“I Saw Her Standing There” was the opening song on the debut album by The Beatles “Please Please Me” On this song- PAUL- Lead Vocal and Bass  /JOHN-Rhythm Guitar and Harmony Vocal/George- Lead Guitar/ Ringo-Drums. Produced by George Martin.

A great opening track to the album with Paul doing the countdown “One-two-three-faw” This was a popular song for The Beatles in concert. A great rock and roll song. A ‘potboiler’ as George Martin would call it. It was also one of the six songs The Beatles performed during their second appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”

Ranking “I Saw Her Standing There” on a scale of one -to five stars ***** a classic.

• The original title for “I Saw Her Standing There” was “Seventeen”
• The song was inspired by Paul’s girlfriend at the time a dancer Iris Caldwell, who was the sister of Rory Storm. Ringo Starr had been the drummer for Rory Storm and The Hurricanes before joining The Beatles. When Paul first saw Iris in December 1961 she was doing The Twist and she was seventeen.
• Paul has admitted to using the same bass riff from Chuck Berry’s “Talkin’ About You’ by Chuck Berry.
• The song was written by Paul on his way back from a Beatle concert and finished up with John Lennon at Paul’s families home.
• When The Beatles played “I Saw Her Standing There” live at the Cavern Club in Liverpool it would last up to ten minutes with guitar solos added in.
• The song was written mainly by Paul McCartney. John Lennon helped a little with the lyrics.
• “I Saw Her Standing There” was ranked #139 on Rolling Stone Magazines 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
• “I Saw Her Standing There” was ranked #16 in the special edition of Rolling Stone Magazine
• In ” The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” 100 Best Beatles Songs” by Spignesi and Lewis- “I Saw Her Standing There” is ranked as the 84th best Beatles song.
• When Paul wrote the lyrics he had it was “She was just seventeen, never been a beauty queen” When he took it to John Lennon, John started laughing hysterically and said to Paul “You’re joking about that line aren’t you?”
• The song was recorded on February 11th, 1963 at EMI Studios -Abbey Road during a marathon session that produced ten of the fourteen songs that would appear on “Please Please Me”
• The song clocks in at 2:55.
• In the United States it was released as the B-Side of “I Want To Hold Your Hand” “I Saw Her Standing There” peaked at #14 on the American Billboard Singles Chart.
• “I Saw Her Standing There” hit #1 on the charts in Canada and Australia.
• In 1974 Elton John released a live version of “I Saw Her Standing There” with John Lennon joining the band -as a B-Side to Elton’s “Philadelphia Freedom’ In the introduction John Lennon said “I’d like to thank Elton and the boys for having me on tonight. We tried to think  of a number to finish off with so I can get out of here and be sick, so we thought we’d do a number of an old, estranged fiance of mine, called Paul. This is one I never sang, it’s an old Beatle number, and we just about know it. It would be the last song John Lennon ever played in concert.
• In 1987 Tiffany recorded “I Saw Her Standing There” and it reached #7 on the Billboard Chart.

The Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There” link to song below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgWfAilIEM

I Saw Her Standing There [Lennon/McCartney}