Tag: please please me
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96: There’s A Place
There’s A Place is an Lennon-McCartney original from the Please Please Me album. It was the first song to be recorded in the 11th February 1963 session at which the bulk of the new material for the album was recorded (Love Me Do , Please Please Me and their B-sides PS I Love You and…
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107: Baby It’s You
Baby It’s You is one of two Shirelles’ covers (along with with Boys) to appear on the Beatles’ first album Please Please Me. The Beatles’ first heroes may have been artists like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Little Richard, the best known Rock’n’roll stars, but by the time they made their first record – judging…
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108: Chains
Chains is a cover of the Cookies song written by Goffin and King, and sung by George Harrison on the Beatles version which appears on Please Please Me. The Cookies were a New York girl group who were important in linking Atlantic records and the Brill Building, acting as backing singers on several hits including…
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124: A Taste Of Honey
A Taste Of Honey was a theme, originally an instrumental, written for the Broadway version of a Shelagh Delaney play the same name. A little like Devil In Her Heart (discussed earlier this week) it was a fairly obscure track to select as a cover. It must have had an interesting transatlantic journey into the…
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147: Please Please Me
Please Please Me was the Beatles second single and their first UK number one (the flipside was discussed in yesterday’s post 148: Ask Me Why). It is also the title track of their first album. The recording and release of Please Please Me marked a transitional moment for the Beatles and has become a famous…
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148: Ask Me Why
Having been written and performed live before the Beatles were signed, Ask Me Why was an early Lennon-McCartney collaboration, with the main idea coming from John Lennon. It appeared as the B-side to Please Please Me, and on the album of the same name. Lyrically it is a conventional but well-crafted love song. Musically it…
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149: Do You Want To Know A Secret
Do you want to know a secret is a song written by John Lennon but, unusually for a Lennon-McCartney track, sung by George Harrison. It was released on the Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, and was written before they had been signed. The story of the songs genesis is well explained in quotes from…
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176: Misery
This is an early Beatles era Lennon-McCartney collaboration from their first album Please Please Me. It’s a nice song, with coherent simple lyrics, tight clear backing track, distinctive melody and unison vocal. The piano from George Martin makes the bridge stand out a little. It’s a classical-sounding part that adds a bit of drama. It’s…
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187: P.S. I Love You
This is perhaps another aberration in my ranking as it is a very nice song and all the more impressive since it is one of McCartney’s first original contributions to the Beatles recordings, appearing as the B-side to Love Me Do. Apparently it could not be considered as a potential A-side since it shares its…
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200: Love Me Do
This was the Beatles first single and an early Lennon-McCartney composition. They had their reservations about it, and although it contains the signature vocal harmonies it lacks the energy of many of the covers they were then performing live. It’s a bit plodding and not the catchiest melody. They got a lot better! The inclusion…