The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Can’t Buy Me Love” which is the final song on side 1 of “A Hard Day’s Night.” The song was written by Paul McCartney.Paul said it was an attempt at writing a bluesy song John Lennon: acoustic rhythm guitar/ Paul McCartney: double-tracked vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: double-tracked lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. “Can’t Buy Me Love” was recorded at EMI Pathe Marconi, Paris, France on January 29th,1964. Producer: George Martin.  George Martin convinced The Beatles to start out with the chorus rather than the verse. “Can’t Buy Me Love” is the first Beatle single to feature only one singer. George’s guitar playing on this album is outstanding, with a rockabilly beat that sounds like something on Elvis’ “Sun Sessions.”

Rating “Can’t Buy Me Love” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ***** a classic.

• The song was probably written during The Beatles stay in Paris in January 1964.
• The song was part of The Beatles concert set lists in 1964 and 1965.
• Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald had a minor hit with “Can’t Buy Me Love” in 1964.
• The song was released as a single in the United States and reached #1. When the son #g was #1-on April 4th, 1964 The Beatles ruled the American charts like no one before or since. Here is how the Top 100 Chart looked -#74 Thank You Girl/ #68 Roll Over Beethoven/ #65 You Can’t Do That/ #58 All My Loving/ $46 Do You Want To Know A Secret?/ #41 From Me To You/ #31 I Saw Her Standing There/ #5 Please Please Me/ #4 I Want To Hold Your Hand/ #3 She Loves You/ #2 Twist and Shout/ #1 Can’t Buy Me Love.
• Rolling Stone Magazine ranks “Can’t Buy Me Love” at #29 in their “The Beatles 100 Greatest Beatles Songs” list and Spignesi and Lewis has it ranked at #78.
• “Can’t Buy Me Love” was the only previously released song to appear on “A Hard Day’s Night.”
• Length of song 2:11.
• Until Billboard began using Soundscan for their charts no record ever made a jump like “Can’t Buy Me Love” which went from #27 in one week to #1 the next.
• With this song The Beatles had 3 straight number 1’s in the United States- “I Want To Hold Your Hand” to “She Loves You” to “Can’t Buy Me Love” the three songs kept The Beatles at the top of the charts for 14 weeks in a row.
  “Can’t Buy Me Love” was number 1 on the Billboard charts for 5ive weeks, the only Beatles songs to last longer than it were “I Want To Hold Your Hand”at seven weeks and “Hey Jude”at nine weeks.
• Rolling Stone Magazine ranks “Can’t Buy Me Love” at #289 on their “500 Greatest Songs Of All Time” list.

“Can’t Buy Me Love” {Lennon-McCartney}