I've Just Seen a Face
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| "I've Just Seen a Face" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Help! | ||
| Released | August 6, 1965 | |
| Recorded | June 14, 1965 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:07 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Help! track listing | ||
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"I've Just Seen a Face" is a song by The Beatles. It appears on their 1965 album, Help!, as well as the American release of their album Rubber Soul from the same year.
"I've Just Seen a Face" was written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney), and features McCartney on vocals. A younger McCartney would often perform the song on piano at family get-togethers, and it was even briefly titled "Aunty Gin's Theme," after his father's youngest sister, who professed a particular fondness for it.
The album version was recorded on June 14, 1965, at EMI Studios in London. Though overshadowed in popularity by album-mates like "Help!," "Yesterday," and "Ticket To Ride," the song has remained a favourite of McCartney's, who has never retired it from his live set list, and included it as one of only five Beatles numbers performed on his 1976 Wings Over America Tour. Post-Beatles live versions are documented on the 1976 album Wings over America, on the 1991 album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), and on the 2005 DVD, Live In Red Square.
Notable covers of "I've Just Seen a Face" have been done by The Charles River Valley Boys, The Dillards, Arlo Guthrie and Warren Zevon, Holly Cole, The Living End, Kenny Rankin, Eddie Vedder, Lucy Kaplansky, Gray Matter, John Pizzarelli and Thrice. Also Travis used the section of "if tis had been any other day..." in 'All I Want To Do is Rock'
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