Notes and Quotes: "Love Me Do" (White)

After the Beatles had recorded the version with Ringo, George Martin was still not satisfied and ordered another date, this time with a session drummer. Parlophone released this version instead of the Starr version when they needed subsequent pressings (from 1963). Thus, Capitol Records released this Andy White version in the United States and Parlophone used it on The Beatles' first LP, Please Please Me (1963).

This version is even slightly faster than 4 September recording and does benefit from Ringo's doubling of the snare drum part on the tambourine. However, White instinctively and pronoucedly locks his bass drum with McCartney's bass producing a crisp, punchy rhythmic groove that helps propel this version.

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2 February, 2012