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"I Saw Her Standing There" is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and is the opening track on the Beatles' debut album, ''Please Please Me'', released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone on 22 March 1963. In December 1963, Capitol Records released the song in the United States as the B-side on the label's first single by the Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand". While the A-side topped the US ''Billboard'' charts for seven weeks starting 18 January 1964, "I Saw Her Standing There" entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on 8 February 1964, remaining there for 11 weeks, peaking at #14. The song placed on the ''Cashbox'' charts for only one week at #100 on the same day of its ''Billboard'' debut. In 2004, "I Saw Her Standing There" was ranked #139 on ''Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ==Composition== The song was mainly written by Paul McCartney. Originally titled "Seventeen", the song was apparently conceived by McCartney while driving home from a Beatles' concert in Southport, Lancashire as a modern take on the traditional song "As I Roved Out", a version of "Seventeen Come Sunday" that he had heard in Liverpool in 1960. According to Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn, McCartney worked out chords and changes for the song on an acoustic guitar, at the family home of his Liverpool friend and fellow musician Rory Storm, on the same night, 22 October 1962.〔Lewisohn, Mark. ''The Beatles: All These Years, Volume One – Tune In''. Crown Archetype, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4000-8305-3, pp. 747-748〕 Two days later, McCartney was writing lines for the song during a visit to London with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer, who was seventeen at the time herself.〔Lewisohn, Mark. ''The Beatles: All These Years, Volume One – Tune In''. Crown Archetype, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4000-8305-3, p. 748〕 The song was completed about a month later at McCartney's Forthlin Road home with Lennon. McCartney later described in ''Beat Instrumental'' how he went about the song's composition: "Here’s one example of a bit I pinched from someone: I used the bass riff from 'Talkin’ About You' by Chuck Berry in 'I Saw Her Standing There'. I played exactly the same notes as he did and it fitted our number perfectly. Even now, when I tell people, I find few of them believe me; therefore, I maintain that a bass riff hasn’t got to be original". The lyrics were written on a Liverpool Institute exercise book. ''Remember'', a book by McCartney's brother Mike McCartney, includes a photograph of Lennon and McCartney writing the song while strumming guitars and reading the exercise book. It was typical of how Lennon and McCartney would work in partnership, as McCartney later commented: "I had 'She was just seventeen,' and then 'never been a beauty queen'. When I showed it to John, he screamed with laughter, and said 'You're joking about that line, aren't you?'" "We came up with, 'You know what I mean.' Which was good, because you don't know what I mean."〔Barry Miles. ''Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now''〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I Saw Her Standing There )〕 "It was one of the first times he ever went 'What? Must change that ...'" Lennon said: "That's Paul doing his usual good job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler'. I helped with a couple of the lyrics."〔〔David Sheff. ''John Lennon: All We Are Saying''〕 The songwriting credit on the ''Please Please Me'' liner notes is "McCartney–Lennon" which differs from the more familiar "Lennon–McCartney" that appears on subsequent releases. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Saw Her Standing There」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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