AboutTrack one, side one of Please Please Me. Now considered a rock'n'roll standard covered by everyone from Pharrell Williams to Led Zeppelin, it was originally titled Seventeen as McCartney derived the idea for it from traditional English folk song Seventeen Come Sunday. The final recording was the first take out of nine, with claps spliced in after. Here’s some background on how the song came to fruition, first from John Lennon That’s Paul doing his usual job of producing what George Martin used to call a potboiler.’ I helped with a couple of the lyrics." And from Paul McCartney Sometimes we would just start a song from scratch, but one of us would nearly always have a germ of an idea, a title, or a rough little thing they were thinking about and we’d do it. I Saw Her Standing There’ was my original. I’d started it and I had the first verse, which therefore gave me the tune, the tempo, and the key. It gave you the subject matter, alot of information, and then you had to fill in. So it was co-written… and we finished it that day." Ask us a question about this songAsk a question *What's the chord progression?The first chord is an E major, with some small vamping/improvisation on guitar for 4 bars. The guitar melody is actually going from high D to E an octave below, which on top of E major forms an E7 chord E-G-B-D back to E major. During the verse, the progression is E E A E “Well she was… what I mean” E E B B “And the way… compare” E E A a “So how could I… another” E B E E “When I saw her standing there” One of the more interesting aspects of the progression for the verse is the use of the minor 4th iv chord A minor, noted as a lowercase a. The Beatles likely picked it up from doo wop music, and used the technique quite often. The bridge uses A until the last word, which briefly goes to B before dropping back to A to resolve back to E has Paul McCartney said about the song?“I Saw Her Standing There” was my original. I’d started it and I had the first verse, which therefore gave me the tune, the tempo, and the key. It gave you the subject matter, a lot of information, and then you had to fill in. So it was co-written… and we finished it that day. He added “we started to realize that we had to stop at these bad lines or we were only going to write bad songs. So we went through the alphabet between, clean, lean, mean…”What is the song structure of "I Saw Her Standing There"?As with most songs on Please Please Me, “I Saw Her Standing There” is written in the then-popular AABA form. The name AABA form describes the typical song sections the A parts are verses, and the contrasting B sections are bridges also known as middle eights. Each verse closes with a refrain, in lieu of a separate chorus produced “I Saw Her Standing There” by The Beatles?When did The Beatles release “I Saw Her Standing There”?Who wrote “I Saw Her Standing There” by The Beatles?1. I Saw Her Standing ThereCreditsRecorded AtEMI Studios, LondonRelease DateMarch 22, 1963Songs That Sample I Saw Her Standing ThereI Saw Her Standing There CoversI Saw Her Standing There by Santo & Johnny, I Saw Her Standing There by The Hollyridge Strings, I Saw Her Standing There by Jack Nitzsche, I Saw Her Standing There by Jerry Lee Lewis Ft. Little Richard, I Saw Her Standing There by MonaLisa Twins, I Saw Her Standing There by John Corabi, I Saw Her Standing There Tracks on the Tracks Sessions by Himesh Patel, Quand Je L'Ai Vue Devant Moi I Saw Her Standing There by Johnny Hallyday Ft. Joey and The Snowmen, I Saw Her Standing There by Part Time, I Saw Her Standing There by Cliff Richard, I Saw Her Standing There by The Crickets, I Saw Her Standing There by The Smithereens, I Saw Her Standing There by The Tubes, I Saw Her Standing There by Peter Lipa, 17 I Saw Her Standing There by MxPx, I Saw Her Standing There by Jerry Garcia, I Saw Her Standing There by Glee Cast, I Saw Her Standing There by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, I Saw Her Standing There by Little Richard, I Saw Her Standing There by Allister, I Saw Her Standing There by Bob Welch, I Saw Her Standing There by Daniel Johnston, I Saw Her Standing There by Ortopilot, I Saw Her Standing There by McFly, I Saw Her Standing There by Billy Joel Ft. Paul McCartney, I Saw Her Standing There by Stereophonics, I Saw Her Standing There by David Cassidy, I saw her standing there by Bruce Springsteen, I Saw Her Standing There by Sting Ft. Dave Matthews, Pharrell Williams & Vince Gill & I Saw Him Standing There by TiffanyView I Saw Her Standing There samplesTags
