Music Monday: The Beatles - I Want To Hold You Hand

And when I touch you I feel happy, inside
It's such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide

The Beatles had a lot of great songs but this one has always been my favorite. It's such a simple song with a melody and lyric that just gets stuck in your head. The song doesn't show their great song writing ability like some of their bigger hits like "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", "Help", and "Come Together" but it excelled in it's simplicity and honesty. The song is also what launched Beatlemania in America.

I'm not sure if the fact that it is such a simple song is why they became so huge in America but considering some early singles failed, you can look at the top of the charts now and it's easy to assume that the song was huge because it was simple and easy to enjoy for the American audience. Either way it opened the door for The Beatles to have the opportunity to expend into more artistic avenues with some of the best albums ever released: Revolver, Abbey Road, The White Album, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. They didn't start with this song but when a lot of people think of The Beatles, a lot of the time this is where the discussion starts.

The song is also very romantic. It's a want that can be felt by all ages. It gets to the core of what a relationship is. Just wanting to hold someone's hand. Sure it always leads to falling in love and everything that comes with that emotion but at the heart of any relationship is the want to simply hold someone's hand. Maybe I'm just a sappy guy but that feeling has always appealed to me.