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About "Do You Want to Know a Secret"
From the original Beatles Album "Please Please Me" (1963)
JOHN 1980: "Well, I can't say I wrote it 'for' George. My mother was always... she was a good comedienne and a singer. Not professional, but she used to get up in pubs and things like that. She had a good voice. She could do Kay Starr. She used to do this little tune when I was one or two years old... she was still living with me then. The tune was from a Disney movie: (sings) 'Do you want to know a secret? Promise not to tell? You are standing by a wishing well.' So, I had this sort of thing in my head, and I wrote it and just gave it to George to sing. I thought it would be a good vehicle for him, because it had only three notes and he wasn't the best singer in the world. He has improved a lot since then; but in those days, his ability was very poor."
PAUL 1984: "A song we really wrote for George to sing. Before he wrote his own stuff, John and I wrote things for him and Ringo to do."
GEORGE 1994: "'Do You Want To Know A Secret' was my song on the album. I didn't like the vocal on it. I didn't know how to sing."
the backing vocals are what is not so good in my opinion. washed out in reverb so that they wouldnt compete? bad call that.
Oh and the break is pretty throw away. may be the most throw away 6 bars in the beatle canon. not georges fault for that. im sure the attention span of sir paul and john was a little less than usual.
of course critisizing like this is like complaing about a aingle verse in the bible.
THIS SONG IS ALL GEORGE HARRISON SINGING NOT JOHN LENNON