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31 March 2008
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Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 6 June, 11 September 1962
Producer: Ron Richards
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 5 October 1962 (UK), 27 April 1964 (US)
Paul McCartney: lead vocals, bass
John Lennon: backing vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar
George Harrison: backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Ringo Starr: maracas
Andy White: percussion
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4.04am
24 March 2014
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A quick video on the influence of this little song:
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7.05pm
26 January 2017
Offline This song is a great example of one of my favorite musical techniques: singing the same melody over two different progressions. I like the second progression for “as I write this letter” more than the first.
I never knew this was the first use of b6-b7-1. So damn common nowadays. Sounds just like “Billy Shears” after Sgt. Peppers, but that’s a I II III, a clever switch from a typical I- ii that was the familiar sound.
Great song by some great songwriters.
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5.17am
31 March 2008
Offline @Shamrock Womlbs Thanks for posting that clip. PS I Love You was so much more sophisticated than Love Me Do , wasn’t it? I hadn’t fully appreciated how lovely the chords and melody of that song are (though I wish he’d taken a direct line out of his keyboard so we couldn’t hear the key press thuds).
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12.29pm
22 December 2013
Offline Definitely one of their first Great Early Songs… so unlike anything else that they’d attempted at the time, whether melodically or rhythmically… ‘Ask Me Why ‘ & ‘Don’t Bother Me ‘ are the only two that I can think of that even touch this one in inventiveness, pre-Revolver … not only a Great Song but a Great Record as well… I mean, what a sound!…:-)
1.21pm
10 August 2011
Offline I have that record exactly as depicted in Joe’s first post – signed by all four Beatles.
At first, I was disappointed that it wasn’t signed on the “A” side – but I so much prefer P.S. I Love You! [Happy Valentine’s to all]
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3.08pm
26 January 2017
Offline Billy Rhythm said
Definitely one of their first Great Early Songs… so unlike anything else that they’d attempted at the time, whether melodically or rhythmically… ‘Ask Me Why ‘ & ‘Don’t Bother Me ‘ are the only two that I can think of that even touch this one in inventiveness, pre-Revolver … not only a Great Song but a Great Record as well… I mean, what a sound!…:-)
Ask Me Why takes the cake for early Beatle’s inventiveness in my eyes. Absolutely stunning harmony in the debut album of a Beat Group.
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11.22am
25 November 2024
Offline Apologies; does a topic already exist for this song? I assumed every song had one, but I couldn’t find this one. If so, sorry.
Daily Beatles Song Review: Day 9/213: P.S. I Love You
This is one of my least favorite songs on Please Please Me , and by that metric one of my least favorite Beatles songs period. Now, I should make it clear, I don’t hate it or anything. There’s only a small handful I hate. But this one is just not very good to me. I think it has very few positive elements and many negative ones. The lyrics, for instance, aren’t actively terrible, but don’t really do much. It’s another fairly basic love song without any real detail. The guitar work is also just pretty okay, without anything special. The one great element of the song is the vocals. I think they’re quite good, especially at the end.
However, the worst quality about the song is the percussion. I do not like, at all, how the drums sound (especially in the stereo mix, although the issue isn’t magically solved in mono). It’s very repetitive and grating. It especially hurts because it’s supposed to be a heartfelt and sentimental song! This kind of drumming would make sense on a more energetic song, but it doesn’t work here for me at all.
Score: 3/10.
Favorite cover: There’s a nice and low-key jazz-pop version by Keely Smith that I quite like.
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Offline @Queen Emily, to find the Forum threads for songs, you can look at Joe’s page for the song and find the link he has to the corresponding Forum thread for the song.
Here is Joe’s song list https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/
And here’s the link example from PS I Love You (you probably didn’t find the thread because the title doesn’t have periods in the PS part)
Notice how P.S. I Love You doesn’t turn to a blue link to Joe’s song page, but PS I Love You does.
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5.23pm
25 November 2024
Offline Ahhh Girl said
@Queen Emily, to find the Forum threads for songs, you can look at Joe’s page for the song and find the link he has to the corresponding Forum thread for the song.Here is Joe’s song list https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/
And here’s the link example from PS I Love You (you probably didn’t find the thread because the title doesn’t have periods in the PS part)
Notice how P.S. I Love You doesn’t turn to a blue link to Joe’s song page, but PS I Love You does.
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Awesome, thank you. Yeah, I think the lack of periods is why the search didn’t work. Apologies!
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