In the mid-60’s, Paul McCartney was having a frustrating long-distance relationship that led him to write “You Won’t See Me,” which became a No. 1 hit on the charts for another artist years later.
McCartney was 20-years-old when he began dating actor Jane Asher, who was 17, in 1963. She was already a well-known star who was sent by Radio Times to cover the Beatles’ appearance at a BBC concert called Swinging Sound ’63. It was reported that McCartney had immediately noticed her and soon started a relationship.
A few years later, the Beatles worked on their 1965 album, Rubber Soul, with McCartney penning “You Won’t See Me” about his relationship. It was said that Asher wanted to continue pursuing her career on screen and on stage and was offered to appear in a production at the Bristol Old Vic theatre. Both their careers put a strain on the relationship, with McCartney wanting Asher to focus more on his life and stay home.
McCartney penned the track as a result of his inability to contact her and the demand in both their career. They would ultimately break up in 1968.
The band had an all-night session during the final day of working on the album, and were on a time crunch as they still needed three more tracks. “You Won’t See Me” ended up being recorded in two takes, with McCartney reporting it was a “very Motown-flavoured” sound with a “James Jamerson feel.”
“This was written around two little notes,” he explained for Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, “a very slim phrase, a two-note progression that I had very high on the first two strings of the guitar: the E and the B strings. I had it high up on the high E position, and I just let the note on the B string descend a semitone at a time, and kept the top note the same, and against that I was playing a descending chromatic scale.”
“To me it was very Motown-flavoured,” he continued. “It’s got a James Jamerson feel. He was the Motown bass player, he was fabulous, the guy who did all those great melodic bass lines. It was him, me and Brian Wilson who were doing melodic bass lines at that time, all from completely different angles, L.A., Detroit and London, all picking up on what each other did.”
The Beatles’ version of the song failed to enter the charts as it was never released as a standalone single. In 1974, it resurged in popularity when country/pop singer Anne Murray released her own cover. Her version of “You Won’t See Me” is the only one to ever enter the charts and landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The cover wasn’t only a chart-topper, but was also tagged as having revived Murray’s career. She hadn’t had a hit in four years at the time, after tracks like “Danny’s Song” and “He Things I Still Care,” and found the Beatles song in a box of cassette tapes marked “Listen to Again.”
“Four years is quite a long time between hit songs,” says Murray, according to A Journal of Musical Things. “At least it was in those days. As an artist, you do start to get a bit uneasy, but I had also just become a mother for the first time, so I had other things on my mind. Sometimes that works well because you’re not as nervous or scared and scrambling. ‘You Needed Me’ just seemed to come into my life at the right moment, and everything else aligned.”
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