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I've Just Seen a Face

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"I've Just Seen a Face"
I've Just Seen a Face sheet music.jpg
Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music
Song by the Beatles
from the album Help!
Released6 August 1965 (1965-08-06)
Recorded14 June 1965 (1965-06-14)
StudioEMI, London
Genre
  • Folk rock
  • folk
  • country and western
  • pop rock
Length2:02
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)George Martin

"I've Just Seen a Face" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, the group's bassist, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released in August 1965 on their album Help!, except in North America, where it appeared as the opening track of the December 1965 release Rubber Soul. The band recorded the song in June 1965 at EMI Recording Studios on the same day they recorded "I'm Down" and "Yesterday". The song became one of McCartney's favourite Beatles songs and is today appreciated by fans as one of the band's best from their pre-Rubber Soul era.

A cheerful love ballad, the song's lyrics discuss a love at first sight and convey the singer's associated excitement and inarticulateness. McCartney began the song as an uptempo country and western number, while the completed recording fuses country with several musical genres, including folk rock, folk and pop rock. The song's inclusion as the opening track of the North American version of Rubber Soul contributed to listeners interpreting the album as the Beatles' turn to folk. "I've Just Seen a Face" prominently features four acoustic guitars, including two twelve-string guitars. George Harrison uses one twelve-string to play a jazz and country inflected solo while another acoustic guitar simultaneously plays to provide a contrasting effect. The song was the first by the Beatles to not feature a bass part.

Reviewers and commentators have described "I've Just Seen a Face" in favourable terms, particularly its rhyming lyricism and McCartney's vocal delivery. Several describe it as both overlooked and one of McCartney's better Help! contributions. The song was among the first Beatles songs McCartney played live in his post-Beatles career, performing it with Wings during the 1975–76 Wings Over the World tour. Versions from this tour appear on the 1976 live album Wings over America and the 1980 concert film Rockshow. He has performed the song on several other occasions, including for the 1991 album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) and the 2005 DVD Paul McCartney in Red Square. George Martin arranged an orchestral version for his 1965 album, George Martin & His Orchestra Play Help!, listing the piece under its original working title, "Auntie Gin's Theme". Because of the song's country feel, it has been covered by several bluegrass bands, including the Charles River Valley Boys and the Dillards. Hank Crawford and Holly Cole are among the other artists that have covered the song.

Background and composition[]

The outside of the 57 Wimpole Street apartment.
Paul McCartney wrote the song in the basement music room of 57 Wimpole Street, central London (pictured, 2008), the family home of his girlfriend, Jane Asher.

Both John Lennon and Paul McCartney identified "I've Just Seen a Face" as having been written entirely by McCartney.[1] A cheerful love ballad,[2] the song may have been inspired by his relationship with actress Jane Asher.[3] In November 1963, McCartney moved into the family home of Asher, located at 57 Wimpole Street in central London.[4] He later recalled writing "I've Just Seen a Face" in the family music room, in the basement of the house.[5] Beginning as an uptempo country and western inflected song,[6] he wrote the melody first.[7] After playing it on the piano at a family gathering,[8] his aunt Gin enjoyed the tune, and so McCartney gave it the working title "Auntie Gin's Theme"[7][9] before adding the song's fast-paced lyrics.[10][note 1]

Since his early-1964 composition "Can't Buy Me Love", McCartney had fallen behind Lennon in songwriting output, Lennon having been the primary composer of the Beatles' last four singles.[10][note 2] By May 1965, most work during sessions for the band's fifth studio album, Help!, had focused on Lennon compositions;[10][14] of the twelve original songs the band had recorded to that point, only five were written primarily by McCartney, two of which – "That Means a Lot" and "If You've Got Trouble" – had been rejected for inclusion.[15] After breaking for a month, the band resumed work on 14 June 1965, at which time McCartney presented "I've Just Seen a Face", along with his other new songs "I'm Down" and "Yesterday".[16]

Music[]

