The Beatles Song of the Day is-“From Me To You.” After the recording on February 11th, 1963 George Martin encouraged John and Paul to come up with some more hits and soon. This song was inspired by a regular letters column that ran in the New Music Express titled “From You To Us.” John and Paul wrote “From Me To You’ while traveling from York to Shrewsbury while on Helen Shapiro’s tour- on February 28th, 1963. The two new songs they had just written were “From Me To You” and “Thank  You Girl.” They played both songs for Helen Shapiro to get her opinion on which should be the A-Side to their next single. She said “From Me To You” which is the one they also favored. John Lennon: vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonica/ Paul McCartney: vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: lead guitar and vocal/ Ringo Starr: drums. Recorded March 5th, 1963 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “From Me To You” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ****1/2

• “From Me To You” was the third Beatles single in the United Kingdom in 1963. It went to #1. In the United States it was released as a single in 1963, a year before Beatlemania and only went to #116. It was re-released in 1964 as a B-Side to “Please Please Me” and failed to crack the Top 40- peaking at #41.
• George Martin has said ” I asked them for another song as good as “Please Please Me” and they brought me one “From Me To You”… there seemed to be a bottomless well of songs.”
• Paul McCartney “The first time I thought we’d really made it, was when I was lying in bed one morning, and I heard a milkman whistling “From Me To You.” Actually I’m sure that I once heard a bird whistling it as well, I swear I did.”
• “From Me To You” is ranked #72 on Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Beatles Songs list but does not make Spignesi and Lewis’ “100 Best Beatles Songs” list. It should.
• “From Me To You” was the first Lennon-McCartney composition to make the Top 100 in America. Del Shannon recorded it after hearing it while sharing a bill with The Beatles in April 1963. John Lennon had objections to Del Shannon covering it though, he thought it would ruin The Beatles chances of having a hit with it in America.
• The length of “From Me To You” is 1:57

“From Me To You”- {Lennon-McCartney}