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 Sleeve of Vee-Jay 7" single, released a year after the album in March 1964 |
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| Single by The Beatles | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Please Please Me | ||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Thank You Girl" | |||||||||||||||||
| Released | 22 March 1963 (mono
album) 26 April 1963 (stereo album) |
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| Recorded | 11 February 1963 Abbey Road Studios |
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| Genre | Rock and roll | |||||||||||||||||
| Length | 1:56 | |||||||||||||||||
| Label | Parlophone | |||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | McCartney/Lennon | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer | George Martin | |||||||||||||||||
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"Do You Want to Know a Secret" is a song by The Beatles from the 1963 album Please Please Me, sung by George Harrison.
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"Do You Want to Know a Secret" was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (see Lennon/McCartney), inspired by "I'm Wishing",[1 ] a tune from Walt Disney’s 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which Lennon's mother, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child. The first two lines of the song in Disney's movie ("Want to know a secret? Promise not to tell?") come right after the opening lyrics ("You'll never know how much I really love you... You'll never know how much I really care...").[2][3] McCartney said it was a "50-50 collaboration written to order," i.e., for Harrison to sing.[4]
In 1980, Lennon said that he gave "Do You Want to Know a Secret" to Harrison to sing because "it only had three notes and he wasn't the best singer in the world," but added "he has improved a lot since then."[3] Harrison sang two songs on Please Please Me, this song by Lennon and McCartney and "Chains" by Goffin/King. The Beatles did not record a song composed solely by Harrison until "Don't Bother Me" on With The Beatles.[5]
The song was recorded during a ten-hour session on 11 February 1963 along with nine other songs for Please Please Me.[6]
The song is a playable song in the music video game The Beatles: Rock Band.
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" was released a year later as a single in the United States on 23 March 1964, reaching the number two spot behind another Beatles song, "Can't Buy Me Love" in Billboard, but reaching #1 for two weeks in the chart published by the Teletheatre Research Institute.
The Beatles' version was never released as a single in the United Kingdom, 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)[7] reached number two in the Record Retailer chart, and hit number one in the NME chart (used by Radio Luxembourg) and the BBC's Pick of the Pops chart, which were more widely recognised at the time.
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   | ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)'' - Distant Melody | Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs lyrics |
| | Billy J. Kramer single information - Do You Want To Know A Secret |
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