Comments on: Love Me Do

By: Claus Tanderup

Claus Tanderup — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:02:46 +0000

I would just like to know, with everybody so busy, WHO is doing the hand clapping (no double tracking)?

By: chreynest

chreynest — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 20:17:51 +0000

the first LMD version recorded with ringo drumming used to be very hard to find. I’m talking about the 1960’s – 1970’s. Somehow on a ’60s album called Beatles ORIGINAL GREATEST HITS of very questionable legality it showed up there (!), and for several years that was the only place. I want to point out Johns’ rhythm guitar is also mixed louder in that first LMD version, another way one can tell the versions apart. Then in the 1980’s EMI re-released the ringo drumming LMD version on a 12″ ‘single’ (which they had to copy from a 1962 1st pressing since the master tape was long since discarded in favor of the andy white version). Then of course in the 1990’s came the Anthology 1 CD where it finally got a widespread release

By: Slipper of the Yard

Slipper of the Yard — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:10:06 +0000

Abbey Road is the first and only contemporary Beatles album to have been mixed in the first instance for stereo .

By: Slipper of the Yard.

Slipper of the Yard. — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:07:28 +0000

I agree, compared with most of their future output this pales a little. However you have to hear this in the context of what was in the charts at the time. By those standards it was quite revolutionary and it did stand out to those with ears to hear.

By: Thomas Farrell

Thomas Farrell — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:55:40 +0000

Regarding Love Me DO: Which of the three do you prefer? Paul’s bass is really upfront on Past Masters and the drumming by Ringo is solid, but in the background. On Anthology, Pete has his moments, but gets a little sloppy about 2/3’s of the way through. White’s version, on Please Please Me, is very clean, but perhaps uninspiring. With a slight change in Pete’s playing, I think I might like that drumming best. But the best version of the song, for me, is Past Masters.

By: Dwight Ropp

Dwight Ropp — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 14:29:40 +0000

So, Pete wasn’t best? Such irony.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:27:25 +0000

Paul’s comment about the addition of harmonica and his being “thrown the big open line, ‘Love me do’, where everything stopped” supports his other comment about the song being completely co-written. It seems unlikely that John would have sung the line if it was all Paul, as John essentially stated, first in 1972 and again in 1980. Perhaps this is a bit of John self-deprecating again or maybe he just didn’t want to be associated with it by that time.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 02:59:17 +0000

We are. Now let’s keep politics out of this. Geeez.

By: Bard

Bard — Wed, 17 May 2017 21:32:33 +0000

So, there are three different recordings released of Love Me Do. All are in mono. Now, since the stereo mix for the Please Please Me album is lost, the Stereo Box Set contains a mono version (recorded with Andy White). Are the versions in the Stereo Box Set and the Mono Box the same?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:34:50 +0000

Oh yes right. You discovered Please Please Me even before that. Well, I wish we were as smart in November, 2016 as we were in 1964!!

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:21:31 +0000

Love Me Do peaked at number 17 in England but it did hit number 1 in Australia and the United States!!! Looks like two of the former colonies knew something great before mother England. (I wish I could say that we in the States are “as smart” now as we were in 1964.)

By: Ian Hossack

Ian Hossack — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:51:22 +0000

Love Me Do: 3 recordings released

1. Andy White on drums Ringo on tambourine released on Please Please Me LP

2. Ringo on drums – released as Beatles’ first single on 5th October 1962

3. Pete Best on drums – released on Anthology 1

The Ringo on drums version was on Past Masters because all the tracks on it were not on any of the Beatles’ LPs – as the Andy White version was on Please Please Me LP was not on Past Masters

Just to complicate matters – the Andy White version appeared on pressings of the Love Me Do 45 from late on 1963!!!!!(as I understand it) – so, in theory, 45s of this version may be very collectable!!

By: Alan N Sussman

Alan N Sussman — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 06:37:58 +0000

I read that originally John sang the lead but when they decided to use the harmonica at the same time as the vocal solo, George Martin told Paul to sing it. Paul was so nervous he pointed to George Harrison and said let him sing it. Martin said no, he can’t sing. I guess Harrison proved him wrong later on. Good song but not one of their best.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:42:53 +0000

Paul can’t possibly been nervous? That is a daft thing to say. I would think he would be nervous when being asked to sing a part he wasn’t use to .Isaw him in a interview talk about singing the long do in love me do. This was because he was use to John singing it so great and was nervous to take over. Boom. He was nervous

By: DENNIS FERREIRA

DENNIS FERREIRA — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:20:16 +0000

Maybe it was Paul’s nerves. On the version on the PLEASE PLEASE ME album(youtube link below), if you listen very carefully to the following you will hear a slight flaw in the pitch on the word DO sung by Paul in one place. Just after the harmonica solo, Paul and Jon sing the words LOVE ME DO. On the word DO, Paul slightly over pitches the intended G note. It may have been beacuse of the first experience adjusting to singing on pitch while listeneing to yourself on headphones and a combination of coming back in after a break in singing while John blew his solo.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 10:02:48 +0000

Great number that kick started The Beatles climb to be the “toppermost of the poppermost”. Basically a Paul song. but with great input from John, especially his wonderful harmonica playing.

By: Lex Lewis

Lex Lewis — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:03:31 +0000

Yeah, Pete wasn’t on their level.

By: Bongo

Bongo — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 01:51:05 +0000

Had a good laugh playing the Pete Best version from Anthology 1 tonight. You could understand why the boys wanted Ringo in the band!

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:12:38 +0000

Good idea, but I’m not sure whose handclaps they are – so it’s difficult to credit them accurately. It can’t be John because he’s playing harmonica, so my guess is Paul (the vocals were overdubbed after the backing track was laid down, so he would have had nothing to do during the solo).

By: Algold

Algold — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:34:04 +0000

I think you should credit handclaps to the song, as they are clearly heard on 4 September version in the harmonica solo

Cheers