I Saw Her Standing There */ The Beatles Jazz Cover Version ’’ Peter Grant

This is the jazz Peter Grant version of the classic Beatles song. “I Saw Her Standing There“ is a song by the English rock band the Beatles written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. It is the opening track on the band’s 1963 debut album Please Please Me. The song was mainly written by Paul McCartney. Originally titled “Seventeen“, the song was apparently conceived by McCartney while driving home from a Beatles’ concert in Southport, Lancashire as a modern take on the traditional song “As I Roved Out“, a version of “Seventeen Come Sunday“ that he had heard in Liverpool in 1960. According to Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn, McCartney worked out chords and changes for the song on an acoustic guitar, at the family home of his Liverpool friend and fellow musician Rory Storm, on the same night, 22 October 1962. Two days later, McCartney was writing lines for the song during a visit to London with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer, who was seventeen at th