NUMBER 95: "Any Time At All" (Lennon – July 20, 1964)
A Hard Day's Night CD – Track 8 (2:14)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (sans footnotes/references) –
Although the Beatles' song "Any Time at All" is credited to Lennon-McCartney, it was mainly composed by John Lennon, with an instrumental middle eight by McCartney. It first appeared on the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night album.
In his 1980 interview with Playboy, Lennon described the song as "An effort at writing “It Won’t Be Long”, Same ilk: C to A minor, C to A minor—with me shouting.”
Lennon's handwritten lyrics for "Any Time at All" were sold for £6,000 at an auction held at Sotheby's in London, on 8 April 1988.
Incomplete when first brought Abby Road Studios on Tuesday 2 June 1964, McCartney suggested an idea for the middle eight section based solely on chords, which was recorded with the intention of adding lyrics later. But by the time it was needed to be mixed, the middle eight was still without words and that is how it appears on the LP. These few notes were influential in sections of Xanadu, I say a Little Prayer and Tonight I’m Yours. McCartney sings the second "Anytime at all" in each chorus because Lennon couldn't reach the notes. "Any Time at All" reprises a George Martin trick from A Hard Night by using a piano solo echoed lightly note-for-note on guitar by George Harrison.
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