I Want to Hold Your Hand

And I, I just never put it down.

And then a week or so later with the Beatles comes out and I want to hold your hand comes out, which, you know, it was kind of a massive single, but, but, you know, in retrospect, I, I think the thing about She Loves You was that it incorporated elements of, because in 1963, folk music was pop music.

And just the chord progression where it just, it had kind of folk roots.

It wasn't like one of those one, six, four, five kind of, you know, or a 12 bar or whatever.

you know, with...

Roll Over Beethoven and these incredible original songs.

And then I Want to Hold Your Hand, because we didn't get the singles on the albums.

The singles were separate in England.

Okay, and he wasn't going to do that.

Dylan just sort of looked at him and said, why would I want to do that? Are you going to play I Want to Hold Your Hand? Mm-hmm.

Although Dylan would play Blowing in the Wind during his set at Concert for Bangladesh.

Right.

But then again, George didn't write I Want to Hold Your Hand.

There you go.

The songs which you can find in the set, in addition to Blowing in the Wind or A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, we're going to talk about that.

So the song languished.

However, much like VJ's collection of Beatles masters, the success of I Want to Hold Your Hand spurred Swan to re-release She Loves You.

The 1964 release did chart, spending most of its time at number two, behind I Want to Hold Your Hand, edging ahead of it for a couple of weeks, making it their second number one in the U.S. She said she

loved you, and you know that can't be bad.

Yes, she loved you, and you know you should be glad.

Um, like I said earlier, and the song was the fifth of seven songs by the Beatles to hit number one in a one-year period, an all-time record on the U.S. charts.

In order, they were I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Can't Buy Me Love, Love Me Do, A Hard Day's Night, I Feel Fine, and Eight Days a Week.

It was also the sixth of seven songs written by Lamb McCarthy to hit number one in 1964, an all-time record on the U.S. charts.

for writing the most songs in the same calendar year.

And you know what? That music still feels accessible like that.

When I listen to I Want to Hold Your Hand, it feels so real.

It feels like some guys made some music together.

Know what

That's right.

Oh yeah, the German I Want to Hold Your Hand.

Yeah.

[laughs]

[laughs] I Want to Hold Your Hand.

And he worked a lot-

And-