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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the classic rock music video of The Beatles performing I Saw Her Standing There in honor of the fact that on September 7, 1963, The Beatles recorded an appearance on the BBC radio program ‘Saturday Club’, at the Playhouse Theatre in London. They performed ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘Memphis’, ‘Happy Birthday Saturday Club’ (arrangement credited to John Lennon), ‘I'll Get You’, ‘She Loves You’, and ‘Lucille’."

I Saw Her Standing There written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in Paul's front room in Liverpool,
Lyrics
"Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another,
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well she looked at me
And I, I could see
That before too long
I'd fall in love with her
She wouldn't dance with another
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well my heart went boom
When I crossed that room
And I held her hand in mine
Oh we danced through the night
And we held each other tight
And before too long
I fell in love with her
Now I'll never dance with another
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well my heart went boom
When I crossed that room
And I…"

Background on this song from https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-saw-her-standing-there/
"Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 11 February 1963
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 22 March 1963 (UK), 26 December 1963 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, bass, handclaps
John Lennon: backing vocals, rhythm guitar, handclaps
George Harrison: lead guitar, handclaps
Ringo Starr: drums, handclaps

Written with John Lennon in Paul McCartney's front room in Liverpool, I Saw Her Standing There was the opening track on The Beatles' debut album Please Please Me.

I wrote it with John in the front parlour of my house in 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton. We sagged off school and wrote it on guitars and a little bit on the piano that I had there.
Paul McCartney
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
McCartney is said to have come up with the idea for the song while returning from a concert in Southport, although it was completed with Lennon shortly after in September 1962.

Sometimes we would just start a song from scratch, but one of us would nearly always have a germ of an idea, a title or a rough little thing they were thinking about and we'd do it. I Saw Her Standing There was my original, I'd started it and I had the first verse, which therefore gave me the tune, the tempo and the key. It gave you the subject matter, a lot of the information, and then you had to fill in... It was co-written, my idea, and we finished it that day.
Paul McCartney
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
The lyrics were written in an exercise book from the Liverpool Institute. Mike McCartney's book Remember includes a photograph of Paul and John working on the song while reading the book and playing guitars.

We were learning our skill. John would like some of my lines and not others. He liked most of what I did, but there would sometimes be a cringe line, such as, 'She was just seventeen, she'd never been a beauty queen.' John thought, 'Beauty queen? Ugh.' We were thinking of Butlins so we asked ourselves, what should it be? We came up with, 'You know what I mean.' Which was good, because you don't know what I mean.
Paul McCartney
Anthology
A slightly slower version of I Saw Her Standing There, believed to have been recorded during a rehearsal at the Cavern Club late in 1962, is available on bootleg recordings. The recording features no rhythm guitar by John Lennon; instead he played harmonica in the introduction and beneath McCartney's vocals during the verses.

The recording features laughter from McCartney and Lennon as they sing "Well we danced all night/And I held her tight/And I held her hand in mine" during the second bridge.

A live version of the song, recorded on 24 October 1963 in Stockholm during The Beatles' tour of Sweden, was released on Anthology 1 in 1995. Several other live bootleg versions exist, including two from the Star-Club, Hamburg.

The Beatles recorded I Saw Her Standing There eleven times for BBC Radio. The first was a live broadcast for the Saturday Club programme on 16 March 1963, and the final recording took place on 1 May 1964 for From Us To You.

A version recorded on 16 October 1963, for the radio show Easy Beat, was first broadcast on 20 October, and was released commercially in 1994 on Live At The BBC.

Although it was the lead song on the Please Please Me album in the UK, I Saw Her Standing There's first US release was as the b-side of the I Want To Hold Your Hand single, on 26 December 1963."

The Beatles - I saw her standing there (Take 9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk0sY_WiCpA

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SSgt Brian Brakke
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Great followup LTC Stephen F. !
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SPC Margaret Higgins
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I BOUGHT MY FIRST 45; AND THIS WAS ON IT! GREAT JOB SUPERSTARS! GOD BLESS YOU FOREVER IN HEAVEN: BEATLE JOHN LENNON. WE LOVE YOU.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Great share brother David.
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