[Music] Beautiful theme that we can appreciate in 2 different scenes in the movie A Hard Day's Night - "I Should Have Known Better" - 1964

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This time, I present one of my favorite and most cherished songs. In fact, when I had a cassette tape that I received as a gift for my 14th birthday, it was one of the first songs I recorded on that cassette, for a special program on Radio Satélite called "Collage," which commemorated the launch of compact discs, or CDs. And guess who were some of the first groups to release all their albums on CD?... None other than The Beatles. The song I'm referring to is "I Should Have Known Better," a musical gem. Those of us from my generation remember that recording music directly from the radio was quite an ordeal, praying the DJ wouldn't talk in the middle of a song. Now that was a real adrenaline rush, haha. What I used to do was blend the beginning of one song with the end of another, haha. Those were the first home mixes, haha. We had some crazy stories about music, didn't we? Haha.

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I should tell you that this song was recorded between January and February 1964 in Paris, along with a few other songs composed just before Beatlemania took a turn a few weeks later. It's credited to the famous Lennon-McCartney duo and is track number two on the album "A Hard Day's Night." It also appears twice in the film of the same name: once in the scene on the moving train and again in the fictional concert scene. For me, it's one of the best tracks on that LP.

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The catchy "He he he," "Ohhh," "Whoaaa," and the "I" (with the "a" drawn out for a couple of seconds at the beginning of the song) and the subsequent verses were unique and extraordinary. I think the key is that Lennon masterfully lengthens the ending of each of those words a little, creating a kind of extended exclamation that's pleasing to the ear. Besides the fact that Lennon also plays the harmonica in this song, a musical instrument frequently used and recurring in their early songs, we also hear George's lead guitar, Paul's bass, and Ringo's drums. In the film, this song appears when the four Beatles, along with Paul's grandfather (an Irish actor named Wilfrid Brambell), are in a train car on their way from New York to Washington. They decide to play cards right there, and this song plays in the background, accompanied by four schoolgirls, one of whom... One of them, a very beautiful blonde in her early twenties, is Pattie Boyd, a famous model from the 1960s and, years later, the wife of George Harrison and then Eric Clapton, another famous British musician from the 1960s and 70s.

I also clearly remember that in 1988, I went with my older brother to see "Imagine," a biographical film made with fragments of interviews during the Beatles era, narrated by John Lennon himself. It was in a cinema that no longer exists, called the HS Center, and there at the entrance, they had this song playing in the background, and they repeated it about three times. The emotion was indescribable for me at that moment; it was something unique and sensational. I was 15 years old at the time. Another detail we see in this clip from the film, which amused me at the time, is that the movement simulates a moving train; however, it was extras and production staff who... They moved the set, which resembled a train carriage. It was actually recorded in a London recording studio, specifically Twickenham Film Studios (those were the special effects of the time, hahahaha).

Well, my dear friends, that's all for today on our trip down memory lane to relive moments, anecdotes, and details of this extraordinary song. Before I go, I wish you all a good night and a beautiful sunrise...hugs to all...Blessings...!!!