The Beatles Song Of The Day is “A Hard Day’s Night.” “A Hard Day’s Night” is the title track from The Beatles third album which was a soundtrack to their first movie “A Hard Day’s Night” which came out in the summer of 1964. This is a great example of how the John-Paul songwriting rivalry worked in The Beatles favor. Paul had come up with “Can’t Buy Me Love.” When Ringo uttered after an exhausting day of filming the movie that was to be “A Hard Day’s Night”- the line “It’s been a hard days’ night.” Three weeks later John rushed home, wrote the song and The Beatles recorded it the next day. John Lennon: double-tracked vocal, electric and acoustic rhythm guitars/ Paul McCartney: double-tracked vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums and bongos/ George Martin: piano. The song was recorded at Abbey Road on April 16th, 1964. Producer: George Martin. What an outstanding, energetic and fun song.

Rating “A Hard Day’s Night” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ***** a classic!!

• ” A Hard Day’s Night” went to number 1 both in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
• John would later say that the only reason Paul sang on the song is because “I couldn’t reach the notes.”
• The song was part of The Beatles concert repretoire in 1964 and 1965.
• The song was written, arranged, rehearsed and recorded in a little less than 24 hours.
• Rolling Stone Magazine ranked “A Hard Day’s Night” at #11 on their “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” list. In “The Beatles 100 Best Songs” by Spignesi and Lewis- “A Hard Day’s Night” comes in at #49 which is way too low in my opinion.
• “A Hard Day’s Night” was the last song written for the movie and became the title of the movie. Some of the titles for the movie that were rejected include “On The Move” “Beatlemania” and ” Let’s Go” “A Hard Day’s Night” is perfect. Thanks to Ringo!
• Length of song-2:32

A Hard Day’s Night- {Lennon-McCartney}