"I Feel Fine"

A couple days ago, I figured out the solo in "I Feel Fine."  The next day (yester-day), I was thinking about the song again and noticed an interesting feature.  In the lines "I'm so glad that she's my little girl / She's so glad; she's tellin' all the world," the first halves ("I'm so glad" and "She's so glad") are sung by multiple voices.  Because there are more voices, there's a sense of the degree of those "so"s.

"I Feel Fine"

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Collection Audit:

Because I'm doing a separate project where I'm looking into the Beatles' music, I'm working on my transcriptions of the songs as I listen to them.  I'd already completed "I Feel Fine," but in following along in the lyrics, I noticed the backing vocals during the bridges:

I'm so glad that she's my little girl
She's so glad; she's tellin' all the world

The backing vocals double the "I'm so glad" and "She's so glad," but for the rest of the line, they're just "ooh"s.  There's a bit of parallelism between those two sections in the lyrics, but having the backing vocals double those nearly-identical parts helps to further the feeling of completeness that the relationship has and that the lyrics already describe.

"I Feel Fine"

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I happened to hear "I Feel Fine" on the radio at McDonald's to-night, and I noticed something about the third verse:

That her baby buys her things, you know
He buys her diamond rings, you know
She said so
She’s in love with me, and I feel fine, ooh

"Things" rhymed with "diamond rings" is also a feature of two verses of "Can't Buy Me Love."  There's some similarity with the first lines of the first verse ("a diamond ring" rhymes with "anything"):

I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend
If it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything, my friend
If it makes you feel alright

But there's a greater similarity with the first lines of the third verse ("diamond rings" rhymes with "kind of things"):

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things
That money just can't buy