So far I’ve written exclusively about songs that appear on The Beatles’ albums, and lord knows there are enough of those to keep these Beatles Weekends going for months. But I’m turning my attention today to one of the band’s non-album singles.

Back in the day, artists would release songs between albums, probably to keep themselves on the audience’s radar. Somewhere along the line that practice fell by the wayside and singles were treated as previews of upcoming albums. Some artists still keep up the practice — Belle and Sebastian released all of their singles with non-album cuts for years — and in the Internet age, more and more artists have taken to releasing one-off tracks on their Web sites.

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