Song · The Beatles
“Love Me Do” by The Beatles
From the album Please Please Me (1963)
“Love Me Do” by The Beatles appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1991 and 2022. It was first released in 1963 on the album Please Please Me. Its best result is #450 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,358 alternative song of all time.
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It all began with "Love Me Do", the Beatles' debut single, released in Britain in October 1962 with "P.S. I Love You" on the flip. Lennon and McCartney wrote it years before there even was a Beatles, and they sing it together, McCartney on the lead line, Lennon's harmonica wailing out front. It stalled at 17 at home, then topped the American chart in 1964, and a 1982 reissue carried it to number 4.
The drummers tell the story of a band still sorting itself out. Pete Best played on a June 1962 attempt that stayed in the can until Anthology 1 in 1995; Ringo Starr drummed on the take used for the first Parlophone pressing; and the version on Please Please Me, produced by Ron Richards with Norman Smith engineering, has session man Andy White on the kit and Starr on tambourine.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 869 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 2005 | 450 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2022 | 767 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
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