Can't Buy Me Love

it? What I kind of don't like is when, and it happened...

A great artist like Ella Fitzgerald did Can't Buy Me Love, didn't she? I think

she did.

And I loathe those things where people like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra did a bit of this, which was like, I'll show you how to do this thing.

So he, you know...

Paul kind of came in there a little bit with Can't Buy Me Love.

John stole it back like a storm in the night.

And now we have Day Tripper and we're all good.

Beatles.

Forget about Can't Buy Me Love.

It's too expensive now.

Cost of Loving.

That was their first four track recording.

And I think, I'm not sure what they had at EMI's Paris studio when they recorded Can't Buy Me Love, but I think they had four tracks there as well.

And as an aside, if you don't have George's book, there's some wonderful photos in there, including photos of John and Paul around the mic when they're recording the German versions.

George snapped a photo of them and it's like, wow.

And ironically, firstly, I was too young and stupid to realize that that's what was happening.

But also on the flip side, I remember when he heard Ella Fitzgerald's version of Can't Buy Me Love, which was a very cool version.

he changed his perspective.

He kind of began to acknowledge that they, that Lennon and McCartney were great songwriters.

As the combo had demonstrated in the UK through 1963, they knew that the best way to follow up a hit single was to write another one, something they were very good at.

Lennon and McCartney followed up I Want to Hold Your Hand with Can't Buy Me Love in March, A Hard Day's Night in July and I Feel Fine in November.

It's a hell of a year.

A sidebar into the Beatles' releases.

Yeah, yeah, I've mentioned You Can't Do That.

Obviously Can't Buy Me Love.

Mm.

Um, classic cover I think.

Right.

So when we finally hear Can't Buy Me Love, and they escape out the fire escape and into that field to just play, and that's really all they're doing-

Yeah

... is just playing.

This is still scripted.

But, um, but it's such a, such a sudden sense of freedom [laughs] in...

Uh, that Can't Buy Me Love becomes like the, the touchstone song to me in thinking about the movie.

Obviously there's the, the title tracks, but, uh, I don't think I could name another song in this movie [laughs] after, after one watch other than Can't Buy Me Love and, and A Hard Day's Night.