I Want To Hold Your Hand
Sep 11th, 2008 by oldfogey
Petula Clark recorded this version of the Lennon and McCartney song in 1965, a year or so after the Beatles had their massive hit with it. She sings it as a ballad. The Beatles’s version is a song sung for sixteen year olds. Clark makes it a song for grown ups. The lyrics (it was one of Lennon and McCartney’s early compositions) in the mouths of the Beatles seem naive, trivial and clumsy. It’s a teenage pop song with a good tune. In Clark’s version the song enters another dimension. The words become the faltering utterances, the humble inner yearning of someone just embarked on the first tentative steps of an adult love affair. The orchestral arrangement is lush, typical for a ballad recorded in the 60s.
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