The Beatles, album "A Hard Day's Night: Extracts from the Film"

SP - collections - Studio Parlophone - 1964
mono: 04.11.1964

A Hard Day's Night: Extracts from the Film

1. 02:43 I Should Have Known Better (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 26.02.1964

   JOHN 1980: 'That's me.
   Just a song – It doesn't mean a damn thing.'

2. 02:09 If I Fell (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 16.07.1964

   JOHN 1980: 'That was my first attempt at a ballad proper.
   That was the precursor to 'In My Life.' It has the same chord sequences as 'In My Life' – D and B minor and E minor, those kinds of things.
   And it's semi-autobiographical, but not consciously.
   It shows that I wrote sentimental love ballads – silly love songs – way back when.'

   PAUL 1984: 'This was our close-harmony period.
   We did a few songs… 'This Boy,' 'If I Fell,' 'Yes It Is' …in the same vein, which were kind of like the Fourmost – an English vocal group, only not really.'

3. 02:08 Tell Me Why (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 27.02.1964

   JOHN 1980: ''Tell Me Why…' they needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off.
   It was like a black, New York girl-group song.'

   PAUL circa-1994: 'I think alot of these songs like 'Tell Me Why' were based in real life experiences… but it never occured to us until later to put that slant on it all.'

4. 02:19 And I Love Her (Paul McCartney – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 27.02.1964

   JOHN 1972: 'Both of us wrote it.
   The first half was Paul's and the middle-eight is mine.'

   JOHN 1980: ''And I Love Her' is Paul again.
   I consider it his first 'Yesterday.' You know, the big ballad in 'A Hard Day's Night.'

   PAUL 1984: 'It's just a love song.
   It wasn't for anyone.
   Having the title start in midsentence, I thought that was clever.
   Well, Perry Como did 'And I Love You So' many years later.
   Tried to nick the idea.
   I like that… it was a nice tune, that one.
   I still like it.'