DAY TRIPPER
1 ON THE CHARTS
1 on all the UK charts, with five
weeks as the Record Retailer 1 (December 16 1965-January 13 1966) and 12 weeks in
the Top 50
RECORDED
October 16 1965 in Studio 2 at Abbey Road; the master
was Take 3
RELEASED AS A SINGLE
In the UK on December 3 1965 -
Parlophone R5389
In the USA on December 6 1965 - Capitol 5555
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PERFORMED LIVE
December 1965 to August 1966, spanning The Beatles' last
UK tour to their last anywhere, the August 1966 North American visit
and
'Day Tripper' was a double A-sided single with 'We Can Work It Out',
although in the UK 'Day Tripper' received more airplay
Owing to the odd
way in which the Billboard charts were then calculated, 'Day Tripper' peaked at 5
in the USA during its ten-week run in the Hot 100, even though the other side of
the same record reached 1
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