Do You Want to Know a Secret Record

1963 single by the Beatles

"Exercise Y'all Desire to Know a Secret"
Usa movie sleeve
Unmarried by the Beatles
from the anthology Please Delight Me
B-side	"Thank you Daughter"
Released	22 March 1963 (1963-03-22) (UK Please Please Me album) 23 March 1964 (US single)
Recorded	11 February 1963
Studio	EMI, London
Genre	Pop
Length	ane:56
Label	Parlophone (UK) Vee-Jay (US)
Songwriter(southward)	Lennon–McCartney
Producer(south)	George Martin
The Beatles US singles chronology
"Can't Buy Me Beloved" (1964) "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (1964) "Love Me Exercise" (1964)
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"Practice You Desire to Know a Secret" is a song by English rock band the Beatles from their 1963 anthology Please Please Me, sung by George Harrison. In the United States, it was the first top ten song to characteristic Harrison as a lead singer, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard chart in 1964 as a single released by Vee-Jay, VJ 587. In the UK, Baton J. Kramer released a cover of the song every bit his debut single, reaching No. 1 on the NME singles chart and No. ii on the Record Retailer nautical chart.

Composition [edit]

"Do Yous Want to Know a Secret", written in fall 1962, was primarily composed by John Lennon but credited to Lennon–McCartney.^[ane] The 1963 version by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas (a UK No. 2) credited the composition to "McCartney–Lennon". The song was inspired by "I'thousand Wishing",^[two] a tune from Walt Disney'south 1937 animated moving-picture show Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which Lennon's female parent, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child. The start two lines of the vocal in Disney'south movie ("Want to know a hole-and-corner? Promise non to tell?") come right after the opening lyrics ("Y'all'll never know how much I really dear you... Y'all'll never know how much I actually care...").^{[3] [4]} McCartney has said it was a "50–50 collaboration written to order", i.due east., for Harrison to sing,^[v] merely Lennon, who always claimed the song as his ain, explained in a 1980 interview that he had realized as soon equally he had finished writing the vocal that it best suited Harrison.^[6]

Recording [edit]

In 1980, Lennon said that he gave "Do You Want to Know a Hole-and-corner" to Harrison to sing because "information technology only had 3 notes and he wasn't the best singer in the world", just added "he has improved a lot since then."^[4] The vocal was recorded equally part of their marathon ten-hour recording session on 11 Feb 1963 forth with nine other songs for Delight Please Me.^[seven] Harrison sang two songs on Delight Please Me—this song past Lennon–McCartney and "Chains" past Goffin/King. "Don't Bother Me" would be Harrison'southward debut composition and appeared on the Beatles' next UK album With the Beatles.^[8]

Harrison and Lennon both played acoustic guitars on the recording in different channels – on the stereo mix, Harrison's guitar was panned to the right channel while Lennon's was panned to the left.^[nine]

Single release [edit]

"Do You Desire to Know a Secret" was released a yr afterwards every bit a single by Vee-Jay in the United States on 23 March 1964, reaching the number two spot behind some other Beatles song, "Can't Buy Me Beloved" in Billboard, reaching number iii on the Cash Box chart, simply reaching number 1 for two weeks in the chart published by the Teletheatre Research Plant. In the U.S., it was the most successful Beatles song on which Harrison sang atomic number 82 song until "Something" peaked at No. 1 as part of a double-sided number 1 hitting with "Come Together" in 1969.

