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.

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• 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}