Please Please Me Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


Last night I said these words to my girl,
I know you never even try, girl,
C'mon...
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you.

You don't need me to show the way, love.
Why do I always have to say "love,"
C'mon...
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you.

I don't wanna sound complainin',
But you know there's always rain in my heart (in my heart).
I do all the pleasin' with you, it's so hard to reason
With you, whoah yeah, why do you make me blue.

Last night I said these words to my girl,
I know you never even try, girl,
C'mon...
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you.
 
Lead Singer: John/Paul

Recording: 9/11/62, 11/26/62, 1/16/63 (BBC), 1/22/63 (BBC), 3/6/63 (BBC), 3/21/63 (BBC), 4/1/63 (BBC), 4/3/63 (BBC), 5/21/63 (BBC), 7/16/63 (BBC), 10/16/63 (BBC)
Mixing: 11/30/62, 2/25/63
Length: 2:00
Take:

Anomalies

Throughout * NEW *
Every time there is harmonica, on the stereo version, there's "leaking" to the other side of the stereo image.
1:08
John sings "rain in my heart". Backing singers "try out" note for harmony, giving "Mmm....in my heart". Mono and stereo versions
1:27
John sings "Why do I-you never even try, girl?"
Paul sings "I know you never even try, girl." (Correctly) John, apparently realizing his mistake, chuckles out his next "come on.". Stereo Version only. Caused by John singing the second line of the second verse (not the third verse!)
1:37 Red Album * NEW *
Momentary drop in levels on Ringo's crash
1:45 Mono version
Dip out in level, as end is edited on.
1:45 Stereo version
Same edit as above, but badly done. Timing goes out with introduction of harmonica edit piece. Edit piece is slower than the left (rhythm) channel and catches up in time for the last three chords.
 
This was The Beatles first single released in America. The Beatles couldn't get a major label to release it, so It went to a small label called Vee Jay records, who released it as a single 3 times- Feb 25, 1963, Jan 30, 1964, and Aug 10,1964. The only release that charted was the second, when The Beatles finally made a name for themselves in America.
John Lennon wrote this in the style of Roy Orbison's overly-dramatic singing. Lennon was a big Orbison fan.
This was rumored to be about oral sex. The Beatles denied this, since they had a very clean image to maintain at the time.
The original version was slow. It was Beatles producer George Martin's idea to raise the tempo.
Their name was misspelled "Beattles" on the record label on the first American release.
In the UK, this was re-released in 1983 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of it's initial release.
Lennon: "I was always intrigued by the double use of the word 'please'."
The Beatles performed this on their second Ed Sullivan Show appearance in 1964. Sullivan was not a fan of many Rock groups, but loved The Beatles and had them on his show whenever he could.
This was the second Beatles single released in England, the first being "Love Me Do."


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