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“Oh! Darling” is a song of The Beatles composed by Paul McCartney[1] (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and appearing as the fourth song on the Abbey Road album in 1969. Its working title was “Oh! Darling (I’ll Never Do You No Harm)”
McCartney later said of recording the track, “When we were recording ‘Oh! Darling’ I came into the studios early every day for a week to sing it by myself because at first my voice was too clear. I wanted it to sound as though I’d been performing it on stage all week.” He would only try the song once each day, if it was not right he would wait until the next day. In order to make sure he got every precious first take right, McCartney would practice the song in the bathtub. He once lamented that “five years ago I could have done this in one take”

In a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine, John Lennon said, “‘Oh! Darling’ was a great one of Paul’s that he didn’t sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better—it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he’s going to sing it.”

George Harrison described the song as “a typical 1950s–’60s-period song because of its chord structure.”Oh! Darling” appears to have drawn heavily on the New Orleans rhythm and blues sound popularised during the 1950s and early 1960s by African-American musicians like Fats Domino; it also seems to have drawn on the Louisiana swamp blues sound found in songs like Slim Harpo’s “Raining In My Heart.
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  • maxdaisy1

    So Last.FM explain this, last time I listened to this song it was the Beatles playing it. Now the version that is playing for me right now, sounds like some cheap garage band that couldn’t even get my cat pregnant. Riddle me that Last.FM… wtf!

    Tuesday evening

  • Ariues

    rhythm and blues

    14 days ago

  • ByTheDroves

    If you leave me, I'll never make it alone

    18 days ago

  • jimgravy845

    When you told me, You didn't need me anymore...

    19 days ago

  • love-sick

    Oh <3

    19 days ago

  • forever-hungry

    Paul's voice makes girls pregnant. [14]

    27 days ago

  • kemp678

    Oooh......perfect! :o) :o) :o)

    29 days ago

  • anapmdj

    Paul's voice makes girls pregnant. [13]

    last month

  • magnoliamagmay

    killer vocals! i still do wonder what it would of sounded like if Lennon sung it

    last month

  • phillybird

    always loved the Little Richard "woooos"

    last month

  • oldiesfanjohn

    oh yeah <3<3<3

    last month

  • Lowbacca

    my fav beatles track. the reason i will learn to play bass in the distant future.

    last month

  • nicoletesoro14

    Always makes me think of Christmas

    March 2012

  • sh4n3

    Loved walking in the snow listening to this.

    March 2012

  • LuSSouza

    amo amo amo

    March 2012

  • KISSastrophe

    i wuv it :3

    March 2012

  • gardenhead1

    favourite beatles track at the moment.

    March 2012

  • helloimjoshua

    <3

    March 2012

  • wildroses07

    so in 9 months i'll be a mother of a baby in white shirt and tie :3

    March 2012

  • Enigmatic_Smile

    Paul's voice makes girls pregnant. [11]

    March 2012
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