Dizzy Miss Lizzy

The motifs it works with are women, communication and love. The luck motif was not new to them, and 'Little Child' and 'Things We Said Today' got there 2 years before. It uses anaphora ('Run and tell your mama / Run and tell your brother'), a habit that peaked in 1968. An extrametrical rhyme arrives once, "marry you / Lizzy". One for the curious, the title names somebody in particular. Whether it was meant or not, the line "I want you to be" turns up in one other Beatles song, 'Now and Then'.

In A major at roughly 136 BPM, 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy' is a rock and roll song, and the writing shows the influence of blues. You will notice the guitar solo, two solos, double tracked. You can hear a vocal ad-lib and a voice over the break on it, and it reaches for an added sixth chord, which 21 Beatles songs use. It is strophic, the same tune each time with new words, as sixteen of their songs are, such as 'Matchbox' and 'Mr. Moonlight'. A curiosity, the chords run E7 → A → D → A → E7 → D → A, a shape 'Bad Boy' also uses, there as G7 → C7 → F7 → C7 → G7 → F7 → C7. One more thing, this song is the only track on Help! with organ on it, one of 48 across the catalogue.

The session was at EMI Studio 2, cut in seven takes during a single evening session, with Lennon overdubbing Vox Continental organ and Harrison double-tracking the lead guitar on the final take. Lennon played the Rickenbacker 325, his guitar, which they had last done on 'Boys' 2 years earlier. The kit in the room included the Ludwig Super Classic, Starr's own kit since 1964. The sound was built with ADT (double tracked vocal), one of 28 Beatles records to use it. The Beatles first used Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) here. This one came out of a two-song day, the 80th and 81st of their career.

Larry Williams wrote it and Lennon sings lead. It sticks to the roles they usually take, with Lennon on rhythm guitar, McCartney on bass, Harrison on lead guitar and Starr on drums, and cowbell is in there too. Lennon is credited with a Vox Continental overdub, 1965 being the year he used it most.

The record came out with Help! on August 6, 1965. On the record it brings to a close the album, and it reached America eight weeks earlier, on the Capitol album Beatles VI. This song was the 17th of the 33 records they released in that year, and the 86th in their whole run.