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About "All I've got to Do"
From the original Beatles Album "With The Beatles" (1963)
JOHN 1980: "That's me trying to do Smokey Robinson again."
It was one of three songs Lennon wrote solo for With the Beatles, with "It Won't Be Long" and "Not a Second Time." Lennon said that it was written specifically for the American market; the idea of calling a girl on the telephone was unthinkable to a British youth in the early 1960s. For instance, Lennon said in an interview regarding “No Reply”: “I had the image of walking down the street and seeing her silhouetted in the window and not answering the 'phone, although I have never called a girl on the 'phone in my life! Because 'phones weren’t part of the English child’s life”.
