Beatles For Sale album artwork Written by: Perkins
Recorded: 18 Oct 1964
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

Released: 4 December 1964 (United kingdom), xv Dec 1964 (The states)

Available on:
Beatles For Auction
Album 2
Live At The BBC

Personnel

George Harrison: vocals, lead guitar
John Lennon: audio-visual rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney: bass
Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine

Sung by George Harrison as the final track on the Beatles For Sale album, 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby' was originally recorded past Carl Perkins in 1957.

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The Beatles recorded two other Perkins songs for EMI – 'Love Don't' and 'Matchbox', both sung past Ringo Starr. They also played a number of his songs live: John Lennon sang 'Tennessee', 'Bopping The Dejection', 'Bluish Suede Shoes', and early versions of 'Honey Don't'; Paul McCartney performed 'Sure To Autumn (In Love With You)' and duetted with Lennon on 'Lend Me Your Comb'.

George Harrison, meanwhile, was arguably the group's biggest Perkins fan. His early guitar solos deployed many of the same licks, and he had sung 'Your Truthful Love' and 'Glad All Over', as well as 'Everybody'southward Trying To Exist My Baby'.

Additionally, during The Beatles' commencement tour of Scotland in 1960, every bit the backing band for Johnny Gentle, they all decided to prefer pseudonyms. George became briefly known as Carl Harrison, afterward his idol.

'Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby' returned to The Beatles' live set in 1965, following the release of Beatles For Sale. A version recorded at Shea Stadium on xv August was included on Anthology 2.

BBC recordings

The Beatles performed 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby' on 5 occasions for BBC radio. The starting time, for Pop Go The Beatles, was recorded on 24 May 1963 and circulate on 4 June.

On the show They also played versions of 'From Me To Y'all', 'Practice You Want To Know A Surreptitious', 'Misery', 'Yous Really Got A Hold On Me', and 'The Hippy Hippy Shake'. The latter two songs were included on the 2013 digital collection Bootleg Recordings 1963.

The second BBC version of 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Babe' was for Sabbatum Club. It was recorded on 31 March 1964 and broadcast on 4 April.

In improver to the Carl Perkins song, The Beatles performed 'I Call Your Proper name', 'I Got A Woman', 'You Tin can't Do That', 'Can't Buy Me Honey', 'Sure To Fall (In Love With Y'all)', and 'Long Tall Emerge'. 'I Got A Woman' was released in 2013 on the anthology On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2.

The next fourth dimension The Beatles recorded 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Babe' was on 17 November 1964 for Tiptop Gear. The evidence was broadcast on 26 November.

During the testify the band too played 'I'chiliad A Loser', 'Honey Don't', 'She'due south A Adult female', 'I'll Follow The Sun', and 'I Feel Fine'. 'I Feel Fine'' was included on 1994's Alive At The BBC, while 'Beloved Don't', 'I'll Follow The Sun', and an outtake version of 'I Feel Fine' were all released on On Air.

On 17 November they besides recorded versions of 'I'chiliad A Loser', 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Infant', 'I Feel Fine', and 'She'south A Adult female'. Although recorded for Top Gear, they were first broadcast on the 26 Dec edition of Saturday Club. This version of 'Everybody'due south Trying To Be My Baby' was included on Live At The BBC.

The Beatles' 5th and terminal BBC recording of the song was made on 26 May 1965 for the show The Beatles (Invite You lot To Take A Ticket To Ride). It was first circulate on 7 June.

They too recorded brusk and long versions of 'Ticket To Ride', plus 'I'chiliad A Loser', 'The Nighttime Before', 'Honey Don't', 'Empty-headed Miss Lizzy', and 'She's A Woman'. 'Giddy Miss Lizzy' and the brusk version of 'Ticket To Ride' were released on Live At The BBC.

In the studio

The Beatles recorded 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Babe' in a single have on 18 Oct 1964.

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The recording contained a big corporeality of repeat on Harrison's vocals, which were double tracked to make them sound even fuller. For this, EMI'south engineers used a technique chosen STEED: single tape echo and repeat filibuster.

The Beatles inserted a curt pause between the lines in the outset verse, an arrangement borrowed from Perkins' original recording of 'Blue Suede Shoes'. The false ending, meanwhile, appears to take been the group's own invention: a version recorded at Hamburg's Star-Club in December 1962 features no fewer than four actress instrumental flourishes at the close.

Lyrics

Well they took some love from a tree
Dressed it upward and they called information technology me

Everybody's trying to exist my baby
Everybody'due south trying to exist my infant
Everybody's trying to be my baby, now

Woke upwardly last night, at half by 4
Fifty women knocking on my door

Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody'due south trying to exist my infant
Everybody's trying to be my baby, now

Went out concluding nighttime, I didn't stay late
'Fore I got home I had nineteen dates

Everybody'southward trying to exist my baby
Everybody'southward trying to be my baby
Everybody'southward trying to be my baby, now

Went out terminal nighttime, I didn't stay late
'Fore I got home I had nineteen dates

Everybody'south trying to be my baby
Everybody'south trying to be my baby
Everybody'southward trying to be my baby, now

Well they took some honey from a tree
Dressed it upwardly and they called it me

Everybody'south trying to exist my babe
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody'south trying to exist my baby, now