"I've Just Seen a Face" is the key of A major,[17][18] and can be described as either 4/4 (common time) or 2/2 (cut time).[17][note 3] The song begins with a ten measure intro,[17] using delayed triplets to create a sense of acceleration.[17][19] Split into three phrases, the intro's illusion of acceleration is reinforced by a shortened third phrase which quickens the first verse's arrival. The song uses four chords total. The twelve-measure verses use the common pop chord progression I–vi–IV–V, while the eight-measure refrains use the blues progression V–IV–I.[17] The latter progression simulates descent ("[V] falling, yes I am [IV] falling, and she keeps [I] calling ..."),[20] and the inclusion of a melodic minor third on the first syllable of "calling" gives the refrain section a blues sound.[17] Like other Beatles songs, a triplet repeat signals the end of the song – though it differs in using an eight bar chorus rather than only two or four measures – and repeats the final part heard in the intro to provide a feeling of symmetry.[17]

By this point [the Beatles] had been freely borrowing and blending various stylistic elements of pop, rock, folk, blues, and still other styles for quite a while. Still, this otherwise sweetly simple "folk rock" song really pushes the envelope in terms of the sheer number of diverse styles juggled simultaneously as well as the effortlessly seamless manner in which they are fused.[17]

– Musicologist Alan W. Pollack on "I've Just Seen a Face"

The composition fuses several different styles and is difficult to categorise.[17] Among musicologists, Walter Everett describes it as folk,[21] while Ian MacDonald calls it folk rock.[22] Alan W. Pollack characterises the first two verses as "pure pop-rock", the changes between verse and refrain in the second half as "folksy" and the triplet refrain in the outro as like an "R&B rave-up".[17] The first Beatles song to not have a bass guitar part,[3] music critic Tim Riley suggests the instrument's absence, joined with the guitar solo played on the low-end of the guitar, keeps the song in the country genre.[19]

Lyrics[]

Author Jonathan Gould groups "I've Just Seen a Face" with several of McCartney's 1965 compositions that deal with face-to-face encounters, including "Tell Me What You See", "You Won't See Me", "We Can Work It Out" and "I'm Looking Through You".[23] Written in a conversational style,[24] the lyrics of "I've Just Seen a Face" describe a love at first sight[10][25] and are constructed using an irregular rhyme scheme.[26] Made up of run-of verses and alliterations,[19] the lyrics rhyme every two beats,[7] using a cascading series of rhymes ("I have never known/The like of this/I've been alone/And I have missed").[24] Appoggiaturas are used throughout for rhymes to line-up, such as "face" and "place" in the song's intro.[17]

The ends of stanzas are wordless,[19] using vocal cadences like "lie-die-die-dat-'n'-die"[7] that echo the descent of the song's instrumental intro (scale degrees scale degree 4–scale degree 3–scale degree 2–scale degree 1–scale degree 7–scale degree 1).[7][17] Sung without pauses for breath or punctuation, McCartney's vocal suggests the adrenaline rush experienced during a love at first sight,[25] resulting in both enthusiasm and inarticulateness on the part of the singer.[17] The lyrics move the song forward,[24] with McCartney later describing them as insistent in quality, "dragging you forward ... pulling you to the next line".[6] Pollack mentions "stumbling" used in the outro, such as McCartney's added "oh!", as contributing to the effect of falling.[17]

Recording[]

The Beatles recorded "I've Just Seen a Face" on 14 June 1965, during an afternoon session in which they also recorded "I'm Down", breaking for dinner before returning to record "Yesterday". Recording took place in EMI's Studio Two, with George Martin producing the session, assisted by balance engineer Norman Smith.[27] The song consists of two basic tracks.[7] On the first, George Harrison plays an acoustic twelve-string guitar, Lennon his Framus Hootenanny acoustic twelve-string, McCartney a nylon-string guitar[28] and Ringo Starr a brushed snare.[29] The second includes Lennon on acoustic rhythm guitar and a lead vocal from McCartney.[7]

