Do You Want to Know a Secret
March 22, 1963
Do You Want to Know a Secret. (German: , Want to know a secret ') is a song by British band The Beatles in 1963, it appeared on their debut album Please Please Me was the song Composed by John Lennon, it However, under the care usual when the Beatles copyright notice Lennon / McCartney.
Background
John Lennon was inspired to Do You Want to Know a Secret of the song Wishing Well from the Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. His mother had sung him the song in his childhood often. In the song Lennon describes a secret apartment in Liverpool, which belonged to the Beatles manager Brian Epstein. This she had left to the newly married couple Cynthia and John Lennon occasionally.
Sang the song of George Harrison.
Recording
A first demo recording made John Lennon in Hamburg on the toilet of a nightclub. They chose this location because it was quiet enough for recording only there. At the end of the recording Lennon pulled the flush. This recording has not been preserved.
Do You Want to Know a Secret was one of the ten songs that consumed the Beatles on 11 February 1963 in London's Abbey Road Studios for their debut album Please Please Me. Producer was George Martin, Norman Smith assisted. Accompanying instruments and vocals were recorded live in six takes on a two - track tape. Following background vocals were added in overdub process.
Publication
In the UK the song was released on 22 March 1963, the debut album Please Please Me The Beatles. A single was not released in the UK. A year later, the song appeared in the United States on single and reached there place two on the Billboard Hot 100 on the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 was released 2013 version, which had recorded the band for the radio station BBC.
Cover versions
On April 26, 1963 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas released a single with gecoverte Do You Want to Know a Secret, which reached number two on the UK charts. Other cover versions published by Stars on 45 and Alvin and the Chipmunks.