| Title: | Kansas City Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! |  |
| Credits: | Jerry Liber - Mike Stroller - Richard Penniman | |
| Recorded: | EMI Studios, London, 18 October, 1964, Abbey Road 2 | |
| Line- up: | McCartney lead vocals, bass; Lennon backing vocal, rhythm guitar; Harrison backing vocals, lead guitar Starr drums; George Martin piano | |
| Producer: | George Martin | |
| Engineer: | Norman Smith | |
| Location: | Beatles For Sale - track 7 | |
| UK release: | 4th December 1964 (LP: Beatles For Sale) | |
| US release: | 14th June 1965 (LP: Beatles VI) |
Seeking to complete Beatles For Sale, the Beatles scheduled the penultimate session for the album on Sunday 18 October 1964, having motored south from their Friday-night concert engagement in Hull and before returning north for a Monday booking in Edinburgh. In this one session the group started and finished Kansas City/ Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!, I'll Follow The Sun, Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, Rock And Roll Music, Words Of Love and (not an album track but their next single) I Feel Fine, and they also re-made Mr Moonlight and completed Eight Days A Week. All in just nine hours.
As the tittle suggests, Kansas City/ Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey - which the Beatles had performed in Kansas City only a month earlier - was a medley of two songs, Kansas City and Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! Little Richard, who composed the latter, first coupled them in 1959. With Paul singing lead vocal, the Beatles captured the song in two takes - the master, on Beatles For Sale, was Take 1; Take 2 is the Anthology version.