All My Loving
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Canadian 7-inch single
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| Single by The Beatles | ||||||||||
| from the album With the Beatles | ||||||||||
| B-side | "This Boy" | |||||||||
| Released | 22 November 1963 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 30 July 1963, EMI Studios, London | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock, pop | |||||||||
| Length | 2:04 | |||||||||
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| Writer(s) | Lennon–McCartney | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |||||||||
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"All My Loving" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), from the 1963 album With the Beatles. Though it was not released as a single in the United Kingdom or the United States, it drew considerable radio airplay, prompting EMI to issue it as the title track of an EP. The song was released as a single in Canada, where it became a number one hit. The Canadian single was imported into the US in enough quantities to peak at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964. It was the first song most Americans ever heard the group sing, as it was the opening song on their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964.
According to journalist Bill Harry, McCartney thought of the lyrics whilst shaving: "I wrote 'All My Loving' like a piece of poetry and then, I think, I put a song to it later" though McCartney later told biographer Barry Miles that he wrote them while on a tour bus and after arriving at the location of the venue he then wrote the music on a piano backstage. He also said "It was the first song [where] I'd ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some kind of accompaniment. I've hardly ever done it since either." The lyrics follow the "letter song" model as used on "P.S. I Love You", the B-side of their first single. McCartney originally envisioned it as a country & western song, and George Harrison added a Nashville-style guitar solo.John Lennon's rhythm guitar playing uses quickly strummed triplets similar to "Da Doo Ron Ron" by The Crystals, a song that was popular at the time, and McCartney plays a walking bass line.
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