Hans Hot 100 Beatles Songs: #59: ‘Eight Days A Week’

The Countdown so far- 100-‘Any Time At All’/ 99- ‘No Reply’ / 98- ‘You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]/ 97- ‘The Inner Light’ / 96- ‘ You Won’t See Me’ / 95- ‘Baby’s In Black’/ 94- ‘Sexy Sadie’ / 93- ‘I Need You’ / 92- ‘Love Me Do’/ 91- ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey’/ 90- ‘Doctor Robert’/ 89- ‘There’s A Place’/ 88- ‘Good Day Sunshine’ 87- ‘It’s Only Love’ 86- ‘I Want You [She’s So Heavy] 85-‘Yer Blues’ / 84- ‘From Me To You’/ 83-‘She’s Leaving Home’/ 82-‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite’/ 81-‘I’m So Tired’/ 80-‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ 79- ‘Baby, You’re A Rich Man’ 78- ‘Yellow Submarine.’ #77 ‘Things We Said Today.’ #76: ‘When I’m Sixty- Four’ #75: ‘Happiness IS A Warm Gun’ 74: ‘I Will’ 73: ‘Within You Without You’ 72: ‘ This Boy’ 71: ‘And I Love Her’- #70: ‘Fixing A Hole’ #69- ‘Drive My Car’ 68: ‘I Should Have Known Better’ #67: ‘Getting Better’ #66: ‘If I Needed Someone’ #65: ‘I’m Down, #64: ‘Good Morning Good Morning.’ #63:’ Hey Bulldog’ #62: ‘The Long And Winding Road’ #61:’ The Fool On The Hill’ 60- Get Back. #59: ‘Eight Days A Week.’

#59: ‘Eight Days A Week’ one of four songs in the countdown from Beatles For Sale. ‘Eight Days A Week’ was also released as a single and went to #1 in the US- The Beatles 7th #1 in just over a year. ‘Eight Days A Week’ was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney based on Paul McCartney’s original idea for a song. Paul has been confused over the years on the origins of the idea- once saying that the title came from one of Ringo’s malapropisms that Ringo had said he was overworked ‘Eight days a week’– in another telling it came from a chauffeur who while driving him to John Lennon’s house said that working hard- ‘eight days a week.’