RED WAX THE BEATLES HARD DAYS NIGHT Lennon McCartney

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OLD UNIQUE JAPANESE COLLECTIBLE WITH EXCLUSIVE COVER ART

        PRESSED ON RUBY RED VINYL

         THE BEATLES  

      A HARD DAYS NIGHT

                       JAPAN - APPLE RECORDS - AP 8417    

SCARCE ... SUPERSOUND Japanese pressing pressed on RUBY RED vinyl of the superior British release and its deluxe 14 track selection from July 1964 that blows away the USA issue with way less tracks....The soundtrack to the Beatles first movie featuring ALL Lennon & McCartney originals, peaking BEATLEMANIA.....

Housed in a beautiful laminated (on both sides) cover with the old "flipback" styled back cover seams ... the cover has a totally unique BEATLES group photo design from the 1964 film...

Includes a double sided lyrics insert & the original all black inner sleeve

A1 "A Hard Day's Night"

The title was taken from an expression Ringo used to say. In a 1964 interview with DJ Dave Hull, Ringo explained: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, 'Night!' So we came to 'A Hard Day's Night.'"
John Lennon used the phrase "A hard day's night" in a his book In His Own Write before it was used as a song or movie title. He used it in the short story (more of a vignette) titled "Sad Michael." An excerpt: "There was no reason for Michael to be sad that morning, (the little wretch): everyone liked him, (the scab). He'd had a hard day's night that day, for Michael was a Cocky Watchtower." John Lennon wrote this song, which contains long, repeating notes that are uncommon in Pop music. Even more unusual, Lennon sang it in glissando: "haaaard days night...". The melody resembles the Irish Folk song "Donall Og," with the same pentatonic, and small glissandos. Such glissandos you even find in the English ballad "Three Babes."
Albert Goldman wrote in his 1980 book The Lives of John Lennon, "The whole composition is written in mixolydic key, an old key which was abandoned in the beginning of the seventeenth century, but is maintained in English and Irish Folk music." This was the title song to the first of 5 Beatles movies. It got 2 Oscar nominations and was a hit with critics and audiences. At the time, a lot of movies were made starring musicians, but most were showcases for the singers and not very good (think Elvis movies). A Hard Day's Night  was a surprise because it actually had cinematic value.

When the deal was made to make the movie, The Beatles had not yet caught on in America and there were fairly low expectations for the film, as The Beatles were thought of as a fad that would soon pass. By the time filming began, The Beatles were huge and it was clear that a lot of people would see the movie. The studio considered putting more money into the film, but they decided to stick with the original modest budget. In order to save money, it was shot in black and white.

The movie presented The Beatles as 4 distinct personalities, which changed the way they were marketed. Previously, they were always presented as a unified group, but it became clear that fans loved seeing their differences and began to associate with them individually. The concept of focusing on individual personalities in a band continues to this day, as groups like The Spice Girls and The Backstreet Boys are marketed with a focus on the various traits of the members, allowing fans to get to know them better. The last song in the movie soundtrack to be composed, the motion picture was being produced when Ringo made his statement that inspired the song (original movie title: Beatlemania). Walter Shenson, who was the movie producer of A Hard Day's Night, told PBS that he said to John, "You need to write a song that will incorporate the movie's title," and Shenson was amazed when John came in the very next day with the song. He thought John would labor over it for days or weeks. Phil Collins was one of the school kids brought in as extras for a scene in the movie where The Beatles perform. He didn't make the cut, but years later, the film's producer gave Collins the outtake footage with him in it and had Collins add commentary to the DVD release. Lennon sang lead and Paul McCartney sang the middle sequences. John had Paul sing the middle section because he felt Paul had the more appropriate vocal range for it. Surprisingly, he insisted on singing a higher harmonization in "From Me To You" only a year earlier because he said he could sing the higher stuff better than Paul. The Beatles recorded this in 9 takes on Thursday, April 16, 1964. It was written and recorded in a little more than 24 hours. It had to be done quickly when film name was changed from "Beatlemania!" to "A Hard Day's Night." In 1964, the Beatles won 2 Grammy awards. The first Grammy was Best New Artist. The second Grammy was Best Performance By A Vocal Group, which was awarded to this song. At the 2002 Super Bowl, where Paul McCartney performed "Freedom," Terry Bradshaw started singing this with McCartney when Paul joined the Fox announcers on the set. The Hard Day's Night Hotel opened in Liverpool in 2003. It is next to The Cavern Club, where The Beatles played many of their early shows.

