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ARTIST: THE BEATLES

TITLE: “I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND” 2:24) MONO RECORDING b/w “I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND” (2:24) STEREO VERSION, SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFO.

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I Want To Hold Your Hand (Stereo)

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I Want To Hold Your Hand (Mono)

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Stereo/Mono promo copy of 1984 reissue
The lit cigarette held by Paul on the original 1964 version of the picture sleeve has been airbrushed out for this 20th anniversary issue.
Printed in U.S.A.

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Matrix / Runout (Side A etched): 7-SPRO-9076- X 44771A-G2 #1 gene Ⓧ

Matrix / Runout (Side B etched (Letter P is scratched out)): 45-P-5112-# X44771 G-1 E2

Matrix / Runout (Side A and B stamped ): MASTERED BY CAPITOL 0

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

CAT: 7-PRO-9076

YEAR: 1984

RECORD CONDITION: NM-/EX+ BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. VINYL IS SUPER CLEAN WITH A SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO VISIBLE BLEMS, LINES, DINGS, SCRATCHES OR SMUDGES. THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN.

SLEEVE: THE SLEEVE IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. STRAIGHT LINES, NO TEARS OR SEAM SPLITS. THIS IS THE SLEEVE WITH PAUL'S CIGARETTE AIRBRUSHED OUT. THERE IS A LIGHT WRINKLE ALONG THE TOP EDGE.

OTHER INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. PRINTED ON BOTH LABELS IS “NOT FOR SALE”. ALSO PRINTED ON THE STEREO SIDE IS “STEREO VERSION NEVER BEFORE AVAILABLE AS A SINGLE IN THE U.S.”. THIS IS A COOL RARE BEATLES RECORD COLLECTABLE. NO RESERVE. THIS RECORD WAS NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

ARTIST & RELEASE INFO:

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" is a song by the English band . Written by and , and recorded on October 17, 1963, it was the first Beatles record to be made using equipment.

With advance orders exceeding one million copies in the United Kingdom, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" would have gone straight to the top of the British record charts on its day of release (29 November 1963) had it not been blocked by the group's first million-seller "", their previous UK single, which was having a resurgence of popularity following intense media coverage of the group. Taking two weeks to dislodge its predecessor, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" stayed at number 1 for five weeks and remained in the UK top 50 for 21 weeks in total.

It was also the group's first American number 1 hit, entering the chart on 18 January 1964 at number 45 and starting the of the American music industry. By 1 February it topped the Hot 100, and stayed there for seven weeks before being replaced by "She Loves You". It remained on the Billboard chart for 15 weeks. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" became the Beatles' selling more than 12 million copies. In 2018, magazine named it the 48th biggest hit of all time on the Billboard Hot 100.

Capitol Records' rejection of the group's recordings in the US was now 's main concern, and he encouraged Lennon and McCartney to write a song to appeal specifically to the American market. , however, had no such explicit recollections, believing that Capitol were left with no alternative but to release "I Want To Hold Your Hand" due to increasing demand for the group's product.

McCartney had recently moved into 57 , London, where he was lodging as a guest of Dr Richard and Margaret Asher, and whose daughter, actress , had become McCartney's girlfriend after their meeting earlier in the year. This location briefly became Lennon and McCartney's new writing base, taking over from McCartney's Forthlin Road home in .Margaret Asher taught the in the "small, rather stuffy music room" in the basementwhere sat at the piano and composed "I Want to Hold Your Hand". In September 1980, Lennon told magazine:

We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses.

In 1994, McCartney agreed with Lennon's description of the circumstances surrounding the composition of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", saying: "'Eyeball to eyeball' is a very good description of it. That's exactly how it was. 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' was very co-written." According to , in keeping with how Lennon and McCartney collaborated at that time, lyrically bland, random phrases were most likely called out by the pair; if the phrases fitted the overall sound, they would stay. The song's title was probably a variation of "", which the Beatles had recently recorded at EMI Studios.

Recording

The Beatles recorded "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at EMI Studios in Studio 2 on 17 October 1963. This song, along with the single's B-side, "", was the first Beatles song to be recorded with technology. The two songs were recorded on the same day, and each needed seventeen takes to complete. Mono and stereo mixing was done by George Martin on 21 October 1963; further stereo mixes were done on 8 June 1965, for compilations released by EMI affiliates in Australia and the Netherlands,and on 7 November 1966.

