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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:28:03 -0600, j1125
 wrote:

>On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:17:03 +0000 (UTC), "MikeLawyr2"
> wrote:
>
>>Hallelujah!  I finally figured out how to join this group and as soon
>>as I started fishing around, sure enough -- there are others here who
>>share my conjecture that, despite the received wisdom (perpetuated
>>error?), Every Little Thing is a John song, not a Paul song.
>
>Actually... Every Little Thing IS a Paul song... in fact it was one of
>Paul's attempts to write for the A side of a Beatles single but the
>song never reached that level.   WHENEVER you can't tell which Beatle
>is singing on a pre Revolver era track... odds are that it is a John &
>Paul duet!!!  Which is a fine treat indeed.   Some other notable duets
>of this kind include all of their early singles... I Want to Hold Your
>Hand ... Tell Me What You See...    There is a TV lip sync performance
>from the Around the Beatles special that features a duet on Can't Buy
>Me Love which I hope to add to my collection soon as it's pretty
>great.   I'm not sure but I think that John and Paul duet on Come
>Together during the chorus or if it's John double tracked... but
>anyway...
>
>In any case... Every Little Thing is a Paul composition as can be told
>by the movement of the melody up and down and the very distinct
>difference between the chorus and verse melodies.   John's melodies
>tend to center around a single note and often drive straight into the
>chorus.   This song is not unlike I'll Follow the Sun or the much
>later One of These Days from McCartney II.  

I got my first Beatles books in a long time recently, THE BEATLES IN
THE PRESS (I think that's the title, the book's out on loan already).
Many verbatim press reports from the time, as the title might suggest.
Anyway, the boys are reported as saying they wrote "What You're Doing"
and "Every Little Thing" together, in the U.S. (and that John plays
lead).

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