All My Loving

Infobox Song
Name = All My Loving


Artist = The Beatles
Album = With the Beatles
Released = November 22, 1963
track_no = 1
Recorded = July 30, 1963
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 2:04
Writer = Lennon/McCartney
Label = Parlophone
Producer = George Martin
Misc =
Audio sample? = yesExtra 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)"

"All My Loving" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon/McCartney, from the 1963 album "With the Beatles".

It was the first of only a few occasions where McCartney wrote the lyrics before the music, as it was apparently conceived as a poem while the Beatle was shaving. [Bill Harry, "The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia", p. 18] McCartney envisioned it originally as a country & western song, and the music was written backstage on a piano during The Beatles’ Roy Orbison tour with George Harrison adding his Nashville style guitar solo on the recording. [Paul McCartney, "Many Years From Now", p. 148] Similarly employing the “letter” song model used in "P.S. I Love You", "All My Loving" promptly drew much critical acclaim, and attracted large amounts of radio air-play.cite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head |year=1998 |pages=83 |publisher=Pimlico |location=London |isbn=0-7126-6697-4] It was the band's opening number on its famous US debut performance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on February 9, 1964.

According to Alan Weiss, a TV producer who happened to be there, "All My Loving" was playing on the sound system at Roosevelt Hospital emergency room when John Lennon was pronounced dead after being shot on 8 December 1980.cite web |title=Our Part in the Death of Legend John Lennon |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/tm_objectid=16451061&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=our-part-in-the-death-of-legend-john-lennon-name_page.html |publisher=The Daily Record |accessdate=2007-05-24]

Recording

The Beatles recorded the song on July 30, 1963 in 11 takes with 3 overdubs. The master take was take 14 overdubbed on take 11. It was remixed on August 21 and October 29.

Hit single

The song was released as a single in the Nordic Countries, and in Finland it went no. 1.

Other releases and covers

It is also included on other Beatles albums: "Anthology 1", "Live at the BBC", and "The Beatles 1962-1966". The song has been covered by Helloween, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Los Manolos (for the 1992 Summer Olympics), and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, on their 1964 album "South of the Border", among others. An acoustic cover of this song performed as a warm-up by The Bravery can be seen on the Journal section of their website. The song was also covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks and Pinky and Perky.

An instrumental version of this song appears in the movie "Magical Mystery Tour".

Internationally renowned guitarist Chet Atkins recorded a version of this song with vocals by Suzy Bogguss.

A metallicized version of this song was recorded by Beatallica as "...And Justice For All My Loving".

The Punkles did a Punk cover of this song on their second album "Punk!".

The song was featured in the Beatles-themed musical film "Across the Universe", performed by Jim Sturgess.

Emilie Autumn make a cover of this song for her album A Bit O' This & That.

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes included a cover of this song on their album Blow In The Wind.

Johnny Young had a strong link with the song after he used it as the closing theme on every episode of the TV show "Young Talent Time". He also recorded and released a cover version as a single. [http://www.poparchives.com.au/feature.php?id=1469]

Credits

*Paul McCartney – bass, lead vocal (double-tracked)
*John Lennon – rhythm guitar, harmony vocal
*George Harrison – lead guitar, harmony vocal
*Ringo Starr – drums.

During live performances, George and Paul sang a duet together in the middle section of the song, after the lead guitar solo. In the studio version Paul sang both parts.

References

ee also

*All My Love, group of similarly titled songs
*All My Loving (EP)