All My Loving

Paul McCartney singing "All My Loving."

"All My Loving" is a track from the Beatles' "With The Beatles" album, released in the United Kingdom on 22 November 1963 and in the United States on 20 January 1964. The Beatles recorded the song on 30 July 1963, taking eleven takes and adding three overdubs.

"All My Loving" was released as a single in some countries, hitting No. 1 in Canada, Australia, and Sweden. It has been covered by many artists, including Amy Winehouse, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Many people in the United States were introduced to the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show on 9 February 1964, and "All My Loving" was the opening song. Thus, it occupies a unique position in the Beatles pantheon as the first notes that the vast majority of the public ever saw them perform.

The Beatles liked "All My Loving" so much that they included it both in "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) during a nightclub scene and also in "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967).

I wrote "All My Loving" like a piece of poetry and then, I think, I put a song to it later... It was the first song [where] I'd ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some kind of accompaniment. I've hardly ever done it since either.

John Lennon praised "All My Loving," saying "[I]t's a damn good piece of work. ... But I play a pretty mean guitar in back."

According to the staff at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, "All My Loving" was the song played in the emergency room when John Lennon was pronounced dead on 8 December 1980. This was somewhat ironic because it was a "Paul" song, but Lennon did contribute significantly with the performance.

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