The Beatles Song Of The Day is “Girl.” “Girl” is on The Beatles “Rubber Soul” album. The song was written by John Lennon. John would say on the song “This was about a dream girl. When Paul and I wrote lyrics in the old days we used to laugh about it, like the Tin Pan Alley people would. And it was only later on that we tried to match the lyrics to the tune. I like this one. It was one of my best.” John said that the fantasy girl in the song was anchetype he was searching for his entire life and finally found in Yoko Ono. {Be careful of what you are looking for} There were a couple ‘jokes’ in the song that John threw in- one is he had the background singers singing ‘tit tit tit tit tit.” This album was influenced by pot and you can also hear the indrawn breath several times. John Lennon: vocal and acoustic guitars/ Paul McCartney: backing vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: lead acoustic guitar/ Ringo Starr:drums. The song was recorded on November 11th, 1965 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “Girl” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ***** a classic.

• “Girl” was never released as a single.
• Rolling Stone Magazine ranked “Girl” at #62 on their “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” list. Spignesi and Lewis had “Girl” ranked at #80 on their “100 Best Beatles Songs’ list.
• Length of song 2:33.
• On John’s final album “Double Fantasy” he had a song called “Woman.” John would comment that “Woman” was a grown-up version of his Beatles song “Girl.”

GIRL  {Lennon-McCartney}