Can’t Buy Me Love
Paul McCartney recorded “Can’t Buy Me Love” in 1991. Paul McCartney wrote it with John Lennon. An earlier recording by The Beatles in 1964 is on file. Also recorded by Rita Reys with The Pim Jacobs Combo (1964), James Last (1975) and Johnny Rivers (1976), among 640 recordings on file.
Squeeze taking on a Lennon-McCartney song on stage is fun, but the stranger listen is one of the men who wrote it coming back to record it himself in 1991. Put the two side by side and you can hear what a writer keeps and what a band borrows.
▶Paul McCartney - Intro / Can't Buy Me Love - Live in Buenos Aires, Argentina Oct 5th 2024Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Recorded earlier by The Beatles in 1964; whether that was the first recording is not on file.
- Rita Reys with The Pim Jacobs Combo1964
- James Last1975
- Johnny Rivers1976
- Sweet d’Buster1978
- Ella Fitzgerald1988
- Rita Reys1990
- Tom Jones1997
- 綾戸智恵1998
640 recordings of “Can’t Buy Me Love” on MusicBrainz in all.
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