"Not a Second Time" is a song by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) performed by The Beatles on their album With the Beatles. Lennon said he was "trying to write a Smokey Robinson or something at the time."[1]
This was the song that inspired the famous musical analysis from William Mann of The Times, citing the "Aeolian cadences" of Lennon's vocals as the song draws to a close, and comparing it to Mahler's "Song Of The Earth".[2] Lennon, years later, remarked: "To this day, I have no idea what [Aeolian cadences] are. They sound like exotic birds."[3]
The song was recorded in nine takes on 11 September 1963 at Abbey Road Studios.[4]
Credits
- Credits per Ian MacDonald[3]
Cover version
Notes
- ^ The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 96. ISBN 0-8118-2684-8.
- ^ William Mann essay
- ^ a b MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, Second Revised Edition, London: Pimlico (Rand), 97-98. ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
- ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books, 35. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
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