Comments on: I’m Happy Just To Dance With You

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:30:41 +0000

Yes, I’m a musician and I understand music theory, but I don’t assert that this song favors one writer over the other. To your claim that only Lennon wrote melodies with that specific sequence, I would direct you to I’m Down, The Night Before, the opening and chorus of Getting Better, the chorus to Fixing A Hole, the chorus to Baby You’re a Rich Man, Two Of Us, You Never Give Me Your Money, and Golden Slumbers. Besides, even if Paul hadn’t written any songs that fit those parameters, that wouldn’t substantiate his songwriting absence.

By: johan Cavalli

johan Cavalli — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:42:58 +0000

To Jon.
Have you any musical points of view?
Please tell me what is typical McCartney in this melody?
I said the melody is “typical” for Lennon. I didn´t say I know he wrote it.
When singing “…I´m happy just to …”= short notes on the same note, “…dance with you…”=three long notes. All this is typical Lennon.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 05:49:50 +0000

Johan, no one truly knows who wrote what for any of these songs except the imperfect minds of two guys with large egos. Your willingness to only believe what John says shows implicit bias towards him, just as only believing Paul would be imprudent… it just seems like Lennon fans are louder, more indignant and less compromising. While the truth is likely in between their two accounts, I think McCartney has the more consistent memory and didn’t frequently go on record talking about Beatles stuff while the wounds were fresh and he had bitterness toward his former partner. I also think many Lennon quotes (including ones about Paul sabotaging his songs like Strawberry Fields) show that he could be manic and unreasonable. This makes the lack of compromise from Team Lennon seem narrow-minded at best and hateful at worst.

By: roland

roland — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:48:13 +0000

This was my first favourite beatle song. Love it still!

By: Gene Magrisso

Gene Magrisso — Wed, 17 May 2017 10:44:10 +0000

I was wondering why a slower version of the song was used in “A Hard Day’s Night. “. The album version is much livelier.

By: johnspeedle

johnspeedle — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:45:54 +0000

In bar three of this great song I hear a guitar playing some sort of choked off notes that have a bit of harmonic ring to them. Does anybody know how that was done? I’ve never heard anybody mention those notes being played anywhere. It sounds like an overdub. Won’t you please please help me?!

By: Stargazer85

Stargazer85 — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:42:01 +0000

Excellent song. Love the busy rhythm guitar playing…if you listen carefully, they never seem to play the chords exactly the same way twice. There some embellishments going on like a B7aug and an E6. I really like the key of C#m and the relative E major. It’s the same as “Do You Want to Know a Secret”, “It Won’t Be Long”, “Ask Me Why”, “And I Love Her”, and the verses on “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl”. All those are top Beatles songs for me!

By: Mark Bartlett

Mark Bartlett — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:35:42 +0000

This is one of my favourites from this period – and of course George made a fab job of it.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:56:01 +0000

Johan/John: we get it, you dislike Paul. Your constant anti-Paul posts are boring. Get beyond it, please. Thank you.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Wed, 04 May 2016 11:10:28 +0000

A nice number written by John and Paul for George, I suspect mainly by John. It is catchy and fits in well to the “A Hard Days Night” film and album.Great sequence in the film.

By: Alexandre Echegaray (Brazil)

Alexandre Echegaray (Brazil) — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:47:29 +0000

This song is very John. I guess John did the George’s song and Paul did the Ringo’s stuff.

By: Johan cavalli

Johan cavalli — Fri, 08 May 2015 20:25:09 +0000

The melody is typical Lennon with the hammering on the same note and the first short notes notes followed by three long notes .It´s a mix of Lennon music and pop music from 1930s, I think.
Lennon said he wrote the song and McCartney said it was co-written. We never know what McCartney means with “co-written”, the melody or did he helped with the lyrics? ( I think he prefered being undistinct) and the establishment thinks the melody is co-written. (They trust more in McCartney because he did Yesterday and is always smiling?)

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 05 May 2015 14:59:25 +0000

One of the very few Lennon-McCartney songs Beatles performed live of which no recording is known to exist. If it does, please enlighten me. A Hard Day´s Night film is excluded, as it is not a real live recording. The song was only used on stage during the October-November tour of the UK, when they still played cinemas and small halls.

By: EveT

EveT — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:06:32 +0000

What I love is the transformation in the film “A Hard Day’s Night” when the, um, “square” (grownup, not hip) dancers are dancing to this melody played by the rehearsal pianist in a triple rhythm. It sounds vaguely familiar to the casual Beatles fan but might not be fully recognizable. Then the dance rehearsal is over, they leave the stage, the beat changes, and the Beatles sing and play the song their own way. It’s magical.

By: James Ferrell

James Ferrell — Mon, 05 May 2014 01:14:44 +0000

Both this and the previous made-for-George song “Do You Want To Know A Secret” have melodies that stick to the scale to an unusual extent. I wonder if John though George’s singing worked best on scales back then?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:53:03 +0000

Paul said that “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” was a 50/50 collaboration with John, as this site said. However, John listed the song as one that he wrote (without Paul) in Hit Parader, April, 1972.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:06:03 +0000

Ringo played loose-skin arabian bongo on “Don’t bother me”. For this one, he played an african drum, the same that George is going to play on “Mr. Moonlight”.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:35:05 +0000

For sure, there is a different kind of bongo or drum.

By: Joseph Brush

Joseph Brush — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:13:25 +0000

Maybe Ringo borrowed the Arabian Drum from Bob Dylan (Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands).

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:58:03 +0000

In the remaster version of this song, you can hear the drum in question extremely clearly.

It sounds like the same drum they use on Mr Moonlight.