I'll Keep You Satisfied

AUTHORSHIP McCartney (.6) and Lennon (.4)
McCARTNEY: "That was a good one. Billy J. was having a bit of success and because he was out of the same stable as us, it made sense for us, if we weren't having to write a lot of stuff for ourselves, to knock off a couple for friends. It was pretty much co-written: John and I sat down and purposely wrote it for Billy J. in a couple of hours. This one is one I still like. I find myself whistling it in the garden." Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now

Recorded by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas on July 22, 1963.
It was another top-ten hit but this time only reached number four. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now

Instant Karma!

AUTHORSHIP Lennon (1.00)

LENNON: "I enjoyed the 'Instant Karma' thing because there were the people right there. And we were talking about the fact that she [Yoko] was knitting, you see. Because we did everything together. Now she wasn't singing on 'Instant Karma'. So I'm doing 'Instant Karma', live - or it was a backing tape with live vocal, I think - and she's just sitting there knitting this scarf, and there was some review the next day - 'How dare she sit there knitting?' you know. But we wanted to be together, and her contribution to that event, instead of having a smoke bomb or a coloured light, a psychedelic light, Yoko only knitted. You see. And - 'What are they doing?' There's a film of that - I wish I could get hold of it." December 6, 1980, The Last Lennon Tapes

I've Just Seen A Face

AUTHORSHIP McCartney (1.00)
Written in Jane Asher's basement music room at Wimpole Street. Many Years
McCARTNEY: "I think of this as totally by me. It was slightly country and western from my point of view. It was faster, though, it was a strange uptempo thing. I was quite pleased with it. The lyric works: it keeps dragging you forward, it keeps pulling you to the next line, there's an insistent quality to it that I liked." Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now

RECORDED
June 14, 1965, at Abbey Road

INSTRUMENTATION
McCARTNEY: acoustic guitar, lead vocal (occasionally double-tracked)
LENNON: acoustic guitar
HARRISON: acoustic lead guitar
STARR: drums, maracas

MISCELLANEOUS
McCartney's Aunt Jin liked this tune, so its working title was "Aunty Jin's Theme."

McCARTNEY: "My old Aunty Jin was like an earth mother: 'Sit down and we'll talk about it.' There was a lot of security there. She was a central character, she was known as Control within the family."

Aunty Jin is one of the few people to have received a name check in one of Paul's songs; both she and his brother get a listing in 'Let 'Em In' on Paul's 1976 album Wings At The Speed Of Sound, showing how his childhood continued to be woven into his songs. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now

Later the George Martin Orchestra recorded the song as an instrumental with that title.

If I Needed Someone

AUTHORSHIP Harrison (1.00)
HARRISON: "It was written in D nut position (capoed at the 5th fret)." Guitar (November 1987)

RECORDED
October 16, 1965, at Abbey Road, with overdubs added October 18

INSTRUMENTATION
McCARTNEY: bass, backing vocal
LENNON: tambourine, Fender Stratocaster guitar (Sonic Blue tremolo), backing vocal
HARRISON: lead guitar (Rickenbacker Fireglo 360/12 [capoed]), lead vocal (double-tracked)
STARR: drums
GEORGE MARTIN: harmonium
guitars from Guitar (November 1987)

MISCELLANEOUS
This song was part of the Beatles' live repertoire in 1965 and 1966. The Complete Beatles Chronicle

COMMENTS BY BEATLES
HARRISON: " 'If I Needed Someone' is like a million other songs written around the D chord. If you move your finger about you get various little melodies. That guitar line, or variations on it, is found in many a song, and it amazes me that people still find new permutations of the same notes." I Me Mine

I'm In Love

AUTHORSHIP Lennon (1.00)

Recorded by the Fourmost in October 1963.

If I Fell

CHART ACTION
UNITED STATES: Also released as a single, July 20, 1964. It did not crack the Billboard Top 40, although its A side ("And I Love Her") hit No. 12.

AUTHORSHIP Lennon (.7) and McCartney (.3)
LENNON: "That's my first attempt at a ballad proper. That was the precursor to 'In My Life.' It has the same chord sequences as 'In My Life': D and B minor and E minor, those kind of things. And it's semiautobiographical, but not consciously. It shows that I wrote sentimental love ballads, silly love songs, way back then." September 1980, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

McCARTNEY: "People forget that John wrote some pretty nice ballads. People tend to think of him as an acerbic wit and aggressive and abrasive, but he did have a very warm side to him really which he didn't like to show too much in case he got rejected. We wrote 'If I Fell' together but with the emphasis on John because he sang it. It was a nice harmony number, very much a ballad." Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now

RECORDED
February 27, 1964, at Abbey Road

INSTRUMENTATION
McCARTNEY: bass, lead vocal
LENNON: acoustic guitar, lead vocal
HARRISON: lead guitar
STARR: drums

MISCELLANEOUS
This song was part of the Beatles' repertoire for concerts in 1964. The Complete Beatles Chronicle
Lennon's manuscript of the lyrics was auctioned for L7,800 at Sotheby's, London, in early April 1988. AP (April 8, 1988)

COMMENTS BY BEATLES
McCARTNEY: "This was our close-harmony period. We did a few songs - 'This Boy,' 'If I Fell,' 'Yes It Is' - in the same vein." Playboy (December 1984)

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

CHART ACTION: Also released as a single July 20, 1964. It didn't make the Billboard Top 40. The Long and Winding Road: An Intimate Guide to the Beatles

AUTHORSHIP Lennon (.5) and McCartney (.5)
McCARTNEY: "We wrote 'I'm Happy Just To Dance With You' for George in the film. It was a bit of a formula song. We knew that in E if you went to an A-flat minor, you could always make a song with those chords; that change pretty much always excited you. This is on of these. Certainly 'Do You Want To Know A Secret' was. This one anyway was a straight co-written song for George. We wouldn't have actually wanted to sing it because it was a bit. . . . The ones that pandered to the fans in truth were our least favourite songs but they were good. They were good for the time. The nice thing about it was to actually pull a song off on a slim little premise like that. A simple little idea. It was songwriting practice." Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now

LENNON: "That was written for George to give him a piece of the action. . . . I couldn't have sung it." September 1980, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

LENNON: "I wrote this for George to sing. I'm always reading how Paul and I used to make him invisible or keep him out, but it isn't true. I encouraged him like mad." Beatles in Their Own Words

RECORDED
March 1, 1964, at Abbey Road

INSTRUMENTATION
McCARTNEY: bass, backing vocal
LENNON: rhythm guitar, backing vocal
HARRISON: lead guitar, lead vocal
STARR: drums, loose-skinned Arabian bongo

MISCELLANEOUS
This song was part of the Beatles' repertoire for concerts in 1964. The Complete Beatles Chronicle
Performed in the film A Hard Day's Night.