A2)  "I Should Have Known Better"

Composed by John Lennon, at first he "hammers the melody on the same note." (The Italian composer Monteverdi discovered the effect of hammering on the same note. He called the style "stile concitato"). Then comes the middle part in long notes. The middle part has a change of keynote, which is unusual with such a change in a middle part. And then the rise in falsetto. Typical of Lennon's songs, there is also a rise of excitement. When you think that the mood will cool a little - when you come to the middle part - the excitement instead increases. he Beatles performed this in their first movie, A Hard Day's Night. It was used in a scene where The Beatles sing it to a group of girls, one of which was played by an actress named Pattie Boyd. This was the first time George Harrison met her - he fell for her and married her a few years later. They divorced in 1977, and Pattie married Harrison's friend Eric Clapton in 1979. That marriage also ended in divorce, but along the way, Pattie inspired some of the most famous songs of all time, including The Beatles' "Something" and Clapton's "Layla." This was done in 3 takes on Tuesday, February 25, 1964. But it didn't end there - they completely remade it the next day. The take you hear on record is Take 22. John Lennon's vocal was double-tracked to make it stand out. This was released as the B-side of "A Hard Day's Night." Lennon played the harmonica solo. McCartney played a 12-string electric guitar on this track.

A3 "If I Fell"

John Lennon wrote this song, which may have been influenced by the ambivalence he felt during his first marriage. Lennon called this song "my first attempt at a ballad... it's semi autobiographical, but not consciously." Lennon and McCartney sang together into the same microphone when recording this song. John sang the lead on the intro, then Paul sang in a higher lead while John sang harmony. The structure of the song is rather intriguing. It opens with an intro that contains no musical elements found in the rest of the song, and the body of this song has no real verse/chorus structure, just 2 verses that each turn halfway through on an unexpected chord.
The song is very expressive, with large intervals between the notes in a quasi-modal way. Typical of Lennon are the emphasis on three recurrent long notes ("...give my heart..."). It has similarities with John Dunstable's motet "Quam pulchra es" from the fifteenth century. The introduction is also unusual, with four modulations - even tighter than most music from late romantic music. At the end of the second time that they sing, "Would be sad if our new love was in vain," McCartney's voice cracks on "vain," but on newer releases of the song this mistake is covered over. There were a few demos of this song recorded in January 1964 before The Beatles came to America. The proper recording came on Thursday, February 27, 1964. The take you hear on the album is Take 15. The Beatles performed this in the movie A Hard Day's Night. It was used in a scene where they perform to a group of school kids in a theater. The kids were all borrowed from nearby schools, and had no idea they would see The Beatles. On of the kids was 13-year-old Phil Collins, who didn't make the final cut, but was given outtakes with him in it years later when he contributed commentary for the DVD release of the movie. This was used as the B-side of "And I Love Her." During their 1964 tour, Lennon had some fun with McCartney, adding the word "over" when Paul introduced the song.

A 4 "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You"

John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote this as a showcase song for George Harrison, who sang lead. George had already written only one Beatles song by this point: "Don't Bother Me." Typical of the early Beatles, this is a very innocent song - the singer is taking it slow, as he's OK just dancing with the girl of his dreams. There is an old-time Irving Berlin/Cole Porter feel to the song, focusing on the de-lightful feeling of being smitten. The Beatles performed this in their movie A Hard Day's Night, giving Harrison some quality screen time. John Lennon wrote most of this song. Typical of his style, the first short notes are followed with tree longer notes. The Irvin Berlin influence comes when the melody rises in the five notes in "kiss or hold your hand..." In the cadence, Lennon jokes: he repeats the mentioned five notes, but just sinks it with a third. The Beatles recorded this on Sunday, March 1, 1964 in 4 takes. Recording on a Sunday was very rare at the time.

