Comments on: I’ll Be On My Way

By: SamboBurkes

SamboBurkes — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:42:05 +0000

I loved this song first time I heard it off the “BBC” CD. Fell in love, had to learn it for my own Beatle repertoire. Fairly easy to reproduce. I agree with a few others above. Sounds like George and John together…something about the “scouse inflections” on ‘true love didn’t last long’. Agree, very Buddy Holly-influenced here. Have performed it for a select few folks..they loved it! Some didn’t believe it was a Beatles song. I reworked a slightly different lead break than the twinky octave leads George does. Unfortunately, the great rhythm guitar chirds drop out, leavibg a void for those measures.

By: Dan L

Dan L — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:29:54 +0000

“They were right, I was wrong” — someone that’s the line that somehow rises above the rest for me. If a song can be inconsequential yet utterly charming, this is it!

By: John McStarrison

John McStarrison — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:45:42 +0000

John says it was Paul’s song, but to me it sounds co-written. Like maybe John has the first half of the verses “The sun is fading away/that’s the end of the day”, “just one kiss and I’ll go/don’t hide the tears that don’t show”, “they were right I was wrong/true love didn’t last long”, sounds like early John. Then Paul comes in with “as the junelight turns to moonlight, I’ll be on my way”. The bridge sounds like Paul as well. They could’ve hammered out the melody together.
Anyways it was a great song despite some iffy lyrics, the harmonies are brilliant

By: stevechang64

stevechang64 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:26:28 +0000

I wish they would release all the audio for the David Sheff 1980 interview as he goes through song by song. It’s about time to release this stuff. Probably one if his best interviews.

By: Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 05:35:05 +0000

Oh no, that’s John’s signature early raspy voice!

By: Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 05:31:20 +0000

I couldn’t agree more…fantastic early Lennon-McCartney tune. Too bad they couldn’t find room for it on “With The Beatles” later that fall!

By: manteau

manteau — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 06:56:10 +0000

Lennon’ s songs were also given to other artists, think of “Do you want to know a scret”, “Bad to me”, “Hello little girl”, “I’m in love”, respectively by Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas for the two first ones and the Fourmosts for the two others.

By: Aussie Mark

Aussie Mark — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:23:26 +0000

From memory, the BBC radio shows complete indicate that George had a throat infection when the group recorded these 5 songs, so they avoided doing one which required him to sing. The BBC interviewer asks them about this and George gives a wordless raspy response to demonstrate. Presumably, when the group was trying to work out what to do for the day, one of them has recalled this simple tune from earlier times, in much the same vein as the Get Back sessions show them doing. The moment was right for them to run through it well enough to record for the BBC fortunately, since otherwise posterity would be the poorer.

By: yrwehere

yrwehere — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:11:30 +0000

I heard this song for the first time in my 58-year life just yesterday, and now I can’t get it out of my head! At first I thought it was a cover of a Buddy Holly song that I also had never heard of.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:54:05 +0000

It’s interesting how during the early days, a good portion of the McCartney originals were given away to other artists, while the Lennon songs were kept for the albums. “I’ll Be On My Way” would have been a great song for one of their early LPs. The “where golden rivers flow” line always gives me a laugh.

By: Carlos A.

Carlos A. — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:37:02 +0000

I don’t know if it was implied that it was a lennon-mccartney written song.

By: JPM-Fangirl

JPM-Fangirl — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:52:26 +0000

I absolutely love this song. But I must say; it sounds more like George and John than Paul and John to me. But whether it’s Paul or George, it’s still a lovely tune and it would’ve made a great addition to the Beatles catalog, no matter how much John dissed it.

By: Idealemufarm

Idealemufarm — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:26:58 +0000

One of my favourite songs from Live at the BBC. I’m sure I can hear George singing harmony in the ‘I’ll be on my way’ part. According to some sources, apparently the song was written in 1961, which means Paul would have been 19 years old. In light of that, I’m sure he can be forgiven the ‘June night – moon light’ lyric.

By: ohad maon

ohad maon — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:27:36 +0000

A beauty. wirtten by Paul. (See John’s comment above) Lennon is the lead singer, since he was the singer and the leader in those early days. I love it. Ohad

By: UffeTheRooster

UffeTheRooster — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:32:25 +0000

How Do You Do It wasn’t a Lennon-McCartney song, man!

By: pistondamp

pistondamp — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 02:47:05 +0000

Since I first heard this song on a Norwegian radio broadcast back in 91 (they broadcasted some old BBC-recordings with a really dull Norwegian speaker), I totally fell in love with it. I would love for Paul to record the song today.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 17:02:13 +0000

I agree, one of my favorite early tunes, along with How Do You Do It which also seems to be overlooked.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:21:29 +0000

Too bad there’s not an EMI version of this. I first heard this on the Westwood One radio series years ago & loved it…

By: Chuck Gilbert

Chuck Gilbert — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:45:13 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s George and Paul singing together on this one with John helping out.

By: FrankDialogue

FrankDialogue — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:06:15 +0000

A decent song in the vein of ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’.