Eight Days a Week by The Beatles – ****

First released: 1964

I like that neat fade up at the beginning. As for the song itself, it is marvelously crafted, but I have to say that by this point in 1964-1965 The Beatles made songwriting look easy, and the entire effort seems deceptively simple. It became yet another #1 single in the US, and so found a home later on on "1". Originally, it was just another album track in the UK on "Beatles For Sale", but became a highlight on the US "Beatles VI". Later it appeared on 1973's "1962-1966". Two different demo versions appear on "Anthology 1" in 1995, one called "(sequence)" and the other called "(complete)".