I'll Cry Instead

"I'll Cry Instead"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
from the album A Hard Day's Night
B-side"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
Released
  • 10 July 1964 (1964-07-10) (UK A Hard Day's Night album)
  • 20 July 1964 (1964-07-20) (US single)
Recorded1 June 1964
StudioEMI, London
Genre
Length
  • 2:09 (US mono)
  • 1:43 (UK mono)
  • 1:44 (stereo)
Label
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)George Martin
The Beatles US singles chronology
"And I Love Her"
(1964)
"I'll Cry Instead"
(1964)
"Matchbox"
(1964)

"I'll Cry Instead" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and recorded by the English rock band the Beatles for their third studio album, A Hard Day's Night (1964), a part-studio and part-soundtrack album to their film of the same name (1964). In the United States, the song originally appeared in the US version of A Hard Day's Night before it was released as a single backed with "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" along with the US album Something New.