The Beatles wrote nearly numerous quantity of songs throughout their tenure, however their actual success was in what number of different singers coated their memorable songs.

And Paul McCartney has admitted he listens to as many canopy variations of his songs as he can. But one has all the time stood out to him.

The monitor in query was their 1964 single And I Love Her, which was included on their third UK album, A Hard Day's Night.

McCartney confessed he beloved a canopy which took the track in a totally new route - each musically and lyrically.

"The earliest one that really caught my ear was by Esther Phillips, R&B Singer," he stated in 2018. (Via Far Out)

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McCartney famous: "She did a female version of ‘And I Love Her’ called ‘And I Love Him’, which is really great. I love it."

The monitor's composition is vastly totally different to the Fab Four's boppy rock ballad. Instead, Phillips created a moody R&B soundscape for her listeners.

She additionally modified the entire pronouns from female to masculine to align along with her type a little bit higher.

Phillips launched the duvet in 1965, a 12 months after And I Love Her hit retailer cabinets.

This shouldn't be the one Beatles cowl that McCartney has saved his eye on over time.

"I was lucky when I came up with Yesterday," he confessed. "Because that’s got covered like about 3000 times. And I think 3000 people - maybe over that - have recorded that."

He added: "But I thought: ‘Who are these people?’ So I said to one of our guys: ‘Johnny, can you get me like the top 10? Just give me the sort of top ten best ones.' So I listened to all of them. They were great."

Naming just a few of those heavy hitters, he stated: "It was like Frank Sinatra, Elvis [Presley], Marvin Gaye – very cool, Ray Charles, and the checklist went on. Amazing individuals, wonderful variations."

Elvis famously sang Yesterday whereas he was performing his residency slots in Las Vegas through the Seventies earlier than his premature loss of life in 1977.