Comments on: Can’t Buy Me Love

By: MikeP

MikeP — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:21:47 +0000

John and Paul are also shown “singing” the VERSES of “I Wanna Be Your Man” – clearly a Ringo solo.
What they do when miming to recordings is meaningless.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 21:13:12 +0000

Oh! You’re one in a million, no doubt! 🙂

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 02:45:39 +0000

I agree that this comment is preposterous. I don’t find the outlined backing vocal arrangement to be integral to the recording or even particularly complimentary. In fact, it was only upon hearing the Anthology version that I consciously realized that there were no backing vocals… it’s a pretty complete song without them. I’ve never heard any speculation regarding this song and Paul trying to gain control or attention (not a word from John or anyone close to the Beatles), so unless someone can cite a reliable source, that’s all it is… speculation. As if Lennon sycophants didn’t have enough baseless grievances, now they’re just inventing them out of thin air… imagine all the people grounded in reality.

By: trevor

trevor — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:43:10 +0000

I have the single (cant be me love), with (you cant do that), on the b side. I know that is how it was, but the label i have on both sides of the single is, you cant do that.
Is this rare or am i one of millions.
Please contact me if you can shed any light on this

By: mr678mr678

mr678mr678 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:15:33 +0000

“The stereo mix also included a hi-hat overdub recorded by studio engineer Norman Smith.”
After checking the mono version and the stereo version, I found that this is the wrong way. The mono version had this overdub while the stereo version did not

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:02:16 +0000

Again, clearly only referring to singles here.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:57:27 +0000

Read it again. It clearly states it is the first SINGLE to feature only one singer. As I recall from Tune In (I don’t have the book in front of me right now), this was an issue with the others, especially George, who said that there was no reason this couldn’t be sung as a duet.

By: Donny

Donny — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:53:42 +0000

I honestly believe too that John sings in this track but doesn’t get credited for it. His voice is there but it’s mixed quieter than McCartney’s.

By: Donny

Donny — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:51:54 +0000

This track has always been a subject to debate for myself because while close to every source describes the vocals as Paul being double-tracked alone, John’s voice seems to be audible in unison with Paul’s at least in the back of the mix, McCartney’s is obviously up front. I can prove this further: before a bulk of Beatles videos had gotten blocked on YouTube there was a “Can’t Buy Me Love (vocals only)” video that isolated the vocals out of the track, and John’s signature nasal voice was easily able to be heard in the back. Paul is probably double-tracked anyway, but John is definitely there too. It’s open for discussion…

By: Tony_M_1956

Tony_M_1956 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:10:44 +0000

There is a performance by the Beatles on a BBC show which has the camera mostly on John. He mimes the words perfectly as though he sang the song on record. The camera pans across to Paul occasionally, but the BBC must have thought John was the Lead, while Paul sang harmony. It could have been a Beatle joke, but who would know?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:23:19 +0000

Good calls. And while the whole song is Paul double-tracked, it sure sounds like John is in the final “ohhhh.”

By: mr678 876rm

mr678 876rm — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:57:33 +0000

Around The Beatles had rerecorded studio versions

By: Jim Collentine

Jim Collentine — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:36:41 +0000

A very exciting piece of rock and roll. Paul as a soul screamer with a classic solo from George. The lyric is timeless. No matter what era of humanity you were born into, the words would be appropriate -except, possibly, the current time period. (sort of a joke)

By: Ric Anderson

Ric Anderson — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:25:47 +0000

The words can be interpreted as Paul saying he can’t be bought!

As in “you can’t buy me, Luv!”

By: Young Fred

Young Fred — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 04:34:55 +0000

The version on “Live at the Hollywood Bowl” really rocks! George’s solo kicks *ss!

By: giova942

giova942 — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 20:15:05 +0000

“this is the first Beatles record released with only one singer”
Not True. Don’t Bother Me has only one singer (doubled tracked), as well as Not A Second Time and Roll Over Beethoven. Till There Was You is single tracked.

By: Midori78

Midori78 — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:52 +0000

On the Anthology 1 version of this song, Paul seems to skip a line at 1:40 – “Say you don’t want no diamond rings…”

So it just kind of goes like “Tell me that you want the kind of things…Ahh-mah-mah-mah bah-bah doobie-doobie…” and then repeats it correctly, lol.

Oops! ^^;; And I can relate, I get dyslexic like that with words and even numbers all the time.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:35:00 +0000

A huge hit, written and sung by Paul McCartney.Great lead guitar by George Harrison.The B side John Lennon’s “You Can’t Do That” is fantastic. I love the two scenes in the “A Hard Days Night” film where “Can’t Buy Me Love” is played.

By: James Ferrell

James Ferrell — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:23:48 +0000

John: “That’s Paul’s completely. Maybe I had something to do with the chorus, but I don’t know.”

I thought that was an interesting comment. The chord changes going into the chorus (C-em-am or I-IIIm-VIm) show up repeatedly in various iconic John songs. E.g. A Day in the Life (G-bm-em in the verse), Instant Karma (G-bm-em in the chorus), Nobody Told Me (same). I wonder if John maybe suggested this chord progression.

By: NP27

NP27 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:01:21 +0000

What a dumb comment. Wasn’t I’ll Cry Instead and I Should Have Known Better on the same album and sung completely by John?