Ask me why

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Ask me why
The Beatles
publication January 11, 1963
length 2 min 27 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Please Please Me

Ask Me Why ( English ask me why ) is a song by British band The Beatles , the 1963 B-side of the single Please Please Me and on their first album Please Please Me was released. It was composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and published under the author's name Lennon / McCartney .

background

John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed the song in the spring of 1962, but it is mainly based on Lennon's musical ideas. Ask Me Why was influenced by the Smokey Robinson song What's So Good About Goodbye . On June 11, 1962, the Beatles played Ask Me Why live on the BBC radio radio show Teenager's Turn - Here We Go , and the program was broadcast on June 15, 1962.

admission

On June 6, 1962, between 7 and 10 p.m., John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best had an audition appointment at London's Abbey Road Studios , where the group performed in front of parlophone producers George Martin and Ron Richards. The Beatles played the songs Besame Mucho , Love Me Do , PS I Love You and Ask Me Why , the first two songs of which were published on the compilation album Anthology 1 in November 1995 , the recordings of the other two songs, including Ask Me Why were probably deleted. Norman Smith was the sound engineer for the recordings.

The Beatles' second single with the songs Please Please Me and Ask Me Why was recorded on November 26, 1962. The third song was recorded on November 26th, Tip of My Tongue , but George Martin was unsatisfied with the arrangement , so it was not released by the Beatles. The sound engineer was Norman Smith again. The single was mixed on November 30, 1962 in mono .

George Martin spent February 25, 1963 remixing the recordings without the Beatles, Please Please Me and Ask Me Why received a new mono and stereo mix .

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publication

On January 11, 1963, Ask Me Why was released in the UK and on February 2, 1964 in the US as the B-side of the song Please Please Me .

On March 22, 1963, the first Beatles album Please Please Me appeared in Great Britain on the Ask Me Why is also included.

On January 28, 1964, the single Misery / Ask Me Why was released in Germany , which reached number 37 in the German charts.

On February 7, 1964, the EP All My Loving was released in Great Britain , on which Ask Me Why is.

In the United States, Ask Me Why was released on February 10, 1964 on their debut album Introducing… The Beatles (Second Version).

In the USA, the record company Vee Jay Records pressed the promotional single Ask Me Why / Anna for US radio stations.

On April 8, 1977, a live version of Ask Me Why was featured on the Live! at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany; Published in 1962 .

For BBC Radio , the Beatles recorded four additional versions of Ask Me Why under live conditions , of which the recording on September 3, 1963, at Studio Five, BBC Maida Vale , on the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 am Released November 8, 2013.

Cover versions

  • The Smithereens - B-Sides The Beatles

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Promotion single Ask Me Why / Anna
  2. ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles Music & Film. P. 28.
  3. B-Sides The Beatles from the band The Smithereens