From Me to You

You know, Sonny, listen, actually some of these songs could fit you in your fight.

One is From Me to You.

It's one song they're going to sing.

Then another one could fit Cassius, because that song is, I Want to Hold Your Hand.

Del Shannon was in the UK for a package tour with Johnny Tillotson, Kenny Lynch, and the Springfields.

During April and May, they crossed paths several times, with Del Shannon coming to see two of the Beatles' own package tour shows with Roy Orbison.

Shannon liked them so much that while in London, he recorded his own version of their then-current hit, From Me to You, that was released in the States on Big Top Records in June.

Although a good six to eight years older than the Beatles, Dell kept up enough of a friendship with them to rendezvous in Miami.

It seems the purpose of this rehearsal was to decide on the songs for Sunday's broadcast.

The same surviving production sheet lists, Little Child, From Me to You, A Taste of Honey, It Won't Be Long, and She Loves You in that running order.

This is an interesting selection given that only two of the five would actually be played for the show.

The rehearsal was also significant as the first time George tried out his brand new Rickenbacker 12-string guitar.

Of course.

And then of course, as you go down the chart, you get down to number 31, "I Saw Her Standing There." Keep going, down to 41, "From Me To You." Number 78, "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" Number 71, "All My Loving." Number fif- uh, 55, sorry, 65, "You Can't Do That."

And so were those getting released on-- Were those getting released as just like chuck everything on a single then? Or was it because they-

Well, yeah, anything that was on a single could count as a side, so.

You know, with their, with ...

It's not From Me To You, it's not PS I Love You or Can't Buy Me Love or, you know, Eight Days a Week or any of these sort of slightly flippant songs, you know-

Yeah

... it's, it is the beginning of, you know, bittersweet in a way.