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Can't Buy Me Love
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name | Can't Buy Me Love| cover = Can't_Buy_Me_Love_-_The_Beatles_(1964_US_release).jpg| border = yes| alt =| caption = US picture sleeve| type = single| artist = the Beatles
| 1999 | R&B1,000 UK NUMBER ONE HITS | LAST1=KUTNER | LAST2=LEIGH | PUBLISHER=OMNIBUS PRESS, 9780857123602, | length = 2:11 | Parlophone (UK), Capitol Records>Capitol (US)| writer = LennonâMcCartney| producer = George Martin| chronology = The Beatles UK| prev_title = I Want to Hold Your Hand| prev_year = 1963 | Ain't She Sweet#Versions by the Beatles>Ain't She Sweet| next_year = 1964| misc = {hide}Extra chronology
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{edih}}}"Can't Buy Me Love" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in March 1964 as the A-side of their sixth single. It was written by Paul McCartney{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=105}} and credited to the LennonâMcCartney partnership. The song was included on the group's album A Hard Day's Night and was featured in a scene in Richard Lester's film of the same title. The single topped charts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the Netherlands, France and Sweden. In the UK, it was the fourth highest selling single of the 1960s.WEB, Ken Dodd 'third best-selling artist of 1960s',weblink BBC News, 1 June 2010, 7 September 2020, | type = single | prev_title = Twist and Shout | prev_year = 1964 | title = Can't Buy Me Love | year = 1964 | next_title = Do You Want to Know a Secret | next_year = 1964 Composition{{Listen| type = music| filename = beatles cant buy me love.ogg| title = "Can't Buy Me Love" sample}}While in Paris, the Beatles stayed at the five-star George V hotel and had an upright piano moved into one of their suites so that songwriting could continue.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=161}} It was here that McCartney wrote "Can't Buy Me Love". The song was written under the pressure of the success achieved by "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which had just reached number one in America. When producer George Martin first heard "Can't Buy Me Love", he felt that the song needed changing: "I thought that we really needed a tag for the song's ending, and a tag for the beginning; a kind of intro. So I took the first two lines of the chorus and changed the ending, and said 'Let's just have these lines, and by altering the second phrase we can get back into the verse pretty quickly.{{'"}} And they said: "That's not a bad idea, we'll do it that way".{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=114}} The song's verse is a twelve-bar blues in structure, a formula that the Beatles seldom applied to their own material.{{sfn|Martin|Pearson|1994|p=40}}When pressed by American journalists in 1966 to reveal the song's "true" meaning, McCartney stated: "I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that 'Can't Buy Me Love' is about a prostitute, I draw the line." He went on to say: "The idea behind it was that all these material possessions are all very well, but they won't buy me what I really want."{{sfn|Badman|2000|p=97}} However, he was to comment later: "It should have been {{'}}Can Buy Me Love{{'"}} when reflecting on the perks that money and fame had brought him.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=162}}Recording"Can't Buy Me Love" was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France,{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=138}} where the Beatles were performing 18 days of concerts at the Olympia Theatre. At this time, EMI's West Germany branch, Odeon, insisted that the Beatles would not sell records in any significant numbers in Germany unless they were actually sung in the German language{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=112}} and the Beatles reluctantly agreed to re-record the vocals to "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" prior to them being released in Germany. George Martin travelled to Paris with a newly mastered rhythm track for what was to be "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand". "Sie Liebt Dich" required the Beatles to record a new rhythm track as the original two-track recording had been scrapped.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=138}} EMI sent a translator to be present for this recording session which had been hurriedly arranged to tie in with the Beatles' Paris commitments. This was accomplished well within the allotted studio time, allowing the Beatles an opportunity to record the backing track, with a guide vocal, to the recently composed "Can't Buy Me Love".{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|p=112}}{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=138}} At this stage the song included background vocal harmonies, but after listening to the first take, the band concluded that the song did not need them. Therefore, "Can't Buy Me Love" became the first single the Beatles released without their characteristic background harmonies.McCartney's final vocal was overdubbed at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London, on 25 February.