The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand

(Capitol, 1964)

WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SAY? THIS IS DEF THE MOST CRUCIAL BEATLE SINGLE CAREER-WISE, IT BEING THE FIRST ON BIG-BUDGET CAPITOL RECS AND PURTY MUCH A MAKE ’EM OR BREAK ’EM SITCH… AND IT MAKED ’EM! AND HOW!! YOU KNOW THESE FAMED SONGS, YOU KNOW THEM WELL; RIGHTLY SO, AS LENNON N MCCARTNEY MAINTAINED THE SHOCKING SPEED -- & SHOCKING CONSISTENCY! -- OF THEIR HIGH-QUALITY POPWRITE CONVEYOR BELT. WISELY, DA BRAIN-BOYZ AT HOLLYWOOD & VINE REACHED BACK AND RESCUED “I SAW HER STANDING THERE” FROM ’63, SLAPPED ’ER ON THE FLIP (UK B-SIDE WAS THE SLOWER “THIS BOY”) TO CREATE A PEPPY ONE-TWO WAX PUNCHEROO THAT MADE YOUTHFUL EARS SWOON COAST TO COAST. ALL CAPS ALL CAPS ALL CAPS IT CAUSES THE IMPORTANCE OF MY DEEPLY-THUNK WORDS TO SHINE ON THRU.