The Beatles Song Of The Day is “The Night Before.” “The Night Before” is on The Beatles “Help!” album. The song was written by Paul McCartney. For a lot of groups a song like this would have been a career highlight but for The Beatles it was just another song on an album. John Lennon: harmony vocal and electric piano/ Paul McCartney: double-tracked vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: lead guitar and harmony vocal/ Ringo Starr: drums and tambourine. The song was recorded on February 17th,1965 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.
Rating “The Night Before” on a scale of 1 to 5 ****
- Rolling Stone Magazine’s “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” ranks “The Night Before” at #49. Spignesi and Lewis do not rank the song in their “100 Best Beatles Songs” list.
- The song was never released as a single.
- In the movie “Help!” the song was performed on the Salisbury Plains in the shadow of Stonehenge.
- Length of song: 2:33.
- The Beatles never performed it on concert but Paul McCartney did for the first time in July 2011 at Yankee Stadium.
“The Night Before” {Lennon-McCartney}
We said our goodbyes, ah, the night before
Love was in your eyes, ah, the night before
Now today I find you have changed your mind
Treat me like you did the night before
Were you telling lies, ah, the night before?
Was I so unwise, ah, the night before?
When I held you near you were so sincere
Treat me like you did the night before
Last night is a night I will remember you by
When I think of things we did it makes me wanna cry
We said our goodbye, ah, the night before
We said our goodbye, ah, the night before
Love was in your eyes, ah, the night before
Now today I find you have changed your mind
Treat me like you did the night before
Yes
When I held you near you were so sincere
Treat me like you did the night before
Last night is a night I will remember you by
Last night is a night I will remember you by
When I think of things we did it makes me wanna cry
Were you telling lies, ah, the night before?
Were you telling lies, ah, the night before?
Was I so unwise, ah, the night before?
When I held you near you were so sincere
Treat me like you did the night before
Like the night before
