The Beatles Song Of The Day is “This Boy.” “This Boy” was the b-side to the incredible “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in the United Kingdom. It was released on the album “Meet The Beatles” in the United States. “This Boy” was written by John Lennon. John Lennon: vocal and acoustic guitar/ Paul McCartney: vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: vocal and lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. The song was recorded on October 17th, 1963 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin. John said this was another of his songs trying to write a Smokey Robinson and The Miracles type song. This is one of those underrated Beatles gems in my opinion. I always loved this song. Not really much to the lyrics but I thought John did a great job singing the song. It was a mood piece. Excellent work.

Rating “This Boy” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ****1/2

• Length of song 2:11
• The Beatles would play “This Boy” in concerts in 1963 and 1964.
• An instrumental version of “This Boy” called “Ringo’s Theme” was recorded by the George Martin Orchestra and played during Ringo’s big scene in the movie “A Hard Day’s Night.” It’s the scene where Ringo wonders off from the rest of the boys. Best scene in a pretty darn good movie.
• William Mann of The London Times said the song contained “chains of pandiatonic clusters” whatever that is!
• “This Boy” was one of the songs The Beatles performed on this famous first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show-49  years ago today.
• “This Boy” did not make Rolling Stone Magazine’s The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” but it was #43 in Spignesi and Lewis’s “The Beatles 100 Best Beatles Songs: list. I love the song but that is too high.
• In 1971 Stevie Wonder did a cover version that reached #13 on the charts.

“This Boy”