The Beatles, album "Something New"

Studio albums - Studio Capitol Records - 1964

Something New

1. 01:45 I'll Cry Instead (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 01.06.1964

   JOHN 1980: 'I wrote that for 'A Hard Day's Night,' but Dick Lester didn't even want it.
   He resurrected 'Can't Buy Me Love' for that sequence instead.
   I like the middle-eight to that song, though that's about all I can say about it.'

2. 02:35 Things We Said Today (Paul McCartney – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 02.06.1964

   JOHN 1980: 'Paul's.
   Good song.'

   PAUL circa-1994: 'I wrote 'Things We Said Today' on acoustic (guitar).
   It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we'll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future and then is nostalgic about the moment we're living now, which is quite a good trick.'

3. 02:11 Any Time at All (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 02.06.1964

   JOHN 1980: 'An effort at writing 'It Won't Be Long' – same ilk.
   C to A minor, C to A minor with me shouting.'

4. 02:16 When I Get Home (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 02.06.1964

   JOHN 1980: 'That's me again… another Wilson Pickett, Motown sound… a four-in-the-bar cowbell song.'

5. 02:37 Slow Down (Larry Williams) - 20.08.1963

6. 01:58 Matchbox (Carl Perkins) - 30.07.1963

   RINGO 1964: 'I'm featured on it.
   Actually it was written by Carl Perkins about six years ago.
   Carl came to the session.
   I felt very embarrassed.
   I did it just two days before I went in the hospital (with tonsilitis) so please forgive my throat.'

7. 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.'

8. 02:29 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.'

9. 01:56 I'm Happy Just to Dance With You (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 01.03.1964

   JOHN 1980: ''I'm Happy Just To Dance With You,' that was written for George to give him a piece of the action.
   I couldn'ta sung it.'

   PAUL circa-1994: 'We wrote 'I'm Happy Just To Dance With You' for George in the film.
   It was a bit of a formula song.
   We knew that in (the key of) E if you went to an A-flat-minor, you could always make a song with those chords… that change pretty much always excited you.'

10. 02:19 If I Fell (John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 27.02.1964

    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.'

11. 02:27 Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 04.02.1964