Thank You Girl

"Thank You Girl" is from The Beatles' Second Album (we'll be sticking with this one a bit longer than the last few, as there's more than one song here I haven't heard. Yay!). The album was released April 10, 1964; it was their second with Capitol Records and their third in the U.S. "Thank You Girl" was the B-side of "From Me to You". 

It's basically a big shout-out to all of the screaming lady-fans that the guys had out there. From Wikipedia: "McCartney said, 'We knew that if we wrote a song called, 'Thank You Girl', that a lot of the girls who wrote us fan letters would take it as a genuine 'thank you'. So a lot of our songs were directly addressed to the fans.'" This gesture is a common one and examples can be found in many genres of music (the example that comes to my own mind is "Larger Than Life" by The Backstreet Boys, but don't hold that against me).

This song is also the result of a truly equal Lennon/McCartney effort. Below is a quote that talks about that partnership.

Written “eyeball to eyeball", a phrase Lennon and McCartney would later use to describe their early formulaic writing sessions, "Thank You Girl" demonstrates how they were able to produce a song from scratch by working in total partnership. Lyrically, Ian MacDonald suggests that Lennon probably wrote the first line of each verse, allowing McCartney his flair for word play and inner-rhyming in completing it.

So, although for most John & Paul songs you often have one of them saying he did most of the work, or that the other one did, and sometimes you'll have a disagreement over who did what work on the song and when, it seems suitable that "Thank You Girl", the Beatles' love letter to their hysterical fans, was a true collaboration. I liked the song--it was cutesy and inoffensive to my ears, so overall it was a decent experience. Not my most favorite (I always say that... but someday I won't! That day is coming). 

Anyway, see you guys tomorrow. :)

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Songs Completed: 31