Ain't She Sweet (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the Anthology 1 Official album.

Timeline This song has been officially released in 1995

Ain't Seen Nothing Like It

Ain't That A Shame

Related sessions

This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions

Recording (Studio Rahlstedt)

June 24th, 1961

Recording and mixing "Come And Get It", "Sun King", "Mean Mr Mustard"

Jul 24, 1969

Jam session with George Harrison and Ringo Starr

Jun 23, 1994

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Song facts

From Wikipedia:

“Ain’t She Sweet” is a song composed by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published in 1927 by Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc./Warner Bros., Inc. It became popular in the first half of the 20th century, one of the hit songs that typified the Roaring Twenties. Like “Happy Days Are Here Again” (1929), it became a Tin Pan Alley standard. Both Ager and Yellen were elected to membership in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. […]

“Ain’t She Sweet” was also performed by the Beatles with John Lennon on lead vocals. It was recorded on June 23, 1961 at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg, Germany with Pete Best on drums, and produced by Bert Kaempfert, released as a single in 1964, May 29 on Polydor NH 52-317 (UK)., and included on the Anthology 1 album in 1995. A different rendition, recorded during a jam session in 1969 with Ringo Starr on drums, was released on the Beatles’ Anthology 3 – it is the only song which appears on two of the Anthology records. A solo version of the song was also included in the John Lennon Anthology box set.

Paul McCartney, in the “Anthology” book:

A lot of our tracks may not have been ‘cool’. I think if we’d just been cool, we wouldn’t have made it how we did… The fact that we weren’t ashamed of those [cabaret] leanings meant that the band could be a bit more varied. And there was a need for that, because we played cabaret a lot. Songs like Till There Was You and Ain’t She Sweet would be the late-night cabaret material. They showed that we weren’t just another rock ‘n’ roll group.

The Beatles Anthology • The Beatles

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From Anthology 3 liner notes:

[…] Later in the day [July 24, 1969], during the recording of the Abbey Road song Sun King, the Beatles ambled into a lighthearted jam that encompassed three Gene Vincent songs – Be-Pop-A-Lula, Who Slapped John? and, most enticingly, Ain’t She Sweet, the standard from 1927 that Vincent had covered in 1956 and the Beatles themselves recorded in 1961 (issued on Anthology 1). Then they had performed an arrangement that vocalist John Lennon described as “a march”, but in this 1969 jam they duplicated the softened style of Vincent’s recording.

Last updated on May 20, 2017

Lyrics

Oh ain't she sweet
Well see her walking down that street
Yes I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?

Oh ain't she nice
Well look her over once or twice
Yes I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she nice?

Just cast an eye
In her direction
Oh me oh my
Ain't that perfection?

Oh I repeat
Well don't you think that's kind of neat?
Yes I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?

Oh ain't she sweet
Well see her walking down that street
Well I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?

Oh ain't that nice
Well look it over once or twice
Yes I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she nice?

Just cast an eye
In her direction
Oh me oh my
Ain't that perfection?

Oh I repeat
Well don't you think that's kind of neat?
Yes I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?

Oh ain't she sweet
Well see her walking down that street
Well I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?
Well I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?

Officially appears on

Anthology 1

Official album • Released in 1995

2:13 • Outtake • A

Paul McCartney :: Bass

John Lennon :: Rhythm guitar, Vocals

George Harrison :: Lead guitar

Pete Best :: Drums

Bert Kaempfert :: Producer

Karl Hinze :: Recording engineer

Session Recording:: Jun 24, 1961

Studio :: Studio Rahlstedt, Wandsbek, Hamburg

Anthology 3

Official album • Released in 1996

2:09 • Outtake • B • Stereo • Later in the day, during the recording of the Abbey Road song Sun King, the Beatles ambled into a lighthearted jam that encompassed three Gene Vincent songs - Be-Pop-A-Lula, Who Slapped John? and, most enticingly, Ain't She Sweet, the standard from 1927 that Vincent had covered in 1956 and the Beatles themselves recorded in 1961 (issued on Anthology 1). Then they had performed an arrangement that vocalist John Lennon described as "a march", but in this 1969 jam they duplicated the softened style of Vincent's recording.

Paul McCartney :: Bass

Ringo Starr :: Drums

John Lennon :: Rhythm guitar, Vocals

George Harrison :: Lead guitar

George Martin :: Producer

Geoff Emerick :: Recording engineer

Phil McDonald :: Recording engineer

Session Recording:: Jul 24, 1969

Studio :: EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

Anthology 1 (2016 remaster)

Streaming • Released in 2016

2:13 • Outtake • A2016

Paul McCartney :: Bass

John Lennon :: Rhythm guitar, Vocals

George Harrison :: Lead guitar

Pete Best :: Drums

Bert Kaempfert :: Producer

Karl Hinze :: Recording engineer

Session Recording:: Jun 24, 1961

Studio :: Studio Rahlstedt, Wandsbek, Hamburg

Anthology 3 (2016 remaster)

Official album • Released in 2016

2:09 • Outtake • B2016 • Stereo • Later in the day, during the recording of the Abbey Road song Sun King, the Beatles ambled into a lighthearted jam that encompassed three Gene Vincent songs - Be-Pop-A-Lula, Who Slapped John? and, most enticingly, Ain't She Sweet, the standard from 1927 that Vincent had covered in 1956 and the Beatles themselves recorded in 1961 (issued on Anthology 1). Then they had performed an arrangement that vocalist John Lennon described as "a march", but in this 1969 jam they duplicated the softened style of Vincent's recording.