I Remember You

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I Remember You is a 1941 song. The Beatles, influenced by Frank Ifield's cover, covered it live in 1962. The Beatles played it live at The Star Club in December 1962.

Live Performances

I Remember You was one of the songs in The Beatles' 1962 live set that John Lennon played harmonica on. Lennon recalled in 1970, "I played a lot of harmonica and mouth organ when I was a child. Love Me Do is rock 'n' roll, pretty funky: the gimmick is the harmonica. (There had been Hey! Baby and then there was a terrible thing called I Remember You, and we did those numbers, so we started using it on Love Me Do just for arrangements.) And then we stuck it on Please Please Me and then we stuck it on From Me To You, and then we dropped it; it got embarassing." I Remember You was an important part of The Beatles' live set in 1962. Paul McCartney recalls, "I think we sussed early on that we weren't going to get anywhere unless we were different; because if you weren't original you could get stranded. An example: I used to sing I Remember You by Frank Ifield. It went amazingly well anywhere I played it; but if the group before us did I Remember You, that was our big number up the sprout. We'd ask bands, 'What numbers do you do, then?' If they ever mentioned I Remember You, it was 'Oh dear.' So we had to play numbers no one else had or, if we'd both got the big number, trade off with the other band."

Personnel

Source

  • LENNON, J., MCCARTNEY P., HARRION G., STARKEY R., 2002, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books -- Buy it on Amazon.com
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