- Got to Get You into My Life
Infobox Single
Name = Got to Get You into My Life
Artist =The Beatles
from Album = Revolver
B-side = "Helter Skelter"
Released =31 May 1976 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded =Abbey Road Studios 7 April ,17 June 1966
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:27
Label = Capitol 4274 (U.S.)
Writer =Lennon/McCartney
Producer =George Martin
Last single = "Yesterday"
(UK-1976)
------ "The Long and Winding Road " / "For You Blue " (US-1970)
This single = "Got to Get You into My Life"
(1976)
Next single = "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da "
(1976)
Misc = Extra musicsample |filename=Beatles into my life.ogg |format=Ogg |title=Got to Get You into My Life |Type=singleExtra tracklisting
Album = Revolver
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
# "Taxman "
# "Eleanor Rigby "
# "I'm Only Sleeping "
# "Love You To "
# "Here, There and Everywhere "
# "Yellow Submarine"
# "She Said She Said ";Side two
# "Good Day Sunshine "
# "And Your Bird Can Sing "
# "For No One "
# "Doctor Robert "
# "I Want to Tell You "
# "Got To Get You Into My Life"
# "Tomorrow Never Knows "Infobox Single
Name = Got to Get You into My Life
Artist =Earth, Wind & Fire
from Album = The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1
B-side = "I'll Write a Song for You"
Released = 1978
Format =12"
Genre =R&B
Label = Columbia
Length = 4:03
Writer =Lennon/McCartney
Last single = "Magic Mind" (1978)
This single = "Got to Get You into My Life" (1978)
Next single = "September" (1978)"Got to Get You into My Life" is a
song byThe Beatles on the album "Revolver". It was released as a single in the US in1976 , a decade after its initial release and six years after The Beatles split up. This was the single that was released as apromo for the "Rock 'n' Roll Music"compilation album . It hit #7 on theBillboard Hot 100 chart, The Beatles' last top ten hit there until their 1995 release "Free as a Bird ". Acover version byCliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers , produced byPaul McCartney , made the British Top 10 in the summer of1966 . Another cover version byEarth, Wind & Fire topped the US R&B charts and reached #9 on the US pop charts in1978 .Development of song
Though officially credited to
Lennon-McCartney , McCartney was primarily responsible for the writing of this track, to which he also contributes lead vocals.John Lennon was said to have been very fond of the song, saying this was, "Paul at his best," according to a 1980 Playboy interview. McCartney attempted to write in the style of Americansoul music for this song, as particularly inspired by the Stax label. The soul revue-style horns are especially allusive to the Stax "Memphis soul " sound. Traces ofMotown influence are apparent as well. It was recorded atAbbey Road Studios between7 April and17 June 1966 and evolved considerably between the first takes and the final version released on album. The mono andstereo versions of the recording also feature completely different ad libs in thefade-out .ong structure
Following the outro
chords of "I Want to Tell You", the song immediately starts with the horns. McCartney's vocals clock in at 0:07. The predominant instrument playing is the horns, similar to the soul records of the late '50s and early '60s. The chorus of the song appears at 1:04, with the song's title sung. The song switches between a verse and therefrain . The electric guitar solo clocks in at 1:53, and at 2:10 the horns come in, playing the samechords as the song opened with. The song closes with fading vocals of McCartney, much akin to the soul records of the time. The percussion instrument most predominant is thetambourine , overdubbed onto the standard drum kit.Meaning
Although many believed it was a love song that Paul was writing for a girl, he later disclosed the song was about marijuana in
Barry Miles ' book "". Manylyrics from the song suggested this - "I took a ride I didn't know what I would find there / Another road where maybe I could see some other kind of mind there.", "What can I do, what can I be when I'm with you I want to stay there / If I am true I will never leave and if I do I know the way there."Covers
*
Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
*Blood, Sweat, and Tears
*Earth, Wind, and Fire
*Diana Ross
*Syesha Mercado ofAmerican Idol
*Courtney Murphy ofAustralian Idol Further reading
* Lewisohn, Mark, "The Complete Beatles Chronicle" : Hamlyn / Octopus Publishing Group Limited, London, 1992, reprint paperback edition 2003, ISBN 0-681-02890-4
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