Can’t Buy Me Love
Paul McCartney’s earliest release of “Can’t Buy Me Love” on file came out in 1991. Paul McCartney shares the writing credit with John Lennon. The earliest release on file is The Beatles’, from 1964, along with Rita Reys with The Pim Jacobs Combo’s. Also recorded by Ella Fitzgerald (released 1988), Tom Jones (released 1997) and Johnny Rivers (released 1976), among 640 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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 2024Credited writers: John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Earliest release on file: The Beatles, 1964, the same year as Rita Reys with The Pim Jacobs Combo.
- James Last1975
- Johnny Rivers1976
- Sweet d’Buster1978
- Ella Fitzgerald1988
- Tom Jones1997
- 綾戸智恵1998
- Friend ’n Fellow2003
- Michael Bublé2005
- Beat-Lele2017
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