“From Me to You” was one of The Beatles' seminal tracks: their third single (and the first to reach number 1), it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios on March 5 1963 and released soon after on April 11. It found its first album slot on side 1 of Twist and Shout, a Canadian release for February of 1964.

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The “first throb” of the song went through Lennon and McCartney during a coach journey between York and Shrewsbury. According to Kevin Courrier’s book Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream, the song’s

title came from the letters' [sic] column in the weekly pop paper New Musical Express [i. e., NME] titled “From You to Us.” While reading the February 22 issue, which advertised their tour dates, Lennon and McCartney began trading lines until the lyrics were completed upon arrival at Shrewsbury. (pp. 51-2)

The extensive entry for this song on Wikipedia repeats this same origin story, and goes into further details about the song’s composition and evolution.

Having been inspired by a letters page in a popular publication, it is perhaps unsurprising that the song’s lyrics draw, in several ways, on forms of long-distance communication. The song can be read in some places as a kind of letter, urging its addressee to “call on me” in the event that there is anything else that could be “sen[t] along”. The title itself, which adds the phrase “with love” when it appears in the the song, also mimics a common valediction or sign-off.

The song has been covered quite a few times, and has had the honour of being featured on one of the John Lewis Christmas Commercials.