[re_nortex]

Thanks for the link, ansel12. I remember when the Beatles came blasting onto the scene not long after the JFK assassination. Like many of that era, I thought most of their music of that time was just a lot of loud, abrasive noise. This one does strike me as different. Maybe I've mellowed in my dotage or perhaps this song is a cut above. The first comment in the YouTube link is interesting:

I know most of the obvious Beatles songs but this beats the lot! Glad I found it. As fossie32 says - some tremendous key changes in there.

So I take it this wasn't among their hit records?

[ansel12]

It was big enough, the Beatles sang a lot of romantic and upbeat songs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_We_Said_Today

[dfwgator]

Early Beatles were probably more influenced by the Everly Brothers than anything.

[Fiji Hill]

So I take it this wasn't among their hit records?

In the summer of 1964, it got a lot of airplay on KRLA, one of Southern California's two AM rock blasters, and it probably got played a lot on KFWB, its rival, which I didn't listen to as much. However, I don't think the recording was released as a single, because it didn't chart.