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=162}} Also re-recorded on this day at EMI Studios was George Harrison's modified guitar solo, although his original solo can still just be heard in the background. Harrison said: "What happened was, we recorded first in Paris and re-recorded in England. Obviously they'd tried to overdub it, but in those days they only had two tracks, so you can hear the version we put on in London, and in the background you can hear a quieter one."{{sfn|The Beatles|2000|pp=112â114}} Helen Shapiro, a friend of the Beatles and present at this overdub session, says that Ringo Starr also added extra cymbals "over the top" and that "apparently this was something he did quite often on their records".{{sfn|Southall|1982|p=96}} "Can't Buy Me Love" is also the only English-language track that the Beatles recorded in a studio outside the UK, although the instrumentation of the band's 1968 B-side "The Inner Light" was recorded in India by Harrison and some Indian classical musicians.Release"Can't Buy Me Love" was released as a single, backed by John Lennon's song "You Can't Do That". The release took place on 16 March 1964 in the United States and four days later in the United Kingdom. In the US, "Can't Buy Me Love" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks. With the success of the song, the Beatles established four records on the Hot 100:
Cover versionsElla Fitzgerald recorded the song for her 1964 album Hello, Dolly. This version was also released as a single, peaking at number 34 in the UK in June 1964, spending five weeks on the chart.WEB,weblink't-buy-me-love/, Can't Buy Me Love, Official Charts, 9 May 2022, Alex Petridis of The Guardian cites Fitzgerald as an example of how several artists, responding to the composition's swing-like rhythmic quality, issued "parent-friendly jazz covers" of "Can't Buy Me Love", and how the song was "key to establishing the Beatles' cross-generational appeal".NEWS, Alex, Petridis, The Beatles' Singles â Ranked!,weblink The Guardian, 26 September 2019, 18 August 2020, R&B group Blackstreet recorded a slower-tempo cover of the song for their 1996 album Another Level.MAGAZINE, Flick, Larry, 4 October 1997, Singles,weblink Billboard (magazine), Billboard, 109, 40, 90, 0006-2510, 24 August 2023, MAGAZINE, Reynolds, J. R., 17 August 1996, Blackstreet Shifts Musical Route,weblink Billboard (magazine), Billboard, 108, 33, 18, 0006-2510, 24 August 2023, WEB,weblink The Number Ones: The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love", Breihan, Tom, 13 June 2018, Stereogum, 24 August 2023,PersonnelAccording to Ian MacDonald:{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=104}}
Charts{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Weekly charts{|class"wikitable sortable" | ||||
Kent Music Report)AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK (1940â1969) | PUBLISHER=AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK | YEAR=2005, 0-646-44439-5, | 1 | |||||||||
Belgium (Flanders) | artist=The Beatles | access-date=16 May 2016}} | ||||||||||
Hitlisten>Salgshitlisterne Top 20)THE BEATLES - SALGSHITLISTERNE TOP 20>URL=HTTP://DANSKEHITLISTER.DK/?ARTIST_ID=26 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20131104013806/HTTP://DANSKEHITLISTER.DK/?ARTIST_ID=26 | ACCESS-DATE=2022-08-02, Danske Hitlister, | 1 | |||||||||
Ireland2 | artist=The Beatles | access-date=16 May 2016}} | ||||||||||
The Official Finnish Charts) | TITLE=SISäLTää HITIN: LEVYT JA ESITTäJäT SUOMEN MUSIIKKILISTOILLA VUODESTA 1960: ARTISTIT SAR - SEM | ARCHIVE-URL= | ACCESS-DATE=2022-03-26, Sisältää hitin, | 3 | ||||||||
Dutch100 | artist=The Beatles | access-date=16 May 2016}} | ||||||||||
Lever Hit Parade)HTTP://WWW.FLAVOUROFNZ.CO.NZ/INDEX.PHP?QPAGEID=SEARCH%20LEVER&QARTISTID=8#N_VIEW_LOCATION | ACCESS-DATE=26 AUGUST 2018 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20211019150229/HTTP://WWW.FLAVOUROFNZ.CO.NZ/INDEX.PHP?QPAGEID=SEARCH%20LEVER#N_VIEW_LOCATION, dead, | 1 | |||||||||
Norway | artist=The Beatles | access-date=16 May 2016}} | ||||||||||
Kvällstoppen)HALLBERG | TITLE=ERIC HALLBERG PRESENTERAR KVäLLSTOPPEN I P 3: SVERIGES RADIOS TOPPLISTA öVER VECKANS 20 MEST SåLDA SKIVOR 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975 | YEAR=1993 | ISBN=9163021404, | 1 | ||||||||
Tio i Topp)HALLBERG | TITLE=ERIC HALLBERG, ULF HENNINGSSON PRESENTERAR TIO I TOPP MED DE UTSLAGNA På FöRSöK: 1961 - 74 | FIRST2=ULF | YEAR=1998 | LOCATION=, 53, | 1 | |||||||
UK | date=1964-04-08|access-date=16 May 2016}} | |||||||||||
Billboardhot100 | artist=The Beatles|access-date=16 May 2016}} | |||||||||||
Cashbox (magazine)>Cash Box Top 100FRANK> LAST=HOFFMANN | TITLE=THE CASH BOX SINGLES CHARTS, 1950-1981 | LOCATION=METUCHEN, NJ & LONDON, 32â34, | 1 | |||||||||
Media Control Singles ChartHTTPS://WWW.OFFIZIELLECHARTS.DE/CHARTS | FORMAT=ENTER "BEATLES" IN THE SEARCH BOX | GFK ENTERTAINMENT CHARTS>LANGUAGE=DE, 16 May 2016, | 24 |
Year-end charts{| class"wikitable"
Certifications and sales
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