Song

If I Needed Someone

Release date: 03 December 1965

If I needed someone to love you're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone

If I had some more time to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you my friend if I needed someone

Had you come some other day then it might not have been like this
But you see now I'm too much in love

Carve your number on my wall and maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone

If I had some more time to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you my friend if I needed someone

Had you come some other day then it might not have been like this
But you see now I'm too much in love
Carve your number on my wall and maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone.

"If I Needed Someone"
Song by the Beatles from the album Rubber Soul
Released 3 December 1965
Recorded 16 October 1965,
EMI Studios, London
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:23
Label Parlophone
Writer George Harrison
Producer George Martin
Rubber Soul track listing
14 tracks
Side one
  1. "Drive My Car"
  2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
  3. "You Won't See Me"
  4. "Nowhere Man"
  5. "Think for Yourself"
  6. "The Word"
  7. "Michelle"
Side two
  1. "What Goes On"
  2. "Girl"
  3. "I'm Looking Through You"
  4. "In My Life"
  5. "Wait"
  6. "If I Needed Someone"
  7. "Run for Your Life"
"If I Needed Someone"
Single by The Hollies
B-side "I've Got a Way of My Own"
Released 3 December 1965
Format 7" single
Recorded 17 November 1965
EMI Studios
Genre Pop, beat
Length 2:19
Label Parlophone
Writer(s) George Harrison
The Hollies singles chronology
"Look Through Any Window"
(1965)
"If I Needed Someone"
(1965)
"I Can't Let Go"
(1966)

"If I Needed Someone" is a song written by George Harrison. Versions by the Beatles and by the Hollies appeared simultaneously, both being released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1965. The Hollies version appeared on a single. Most of the Hollies' previous singles had been big top ten hits. When their version of "If I Needed Someone" only reached the lower half of the top 20 in the UK, they were quite critical and said they had made a mistake recording it. The Beatles' recording of the song first appeared in the UK on the 1965 album Rubber Soul and was later included in the 1966 North American release, Yesterday and Today.

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