Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of The Day. George Harrison took lead vocals on The Beatles version of The Donays little-known 1962 song - originally Devil In His Heart. It was one of a number of cover versions recorded for With The Beatles. The Beatles discovered the song through Brian Epsteins NEMS store. Brian had a policy of buying at least one copy of every record that was released. If it sold, hed order another one, or five or whatever. Consequently he had records that werent hits in Britain, werent even hits in America. Before going to a gig wed meet in the record store, after it had shut, and wed search the racks like ferrets to see what new ones were there... Devil In Her Heart and Barrett Strongs Money were records that wed picked up and played in the shop and thought were interesting. George Harrison Anthology The group took six takes to get Devil In Her Heart right. It was taped on 18 July 1963 - the first session for With The Beatles - in which they also recorded You Really Got A Hold On Me, Money (Thats What I Want) and Till There Was You. It isnt hard to see the similarities between the song and Chains on Please Please Me, suggesting that in 1963 Harrison was being groomed for the role of the US teen pop and doo-wop singer, just as McCartney was happy being a balladeer of Broadway and mainstream standards (see A Taste Of Honey and Till There Was You). Both notions were short lived once Beatlemania broke out and the members own personalities came to the fore. Devil In Her Heart was the final girl group song recorded by The Beatles. Their own songwriting matured soon after, and the A Hard Days Night album would contain only Lennon-McCartney originals. From then on, when The Beatles covered songs written by others, they tended to be rock n roll favourites from their live shows.
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