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I've been looking for a particular song that I know the Beatles covered, so I've been listening to a lot of the early Beatles albums and finding some interesting (possible) Zombies' connections. Yester-day, I found one to "She Does Everything for Me" and remembered an-other one I've been neglecting.
The chorus to "Every Little Thing" on Beatles for Sale bears quite a lot of resemblance to that of "She Does Everything for Me."
The chorus to "Every Little Thing":
Every little thing she does
She does for me, yeah
And you know the things she does
She does for me, ooh
The chorus to "She Does Everything for Me":
She does everything for me
To make me feel alright
Everything she does for me
Makes me feel alright
Individually, both choruses say pretty much the same thing between the two couplets. The first and third lines of each are just reshuffled, and the second and fourth are almost identical. Both choruses also say pretty much the same thing as each other - "she does every (little) thing for me."
I don't know how to play any part of "Every Little Thing" (yet), so I don't know if there's any resemblance musically, but lyrically, they seem to be from the same mold.
I also listened to disc two of On Air - Live at the BBC, Vol. 2 yester-day, which reminded me of one musical element of "She Does Everything for Me" that I thought might have Beatle origins. At the very end, there's a glissando from D to C# in the guitar part. This same sort of thing is at the end of "You Can't Do That" from A Hard Day's Night. Granted, that's three notes (F to F# to G), and it's ascending where the glissando in "She Does Everything for Me" is descending, but it still ends the song.
And of course, the usual disclaimer that these are only conjectured influences.
