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Vee-Jay included "Ask Me Why" on version 2 of Introducing... The Beatles. Capitol eventually released "Ask Me Why" in 1965 on The Early Beatles when Vee-Jay's rights expired. A live version from December 1962 was released on the German/UK version of Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 album in 1977, but was left off the initial US ...
In 1965, The Beach Boys covered "Tell Me Why" on their Beach Boys' Party! album. In 1982, April Wine covered it on their album Power Play. It reached #46 in Canada. [12] In 1986, The Chenille Sisters covered the song, as a medley with "Chains", on their self titled first album. In 2002, The Punkles did a cover of the song on their second album ...
The single, as initially released with "Ask Me Why" on the B-side, failed to make much impact in the US in February 1963, but when re-released there on 3 January 1964 (this time with "From Me to You" on the B-side), it reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also re-released on 6 December 1982 by Parlophone in the UK.
Riley offers similar sentiments, writing that the song exhibits more maturity than "teenybopper" tracks like "Ask Me Why" or "Do You Want to Know a Secret". [16] Hertsgaard, Chris Ingham and Ian Marshall each write that the song's lyrics are deeper than those of the album's other tracks and that they anticipate the more introspective ...
A personal favorite of John Lennon, [8] it became part of the Beatles' early repertoire and was consequently recorded by them for their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me. [9] In the U.S., Vee Jay Records released it on Introducing... The Beatles (January 10, 1964) and Capitol Records re-released it on The Early Beatles (March 22, 1965). [10]
The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Artwork for ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Because sometimes even the best records ever made can get a bit… overhyped.
"Helter Skelter" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song was McCartney's attempt to create a sound as loud and dirty as possible.
When the Beatles needed original material for their Please Please Me LP, they recorded it themselves, giving its treatment, according to writer Ian MacDonald, "a droll portrait of adolescent self-pity". [10] It was credited to McCartney and Lennon in that order, as were all other Lennon & McCartney originals on the Please Please Me album.