“All My Loving” by The Beatles

"All My Loving" turned up on With the Beatles, the group's second UK album, in 1963, and it's Paul McCartney through and through: he wrote it, though the credit reads Lennon-McCartney, and he sings the lead with Lennon and George Harrison backing him up. George Martin produced it, with Norman Smith engineering, and it moves like a train: Lennon's rhythm guitar racing, McCartney's bass walking briskly, Ringo Starr pushing it along and Harrison slipping in a twangy break.

Nobody made it a single in Britain or America, but radio played it so much that EMI put it at the head of an EP. In Canada it did come out as a single and went to number one, and enough copies crossed the border to push it to 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.