P.S. I Love You (Beatles song) ten takes on 11 September 1962 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London. Producer George Martin had booked session drummer Andy White as a replacement for Pete Best, whom he considered not technically good enough for recording purposes (Martin had been unaware that the other Beatles had already replaced Pete Best with Ringo Starr, who attended the session and plays maracas on the song). White was a freelance show band and session drummer, and gave the recording a lightweight cha cha treatment. Martin was not present at the session, which was run by Ron Richards in his absence. Richards told the
Ringo (song) vein of "El Paso" by Marty Robbins. Given his fame on "Bonanza", he had asked the two songwriters to come up with a song that fit in with his persona on that show. He also acknowledged that some teens who bought the record were probably expecting it to be about Beatles-drummer Ringo Starr (even though it was never about him), and believed that after listening to it, they would not be disappointed that the song was actually about a western outlaw. Greene also noted that recording of the album featuring "Ringo" began before the Beatles became popular in the United