Completed in six takes,[27] the band overdubbed new parts onto take six.[30] McCartney played a higher section in the intro with a nylon-string guitar, and added a descant vocal,[7] providing a contrapuntal backing during the refrains.[17] Pollack comments that McCartney's added vocal is sung in the same nasally country and western tone that he sings for the backing vocal of another Help! track, "Act Naturally".[17] Adding texture normally achieved with a tambourine,[19] Starr overdubbed maracas,[31] while Harrison added a twelve-string acoustic solo.[32][note 4] Employing a technique used extensively on Help!, another guitar plays simultaneously during the solo to provide a contrasting sound.[34] Shifting from cut time to common time during the solo, Gould suggests Harrison's playing is reminiscent of both jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and the French jazz organization Le Hot Club,[25] while Pollack characterises it as a "'countrified', rhythmically flat rendering".[17]

Martin and Smith returned to EMI's Studio Two on 18 June, mixing several songs on Help! for mono and stereo, including "I've Just Seen a Face".[35] The two mixes of the song are nearly identical to one another. In 1987, for the first CD release of Help!, Martin remixed the song for stereo, adding a small amount of echo.[30]

Release[]

EMI's Parlophone label released Help! on 6 August 1965,[36] with "I've Just Seen a Face" sequenced as the twelfth track between "Tell Me What You See" and "Yesterday".[37] McCartney was pleased with the finished recording and it became one of his favourite Beatles songs.[6] Recorded as the band finished up work on their 1965 film, Help!, the song was completed too late to be featured in the film.[22]

In North America, Capitol reconfigured the Beatles' albums, reducing the number of songs and using single A- and B-sides to create further LP releases.[38] They removed "I've Just Seen a Face" and other tracks from the North American version of Help!, leaving only the songs performed in the film and adding several orchestral pieces from the film's soundtrack.[39] On the band's album Rubber Soul, Capitol again added and removed several tracks.[40] Intending to take advantage of the growing folk rock scene in the United States,[41] they removed songs they deemed "electric",[42] including replacing the Memphis inspired "Drive My Car" with "I've Just Seen a Face" as the opening track.[43][note 5] Musicologist Laura Turner describes the sequencing of "I've Just Seen a Face" into "the acoustic, lilting" song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" as "powerful",[44] and critic Rob Sheffield similarly describes it as a "magnificent one-two punch".[45] Released on 6 December 1965,[46][47] the North American version of Rubber Soul is dominated by acoustic-based songs,[48][49] described by music scholar John Kimsey as "woody instrumental textures and gentle, laidback rhythms".[43] The album's reconfiguration caused it to take on what Beatles author Kenneth Womack terms "a decidedly folk-ish orientation",[50] resulting in many North American listeners erroneously assuming the Beatles had focused on folk music for an entire LP.[41][43]

Reception[]

Reviewing Help! for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes "I've Just Seen a Face" as "an irresistible folk-rock gem", being much better than two of McCartney's other contributions to the album, "The Night Before" and "Another Girl".[51] Journalist Alexis Petridis also disparages McCartney's other Help! contributions as filler – in particular, "Another Girl" and "Tell Me What You See" – but describes "I've Just Seen a Face" as the album's "one genuine overlooked gem".[52] He sees it as "an English inversion of Help!'s much-noted [Bob] Dylan influence", existing partway between the folk sound of Greenwich Village and that of skiffle.[52] MacDonald opines that the song elevates the second side of Help! with its "quickfire freshness" and describes the song as a "pop parallel" to that of several 1965 Swinging London films, such as the The Knack ...and How to Get It, Darling and Catch Us If You Can.[10]

