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Got To Get You Into My Life
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
Paul McCartney:
Piano, bass guitar, electric guitar
John Lennon: Electric guitar
George Harrison: Electric guitar
Ringo Starr: Drums, tambourine
George Martin: Organ
Eddie Thornton: Trumpet
Ian Hamer: Trumpet
Les Condon: Trumpet
Alan Branscombe: Tenor saxophone
Peter Coe: Tenor saxophone
Recorded
April 7, 8, 11 and June 17 1966.
Available
on:
Revolver
Anthology 2
Paul McCartney's
Motown-inspired Got To Get You Into My Life was the first
Beatles song to feature a brass section.
Trumpet
player Eddie Thornton already knew the Beatles from London's
night club scene, particularly clubs such as Bag O'Nails
Club (where Paul met his future wife Linda Eastman) and
the Scotch of St James, where he regularly performed with
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.
It was
at the Scotch of St James that Paul asked Thornton to do
a recording session with the Beatles.
Another
of the Blue Flames, tenor sax player Peter Coe, was also
invited to Abbey Road Studios. Three session musicians,
not from the Blue Flames, were also hired.
"The
Beatles wanted a definite jazz feel," Coe said in Mark
Lewisohn's The
Complete Beatles Sessions.
"Paul
and George Martin were in charge. There was nothing written
down but Paul sat at the piano and showed us what he wanted
and we played with the rythm track in out headphones. I
remember that we tried it a few times to get the feel righ
and then John Lennon, who was in the control room, suddenly
rushed out, stuck his thumb aloft and shouted 'Got it!'.
George Harrison got a little bit involved too but Ringo
sat playing droughts in the corner."
The brass
instruments were also miked in an unusual way. Engineer
Geoff Emerick placed the microphones very closesly to the
instruments, right down in the bells, and this had (probably)
never been done before on a ecording.
"Prior
to this people always miked brass something like six feet
away," Emerick said.
Lennon
once said that he though McCartney refered to LSD with the
line "another kind of mind." McCarntney himself
has said that the song is about marijuana.
Live versions
of Got To Get You Into My Life are available on the charity
album Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (recorded 1979),
and the album Tripping The Live Fantastic (1989).
Th group
Earth, Wind and Fire also had a hit with the Got To Get
You Into My Life in 1978.
Got To Get You Into My Life
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
I was
alone, I took a ride
I didn’t know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another kind of mind there
Ooh then I suddenly see you
Ooh did I tell you I need you
Every single day of life?
You didn’t run, you didn’t lie
You knew I wanted just to hold you
And had you gone, you knew in time
We’d meet again for I had to hold you
Ooh you were meant to be near me
Ooh and I want to hear me
Say we’ll be together every day
Got to get you into my life
What can
I do, what can I be?
When I’m with you I want to stay there
If I’m true I’ll never leave
And if I do I know the way there
Ooh then I suddenly see you
Ooh did I tell you I need you
Every single day of my life?
Got to
get you into my life
Got to get you into my life
I was alone, I took a ride
I didn’t know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another kind of mind there
Ooh then I suddenly see you
Ooh did I tell you I need you
Ev’ry single day of life?
What are you doing to my life?
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