Английская Википедия:Hello Little Girl

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"Hello Little Girl" is one of the first songs written by John Lennon, credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Written in 1957, it was used as one of the songs at the Beatles unsuccessful Decca audition in 1962, included on the 1995 compilation album Anthology 1. A 1960 home demo recording has never been officially released.

Liverpool groups the Fourmost and Gerry & The Pacemakers recorded versions in 1963. The former reached number nine in the British charts while the latter remained unreleased until 1991.

Composition and structure

John Lennon wrote "Hello Little Girl" near the end of 1957, around the same time Paul McCartney wrote "I Lost My Little Girl".Шаблон:Sfn Lennon described it as one of his first finished compositions. Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn describes it as "the third song he wrote (but the first to stick)".Шаблон:Sfn According to Lennon, he drew on an old "Thirties or Forties song" that his mother sang to him.Шаблон:Sfn Lewisohn identifies it as the 1939 dance-band and film number "Scatterbrain". In particular, Lennon was captured by the rhythmic flow of lines like, "When you smile it's so delightful / When you talk it's so insane / Still it's charming chatter, scatterbrain."Шаблон:Sfn Lewisohn writes that the song is "steeped in the Crickets' sound"Шаблон:Sfn and that, "the Buddy Holly influence is overwhelming."Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist Walter Everett agrees, writing the song "has strong Holly characteristics."Шаблон:Sfn In particular, "Hello Little Girl" is the first Beatles song to recreate Holly's double-tracked vocal parts with Lennon on lead and McCartney singing the descant; the Beatles used this arrangement in almost all of their duets through 1969.Шаблон:Sfn

The song underwent significant changes between 1960 and 1962.Шаблон:Sfn Everett notes that in measures 22–23, the earlier version seeks to emulate Buddy Holly much more than the syncopated passage in the later version.Шаблон:Sfn The earlier version is also "supported by a single chain of applied V⁷s, VI^{Шаблон:Music7}–II^{Шаблон:Music7}–V⁷, whereas the later version repeats much faster-moving diatonic fifth-sequence heard nearly four full times."Шаблон:Sfn The change was likely made in part to accommodate added backing vocals from McCartney and George Harrison,Шаблон:Sfn emulating the Jordanaires and the Crickets in singing sustained vowels behind the soloist.Шаблон:Sfn Everett writes that the earlier version is the closest any composition by the Beatles comes to using the eight-bar bridge chord change III^{Шаблон:Music}-VI^{Шаблон:Music}-II^{Шаблон:Music}-V typical to Tin Pan Alley songs;Шаблон:Sfn He also writes that, like most early compositions by the Beatles', the song is "thoroughly diatonic, grounded solidly in the major scale,"Шаблон:Sfn though the song features a "bluesy" guitar solo.Шаблон:Sfn The later version also includes a new ending, using the same triplet close heard in "Twist and Shout" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand".Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist and writer Ian MacDonald writes that the only musically interesting part of the song is "the swift chromatic descent at the end, paralleling the equally swift chromatic ascents in "Like Dreamers Do".Шаблон:Sfn

Recording

The earliest known recording of the song is from 1960.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn This recording features Lennon on lead vocal and his Höfner Club 40 guitar while McCartney provides harmony vocals and plays his Framus Zenith acoustic guitar.Шаблон:Sfn McCartney recalls, "Sometimes I'd borrow a tape recorder—a Grundig with a little green eye—[or] John would manage to borrow one, and we'd go around my house and try to record things. I seem to remember recording 'Hallelujah, I Love Her So,' because I had the Eddie Cochran record. They were very much home demos, very bad sound quality."Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Though the recording features Lennon, McCartney and Stu Sutcliffe, "Hello Little Girl" includes only Lennon and McCartney on guitars.Шаблон:Sfn The track has never been officially released but circulates unofficially.Шаблон:Sfn

The Beatles recorded the song for their Decca audition on 1 January 1962. Lewisohn writes that Harrison's guitar work on this recording of "Hello Little Girl" is substandard compared to his normal work.Шаблон:Sfn Pete Best adds full-measure snare rolls between sections.Шаблон:Sfn Lewisohn further writes that the track is one of the few in the session that turned out well, mostly due to Lennon and McCartney's combined lead vocal.Шаблон:Sfn

On 8 February 1962, the Beatles recorded "Hello Little Girl" and three other songs in an audition for radio producer Peter Pilbeam.Шаблон:Sfn As audition tapes were not kept, the recording is almost definitely lost.Шаблон:Sfn From the performance of "Hello Little Girl" in particular, Pilbeam marked McCartney as "NO" but Lennon as "YES".Шаблон:Sfn On 7 March 1962, the Beatles recorded at the Playhouse Theatre for Pilbeam's BBC program. They recorded four tracks for the program, including "Hello Little Girl", though it was the only song of the four not broadcast.Шаблон:Sfn

On 13 February 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein visited producer George Martin for the first time. He gave Martin a 78 acetate of "Hello Little Girl" and "Till There Was You" from their Decca audition.Шаблон:Sfn Epstein marked the record in pen as "Hullo Little Girl" Шаблон:Sic by "John Lennon & The Beatles", crediting the song to "Lennon, McCartney" and "Til There Was You" Шаблон:Sic as "Paul McCartney & The Beatles".Шаблон:Sfn In the raw transcripts and manuscripts for his 1964 autobiography, A Cellarful of Noise, Epstein recalls "George [Martin] liked Hello Little Girl, Till There Was You. Liked George on guitar. Thought Paul was the one for discs."Шаблон:Sfn

The Fourmost's lead guitarist Brian O'Hara recalls that Lennon and Harrison made him a demo tape of "Hello Little Girl" on acoustic guitars and gave it to him a few days before the recording session.Шаблон:Sfn

Release

The Beatles rendition for their Decca audition was released on their 21 November 1995 compilation album Anthology 1.Шаблон:Sfn

A Decca-made acetate of "Hello Little Girl" and "Like Dreamers Do" sold for £4,000 in 1996 (Шаблон:Inflation).

In March 2016, Omega Auctions auctioned off an acetate once owned by Les Maguire of Gerry and the Pacemakers (dubbed the "Holy Grail") featuring "Hello Little Girl" and "Till There Was You" for £77,500, exceeding the original estimate of £10,000.

Personnel

Decca audition (Anthology 1) version

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• John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar
• Paul McCartney – bass, harmony vocal
• George Harrison – lead guitar
• Pete Best – drums

Versions by the Fourmost and Gerry and the Pacemakers

Шаблон:Infobox song On 3 July 1963, with the Beatles in the studio, the English Merseybeat band the Fourmost recorded "Hello Little Girl" at EMI Studios.Шаблон:Sfn The song was released as their debut single.

On 17 July 1963,Шаблон:Sfn Gerry and the Pacemakers recorded a version of the song, but the version by the Fourmost was selected for the issue. The Fourmost's release reached number 9 in the United Kingdom.Шаблон:Sfn Everett describes both performances as "straight" with "square syncopation, in strictly even eights as opposed to John's much freer style, in the music-hall tradition and lacking all soul."Шаблон:Sfn

The recording by Gerry and the Pacemakers was not released until the 1991 compilation, The Best of Gerry & the Pacemakers.Шаблон:Sfn The Fourmost's version of this song is also on 1979 The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away compilation album.

Weekly charts

Chart (1963)	Peak position
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