Please Please Me

Please Please is to Me the first album recorded by the Beatles, left the March 22nd 1963 in Great Britain to supplement the success of the individual precedents Please Please Me (N°1) and Love Me C (N°17). From the fourteen Song S of the album, eights were written by the tandem Lennon/McCartney.

The first album of Beatles was classified at the head British Charts starting from May 11th, 1963 and there was maintained during 30 weeks, spending 74 weeks in all in this classification. It was published in another form and a different name ( Introducing… The Beatles ) with the the United States in February 1964.

In 2003, the magazine Rolling Stone listed the album with the 39e place on its list of the 500 larger albums of all times. It was classified first among the albums of the beginnings, and sixth among all the albums of Beatles, with Sgt. Pepper' S Lonely Hearts Club Band , Revolver , Drunk Rubber , the White Album and Abbey Road , which was placed highest.

Rolling Stone also placed two songs of the album in its list of the 500 greater songs of all times: N°139, I Saw Her Standing There , and N°184, Please Please Me .

According to All Music Guides , “of the decades after its exit, this album sounds still fresh”, the Reprise again S are impressive and the astonishing news.

Recording and left

As it was necessary that the album contains fourteen songs, ten additional songs were to be made to add them to the four songs of their the first two individual, which appear on the album. At 10 a.m., in the morning of February 11th, 1963, the Studios Abbey Road, Beatles and George Martin started to record what was their new songs played in their concerts in 1962, and finished the recording only 585 minutes later (9 hours and 45 minutes)! In three sessions this day (each one during three hours), they produced an authentic representation of what they played Cavern Club at their beginnings. George Martin said: “It was a strong performance of their repertory of scene — a review, let us say”. The day finished with the recording of the resumption of Twist and Shout , which had to be recorded at the end, because John Lennon had a very bad Rhume and George Martin feared that the evil of throat does not reduce the performance of the voice of Lennon for the day. This performance, generally recognized like traditional, made say to Martin: “I do not know how they made”. This song was enregitrée in only one catch!. George Martin said: “There was not much money at Parlophone. I worked for an annual salary of only 55  000  euros”.

The song Please Please Me was recorded on a machine of only two tracks, with the accompaniment on the first track and the voice over the second. On the version mono, nothing appears to with it, because the two tracks are placed together on the mixing. On the other hand, on the version stereo, the music is placed on the left and the voices are placed on the line of the mixed sound, which does not give a good sound balance.

The album Please Please to Me was officially published on CD the February 26th 1987, at the same time as three other albums of Beatles ( With the Beatles , has Hardware Day' S Night and Beatles for Sale ), all in mono only.

The cover of the album

George Martin, who was familiar of the zoo of London, thought that it would be a good publicity for the zoo to photograph Beatles outside the house of the insects for the photograph of the cover of Please Please Me . However, the zoo refused the offer of Martin. Angus McBean was thus called to take the photograph where Beatles look in bottom of the steps leading to the offices of EMI.

List songs

All the songs are credited McCartney/Lennon, except contrary mention. The appropriations of composition changed for Lennon/McCartney starting from the second album, With the Beatles .

  1. I Saw Her Standing There - 2:55

  2. Misery - 1:50
  3. Anna (Go to Him) (Arthur Alexander) - 2:57
  4. Chains (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 2:26
  5. Servant boys (Luther Dixon, Wes Farrel) - 2:27
  6. Ask Me Why - 2:27
  7. Please Please Me - 2:03
  8. Coils to Me C - 2:22
  9. P.S.I Coils You - 2:05
  10. Baby It' S You (Mack David, Barney Williams, Burt Bacharach) - 2:38
  11. Do You Want to Know has Secret - 1:59
  12. has off Taste Honey (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) - 2:05
  13. There' S.A. Place - 1:52
  14. Twist and Shout (Medley, Bert Russell) - 2:33

Personnel

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