Song · The Beatles
“Oh Darling!” by The Beatles
Released 1969
“Oh Darling!” by The Beatles appears on 19 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1996 and 2023. It was first released in 1969. Its best result is #153 on the WNEW Firecracker 500 (1996). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,668 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Oh! Darling" sits fourth on Abbey Road, the Beatles' eleventh studio album, from 1969, and it's Paul McCartney in full-blown blues mode. It went by the working title "Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)", and although the credit reads Lennon–McCartney, it's mostly Paul's song. He plays piano and sings lead, John Lennon plays electric guitar, George Harrison handles the bass and Ringo Starr the drums, with John, George and Paul piling on the backing vocals. George Martin produced, with Geoff Emerick among the engineers.
It never came out as a single in Britain or America, but a regional Capitol offshoot edited it into one for Central America with "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on the flip, Portugal got it on a single too, and Apple paired it with "Here Comes the Sun" in Japan in June 1970.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
Also listed as: Oh Darling; Oh! Darling; Oh, Darling.
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