Do you want to know a secret

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Do you want to know a secret
The Beatles
publication March 22, 1963
length 1 min 56 s
Genre (s) Merseybeat
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Please Please Me
Cover version
1963 Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas

Do You Want to Know a Secret ( English Want to know a secret ) is a song by British band The Beatles from 1963. It appeared on their debut album Please Please Me . The song was composed by John Lennon , but it is under the Beatles' usual copyright notice Lennon / McCartney .

background

John Lennon was inspired by the song Wishing Well from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from 1937 for Do You Want to Know a Secret . His mother had sung the song to him many times in his childhood. In the song, Lennon describes a secret apartment in Liverpool that belonged to Beatles manager Brian Epstein . He had occasionally left them to the newly married couple Cynthia and John Lennon.

The song was sung by George Harrison .

admission

John Lennon made his first demo recording in Hamburg on the toilet of a night club. This location was chosen because it was only there that it was quiet enough for the recording. When the recording Lennon pulled the flush . This recording has not been preserved.

Do You Want to Know a Secret was one of ten songs that the Beatles recorded on February 11, 1963 in London's Abbey Road Studios for their debut album Please Please Me . The producer was George Martin , assisted by Norman Smith . Accompanying instruments and vocals were recorded live in six takes on a two-track tape. Following was the overdub process backing vocals added.

publication

In Great Britain, the song appeared on March 22, 1963 on the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me . A single was not released in the UK. A year later, the song appeared on single in the United States , where it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 . A version of the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 was released in 2013, which the band had recorded for the BBC radio station .

Cover versions

On April 26, 1963, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas released a cover version of Do You Want to Know a Secret , which peaked at number two in the UK. Other covers were released by Stars on 45 and Alvin and the Chipmunks .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ [2]
  3. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Chronicle . London, 2006. ISBN 0-600-61001-2
  4. ↑ US catalog number: Vee-Jay 587
  5. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 38
  6. ↑ UK catalog number: Parlophone R 5023, in Germany the single was released under catalog number Odeon 22484.
  7. ↑ Stephen Nugent, Anne Fowler, Pete Fowler: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955–1974 . In: Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (Eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans - Panther Books, 1976, p. 219