Beatles - "Eight Days A Week" / "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' - 45 w/Pic Slv
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The Beatles
“Eight Days A Week”
“I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party”
Capitol 45 with West Coast Picture Sleeve
Capitol 5371 - 1965
"Eight Days A Week," written by John and Paul from an idea from Paul, is the first song the Beatles took into the studio unfinished, and worked on in the studio, which would later become common. The song was mainly recorded in two sessions on October 6, 1964, both devoted exclusively to this song, totaling nearly seven hours with a fifteen-minute break in between. John and Paul tried several ideas for the intro and outro. The first take featured a simple acoustic guitar introduction; the second introduced an "oo"-ing vocal that was experimented with until the sixth take, when it was abandoned in favor of the final guitar intro. The final outro (along with unused intro takes) was recorded separately on October 18. The final version of the song incorporated another Beatles' first, and pop music rarity: the song begins with a fade-in, as opposed to the common fade-out ending. The instrumentation includes acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, bass and overdubbed handclaps; the fade-in and coda both include more guitar overdubs.
“Eight Days A Week,” along with two others from Beatles For Sale ("Baby's in Black" and "No Reply"), was planned as a single release. In the end, it was released as a single only in the U.S. on February 15, 1965, becoming a Number One hit (their seventh). Its B-Side was "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party". The single release in the U.S. was the result of DJs playing the song from imported copies of the Beatles for Sale album as an exclusive since it was not included on the album's U.S. counterpart Beatles '65. Later, it made a U.S. album appearance on Beatles VI.
Although it was a huge American hit, the group did not think highly of the song (John called it "lousy") and they never performed it live.
"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" was written primarily by John and released on Beatles for Sale in the UK. As the B-Side of "Eight Days a Week," “I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party” peaked at Number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This auction is for “Eight Days A Week” backed with “I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party.” The Record is in Very Good condition, with clean, unblemished labels, and normal wear on the vinyl. The West Coast Picture Sleeve is a beauty, in Near Mint+ condition.
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