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was one of two Beatles songs (along with "" as "") to be later recorded in German, entitled "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" (literally "Come, give me your hand"). Both songs were translated by Luxembourger musician , under the pseudonym of "Jean Nicolas". Odeon, the German arm of (the parent company of the Beatles' record label, ) was convinced that the Beatles' records would not sell in Germany unless they were sung in German. The Beatles detested the idea, and when they were due to record the German version on 27 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris (where the Beatles were performing 18 days of concerts at the Olympia Theatre) they chose to boycott the session. Their , George Martin, having waited some hours for them to show up, was outraged and insisted that they give it a try. Two days later, the Beatles recorded "Komm, gib mir deine Hand", one of the few times in their career that they recorded outside London. However, Martin later conceded: "They were right, actually, it wasn’t necessary for them to record in German, but they weren’t graceless, they did a good job".

"Komm, gib mir deine Hand" was released as a German single in March 1964. In July, the song appeared in full stereo in the United States on the Beatles' Capitol LP . (That album was released in CD form for the first time in 2004, on , and then rereleased in 2014, individually and in the boxed set .) "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" also appeared on the compilations and .

Promotion and release

In the United Kingdom, "She Loves You" (released in August) had shot back to the number 1 position in November following blanket media coverage of the Beatles (described as ). later wrote: "'She Loves You' had already sold an industry-boggling three quarters of a million before these fresh converts were pushing it into seven figures. And at this very moment, just four weeks before Christmas, with everyone connected to the music and relevant retail industries already lying prone in paroxysms of unimaginable delight, EMI pulled the trigger and released 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'. And then it was bloody pandemonium."

On 29 November 1963, Parlophone Records released "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in the UK, with "" as the single's . Demand had been building for quite a while, as evidenced by the one million advance orders for the single. When it was finally released, the response was phenomenal. A week after it entered the British charts, on 14 December 1963, it knocked "She Loves You" off the top spot, the first instance of an act taking over from itself at number 1 in British history, and it clung to the top spot for five weeks. It stayed in the charts for another 15 weeks and made a one-week return to the charts on 16 May 1964. Beatlemania was peaking at that time; during the same period, the Beatles set a record by occupying the top two positions on both the and single charts in the UK.

EMI and Brian Epstein finally convinced American label Capitol Records, a subsidiary of EMI, that the Beatles could make an impact in the US, leading to the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" with "" on the B-side as a single on 26 December 1963. Capitol had previously resisted issuing Beatle recordings in the US. This resulted in the relatively modest Vee-Jay and Swan labels releasing the group's earlier Parlophone counterparts in the US. Seizing the opportunity, Epstein demanded US$40,000 from Capitol to promote the single (the most the Beatles had ever previously spent on an advertising campaign was US$5,000). The single had actually been intended for release in mid-January 1964, coinciding with the planned appearance of the Beatles on . However, a fourteen-year-old fan of the Beatles, , wanted to hear the Beatles on the radio earlier.Later she said:

It wasn't so much what I had seen, it's what I had heard. They had a scene where they played a clip of "She Loves You" and I thought it was a great song ... I wrote that I thought the Beatles would be really popular here, and if [ Carroll James] could get one of their records, that would really be great.

James was the DJ for , a radio station in Washington, DC. Eventually he decided to pursue Albert's suggestion to him and asked the station's promotion director to get to ship in a copy of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" from Britain. Albert related what happened next: "Carroll James called me up the day he got the record and said 'If you can get down here by 5 o'clock, we'll let you introduce it.'" Albert managed to get to the station in time, and introduced the record with: "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the United States, here are the Beatles singing 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.'"

The song proved to be a huge hit, a surprise for the station since they catered mainly to a more staid audience, which would normally be expecting songs from singers such as or instead of . James took to playing the song repeatedly on the station, often turning down the song in the middle to make the declaration, "This is a Carroll James exclusive",to avoid theft of the song by other stations.

Capitol threatened to seek a court order banning airplay of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which was already being spread by James to a couple of DJs in and . James and WWDC ignored the threat, and Capitol came to the conclusion that they could well take advantage of the publicity, releasing the single two weeks ahead of schedule on 26 December.

