I Saw Her Standing There

I Saw her Standing There was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in September of 1962. A slightly slower version of I Saw her Standing There rumored to be recorded in a rehearsal at The Cavern Club in late 1962 is available on bootleg recordings. The songs was recorded during the Please Please Me sessions on February 11, 1963. It was recorded under it's working title "Seventeen" and can still be called that name in outtakes. They recorded 9 takes and 3 of them were complete takes. Take one was the best and that afternoon they overdubbed handclaps and edited McCartney's "One, two, three, four" count in from take 9. The full version of take 9 can be heard on the B side of the EP "Free as a Bird". Out of 9 takes, take 1, 2, and 9 are available and the rest are lost mostly because they probably weren't complete takes. The song was released on the album, "Please Please Me" on March 22, 1963 in the UK and on the B-side of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963. They performed I Saw her Standing There 11 times at the BBC and 5 of them are officially released while the others can be found on bootlegs.