Personnel [edit]

• George Harrison – lead vocals, acoustic guitar (right aqueduct)
• John Lennon – acoustic guitar (left channel), backing vocals
• Paul McCartney – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Ringo Starr – drums, tapped drumsticks

Engineered by Norman Smith

Personnel per Walter Everett^[9] and John Winn^[10]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Charts [edit]

Chart (1964)	Meridian position
German Media Command Singles Nautical chart[11]	34
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)[12]	2
The states Billboard Hot 100[thirteen]	2
US Cash Box Top 100[14]	iii

Certifications [edit]

The Billy J. Kramer version [edit]

"Do You lot Want to Know a Hush-hush?"
Single by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
from the anthology Niggling Children
B-side	"I'll Be on My Manner"
Released	26 Apr 1963 (1963-04-26)
Recorded	1963
Genre	Pop trounce
Length	2:01
Label	Parlophone (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland) Regal (US)
Songwriter(due south)	Lennon–McCartney
Producer(southward)	George Martin
Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas singles chronology
"Practice You Desire to Know a Secret?" (1963) "Bad to Me" (1963)

The Beatles' version was never released as a single in the Great britain, where a cover version by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas (released b/w "I'll Be on My Way", Parlophone R5023, 26 April 1963)^[sixteen] reached number two in the Record Retailer chart, and hit number one in the NME nautical chart (used by Radio Luxembourg) and the BBC'southward Pick of the Pops nautical chart, which were more widely recognised at the time. It appeared on his anthology, Piffling Children. It reached number viii in the Irish Singles Nautical chart.

Nautical chart performance [edit]

Chart (1963)	Height position
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (Record Retailer)[17]	2
United Kingdom (NME)[eighteen]	1

Other cover versions [edit]

Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1964 album The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits.^[19]

Santo and Johnny, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Mary Wells, Keely Smith, Sonny Curtis, Bobby Vee, The Johnny Mann Singers, The Ray Charles Singers, Sharon Clark, Fairground Attraction, and The Hollyridge Strings also recorded the song.

Swedish actress and recording artist Anita Lindblom recorded a Swedish-linguistic communication version titled "Lyssna (vill du veta vad jag tänker?)" for her 1968 anthology Sån't är livet.

The vocal reached the No. ane position on Billboard in 1981 and No. 2 in the U.k. equally role of the cover-medley "Stars on 45".

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Lewisohn, Mark. The Beatles: All These Years, Book One – Tune In. Crown Archetype, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4000-8305-3, pp. 733–734
2. ^ Afar Melody 2007.
3. ^ Harry, p. 209.
4. ^ ^{a b} Sheff 2000, p. 165.
5. ^ Miles 1997, p. 95.
6. ^ Lewisohn, Mark. The Beatles: All These Years, Volume Ane – Tune In. Crown Archetype, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4000-8305-3, p. 873
7. ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 24.
8. ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 53.
9. ^ ^{a b} Everett 2001, p. 151. sfn error: no target: CITEREFEverett2001 (help)
10. ^ Winn 2009, p. 32. sfn error: no target: CITEREFWinn2009 (help)
11. ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts" (Enter "Beatles" in the search box) (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
12. ^ Season of New Zealand, xxx April 1964
13. ^ "The Beatles Nautical chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
14. ^ Hoffmann, Frank (1983). The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950–1981. Metuchen, NJ & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 32–34.
15. ^ "American single certifications – The Beatles – Practise You Want To Know a Secret". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
16. ^ Calkin 2009.
17. ^ "Artist Chart History Details: Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas". The Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
18. ^ Rees, Lazell & Osborne 1995, p. 127.
19. ^ Lindsay Planer. "The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits – The Chipmunks | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2016.

References [edit]

• Calkin, Graham (2009). "Do You Desire to Know a Undercover?". Graham Calkin'southward Beatles Pages . Retrieved 30 November 2009.
• Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Osborne, Roger (1995). forty Years of "NME" Charts (2nd ed.). Pan Macmillan. ISBN0-7522-0829-2.
• "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)". Distant Melody. 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
• Harry, Bill. The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia.
• Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN0-517-57066-1.
• Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN0-8050-5249-six.
• Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN0-312-25464-4.

External links [edit]

• Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Practice You Want to Know a Secret"
• The Beatles - Practice Yous Want to Know a Hugger-mugger on YouTube

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