In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked "I've Just Seen a Face" at number 58 in a list of the Beatles' 100 greatest songs,[24][53] and a 2014 readers' poll conducted by the magazine ranked it as the tenth best Beatles song from their pre-Rubber Soul era.[54] McCartney biographer Peter Ames Carlin calls the song one of McCartney's most overlooked Beatles contributions, yet also one of his best. He describes the lyric as McCartney's most succinct and finds the rhyming perfectly constructed.[55] Riley praises the song as McCartney's second best contribution to Help! after "Yesterday", and is particularly impressed by its lyricism, saying that "there isn't one word out of place". He calls the song "sweet and lithe without getting saccharine" and says it "has the simple grace of a folk classic".[19] MacDonald similarly applauds the song's lyrics – writing the internal rhyming and fast paced delivery "complements the music perfectly"[10] – as does Everett, who calls McCartney's irregular rhyme scheme "positively poetic".[26] Describing the song as "fetching, vintage McCartney" and a "warm, cheerful folk-rock treasure", journalist Mark Hertsgaard commends the song's "thigh-slapping beat, sing-along melody, and cheerful, isn't-love-great lyrics", designating it "the musical equivalent of an armful of freshly picked daisies".[56] Sheffield calls it the "most romantic [song ever]", and "almost as funny as 'Drive My Car'".[57]

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic describes "I've Just Seen a Face" as "almost pure country", continuing the trend established the previous year by the band's Beatles for Sale album and the song "I'll Cry Instead" from A Hard Day's Night.[58] Music historian Peter Doggett refers to it as "[a] folk song taken at a bluegrass tempo" and "a McCartney gem" made more remarkable by being recorded during the same session as the "screaming rocker" "I'm Down".[59] Author John Kruth suggests the influence of "I've Just Seen a Face" can be heard on "Go and Say Goodbye", the original opening track of American rock band Buffalo Springfield's 1966 eponymous debut album. He argues that both songs helped acquaint rock fans with small doses of country music, setting up the American band the Byrds' turn from folk rock to country with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo.[60] More broadly, he opines that the song's "deep wooden timbre" can be heard in the music of Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor and Jackson Browne.[61]

McCartney live versions[]

McCartney playing a twelve-string acoustic guitar during one of the tour's concerts.
McCartney performing during the Wings Over the World tour, 1976. He included "I've Just Seen a Face" during an acoustic section of the tour's setlist.

The song has remained a favourite of McCartney's in his post-Beatles career and is one of the few Beatles songs he played with his later band, Wings.[6] An acoustic rendition of "I've Just Seen a Face" was among the five Beatles songs McCartney played during the 1975–76 Wings Over the World tour.[62][63][note 6] Beatles author Robert Rodriguez calls the pick unexpected,[66] and McCartney explained contemporaneously that he picked the songs "at random ... I didn't want to get too precious about it".[64] Journalist Nicholas Schaffner writes that their inclusion "electrified [McCartney's] audiences", and Rodriguez similarly describes the Beatles section of the setlist as the "emotional highlight for most attendees".[67] McCartney reflected at the time, "[t]hey're great tunes ... [s]o I just decided in the end, this isn't such a big deal, I'll do them".[64] Riley commends the format of McCartney's performance of "I've Just Seen a Face", played as though he was "sitting around on a porch harmonizing to a good old rural favorite".[19] A live version of the song from the 23 June 1976 Los Angeles show was later included on the triple album Wings over America,[68] released 10 December 1976.[69][70][note 7] The previous day's Los Angeles performance was included in the 1980 concert film Rockshow.[74]

McCartney performed "I've Just Seen the Face" in a 25 January 1991 set,[75] played on acoustic and filmed by MTV for their series Unplugged.[76] This performance was later included on McCartney's 1991 album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).[76][77] He has played the song live on several other occasions, including it in the setlist of his 2004 Summer Tour and the 2011–12 On the Run tour, and was included on the 2005 DVD Paul McCartney in Red Square.[53] In 2015, during the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, he and Paul Simon played a duet of the song.[78]

Charles River Valley Boys version[]

