 9, 1964 in the U.S. Ed Sullivan Show in New York City before an estimated 73 million viewers.

John Lennon, who increasingly expressed derogatory after the breakup of the Beatles McCartney compositions, expressed regret in an interview in 1980 that he had All My Loving not written because it " is a damn good piece of work " ("A damn good piece of work " ).

Recording

The Beatles recorded All My Loving on 30 July 1963 at Abbey Road Studios in London. Producer was George Martin, assisted by Norman Smith. The band recorded a total of eleven takes of All My Loving, on the latter three additional overdubs were recorded. On August 21, 1963, a Monoabmischung was made ​​; on 29 October 1963, a stereo mix.

In addition to the studio version, the Beatles recorded under live conditions on four other versions of All My Loving for BBC Radio. The recording that this was taken on 28 February 1964 and was broadcast in the show From Us To You on March 30, 1964 was released in 1994 on the album Live at the BBC.

A live recording that was taken on August 23, 1964 in the U.S. Amphitheatre Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles ), appeared in 1977 on the only official live album by the Beatles The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl.

Publication

All My Loving was released November 22, 1963 on the Beatles album With the Beatles. A single was released neither in the UK nor in the United States. Nevertheless, the British DJ David Jacobs began repeatedly to play it on the radio, what the song a greater attention has been given. It appeared, however, in both countries on EP in the UK on February 7, 1964 EP All My Loving, in the U.S. on 11 May 1964 the EP Four by The Beatles. Though All My Loving did not appear as a single in the U.S., it reached number 45 there on the Billboard Hot 100, as the single from neighboring Canada was imported, where it was a number -one hit. In Germany All My Loving was also released as a single and reached number 32 in the German single charts.

Cover versions

Since 1964, cover versions of All My Loving are constantly released, including versions of Alvin and the Chipmunks, Herb Alpert, Jim Sturgess, Helloween, Fancy, Emilie Autumn or Amy Winehouse. A handful of cover versions reached chart positions; for example, was a ballad version of Johnny Young in 1967 a top 10 hit in Australia. The melody was used until the 1990s as the basis for the signature tune of the WDR -2 broadcast quintessence.

Paul McCartney himself took the song into his concert program and two live versions were published. The first was published in 1993 on the album Paul Is Live, the second on the album Back in the U.S. in 2002.