P.S. I Love You

Album: Please Please Me (1962)
Charted: 10
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  • As I write this letter, send my love to you
    Remember that I'll always be in love with you
    Treasure these few words 'til we're together
    Keep all my love forever

    P.S. I love you, you, you, you
    I'll be coming home again to you, love
    And 'til the day I do, love
    P.S. I love you, you, you, you

    As I write this letter, send my love to you
    Remember that I'll always be in love with you
    Treasure these few words 'til we're together
    Keep all my love forever
    P.S. I love you, you, you, you

    As I write this letter (oh)
    Send my love to you (you know I want you to)
    Remember that I'll always be in love with you

    I'll be coming home again to you, love
    And 'til the day I do, love
    P.S. I love you, you, you, you
    You, you, you
    I love you Writer/s: John Lennon, Paul Mccartney
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 23

  • Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganDamn, Paul sure had a lot of different chicks!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyAndy White, hired by producer George Martin to play drums on "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," passed away November 9th, 2015. in New Jersey at the age of 85.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 10th 1964 Vee-Jay Records of Chicago released the album 'Introducing The Beatles'...
    And on that day the #1 album was "The Singing Nun" by the Singing Nun and ten days later on January 20th Capitol Records released 'Meet The Beatles'...
    Four tracks from the album made Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; "Love Me Do" (#1 for 1 week), "Twist and Shout (#2 for 4 weeks), "P.S. I Love You" (#10 for 1 week), and "There's A Place" (#74 for 1 week); these four songs were on the Tollie Records label, which was a subsidiary of Vee-Jay Records...
    R.I.P. John and George.
  • Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, CaPaul penned a "neat" song and on the words "as I write" he subconciously choses the
    chord change of a neopolitan 6th...which is magical sounding...The Hollyridge Strings under the agesis of arranger Stu Phillips did a great version of this. I believe it was a single on Capitol in '64...by the way Happy MArriage to Paul and his new wife getting married today. (10-09-11)
  • Ruth from Indianapolis, InWell, that's certainly an interesting story. I'd love to believe that it was a letter addressed to John (because there's no denying -- unless you're Paul, that is -- that Paul was extremely jealous of Stu's relationship with John). I guess it's a matter of whom you ask. Dot says it was for her, Paul changes his story too much (as it was once said somewhere in an old interview that it was based on the letters he'd write to her while in Hamburg), and who knows how much you can believe Pete?
  • Frank from Santa Cruz, CaThere's a very interesting story behind this song, and as Paul himself has said, it has nothing to do with Dorothy Rhone. In a September 2000 interview, Pete Best commented that Paul wrote it to Stuart Sutcliffe, the lyrics apparently adapted from one of Paul's letters to Stuart.

    http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/petebest.html

    Also read Sutcliffe's letters, published by his sister in 2001. Lennon and Sutcliffe had been living together for some time, in a clearly intimate relationship. Paul has said he was "jealous" of Stuart's relationship with John, but from the evidence it was the other way around: Paul was jealous of John's relationship with Stuart.
  • K from Nowhere, OnKrissy, it actually did come out in 62. The Please Please Me album came out in 63, but the Love Me Do/ Please Please Me single was released in 62.
  • Dario from Miami, FlIf you listen close, between 1:23 and 1:36 the call and response is John, Paul and George, not just John and Paul. John: "Ohhh", Paul, "You know I want you too", George "Yeah".
  • Ruth from Indianapolis, InWhy isn't it mentioned that this song was written while in Hamburg for Paul's first fiancée, Dot Rhone?
  • Michael from Chicago, Il1:23 - 1:36 On the call/response: That's Paul 'responding': 1)OHHHH... 2)You know I want you to... 3)Yeah... That's not John. (Paul's singing lead.)
  • Lateeka from Kelowna, CanadaThe best part of this song is 1:23 - 1:36 --- John-OHHHH , Paul-You know I want you to
    **Harmony**-Remember that I'll always **Paul(Yeah)**
    Be in love with you

    Beatles were excellent musicians even back in the earlly sixties before there transformation 1965-1970 ... i love how broad they were....
  • Forrest from Rochester, MnHaunting, tastefully understated harmonies.
  • Krissy from Boston, MaGood song. But it actually came out in 63' becuase thats when Please Please Me album came out.
  • Krista from Elyria, OhI love the part when he sings "You, you youuuuu"! It sound so beautiful!
  • Lisa from Eugene, OrBette Midler Covers this song in the Movie For the Boys.
  • John from Woburn, MaGreat song, i love paul's call and response singing in the last verse
  • Steve from Fenton, MoGood point, Ken. I never thought of it that way. I'd never heard the Peggy Sue interpretation and I've read much of what's been published on the Beatles over the years. Thanks for sharing it.
  • Ken from Louisville, KySome have reported that "P.S." besides being the abbreviation for "postscript" also meant "Peggy Sue". Paul was (and is) a HUGE Buddy Holly fan and it has been suggested this was a homage to him.
  • Roman from Vilnius, Othermy facts:

    • Paul writed dedicated it to his friend Dorothy 'Dot' Rhone

    • Performed at their Parlophone Records audition on June 6, 1962. Pete Best on Drums

    • Andy White was invited to recording session of this song..
  • Brian from Meriden, CtThis song, indeed, illustrates the fact that the Fab 4 were in a period of perfecting their chops. Not their best by a long shot. Shortly after in 1964 the Beatles released some GREAT records, i.e. - "She Loves You," "Twist and Shout," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Tell Me Why," etc. along with some very average ones, i.e - "Do You Want to Know a Secret," "From Me to You," the song in question, etc. Still it was a pretty nice love song. It always struck me that in that early period the Beatles made some of the best music of their career - these songs burned, and John played a big role - yet still put out some much less venerable studio performances. Even without the wealth of all the lyricism and studio magic that followed and the emergence of Paul as a modern-day Mozart the Beatles as young kids showed examples of why they were the best and the importance of these early songs in their peerlessly varied body of work.
  • Mauricio from Hanford, CaVery good love song
  • Keith from Slc, UtFollowing the success of this song, the then-resort town of Palm Springs, California sponsored an ad campaign using the title of the song.
  • Liliana from Huntley, Ilno comments? this song may not have hit it big but it's still fabulous, nice example of their early work. c'mon people
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