Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of The Day. A Hard Days Night is a song by the Beatles. Written by John Lennon, and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was released on the movie soundtrack of the same name in 1964. It was later released as a single, with Things We Said Today as its B-side. The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles first feature film, A Hard Days Night, and was on their album of the same name. The song topped the charts in both the United Kingdom and United States when it was released as a single. The American and British singles of A Hard Days Night as well as both the American and British albums of the same title all held the top position in their respective charts for a couple of weeks in August 1964, the first time any artist had accomplished this feat. The songs title originated from something said by Ringo Starr, the Beatles drummer. Starr described it this way in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: We went to do a job, and wed worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, Its been a hard day... and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ...night! So we came to A Hard Days Night. Starrs statement was the inspiration for the title of the movie, which in turn inspired the composition of the song. According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine: I was going home in the car and Dick Lester [director of the movie] suggested the title, Hard Days Night from something Ringo had said. I had used it in In His Own Write [a book Lennon was writing then], but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo. You know, one of those malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, where he said it not to be funny... just said it. So Dick Lester said, We are going to use that title. In a 1994 interview for The Beatles Anthology, however, McCartney disagreed with Lennons recollections, basically stating that it was the Beatles, and not Lester, who had come up with the idea of using Starrs verbal misstep: The title was Ringos. Wed almost finished making the film, and this fun bit arrived that wed not known about before, which was naming the film. So we were sitting around at Twickenham studios having a little brain-storming session... and we said, Well, there was something Ringo said the other day. Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical... they were sort of magic even though he was just getting it wrong. And he said after a concert, Phew, its been a hard days night. In 1996, yet another version of events cropped up; in an Associated Press report, the producer of the film A Hard Days Night, Walter Shenson, stated that Lennon described to Shenson some of Starrs funnier gaffes, including a hard days night, whereupon Shenson immediately decided that that was going to be the title of the movie (replacing other alternatives, including Beatlemania). Shenson then told Lennon that he needed a theme song for the film. youtube/watch?v=70QfHtKdh_0
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