"From Me to You"

Two days ago, I was thinking about "From Me to You" (actually, I was thinking about "From Us to You" - the slightly altered version from Live at the BBC), and I realized that it has a feature I've been noticing a lot lately.  In the lines "If there's anything that you want / If there's anything I can do," the syllables of the "anything"s are all sung to different pitches (E D C both times), musically giving a sense of the breadth of possibility.

There's a similar feature in the second verse, in the line "I got ev'rything that you want."  The syllables of "ev'rything" are also sung to different pitches (E D C again), musically giving a sense of breadth.

"I Just Don't Understand"

When I listened to the second disc of Live at the BBC yester-day, I also noticed a small thing in "I Just Don't Understand," specifically in the lines "Well, you know that I love you / More than anyone can."  The three syllables of "anyone" are all sung to different pitches (B A G), musically giving a sense of that breadth of possibility.

"All My Loving"

I listened to the second disc of Live at the BBC this morning and noticed a small feature in "All My Loving" (which is also in the studio version).  In one of the "all my loving"s in the coda (at ~1:53 in the studio version), the "all" is sung with a melisma (G# E F#, I think), musically giving a sense of that entirety.  The melisma is slightly different in the live versions (I think it's G# F# E in the BBC version, just G# E in the Live at the Hollywood Bowl version, and - oddly - G F Eb in the live version on Anthology 1), but it's clearly written as a feature of the song.