Got to Get You into My Life

"Got to Get You into My Life"
Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music
Song by the Beatles
from the album Revolver
Released5 August 1966
Recorded7 April & 17 June 1966
StudioEMI, London
Genre
Length
  • 2:27 (stereo version)
  • 2:35 (mono version)
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)George Martin
"Got to Get You into My Life"
The picture sleeve for the 1976 US single release of the Beatles' "Got to Get You into My Life"
Single by the Beatles
from the album Rock 'n' Roll Music
B-side"Helter Skelter"
Released31 May 1976[4]
LabelCapitol
The Beatles US singles chronology
"The Long and Winding Road"
(1970) 		"Got to Get You into My Life"
(1976) 		"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
(1976)

"Got to Get You into My Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, first released in 1966 on their album Revolver. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.[5][6] The song is a homage to the Motown Sound, with colourful brass instrumentation[7] and lyrics that suggest a psychedelic experience.[1] "It's actually an ode to pot," McCartney explained.[8]

A cover version by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, produced by McCartney, peaked at number six in 1966 in the UK.[9] The original Beatles version was issued in several countries as a single from the Rock 'n' Roll Music compilation album in 1976, six years after the Beatles disbanded, and reached number one in Canada. Another cover version by Earth, Wind & Fire from the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film soundtrack peaked at number nine in the US in 1978. There was also a rousing horn-oriented version from Toronto's A Stitch in Tyme in 1967.[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b Kenneth Womack, Todd F. Davis (2006). Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. SUNY Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-7914-6716-3.
  2. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2 November 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 53. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  3. ^ Sullivan, James (14 June 2013). "15 Songs You Didn't Know Were About Drugs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Capitol press release".
  5. ^ Miles 1997, p. 190.
  6. ^ Sheff 2000, p. 181.
  7. ^ DeRogatis, Jim (2003). Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. Hal Leonard. p. 45. ISBN 0-634-05548-8.
  8. ^ "100 Greatest Beatles Songs: #50 – 'Got to Get You Into My Life'". Rolling Stone. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  9. ^ Winn, John C. (2009). That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966–1970. Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. p. 38. ISBN 9780307452405.