You Like Me Too Much
| "You Like Me Too Much" | |
|---|---|
 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(s) | George Harrison |
| Producer(s) | 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
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
The band Glycerine covered "You Like Me Too Much" on the album Harrisongs Volume 2 – A Tribute to George Harrison.[4]
Personnel
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
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Beatles 'You Like Me Too Much'". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ a b c d Pollack, Alan W. (1992). "Notes on 'You Like Me Too Much'". SoundScapes. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ Dominic Pedler. Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles. Omnibus Press, London 2003. p 528
- ^ "KLAUS PÉREZ-SALADO´s casa - Discographie". www.kpsalado.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2009.
- ^ MacDonald 2007, p. 148.
- ^ a b Everett 2001, p. 287.
Sources
- Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4.
- MacDonald, Ian (2007) [1994]. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (3rd ed.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3.
