Do You Want to Know a Secret? is a song bythe Beatles from the 1963 album Please Please Me, sung by George Harrison. In the United States, it was the first top ten song to feature Harrison as a lead singer, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard chart in 1964 as a single released by Vee-Jay, VJ 587. The song reached the No. 1 position on Billboard in 1981 and No. 2 in the United Kingdom in a cover version by Stars on 45 as part of a medley. Do You Want to Know a Secret?, written in autumn 1962, was primarily composed by John Lennon but credited to McCartney–Lennon.The song was inspired by Im Wishing, a tune from Walt Disney’s 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which Lennons mother, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child. The first two lines of the song in Disneys movie (Want to know a secret? Promise not to tell?) come right after the opening lyrics (Youll never know how much I really love you... Youll never know how much I really care...). McCartney has said it was a 50–50 collaboration written to order, i.e., for Harrison to sing, but Lennon, who always claimed the song as his own, explained in a 1980 interview that he had realized as soon as he had finished writing the song that it best suited Harrison. 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 wasnt the best singer in the world, but added he has improved a lot since then. Harrison sang two songs on Please Please Me, this song by Lennon–McCartney and Chains by Goffin/King. Dont Bother Me from With The Beatles, was the first Beatles song composed solely by Harrison. The song was recorded during a ten-hour session on 11 February 1963 along with nine other songs for Please Please Me.
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