You Like Me Too Much
| "You Like Me Too Much" | |
|---|---|
| File:You like me too much.PNG Label of Indian 7-inch single | |
| Song by the Beatles | |
| from the album Help! | |
| Released |
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| Recorded | 17 February 1965 |
| Studio | EMI, London |
| Genre | Pop rock[1] |
| Length | 2:35 |
| Label | Parlophone |
| Songwriter | George Harrison |
| Producer | George Martin |
"You Like Me Too Much" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by George Harrison, the group's lead guitarist, and released in August 1965 on the Help! album, except in North America, where it appeared on Beatles VI.[2] The band recorded the track on 17 February that year at EMI Studios in London.[2]
Musical characteristics
[edit | edit source]The song is in the key of G major and in 4/4 time.[2] There is an introduction using piano and electric piano, with Paul McCartney and George Martin playing two different piano parts on separate ends of the same Steinway grand piano. The Steinway appears only in the song's intro and was overdubbed separately, as were McCartney's bass and Harrison's vocal overdubs.
The electric piano is a Hohner Pianet, played by John Lennon. The sound of the instrument's tremolo being switched off after the introduction can be heard.
The quick transition from G chord to a flat-III (B♭) is unusual, especially as its F-natural note is melodically sustained against the following D-major chord (with its concomitant F♯) creating what musicologist Alan Pollack terms "the most bluesy moment of the entire song".[2] The verse opens with three repetitions of a simple four-note motif ("Though you've gone away this morning, you'll be back again tonight") during which the chords mirror the lyrics in shifting from ii (Am chord) on "gone away" to IV (C chord) on "back again" to the tonic (G chord) on "tonight".[3]
Cover versions
[edit | edit source]The band Glycerine covered "You Like Me Too Much" on the album Harrisongs Volume 2 – A Tribute to George Harrison.[4] Randy Bachman covered "You Like Me Too Much" on the album By George - By Bachman, songs of George Harrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOi4H_nKlQ&list=RD3WOi4H_nKlQ&start_radio=1
Personnel
[edit | edit source]According to Ian MacDonald,[5] except where noted:
The Beatles
- George Harrison – double-tracked vocal, lead guitar, tambourine[6]
- John Lennon – acoustic rhythm guitar, electric piano
- Paul McCartney – backing vocal,[6] bass, piano
- Ringo Starr – drums
Additional musician
- George Martin – piano
References
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- ^ Dominic Pedler. Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles. Omnibus Press, London 2003. p 528
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- ^ MacDonald 2007, p. 148.
- ^ a b Everett 2001, p. 287.
Sources
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External links
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