The demand was insatiable; in the first three days alone, a quarter of a million copies had already been sold (10,000 copies In New York City every hour). Capitol was so overloaded by the demand, it contracted part of the job of pressing copies off to and . By 18 January, the song had started its 15-week chart run, and on 1 February, the Beatles finally achieved their first number 1 in Billboard, emulating the success of another British group, the with "", which topped the Billboard chart for three weeks in December 1962. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" finally relinquished the number 1 spot after seven weeks, succeeded by the song they had knocked off the top in Britain: "She Loves You". "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold around five million copies in the US alone. The replacement of themselves at the top of the US charts was the first time since in 1956, with "" beating out "", that an act had dropped off the top of the American charts only to be replaced by another of their releases. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" also finished as the , according to Billboard. In 2013, Billboard listed it as the 44th most successful song of all-time on the Hot 100.

With that, the "" of America had been launched. Throughout 1964, British pop and rock artists enjoyed unprecedented success on the American charts.

The American single's front and back sleeves featured a photograph of the Beatles with Paul McCartney holding a cigarette. In 1984, Capitol Records out the cigarette for the re-release of the single.

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was also released in America on the album , which altered the American charts by actually outselling the single. Beforehand, the American markets were more in favour of hit singles instead of whole albums; however, two months after the album's release, it had shipped 3,650,000 copies, over 200,000 ahead of the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single at 3,400,000.

The song was included on the 1964 Canadian release . The November 1966 stereo remix appeared on 1966's , and on several later Beatles compilation albums, including 1973's , 1982's , and 2000's .The 2009 CD rerelease of the Beatles' catalog included the 1966 stereo remix on and the original mono mix on .

Reception

The song was greeted by raving fans on both sides of the Atlantic but was dismissed by some critics as nothing more than another fad song that would not hold up to the test of time. Cynthia Lowery of the expressed her exasperation with Beatlemania by saying of the Beatles: "Heaven knows we've heard them enough. It has been impossible to get a radio weather bulletin or time signal without running into 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'."

In his book , Ian MacDonald wrote that the song "electrified American pop", adding: "every American artist, black or white, asked about 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' has said much the same: it altered everything, ushering in a new era and changing their lives." said: "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid."For a time Dylan thought the Beatles were singing "I get high" instead of "I can't hide". He was surprised when he met them and found out that none of them had actually smoked . ' recalled his initial reaction to the song: "I flipped. It was like a shock went through my system ... I immediately knew that everything had changed"; he said that he and had a meeting to discuss the challenge presented by the Beatles, as "For a while there, we felt really threatened."In another interview, Wilson said the song "wasn't even that great a record, but they [female Beatles fans] just screamed at it ... It got us off our asses in the studio ... we said 'look, don't worry about the Beatles, we'll cut our own stuff.'"

Discussing the Beatles' musical legacy in the 2004 edition of , states:

The Beatles left behind more great music than anybody can process in a lifetime ... Just check out "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which explodes out of the speakers with the most passionate singing, drumming, lyrics, guitars, and girl-crazy howls ever – it's no insult to the Beatles to say they never topped this song because nobody else has either ... It's the most joyous three minutes in the history of human noise.

At the annual , "I Want to Hold Your Hand" finished second in the category "The 'A' Side of the Record Issued in 1963 Which Achieved the Highest Certified British Sales", behind "She Loves You".The song was nominated for the 1964 , but the award went to and for "". However, in 1998, the song won the . It has also made the list in . In addition, the , the and have named "I Want to Hold Your Hand" as one of the . In 2004, it was ranked number 16 on 's list of "". In 2010, Rolling Stone placed the song at number 2 on its list of the 100 Greatest Beatles Songs, after "".It was ranked number 2 in 's list on the "100 Records That Changed the World", after 's "".The song was ranked number 39 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. In 2011, included the song on its list of the All-TIME 100 Songs.As of December 2018, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the 18th best-selling single of all time in the UK.

Starting at the song's final week at the top of the American charts, the Beatles have the all-time record of seven number 1 songs in a one-year period. In order, these were "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "", "", "", "" and "". It was also the first of seven songs written by Lennon–McCartney to top the US charts in 1964 – an all-time record for writing the most songs to hit number 1 on the US charts in the same calendar year.

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