The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Baby’s In Black.” “Baby’s In Black” is the third song on the side 1 of “Beatles For Sale.” This was the first song recorded for the “Beatles For Sale” album and it was a joint effort between John Lennon and Paul McCartney on the writing. They had gotten away from writing those ‘eyeball to eyeball’ songs. At this point the times they did work together on a song was when one of them had written something that needed a little polishing up and whoever wrote it would bring it in and the other would help finish it up. This was one of the John and Paul in the same room writing the song together songs. John Lennon: vocal and acoustic rhythm guitar/ Paul McCartney: vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. Recorded on August 11th, 1964 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “Baby’s In Black” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ****

• It took The Beatles an entire evening and 11 takes to get “Baby’s In Black” down. The biggest problem they had was getting George Harrison’s guitar part down.
• “Baby’s In Black” would be played during Beatle concerts from 1964-66.
• “Baby’s In Black” does not make Rolling Stone Magazine’s “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” or Spignesi and Lewis’ “100 Best Beatles Songs’ lists.
• Length of song 2:02.
• The lyrics are about Astrid Kirchherr a friend of The Beatles from the Hamburg days. Her fiancee was former Beatle Stu Sutcliffe who had died of a brain tumor. The song is about her grieving over his death.

“Baby’s In Black” {Lennon-McCartney}