“I've Just Seen A Face” by The Beatles

"I've Just Seen a Face" went out on the Beatles' Help! in August 1965, though North American fans met it that December as the curtain-raiser on their version of Rubber Soul. It's Paul McCartney's baby, written and sung by him under the Lennon–McCartney banner, and it grew out of a jaunty country-and-western piano tune he'd been calling "Auntie Gin's Theme".

They cut it at EMI Studios in London on 14 June 1965, the same day as "Yesterday" and "I'm Down", with George Martin producing. There's no bass at all: three acoustic guitars, George Harrison's a 12-string, plus Ringo Starr on brushed snare and maracas, and the whole thing gallops like a bluegrass breakdown while McCartney tumbles over the words of a man left tongue-tied by love at first sight. Wings later brought it back on stage, and plenty of bluegrass bands have covered it.

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