Paulwrote the song "I Saw Her Standing There" way after "Love Me Do" was recorded and chosen as the band's first single. "Love Me Do" was released in early October 1962. Macca supposedly finalized "I Saw Her Standing There" during a trip to London in late October 1962 with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer (who was 17!!). The Beatles About I Saw Her Standing There "I Saw Her Standing There" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles credited to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, but written primarily by McCartney. It is the opening track on the band's 1963 debut album Please Please Me. In December 1963, Capitol Records released the song in the United States as the B-side on the label's first single by the Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand". While the A-side topped the US Billboard chart for seven weeks starting 1 February 1964, "I Saw Her Standing There" entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 February 1964, remaining there for 11 weeks, peaking at No. 14. The song placed on the Cashbox chart for only one week at No. 100 on the same week of its Billboard debut. In 2004, "I Saw Her Standing There" was ranked No. 139 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. more » Year 1994 245 846 Views Playlists 4 Become A Better Singer In Only 30 Days, With Easy Video Lessons! Well she was just seventeen You know what I mean And the way she looked Was way beyond compare So how could I dance with another, Oh, when I saw her standing there Well she looked at me And I, I could see That before too long I'd fall in love with her She wouldn't dance with another Oh, when I saw her standing there Well my heart went boom When I crossed that room And I held her hand in mine Oh we danced through the night And we held each other tight And before too long I fell in love with her Now I'll never dance with another Oh, when I saw her standing there Well my heart went boom When I crossed that room And I held her hand in mine Oh we danced through the night And we held each other tight And before too long I fell in love with her Now I'll never dance with another Oh, when I saw her standing there Oh, since I saw her standing there Yeah, well since I saw her standing there Watch New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. They became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the history of popular music. Their best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, they later utilised several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication, they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions. more » 51 fans Written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Round Hill Music Big Loud Songs, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind Watch New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer Well she was just seventeen You know what I mean And the way she looked Was way beyond compare So how could I dance with another, Oh, when I saw her standing there Well she looked at me And I, I could see That before too long I'd fall in love with her She wouldn't dance with another Oh, when I saw her standing there Well my heart 1 - 2 - 3 - 4!Well, she was just seventeenYou know what I meanAnd the way she looked was way beyond compareSo how could I dance with another? OohWhen I saw her standin' thereWell she looked at me, and I, I could seeThat before too long I'd fall in love with herShe wouldn't dance with another whoohWhen I saw her standin' thereWell, my heart went boomWhen I crossed that roomAnd I held her hand in mineWhoah, we danced through the nightAnd we held each other tightAnd before too long I fell in love with herNow I'll never dance with another whoohSince I saw her standing thereWell, my heart went boomWhen I crossed that roomAnd I held her hand in mineWhoah, we danced through the nightAnd we held each other tightAnd before too long I fell in love with herNow I'll never dance with another whoohSince I saw her standing thereSince I saw her standing thereSince I saw her standing there WhenI saw her standin' there? [Jake:] Well she looked at me, and I, I could see That before too long I'd fall in love with her. [Jake with New Directions Boys:] She wouldn't dance with another, Whooh! When I saw her standin' there. [Ryder with New Directions Boys:] Well, my heart went "boom," When I crossed that room, And I held her hand in 1 - 2 - 3 - 4Well, she was just seventeenYou know what I meanAnd the way she looked was way beyond compareSo how could I dance with anotherAnd I saw her standing thereWell, she looked at me, and I, I could seeThat before too long, I'd fall in love with herShe wouldn't dance with anotherAnd I saw her standing thereWell, my heart went boomWhen I crossed that roomAnd I held her hand in mineWhoah, we danced through the nightAnd we held each other tightAnd before too long, I fell in love with herNow, I'll never dance with anotherSince I saw her standing thereWell, my heart went boomWhen I crossed that roomAnd I held her hand in mineWhoah, we danced through the nightAnd we held each other tightAnd before too long, I fell in love with herNow, I'll never dance with anotherSince I saw her standing thereHow to Format LyricsType out all lyrics, even repeating song parts like the chorusLyrics should be broken down into individual linesUse section headers above different song parts like [Verse], [Chorus], italics lyric and bold lyric to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song partIf you don’t understand a lyric, use [?]To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum 9CCtoI.