A5 "And I Love Her"

Paul McCartney wrote most of this song, and in a 1984 interview with Playboy  magazine, he stated, "It's just a love song; no, it wasn't for anyone." That was probably the chivalrous thing to do, as by then he was 15 years into his marriage to Linda. When he wrote the song, he was dating an actress named Jane Asher. For a while, they were the most popular couple in England. After they broke up in 1968, McCartney married Linda Eastman and Asher became a proficient author. She runs her own business called "Jane Asher Party Cakes." This was one of the first pop songs with a title that starts in mid-sentence. Paul was inspired by songs such as Perry Como's "And I Love Her So." Most of the songs on the album A Hard Days Night are Lennon compositions. Lennon helped out with the middle part of this song, but it's mostly the work of McCartney. Structurally, the song is fairly conventional, with a clear melody in A+A+B+A system similar to popular music from the '30s that Irving Berlin wrote. This is the second most covered Beatles song with 372 versions recorded by 1972. Their most-covered track is "Yesterday." Paul always intended this to be a ballad. He felt that all of their albums, regardless of how "rocky" they were, should have at least one ballad "to enrich the show." It's the reason he added "Till There Was You" to With The Beatles. The Beatles Anthology 1 album has a much faster version that includes both drums and George's 12-string electric guitar, but that wasn't the original intent. The take you hear on record is Take 21. Ringo played the bongos on this track, and George Harrison played the acoustic guitar solo. The guitar duo Santo & Johnny recorded a mellow surf instrumental version of this song in 1965 which was a huge hit in Mexico. Santo & Johnny are known for their #1 hit "Sleep Walk." Despite the fact that he wrote 35% of this song (the middle eight), John Lennon called this "Paul's first 'Yesterday.'" This was the first Beatles recording using purely acoustic instruments. Paul once stated "This was the first song that I impressed myself with."

A6 "Tell Me Why"

John Lennon, whose parents separated when he was 3 years old, has said that the lyrics were about children whose parents split up. Apparently, he didn't put a great deal of effort into the song, staing: "They needed another upbeat song, and I just knocked it off." This was performed in The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night. It was The Beatles first movie, and the group was not yet popular in America when the deal was signed to make it. Before filming began, The Beatles became huge and the movie did very well. John and Paul sang lead vocals, but Lennon was double-tracked to create a 3 part harmony. This was recorded on Thursday, February 27, 1964. Take 8 was used.

A7 "Can't Buy Me Love"

Paul McCartney wrote this song. Despite rumors to the contrary, he claimed it was not about a prostitute. Rather, the song makes a simple yet profound statement on what matters most in life. The word "Love" appeared in many Beatles lyrics, especially in their early songs. This song was recorded on January 29, 1964 in Paris, although when The Beatles returned to Britain, George Harrison decided to overdub another lead guitar part in London. The original solo is still audible in the background. This was one of the first Pop songs to start with the chorus rather than a verse. That was producer George Martin's idea. "Can't Buy Me Love" was used as the title for a popcorn movie starring Patrick Dempsey in 1987. In the film, his character goes from "totally geek to totally chic" by paying a popular girl to pretend they are dating. Gerardo, who sang "Rico Suave," was also in the movie. This was used in the first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night, which was re-released in 2000. It was used to replace "I'll Cry Instead," which the film's director Dick Lester thought was an inappropriate song to use when the Beatles were to break out and have some fun. This replaced "Roll Over Beethoven"/"Please Mr. Postman" as the single to be released by Capitol Records USA in March 1964.

B1 "Any Time At All"

This is one of those songs that was finished "on the fly" so to speak. John Lennon had it half written when they went into the studio with it and he just finished it up and recorded it there. He called it, "An effort at writing 'It Won't Be Long'... with me shouting." Lennon's original draft of this song had two extra verses that he left off, the last of which started, "I'll be waiting here all alone/Just like I've always done." He left them off because he felt they didn't really advance the story in the song. Lennon's handwritten lyrics were auctioned for 6000 pounds in 1988. This is one of the songs not in the film A Hard Day's Night which was written to fill out the album. Lennon wrote 10 of the 13 songs on A Hard Day's Night. In his Playboy  interview in September of 1980, he went through the entire Lennon/McCartney catalogue song by song, and stated which bits of the songs were his and which were Paul's. This was the first time we learned specifically about the songwriting breakdown between John and Paul. Albert Goldman thought in his book The Lives of John Lennon that the refrain was fantastic: "It sounds as a pistol shot... his voice is burning in a true gospel frenzy... he had a remarkable ability to utter cries from the deep of his soul."

B2 "I'll Cry Instead"

This was intended for the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night, but it was replaced by "Can't Buy Me Love." The Beatles recorded this in 2 sections that were then edited together. There is an extra verse on US album version.

