Flashback: The Beatles record "From Me To You"
It was 44 years ago (March 5th, 1963) that the Beatles recorded "From Me To You." The track was recorded in a single session at London's Abbey Road Studios, which included 13 takes of the song, 13 takes of the song's B-side "Thank You Girl," and five takes of "The One After 909," which would remain unissued until the 1995 archival release The Beatles Anthology 1.
The Beatles would revisit the song, one of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's earliest collaborations, for the group's 1969 Let It Be project, and performed the song during their final live performance on the Apple headquarters rooftop.
On the afternoon of March 5th, 1963 the "Fab Four" posed for their Please Please Me album cover at their record company headquarters staircase at EMI House in Manchester Square. An alternate shot from that session was used for the group's 1973 compilation album The Beatles 1962 - 1966. (The Beatles and their record company are currently suing a cleaning firm that recently trashed the negatives from the photo session.)
The session tapes recorded on March 5th, 1963 are among the rare cases in which an entire Beatles session has been widely bootlegged with pristine sound.
In April 1963 "From Me To You" was released and topped the British charts for five weeks. The following month, in the U.S., the then-still unknown Beatles released the song where it became their American chart debut, "peaking" at Number 116. In early 1964, the song charted again when it hit Number 41 when it was re-released as the B-side to the group's "Please Please Me" single.
In late 1963 Burt Bacharach first met the Beatles, who had recorded a cover of his song "Baby, It's You" on their Please Please Me album. He said he was immediately struck at how different they looked: "Yeah, I had heard them. The first time I met them casually was at a Royal Command Performance in England. And the Beatles are on the same bill. And I said, 'Who are these funny looking guys with these haircuts?' They hadn't broken here at all yet, you know?"
The Beatles would revisit the song, one of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's earliest collaborations, for the group's 1969 Let It Be project, and performed the song during their final live performance on the Apple headquarters rooftop.
On the afternoon of March 5th, 1963 the "Fab Four" posed for their Please Please Me album cover at their record company headquarters staircase at EMI House in Manchester Square. An alternate shot from that session was used for the group's 1973 compilation album The Beatles 1962 - 1966. (The Beatles and their record company are currently suing a cleaning firm that recently trashed the negatives from the photo session.)
The session tapes recorded on March 5th, 1963 are among the rare cases in which an entire Beatles session has been widely bootlegged with pristine sound.
In April 1963 "From Me To You" was released and topped the British charts for five weeks. The following month, in the U.S., the then-still unknown Beatles released the song where it became their American chart debut, "peaking" at Number 116. In early 1964, the song charted again when it hit Number 41 when it was re-released as the B-side to the group's "Please Please Me" single.
In late 1963 Burt Bacharach first met the Beatles, who had recorded a cover of his song "Baby, It's You" on their Please Please Me album. He said he was immediately struck at how different they looked: "Yeah, I had heard them. The first time I met them casually was at a Royal Command Performance in England. And the Beatles are on the same bill. And I said, 'Who are these funny looking guys with these haircuts?' They hadn't broken here at all yet, you know?"
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