Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That

by The Beatles

Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 16 March 1964
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 4:45
  • Community rating: 4.06/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Barney Williams, Luther Dixon, Smokey Robinson, Ric Marlow, Robert Bateman, Jeff Jones, Anil Bhagwat, Georgia Dobbins, tracking by, Andy White, Jonathan Clyde, Janie Bradford, Buddy Holly, Wes Farrell, Paul McCartney, Billy Preston, Goffin, Carl Perkins, Lennon-McCartney, Robert Blackwell, Voni Morrison, Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman, Johnny Russell, Brian Holland, Larry Williams, Bert Russell, Alan Civil, Roy Lee Johnson, John Lennon, William Garrett, Brian Jones, Bobby Scott, Eric Clapton, Mack David, George Harrison, Chris Thomas, Chuck Berry, Ringo Starr, Meredith Willson, Freddie Gorman, Nicky Hopkins, George Martin, Richard Drapkin, Burt Bacharach, Berry Gordy, Phil Medley, Arthur Alexander

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Showcasing Paul McCartney's increasing dominance in the band's hit-making machinery, this single pivots around a rhythmically driving, modified 12-bar blues structure. The infectious vocal hooks and tight, energetic arrangements perfectly encapsulate the frantic, highly commercialized peak of the British beat boom.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, british, infectious, classic

Tracklist

  1. Can鈥檛 Buy Me Love (2:12)
  2. You Can鈥檛 Do That (2:33)

Credits

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