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I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
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"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
Single by the Beatles
from the album A Hard Day's Night
A-side
"I'll Cry Instead"
Released
26 June 1964[1]
Format
7-inch single
Recorded
1 March 1964
Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre
Rock
Length
1:58
Label
Capitol (US)
Songwriter(s)
Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)
George Martin
The Beatles US singles chronology
"And I Love Her"
(1964) And I Love Her1964 "I'll Cry Instead" /
"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
(1964) I'll Cry InsteadI'm Happy Just to Dance with You1964 "Matchbox"
(1964) Matchbox1964
"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney[2] and recorded by the Beatles for the film soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night. Lead vocals are by George Harrison, whose performance in the film marked the first mass media depiction of Harrison singing lead.
Contents
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1 Composition
2 Recording
3 Personnel
4 Covers
5 Chart performance
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links
Composition[edit]
It was written specifically for George Harrison to sing at a time when he lacked the confidence to compose his own material. Years later, McCartney described it as a "formula song",[2] and Lennon said, "I would never have sung it myself."[3]
Featuring a hectic Bo Diddley style rhythm guitar in juxtaposition with Harrison's placid vocal, its composers give it an unexpected choice of chord at the crux of its chorus, augmenting the B7th on "I'm happy just to dance with you". The song is also distinctive in that it begins not with a verse or chorus but with the last four bars of the bridge.[4]
Recording[edit]
The Beatles recorded "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" on a Sunday, the first time they had used Abbey Road Studios on a day other than a normal work day.[3] United Artists released the song on the album A Hard Day's Night on June 26. It was also included on the album Something New, released by Capitol Records on July 20.[1] It hit #95 on the Billboard Top 100 chart on August 1, 1964, its only appearance on that chart.[5][6]
The group also recorded a version for the BBC's From Us to You radio show. The session took place on 17 July 1964 at the BBC Paris Studio in London, and was first broadcast on 3 August that year.[7]
Personnel[edit]
George Harrison – lead vocal, lead guitar
John Lennon – backing vocal, rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass
Ringo Starr – drums, African drum
George Martin – producer
Norman Smith – engineer
Personnel per Ian MacDonald[8]
Covers[edit]
The Cyrkle released a version of the song on their 1967 album, Neon.[9] Anne Murray included a cover of "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" on her 1980 album Somebody's Waiting. Murray had had some success in previous years covering other Beatles songs such as "You Won't See Me" and "Day Tripper." Unlike the Beatles' original, Murray's version of "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" is an adult-contemporary ballad. Murray's version of the song was released as a single in mid-1980, reaching No. 64 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 23 on the Billboard country chart. Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings included a cover of the song on their 2007 album Jukebox. The Smithereens also released a cover on their 2008 album, B-Sides The Beatles.[10]
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1964)
Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[5][6] 95
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b ""I'm Happy Just to Dance With You"". Beatlesebooks.com. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b Miles 1997, p. 163.
^ Jump up to: a b Harry 2000, p. 546.
Jump up ^ Hal Leonard 1993, p. 492.
^ Jump up to: a b "The Hot 100 - August 1, 1964". Billboard. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b "The Beatles - Chart History". Billboard. August 1, 1964. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
Jump up ^ The Beatles Bible 2008.
Jump up ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 112.
Jump up ^ The Cyrkle, Neon Retrieved January 10, 2016
Jump up ^ Deming, Mark. B-Sides the Beatles at AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
References[edit]
The Beatles - Complete Scores. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard. 1993. ISBN 0-7935-1832-6.
Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2.
"I'm Happy Just To Dance With You". The Beatles Bible. 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-84413-828-3.
Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6.
External links[edit]
Wikiquote has quotations related to: A Hard Day's Night (album)
Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"I'll Cry Instead"
"Things We Said Today"
"When I Get Home"
"You Can't Do That"
"I'll Be Back"
Outtakes
"No Reply"
"You Know What to Do"
"Slow Down"
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1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That"
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1965
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"Help!" / "I'm Down"
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1966
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1967
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1968
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1969
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1970
"Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
1978
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1982
"The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
1995
"Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"
1996
"Real Love" / "Baby's in Black"
UK only
(Parlophone,
Apple)
1962
"My Bonnie" / "The Saints"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy"
1964
"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today"
1976
"Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout"
US only
(Vee-Jay,
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Tollie,
Capitol,
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1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There"
1964
"Twist and Shout" / "There's a Place"
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" / "Thank You Girl"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
"Sie liebt dich" / "I'll Get You"
"I'll Cry Instead" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
"And I Love Her" / "If I Fell"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Matchbox" / "Slow Down"
1965
"Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
"Yesterday" / "Act Naturally"
1966
"Nowhere Man" / "What Goes On"
1970
"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
1976
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"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Julia"
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countries
(Odeon,
Parlophone,
Apple)
1963
"All My Loving" / "This Boy" (Canada)
1964
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich" (Germany)
1966
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" / "Nowhere Man" (Australia)
1968
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Europe, Japan, Australia)
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "I Will" (Philippines)
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Don't Pass Me By" (Sweden)
1969
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" / "Tell Me What You See" (Japan)
1970
"Oh! Darling" / "Here Comes the Sun" (Japan)
1972
"All Together Now" / "Hey Bulldog" (Europe)
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Within You Without You" (Germany)
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