The Beatles Song of the Day is “It Won’t Be Long.” “It Won’t Be Long” is the first song on The Beatles second album “With The Beatles” which was the second Beatles album released during 1963. “It Won’t Be Long” was written mostly by John Lennon with an assist from Paul McCartney. John Lennon: double tracked vocal, rhythm guitar/ Paul McCartney: backing vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: backing vocal and lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. The song was recorded at Abbey Road on July 30th, 1963. Producer: George Martin. John wrote this with the idea of it being the next single after “She Loves You” but it didn’t quite make the cut. The song took 23 takes and 2 different sessions to get it where The Beatles were happy with it.

Rating of “It Won’t Be Long” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ***1/2

• The song was never released as a single.
• Rolling Stone Magazine’s The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs has “It Won’t Be Long” ranked at #53. Spignesi and Lewis’ has it ranked at #92. I think Rolling Stones ranking is a bit too high.
• “It Won’t Be Long” was never part of their live set.
• The songs time is 2:13.
• “It Won’t Be Long” was the first song Neil Young ever performed before an audience. It was during a high school cafeteria concert in 1964.
• This is the song in which The Beatles discovered double tracking. After this John wanted to double track everything.
• One of the highlights of this song is the word play on the word belong and be long in the chorus.

“It Won’t Be Long” {Lennon-McCartney}