"Any Time at All"

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Early in this project, I started wondering why Paul McCartney sings the second "Any time at all" in "Any Time at All."  It seemed incongruous because John Lennon sings the whole song except for those lines.

Listening to it this time though, I remembered something that I read in The Beatles Anthology (or at least I think it was in The Beatles Anthology).  I can't seem to find it again (and I don't really want to re-read large sections in an effort to find it), but it was John Lennon's explaining that Paul McCartney sings the "When I'm home" sections in "A Hard Day's Night" because he (McCartney) has a higher voice.  I'm pretty sure that the McCartney-sung "Any time at all" is even higher, so that switch might be just because of the register.