Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of The Day. All Ive Got to Do is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by English rock group the Beatles on their second British album, With the Beatles. In the United States, All Ive Got to Do originally appeared on Meet the Beatles!. According to Dennis Alstrand, this song is the first time in rock and roll or rock music where the bass player plays chords as a vital part of the song. Lennon said he was trying to do Smokey Robinson again, and Ian MacDonald compared it to You Can Depend on Me by the Miracles, both musically and lyrically. Richie Unterberger of Allmusic said it sounds like Robinson but also Arthur Alexander. Beatles biographer Bob Spitz said the song is restlessly dark and moody, and compared it to the Shirelles Baby Its You (a song the Beatles previously covered) and early Drifters recordings. It was one of three songs Lennon was the principal writer for on With the Beatles, with It Wont Be Long and Not a Second Time. Lennon said that it was written specifically for the American market; the idea of calling a girl on the telephone was unthinkable to a British youth in the early 1960s. For instance, Lennon said in an interview regarding No Reply: I had the image of walking down the street and seeing her silhouetted in the window and not answering the phone, although I have never called a girl on the phone in my life! Because phones werent part of the English childs life. The band recorded the song in a single recording session on 11 September 1963 in 14 takes with one overdub, take 15. The master take was take 15. It was mixed for mono on 30 September and for stereo on 29 October. Although music journalist Steve Turner claims the song was written in 1961, MacDonald said the song was never in the Beatles live repertoire, and that explains why 8 of the 14 takes were incomplete: the band was unfamiliar with the song.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:39:56 +0000
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