It Won't Be Long

It Won't Be Long

Infobox Song
Name = It Won't Be Long


Artist = The Beatles
Album = With the Beatles
Released = November 22, 1963
track_no = 1
Recorded = July 30, 1963
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 2:13
Writer = Lennon/McCartney
Label = Parlophone
Producer = George Martin
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = With the Beatles
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
# "It Won't Be Long"
# "All I've Got to Do"
# "All My Loving"
# "Don't Bother Me"
# "Little Child"
# "Till There Was You"
# "Please Mister Postman";Side two
# "Roll Over Beethoven"
# "Hold Me Tight"
# "You Really Got a Hold on Me"
# "I Wanna Be Your Man"
# "Devil in Her Heart"
# "Not a Second Time"
# "Money (That's What I Want)"

"It Won't Be Long" is the opening track on "With the Beatles", and was the first original song recorded for the LPcite book |first=Mark |last=Lewisohn |authorlink=Mark Lewisohn |title=The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions |year=1988 |pages=34 |publisher=Hamlyn |location=London |isbn=0-600-55798-7] Although credited to Lennon/McCartney, it was primarily a John Lennon composition, with Paul McCartney assisting with the lyrics and arrangement.cite book |first=Barry |last=Miles |authorlink=Barry Miles |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now
year=1998 |pages=152 |publisher=Vintage |location=London |isbn=0-7493-8658-4] The chorus is a play on the words "be long" and "belong"cite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head |year=1998 |pages=81 |publisher=Pimlico |location=London |isbn=0-7126-6697-4] . The song features early Beatles' trademarks such as call-and-response yeah yeah's and scaling guitar riffs. Typical also of this phase of Beatles song writing is the melodramatic ending (similar to "She Loves You," which had just been recorded and was about to be released) where the music stops, allowing Lennon a brief solo vocal improvisation before the song finishes on a major seventh chord ("She Loves You" ends on a major sixth). There is an unusual middle eight - for what is, essentially, a rock and roll song - that uses chromatically descending chords.

The song was featured in the film "Across the Universe" and performed by Evan Rachel Wood.

First issued

* UK: "With the Beatles" - November 22, 1963
* US: "Meet the Beatles!" - January 20, 1964

Credits

* John Lennon - Lead vocals, rhythm guitar
* Paul McCartney - Backing vocals, bass guitar
* George Harrison - Backing vocals, lead guitar
* Ringo Starr - Drums
* George Martin - Producer

References


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