Song Of The Week - Hold me Tight

[Mr Mustard]

At the end of the bridge in particular the second one, there is a bit of a gaff where Paul sings ....it feels right NOW and John and George sing.... it feels alright SO in the background vocals.

Well-spotted.

But in another way it's typically Beatles. They probably noticed it and decided to keep it in. It gives the song a more live feel.

They often made these vocal slip-ups in the early years, especially John & Paul singing different words/lines to each other  - for example, I'll Get You: "Well there's gonna be a time, when I'm gonna (change your mind/make you mine)" or on What You're Doing when Paul sings "You" whilst John sings "I"..... all of which used to puzzle me (such glaring errors, why not do a re-take?) although now, like zipp, I feel it lends a quasi-live and rather warm spontaneity to these numbers - (so they really were human after all then!).

There is a chuggalong, breathy optimism to "Hold Me Tight".... a sort of fumbling, adolescent nervous excitement set to music... by no means the weakest cut on "With The Beatles", but down there in the bottom half for me. what I'd call an "eager puppy" of a track. Plenty of bounce and energy but no real direction.

[zipp]

They often made these vocal slip-ups in the early years ... on What You're Doing when Paul sings "You" whilst John sings "I"...

There is a chuggalong, breathy optimism to "Hold Me Tight".... a sort of fumbling, adolescent nervous excitement set to music...

I've always been convinced that the vocal slip up on What You're Doing was an intentional experiment. But they only do it once so maybe it wasn't intentional after all.

There again it was so obvious that they could have fixed it if they'd wanted.

Your description of Hold Me Tight is spot on.