The "With The Beatles" album was released in the UK on November 22nd, 1963. The album continued to show that John and Paul were becoming great song writers, with 7 of the 14 tracks being written by them and 1 by George. The song was the first Beatles songs not to feature George at all and George Martin plays piano. The Times newspaper of London, famously published an article by their music critic, just a couple of weeks after the albums release. Writing about this song he said, "Harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs, too, and one gets the impression that they think simultaneously of harmony and melody, so firmly are the major tonic sevenths and ninths built into their tunes, and the flat submediant key switches, so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of Not A Second Time (the chord progression which ends Mahler's Song of the Earth)". In 1980 John is quoted, "To this day I don't have any idea what they (Aeolia cadence) are. They sound like exotic birds."

Beatlemaniacs 23 Nov 2014

The song features on the "With The Beatles" album which was released in the UK on November 22nd, 1963. It continued to show that John and Paul were becoming great song writers, with 7 of the 14 tracks being written by them. The song was the first Beatles track not to feature George H at all and George Martin plays piano. The Times newspaper, famously published an article by their music critic, just a couple of weeks after the album's release. Writing about this song he said, "Harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs, too, and one gets the impression that they think simultaneously of harmony and melody, so firmly are the major tonic sevenths and ninths built into their tunes, and the flat submediant key switches, so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of Not A Second Time (the chord progression which ends Mahler's Song of the Earth)". In 1980, John is quoted, "To this day I don't have any idea what they (Aeolian cadence) are. They sound like exotic birds."   6

Beatlemaniacs 23 Nov 2014