Another Girl

Infobox Song
Name = Another Girl


Artist = The Beatles
Album = Help!
Released = 6 August 1965
track_no = 5
Recorded = Abbey Road Studios 15–16 February 1965
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:04
Writer = Lennon/McCartney
Label = Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Producer = George Martin
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Help!
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
# "Help!"
# "The Night Before"
# "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
# "I Need You"
# "Another Girl"
# "You're Going to Lose That Girl"
# "Ticket to Ride";Side two
# "Act Naturally"
# "It's Only Love"
# "You Like Me Too Much"
# "Tell Me What You See"
# "I've Just Seen a Face"
# "Yesterday"
# "Dizzy Miss Lizzy""Another Girl" is a song by the the Beatles released in 1965 on the album "Help!". The song was written by Paul McCartneycite book |first=Barry |last=Miles |authorlink=Barry Miles |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now |year=1997 |pages=194 |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-5249-6] cite book |first=David |last=Sheff |title=All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono |year=2000 |pages=195 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-25464-4] but credited to Lennon/McCartney. McCartney wrote the song while on vacation in Hammamet, a resort in Tunisia. In the film "Help!", McCartney lip-syncs "Another Girl" while standing on a coral reef on Balmoral Island in the Bahamas, and plays a girl in a bikini as if she is a guitar.

McCartney said of this song and other album tracks, "It's a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it."

Recording

The Beatles recorded the song on 15 February 1965, in 1 take, with 10 edits of a George Harrison guitar "flourish" which was not used.cite book |first=Mark |last=Lewisohn |authorlink=Mark Lewisohn |title=The Beatles Recording Sessions |year=1988 |pages=54 |publisher=Harmony Books |location=New York |isbn=0-517-57066-1] The master take was take 1 with a guitar solo overdub by McCartney on February 16. It was remixed on 18 February and 23 February.cite book |first=Mark |last=Lewisohn |authorlink=Mark Lewisohn |title=The Beatles Recording Sessions |year=1988 |pages=55, 56]

This is one of the first Beatle songs in which McCartney plays lead guitar, in addition to his usual bass.cite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |year=2005 |pages=46-144 |edition=Second Revised Edition |publisher=Pimlico (Rand) |location=London |isbn=1-844-13828-3] Music analyst and critic Ian MacDonald, and others, assign the lead guitar credit to McCartney for "Ticket to Ride", recorded the same day as the first session for "Another Girl," and one day before the lead guitar overdub for it.cite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |year=2005 |pages=142] cite book |first=Bill |last=Harry |authorlink=Bill Harry |title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated |year=2000 |pages=1074 |publisher=Virgin Publishing |location=London |isbn=0-7535-0481-2]

Credits

*Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocal, bass, lead guitar (solo at end)
*John Lennon – harmony vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar
*George Harrison – harmony vocal, electric rhythm guitar
*Ringo Starr – drums:"Credits per Ian MacDonald"cite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head |year=2005 |pages=145]

Notes

External links

# [http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ag.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Another Girl"]