"I've Just Seen a Face"
Song by Charles River Valley Boys
from the album Beatle Country
ReleasedNovember 1966 (1966-11)
RecordedSeptember 1966 (1966-09)
StudioColumbia Studio B, Nashville
GenreBluegrass
Length2:39
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)

The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Charles River Valley Boys recorded a cover of "I've Just Seen a Face" for their 1966 album, Beatle Country, a collection of Lennon–McCartney compositions played as bluegrass and sung in a high lonesome style.[79] James Field of the group later recalled hearing the song on the radio in the lead up to the US release of Rubber Soul and thinking "it instantly felt like bluegrass".[80] In particular, the I–vi–IV–V progression and the chorus beginning on the dominant had "a drive perfectly suited for a straight-ahead bluegrass trio".[80] Banjo player Bob Siggins added: "I think the instantaneous 'feel' of the song was the tipoff for me ... [a]dditionally, the lyrics could easily be (and in fact became) bluegrass lyrics".[80] With their usual setlist made up of old and new bluegrass and country songs, the band added an arrangement of "I've Just Seen a Face" to their set, along with the country-inflected Beatles song "What Goes On".[81][note 8] Performing the covers in February 1966 at the War Memorial Auditorium during Boston's Winterfest, the band received a positive reception from the 5,600-person audience.[85] On the strength of this performance, they sent a demo recording of four songs – two of which were Beatles covers – to Paul Rothchild of Elektra Records, with record company executive Jac Holzman subsequently granting permission for an album-length collection of Beatles covers.[86][note 9]

One day, I came into a rehearsal and said, "the Beatles have a bluegrass song ... it's called 'I've Just Seen a Face' and we have to do it," ... the tempo (for us) is about 115 bpm, and if you listen to many bluegrass standards, a lot of them are in that range. Why? Because it's perfect for the banjo. You get a nice, bouncy roll, and you can make it ring.[80]

– James Field of the Charles River Valley Boys, 2015

Produced by Rothchild and co-produced by Peter K. Siegel, recording for Beatle Country took place in September 1966 at Columbia's studio in Nashville, Tennessee.[87] The Charles River Valley Boys' regular line up of Siggins on banjo, Field on guitar, Everett A. Lilly on upright bass and Joe Val on mandolin was complemented by a group of session musicians, including fiddler Buddy Spicher, dobro player Craig Wingfield and guitarist Eric Thompson.[88] Siegel recalled the recording process as efficient and professional, with the group recording fourteen covers in four days. Rothchild and Siegel mixed the album in Elektra's New York studio, selecting twelve songs for inclusion.[87]

Where the original version of "I've Just Seen a Face" is in the key of A, the Charles River Valley Boys' version transposes it to G. McCartney's vocal is mostly solo in the original, double-tracked only at the end of the chorus, while the cover's vocal is solo on the verses with light harmonisation at the end of each phrase and a three-part harmony during the choruses.[85] The cover version is also structurally different; where the original only includes one instrumental break for a guitar solo, their version adds extra breaks for banjo, mandolin and fiddle – a typical feature of bluegrass music, where each musician is allowed the chance to solo.[80] Additionally, the original only includes one chorus, not including its final iteration, while their version repeats the chorus twice. Turner opines that this serves to emphasise the "quintessential bluegrass technique" of close three-part harmonies.[89] She describes the biggest differences between versions as consisting in their different textures and timbres, and in particular the Charles River Valley Boys' "incessant, 'walking' upright bass line that provides energetic drive, sparking mandolin tremolo, rolling banjo figures, and intricate, often double-stopped fiddle motifs that permeate the texture".[90]

Elektra released Beatle Country in November 1966.[91] Sequenced as the opening track, Field later characterised "I've Just Seen a Face" as the foundation piece of the entire album.[92] Successful on first release but quickly forgotten,[93] the album subsequently achieved cult status.[94] The Bluegrass Association included the group's cover of "I've Just Seen a Face" on the 1974 compilation album Strings Today ... And Yesterday.[95] When the Boston Bluegrass Union awarded the Charles River Valley Boys the Heritage Award in 2013, the band reunited and performed "I've Just Seen a Face" and "Help!" during the award ceremony at the city's annual .[96]

