Comments on: Please Please Me

By: Ian Bevington

Ian Bevington — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 03:40:10 +0000

Incredibly written! Accuracy is amazing! be great to have all the releases of Please Please Me listed! The first Australian issue in October 1963 was limited to 500 copies (U.K. mother) with EMI U.K. agreeing to print the covers and send them out to EMI Australia (at that time EMI Australia reluctant to release!!!) I have a couple of copies of this and I can tell you it is as good as the U.K. first mono issue and weighs in at 6 ounces!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:25:18 +0000

I saw both versions at the time ( late ’63).

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:08:04 +0000

Thanks very much – I’ve corrected it to 10 hours (which is near enough).

By: Ron Nasty

Ron Nasty — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:11:04 +0000

Joe,

This cropped up in the Beatles Jeopardy Game because sir walter raleigh used this page as a source for a question.

You say: “That day’s recording cost just £400 and lasted for 16 hours.”

10am-10:45pm = 12 hours 45 minutes; if you remove the lunch break and dinner break totalling 3 hours, during which no recording took place, 9 hours 45 minutes, which is where you get the line about them recording their first album in 10 hours.

Definitely not 16 hours though.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:17:21 +0000

“How Do You Do It” was intended to be their first single, not their second.

By: Tony_M_1956

Tony_M_1956 — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:18:17 +0000

Today I have been reading through Rolling Stone Magazine Top 500 Albums Of All Time, and at number 39 is the Beatles Please Please Me album. One can’t help but be drawn into the infectious joy, happiness and camaraderie of Please Please Me. When PPM was recorded Ringo was relatively new as a member of the Fabulous Foursome, but he does not sound out of place, or still paying his dues. When Paul counts in, One, Two, Three, Four, it not only counts in the beginning of the first song on the album, it also counts in all the members in the Beatles. The seeds of the Beatles canon were sown with Please Please Me. We learned there were two major song writers in John Lennon and Paul McCartney. We learned all four Beatles could belt out a tune, and we learned that all four Beatles played their own instruments. We also learned the Beatles could take songs by other artists and make them sound uniquely like a Beatles original. Had PPM been the one and only Beatles album it would still rate as a substantial contribution to the 1960s.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:54:14 +0000

My copy is the opposite of yours. According to moneymusic.com my version may very well be counterfeit. Where and when I bought it I haven’t a clue but it was a long, long time ago.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 02:19:18 +0000

My copy of Introducing the Beatles (VeeJay) included Ask Me Why and Please Please Me. It did not have Love Me Do nor P.S. I Love You.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:48:18 +0000

As most singers of any genre know, having a cold not is not necessarily detrimental to the voice; quite often it actually enhances it as long as the throat or chest and chest are not affected.

By: antnego

antnego — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:22:34 +0000

Actually, they did record “How Do You..,” which can be heard on Anthology 1. The Beatles refused to RELEASE it as their second single. It became a demo of sorts, which Gerry and The Pacemakers built their recording on.

By: jennifur Sun

jennifur Sun — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:39:41 +0000

did you all know that Andy White who drummed on two of these songs recently passed away

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:40:52 +0000

Just for consistency’s sake, across the site. Some of the songs on PPM (Love Me Do, PS I Love You) were credited to Lennon-McCartney when first released, and it might have got confusing if I reversed the credits on those pages because of how the album displayed them. But it’s a perfectly valid point to raise.

By: Bongo

Bongo — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:51:46 +0000

Hey Joe, how come the LP is (credited as McCartney-Lennon), but when you click on the songs individually, there are reversed?

By: Peter Harris

Peter Harris — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:51:34 +0000

I have a single which would have been in a juke box years ago, and both sides have the same label on, Ask me why, every thing including the numbers are the same, only one of the sides is Please Please me, anyone else came across this ? Jj

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:59:36 +0000

For their second Single George Martin had wanted them to cover a Mitch Murray song laden with double entendres called “How do you do what you do to me’ which they refused to record. John went away and wrote Please Please me. It was no coincidence that this was also a song equally laden with double entendres. It’s worth listening to Gerry and the Pacemakers subsequent version of the Murray song to see how it clearly influenced Johns Lyrics.

By: Bongo

Bongo — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:40:40 +0000

The Beatles 2 first albums sound amazingly great for 2 track recording. Kudos to George Martin!

By: Oh!

Oh! — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:01:01 +0000

Because From Me To You wasn’t written until after the Please Please Me album was completed and sent off to be pressed. The album masters were completed on 1963-02-25, and From Me To You was written three days later. I don’t know when Thank You Girl was written, but both songs were considered candidates for the follow-up single at one time or another. Singles were more important than albums back then, so even if those two new songs were around at the time of recording the Please Please Me album, my guess is they would have held on to them to release as a single anyway.

By: Lennon-Harrison fan

Lennon-Harrison fan — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 01:34:08 +0000

How A Taste Of Honey could make this album and not From Me To You/Thank You Girl is beyond me. Unacceptable, George Martin

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:08:27 +0000

Please Please Me is one of the great debut albums of all time. I got my copy of this in early 1980. It begins with a Paul McCartney classic rocker in I Saw Her Standing There and ends with one of the great covers of all time , the iconic Twist and Shout that John Lennon/ The Beatles made his/their own. Lennons vocal on this with the answer-call with Paul and George is brilliant. There are many great numbers on this record, their first single Love Me Do and the follow up , the title track Please Please Me,which was such a huge leap forward in early 1963. George Martin deserves alot of the credit with his decision to speed this song up. P.S. I Love You, Ask Me Why, Theres A Place and Ringos belter Boys , great songs. Thats not to forget Do You Want To Know A Secret? This is my favorite debut album by a group of all time. Second place goes to the Rolling Stones self titled British first album release- The Rolling Stones. This came out in 1964,the year after Please Please Me. I got my first remastered copy belatedly in 1989.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:07:24 +0000

Not true. They had a policy of not releasing singles containing songs that had previously been on albums, but were happy to do so before (eg Ticket To Ride) or on the same day (Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby). The only time this broke down was Something/Come Together, which was released after Abbey Road. Allen Klein normally gets blamed for that decision.