I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
US picture sleeve (reverse)
Single by the Beatles
A-side"Eight Days a Week"
Released
  • 4 December 1964 (1964-12-04) (UK Beatles for Sale album)
  • 15 February 1965 (US single)
Recorded29 September 1964
StudioEMI, London
GenreCountry rock,[1] pop rock[2]
Length2:33
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)George Martin
The Beatles US singles chronology
"I Feel Fine"
(1964) 		"Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
(1965) 		"Ticket to Ride"
(1965)

"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.[3] It was featured as the twelfth track on the 1964 album Beatles for Sale. "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" was also released on the Beatles for Sale (No. 2) EP.[4] It was later released as the B-side of the US single "Eight Days a Week", and then as the fifth track on the North America-only album Beatles VI. The song reached number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5]

  1. ^ Kingsbury, McCall & Rumble 2012, p. 106.
  2. ^ Terence J. O'Grady (1 May 1983). The Beatles, a musical evolution. Twayne. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-8057-9453-3.
  3. ^ Miles 1997, p. 175.
  4. ^ Ruhlmann 2009.
  5. ^ Wallgren 1982, p. 40.