Other versions[]

Martin recorded an orchestral version of the song for his 1965 instrumental album, George Martin & His Orchestra Play Help!, credited under its original working title, "Auntie Gin's Theme".[7][97] In a review of the album for AllMusic, Bruce Eder describes Martin's recordings as "tasteful but otherwise largely undistinguished". He credits the release of tracks under their working titles as one of the album's unique selling points, being "details that Beatles fanatics of the time simply devoured".[98]

Turner argues that "I've Just Seen a Face" has been "key in stimulating a relationship between bluegrass and the music of the Beatles".[44] Besides the Charles River Valley Boys, it has been covered by other bluegrass artists, including the progressive bluegrass band the Dillards for their 1968 album Wheatstraw Suite[61] and the New Grass Revival with Leon Russell in 1981.[99] Joining elements of traditional mountain music and modern country music, the Dillards' version includes high harmonies, a banjo and a pedal steel guitar and went on to influence bands like the Byrds, the Grateful Dead and the Eagles.[61] Turner describes it as "relaxed in tempo and wistful" with its pedal steel guitar "a clear salute to the flourishing folk-rock scene".[44]

Hank Crawford, the alto saxophonist of Ray Charles, recorded a funk and reggae-inspired version on his 1976 album Tico Rico.[61] Canadian jazz singer Holly Cole covered it for her 1997 album Dark Dear Heart, also filming a noir-style music video for the release.[100] The song reached number seven on Canada's RPM Top Singles Chart in November 1997.[101] A cover is featured in the 2007 jukebox musical romantic drama film Across the Universe. In the film, the lead character, Jude (Jim Sturgess), sings about Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) at a bowling alley in what Kruth terms a "somewhat bizarre love-fantasy scene".[100] Kruth designates "I'll Just Bleed Your Face" as the song's "most bizarre" cover,[100] recorded by Beatallica – a mashup group of heavy metal band Metallica and the Beatles – for their 2009 album Masterful Mystery Tour.[53][100]

Personnel[]

According to Everett,[7] except where noted:

Notes[]

  1. ^ Gin Harris was the younger sister of McCartney's father, Jim McCartney.[9][11] McCartney later referenced her in the song "Let 'Em In",[9] released on the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound.[3]
  2. ^ Specifically, "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine", "Ticket to Ride" and "Help!".[12] The two co-wrote "Eight Days a Week", released as a single only in America in February 1965.[13]
  3. ^ Everett writes the song is in cut time.[7] Pollack writes that if counted in cut rather than common time, the listener can "more easily grasp the extent to which the underlying tempo is constant".[17]
  4. ^ Gould and Beatles author John C. Winn each write Harrison played the solo,[33] while authors Jean-Michael Guesdon & Philippe Margotin write it was McCartney.[3]
  5. ^ The other songs Capitol removed were "Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone", while adding in another Help! leftover, "It's Only Love".[42]
  6. ^ The other picks included "Lady Madonna", "The Long and Winding Road", "Yesterday" and "Blackbird".[64][65]
  7. ^ On the release, McCartney reversed the original Lennon–McCartney songwriting credit of each Beatles song to McCartney–Lennon.[71] The decision drew no criticism at the time,[72] including no complaints from Lennon, but drew the ire of Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, when McCartney again reversed the credits on his 2002 album, Back in the U.S..[73]
  8. ^ Having been omitted from the North American version of Rubber Soul,[82] Capitol first released "What Goes On" in the US on 21 February 1966 as the B-side to "Nowhere Man".[83] Both sides of the single were later included on the June 1966 album Yesterday and Today.[84]
  9. ^ Turner suggests the album was approved in part because of conductor Joshua Rifkin's success the year before with his novelty record, The Baroque Beatles Book.[86]

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