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Yester-day, I listened to the first disc of the Beatles' On Air - Live at the BBC, Vol. 2, which I mention only because I found an-other possible influence that "P.S. I Love You" had on Rod Argent's writing. And then to-day I listened to Please Please Me (so I could reference the recorded version of "P.S. I Love You") and found a few more things (although only one is relevant to this project).
I already mentioned that "P.S. I Love You" - along with some elements of "When I'm Sixty-Four" - is epistolic, just like "Care of Cell 44." But "P.S. I Love You" also talks about remembering:
Remember that I'll always
Be in love with you
It's in the imperative here, and - as far as I know (which very possibly might be wrong) - the only instance of "remember" in the imperative in the Zombies' catalogue is in "Tell Her No":
And if she tells you, "I love you," whoa
Just remember she said that to me
They're kind of opposite in that "P.S. I Love You" is encouraging love where "Tell Her No" warns about professions of love.
In listening to Please Please Me, I also found some remembering in "Misery":
I'll remember all the little things we've done
She'll remember, and she'll miss her only one
Lonely one
That seems more Zombie-esque.
As usual, these are just conjectured influences. I don't think there's a way I could prove any of these.
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Incidentally, I've also written about a possible connection between "Ask Me Why" from Please Please Me and the Zombies' "Woman."
