NO. 99: "Yes It Is" (Lennon – April 19, 1965)
B–side of "Ticket to Ride" (2:40)
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"Yes It Is" was one of Lennon's least favorite compositions, along with "Run for Your Life", "It's Only Love" and "Dig a Pony". In his 1980 interview with "Playboy, he described it as an attempt to rewrite "This Boy" that "didn't work". Paul McCartney on the other hand described it as "a very fine song of John's" and stated that, for his part, he'd only "helped him finish [it] off".
Over the course of a five hour recording session, the Beatles attempted fourteen takes of the basic track before perfecting it, more than any other song they recorded in 1965. It was recorded on 16 February, the same day that they completed Harrison's "I Need You". After completing the rhythm track, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison recorded their vocal harmonies in three hours, singing live together.
"Yes It Is" was released as the B-side of "Ticket to Ride" in both the UK and the US. American pressings of the single erroneously show "Yes It Is" as being from the film Eight Arms to Hold You ("Help!"), in which it did not appear.
The song was included on Beatles VI in the US, and on subsequent compilation albums including "Love Songs", the British version of the Rarities album, "Past Masters: Volume I" (on which it made its first true stereo appearance), and also on "Anthology 2" in an alternative version that combines the second and fourteenth takes. The original mono
mix appears on the Mono Masters CD as part of "The Beatles in Mono" box set.
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