B3 "Things We Said Today"

Paul McCartney wrote this while he was on vacation in The Bahamas and away from his girlfriend. McCartney's vocal was double-tracked to make it stand out. Maureen McGovern recorded this and "For No One" as a 2-song medley for her 1992 album Baby I'm Yours.

B4 "When I Get Home"

John Lennon wrote the lyrics to this song, which is about going home to his girlfriend.

B5 "You Can't Do That"

The Beatles recorded this in 9 takes on George Harrison's 21st Birthday (the same session as "And I Love Her" and "I Should Have Known Better"), although in May, producer George Martin overdubbed a piano making a 10th take that wasn't used. The one that saw the light of the day was Take 9. This was filmed for the movie A Hard Day's Night, but did not make the cut. It was, however, included on the movie's soundtrack, which was released by the film's production company United Artists. Since United Artists had the soundtrack rights, The Beatles' American label, Capitol, released it as the B-side of "Can't Buy Me Love." John Lennon played lead guitar. He normally played rhythm while George Harrison played lead. This was the first Beatles song where George Harrison played a 12 string guitar. Ringo played the cowbell. Harry Nilsson covered this song on his 1967 debut album, Pandemonium Shadow Show as a tribute to The Beatles' music in general. It is performed at a slower tempo, and throughout the song lines from other Beatles songs are sung in counterpoint, ending with the line "Strawberry Beatles Forever." Lennon told British journalist Ray Connolly that this song was his attempt at being pioneering American soul singer Wilson Pickett.

B6 "I'll Be Back"

John Lennon created this song around the chords of Del Shannon's "Runaway." It was credited to Lennon/McCartney, but was written mostly by John. In the US, this was released on the album Beatles 65. Lennon's original intent for this song was for it to be a waltz. The demo The Beatles recorded at the last session for A Hard Day's Night is performed in this style.
 

1. A Hard Day's Night (2:32)

   Recorded: April 16, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - double-tracked lead vocal, rhythm guitar
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, harmony vocal
   George Harrison - 12-string lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
   George Martin - piano
2. I Should Have Known Better (2:45) Recorded: February 25-26, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic guitar, harmonica
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar
   George Harrison - 12-string lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
3. If I Fell (2:22) Recorded: February 27, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
   George Harrison - lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
4. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You (1:58) Recorded: March 1, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - rhythm guitar, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
   George Harrison - lead vocal, lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums, loose-skinned Arabian bongo
5. And I Love Her (2:31) Recorded: February 25-27, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - acoustic guitar
   Paul McCartney - double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic guitar
   George Harrison - acoustic guitar solo, claves
   Ringo Starr - bongos
6. Tell Me Why (2:10) Recorded: February 27, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - lead vocal, rhythm guitar
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, harmony vocal
   George Harrison - lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
7. Can't Buy Me Love (2:15) Recorded: January 29, 1964 at Path? Marconi Studios, Paris, France
   John Lennon - rhythm guitar
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
   George Harrison - 12-string lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
8. Any Time at All (2:14) Recorded: June 2, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, piano
   George Harrison - lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
9. I'll Cry Instead (2:06) Recorded: February 27, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - lead vocal, rhythm guitar
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, harmony vocal
   George Harrison - lead guitar
   Ringo Starr - drums
10. Things We Said Today (2:38) Recorded: June 2, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
    John Lennon - acoustic guitar, tambourine, harmony vocal
    Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
    George Harrison - lead guitar
    Ringo Starr - drums
11. When I Get Home (2:19) Recorded: June 2, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
    John Lennon - lead vocal, rhythm guitar
    Paul McCartney - bass guitar, harmony vocal
    George Harrison - lead guitar
    Ringo Starr - drums
12. You Can't Do That (2:37) Recorded: February 25, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
    John Lennon - lead vocal, lead guitar
    Paul McCartney - bass guitar, harmony vocal
    George Harrison - 12-string guitar, harmony vocal
    Ringo Starr - drums, cowbells, bongos
13. I'll Be Back (2:21) Recorded: June 1, 1964 at Abbey Road, London, England
    John Lennon - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
    Paul McCartney - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocal
    George Harrison - acoustic guitar
    Ringo Starr - drums

CONDITION: The cover is M- nicely laminated front and back, having no bends, no split seams and no writing. Having the old style "Flipback" cover, the cover & design is totally unique to any other release

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