Comments on: Baby It’s You

By: Darren saxby

Darren saxby — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:50:07 +0000

I’m a big fan of the Beatles they have done a lot for music. I cannot think of a single song that I have not liked. Yes I’m from england. Let’s face facts the music back then is alot better than the rubbish they call music now. But back to the point. Very upset I don’t think I’ve heard a better cover of baby its you

By: Gary Morris

Gary Morris — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:18:10 +0000

Joseph, You are correct. the Beatles cover of this song is the best I have ever heard, and I have heard dozens.

By: Gary Morris

Gary Morris — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:16:31 +0000

I find your comments about a great cover incredibly grating. Their version is better than the Shirelles.

By: JNagarya

JNagarya — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:27:02 +0000

It was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Not my favorite writers (Jackie DeShannon’s “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” is better than their “What the World Needs Now is Love”). But John’s singing is committed and powerful; he was doing “blues”/R & B.

By: JNagarya

JNagarya — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:21:18 +0000

John and Paul were very much focused on the craft of songwriting. After hitting it big, and before they came to the US, John, in an interview, said that Paul and he wanted to be “the Goffin-King of England”.

The songs they chose to cover were songs they liked, and responsive to audience demands. In the era during which they grew up, the emphasis of “rock and roll” was speed. Folks looked askance at “rock and rollers” who did ballads; it was all (see Little Richard, as example) to be fast and loud.

It’s also the fact that USians don’t tend to have the extraordinary objective and eclectic range in tastes. John said that he liked the repetition of “please please” in a Bing Crosby song, which lead to his “Please Please Me” (which I believe was written for Roy Orbison — he wrote it during that tour). Bing Crosby is not a singer to whom a True Believer “rock and roller” would listen.

By: JNagarya

JNagarya — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:13:22 +0000

I’ve long sensed that The Beatles were uncomfortable with background singing; as if pointless and silly; lame — perhaps because so often both obligatory and uninventive. As result, as they grew creatively, they played with it; so in some songs (on “Sgt. Pepper’s,” as example) they changed the background singing verse-to-verse. (And then there’s the “tit-tit-tit-tit” in “Girl”; and the “Bop-Shoo-Wop”s in one of their video versions of “Revolution” — which is counter to the seriousness of the message.)

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:40:07 +0000

On this song, no. That was a later overdub (recorded on 20 February 1963).

By: twisted14

twisted14 — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:06:40 +0000

Did George Martin play with them live?

By: James Ferrell

James Ferrell — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:05:19 +0000

I agree with your comments, warm gun person, although I don’t even like the lead vocal. For me this is one of the 4 or 5 weak songs on PPM. But I’m glad to see that others on the site really like this one. I myself am quite fond of a number of Beatles songs that the conventional wisdom says are weak (e.g. Blue Jay Way, Only a Northern Song, and Wild Honey Pie, although even I can’t take Mr. Moonlight).

By: David Reynolds

David Reynolds — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:10:51 +0000

There are a couple of horrors on this album and this is one of them. The second verse is guilty of grade two primary school lyrics.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:25:40 +0000

A good song is a good song, whether it’s done by The Shirelles, The Beatles or Smith… All 3 versions have something to offer.

By: Andy Viner Seiler

Andy Viner Seiler — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:22:56 +0000

Actually, this is false. The rock band Smith was unfamiliar with the song when they recorded it. Dell Shannon (of “Runaway” fame) had heard Smith perform live, & thought they would sound great doing a cover version of it. However, he DIDN’T want to intimidate them, or even influence them, by playing the Shirelles or Beatles versions — so he didn’t. Shannon simply gave them the lyrics & taught them the chords. Shannon’s plan was to produce the record but he didn’t end up getting to. His gut impulse was proven correct, however.

By: Jenson Tagg

Jenson Tagg — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:08:25 +0000

Yeh its got more than 3 notes in the melody for a start.

By: Happiness is a warm gun

Happiness is a warm gun — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:42:13 +0000

I do love John’s Buddy Holly-esque vocals on this, but the rest of it makes me grind my teeth. The drum sound it awful–rare for a Beatles track–and it sounds like Ringo just *hated* this song by how he plods along. The rhythm guitar is too tinny and splashy. George’s low register solo is what guitar would sound like if it farted, and the celesta doubling it is irritatingly metallic and doesn’t blend well. Then, of course, the backing vocals are utterly unmusical and half-hearted. Pity because I agree it’s a great vocal performance for John–just not a good recording for the Beatles.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:06:52 +0000

You people are insane. This may be one of John’s best vocal performances ever. It’s incredibly compelling. I pity your inability to feel it.

The Carpenters? Really? Oh my god.

This one is a jewel. A lovely, dry, tight performance that just oozes emotion. Few are the performers who ever hit this level.

By: scott wood blagman

scott wood blagman — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:24:56 +0000

The song is perfection to compare its perfection to anything else out there is pointless, this is the Beatles, being the Beatles, the most pure state of Beatleness! Johns vocal is fresh and compelling the other are tightly backing him and in it your heart breaks open when he sings ” I sit at home and I wonder why,or Im gonna love you any old way”, he’s hooked and we’re hooked and that my man is the way love was for all of us,and is when we groove on this groove of grooves,miss you Johnny!

By: M. Whitener

M. Whitener — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:00:02 +0000

I don’t think the song itself is the issue I have with “Baby It’s You”, it’s oddly the singer. With John’s voice going, it seems he’d be third in line for this one. It already seems more like a Paul number & even George couldve probably delivered a credible version. It’s not a bad song, it’s just not everything it could have been, even for a cover.

By: Elsewhere Man

Elsewhere Man — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:00:09 +0000

Yeah, I can’t really picture Morrissey singing this…

By: J. Garcia

J. Garcia — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:53:26 +0000

The harsh voice is nice.

Same with Paul doing I Saw Her Standing There.

Even George sounds hoarse in his songs in this album.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:27:10 +0000

This was the last song recorded for Please Please Me apart from Twist And Shout. That’s why Lennon’s voice sounds so harsh – he was reaching his limit after a hard day’s recording.