The Beatles, album "The Beatles No. 1"

SP - collections - Studio Parlophone - 1963
mono: 01.11.1963

The Beatles No. 1

1. 02:49 I Saw Her Standing There (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 24.10.1963

   JOHN 1980: 'That's Paul doing his usual job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler.' I helped with a couple of the lyrics.'

   PAUL 1988: 'I wrote it with John.
   We sagged off school and wrote it on guitars.
   I remember I had the lyrics, 'Just seventeen/Never been a beauty queen,' which John… it was one of the first times he ever went, 'What? Must change that!' And it became, 'you know what I mean.''

   PAUL circa-1994: 'Sometimes we would just start a song from scratch, but one of us would nearly always have a germ of an idea, a title, or a rough little thing they were thinking about and we'd do it.
   'I Saw Her Standing There' was my original.
   I'd started it and I had the first verse, which therefore gave me the tune, the tempo, and the key.
   It gave you the subject matter, alot of information, and then you had to fill in.
   So it was co-written… and we finished it that day.

2. 01:49 Misery (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - 12.03.1963

   JOHN 1980: 'It was kind of a John song, more than a Paul song… but it was written together.'

   PAUL 1988: 'John and I were a songwriting team, and what songwriting teams did in those days was wrote for everyone.
   'Misery' was for Helen Shapiro, and she turned it down.
   It may not have been that successful for her because it's rather a downbeat song… 'the world is treating me bad, misery.' It was quite pessimistic.
   And in the end Kenny Lynch did it.
   Kenny used to come out on tour with us, and he used to sing it.
   That was one of his minor hits.'

3. 02:48 Anna (Go to Him) (Arthur Alexander) - 17.09.1962

4. 02:25 Chains (Gerry Goffin and Carole King) - 11.02.1963