Every Little Thing

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Every Little Thing is a song off The Beatles' 1964 album Beatles For Sale. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney.

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Writing

Paul McCartney composed Every Little Thing at his girlfriend, Jane Asher's, family house on Wimpole Street in London. McCartney had originally hoped it to be the follow-up single to A Hard Day's Night, but this did not happen. Every Little Thing would be first released in America on the album Beatles VI. McCartney recalled, "Every Little Thing, like most of the stuff I did, was my attempt at the next single. I remember playing it for Brian backstage somewhere. He had assembled a few people. It was one of those meetings - 'Oh, we have to do some recordings, who's got what?' and we played a few at Brian. We didn't often check things with Brian, in fact I just remember it in connection with this because I thought it was very catchy. I played it amongst a few songs; it was something I thought was quite good but it became an album filler rather than the great almighty single. It didn't have quite what was required."

Recording

The Beatles first attempted Every Little Thing on September 29, 1964, when four takes were recorded, the last conidered the best. The next day, they recorded five further attempts. Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn wrote in his book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, "Take six was aborted when Paul burped a vocal instead of singing it, take seven was complete but ended in uproarious laughter. And Ringo was having fun with an instrument new to Beatles recordings - timpani. This appeared for the first time on take nine, along with the guitar intro and piano piece."

Recording Sessions

Personnel

The Beatles

Production

Available Versions

Available On

Cover Versions

Source

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