“Got To Get You Into My Life” by The Beatles

On Revolver, in 1966, the Beatles went and hired a horn section, and "Got to Get You into My Life" is where it goes off like a brass band at a soul revue. Paul McCartney wrote it (credited, as ever, to Lennon and McCartney) and sings it flat out over his own pumping bass, with John Lennon and George Harrison on guitars, Harrison rattling a tambourine besides, and Ringo Starr driving it home. The trumpets of Les Condon, Ian Hamer and Eddie Thornton and the tenor saxes of Alan Branscombe and Peter Coe punch hard, George Martin produced and added organ, and Geoff Emerick engineered.

It sounds like a love song, but McCartney later let on that it was really about pot. A decade on, in 1976, it came out as a single off the Rock 'n' Roll Music compilation and went to number one in Canada.

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