I Saw Her Standing There

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Written by: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Produced by: George Martin
Released: Jan. '64 on Capitol
Charts: 11 weeks
Top spot: No. 14

"One, two, three, fah!" The B side to the band's American breakthrough single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," had been written by McCartney two years earlier, just after the group had sealed a record contract. After penning the first line -- "She was just seventeen" -- McCartney wanted to avoid completing the rhyme with "beauty queen." He and Lennon had "started to realize that we had to stop at these bad lines or we were only going to write bad songs," he said. "So we went through the alphabet: between, clean, lean, mean." With "you know what I mean," he was on his way.

Appears on: Please Please Me (Capitol)

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