Comments on: A Taste Of Honey

By: EricO

EricO — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:28:49 +0000

Great early Beatles song. Well sung by Paul. The chord that the song finishes on… C#m? …is really cool. Not sure if that was their idea.. or done before. But either way it’s a great finishing touch.

By: Jonas Svensson, Sweden

Jonas Svensson, Sweden — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:47:40 +0000

The Beatles obviously liked it a lot, all of them. If they hadn´t liked it, it wouldn´t have stayed firmly as a regular track in their live set -plus the BBC gigs- for a full year. It was last played in Eskilstuna, Sweden, October 29 1963.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:03:15 +0000

This is the only song where I notice that John had a cold that day, so the background vocals leave me a bit flat.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:05:24 +0000

Actually, I don’t hear the “w” at all. Sounds like “schreeter”. But, your point about esses is correct.

By: Tony Marik

Tony Marik — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 03:04:16 +0000

Paul employs a clever trick by combining “much” and “sweeter” into “schweeter”. This helps to avoid an annoying hissing “Ssss” sound on the recording. This song is much schweeter than wine!

By: Mr Mustard

Mr Mustard — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 02:56:31 +0000

I have a Canadian pressing of the Twist & Shout album and just love this track. I especially like how they mixed in the reverb on Paul’s vocals during the “I will return” part as it makes him sound far away and coincides with the lyrics which is brilliant. Also, the bass line at that part really gets the song rolling and pulls you in.

By: yourmothershouldknow

yourmothershouldknow — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:25:59 +0000

A very catchy song

By: Dachlan Cartwright

Dachlan Cartwright — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:20:53 +0000

I saw them do this at the Cavern around October 1962. Their rapport with the audience was typical of that Cavern intimacy. They would fool around with the ending: Paul “I’ll come back.” (then say 10 minutes later) John and George: “He’ll come back.” (wait another 5 minutes) Paul: “I’ll come back.” And ping pong until the great final line, “for the honey, and YOUUU!” (Paul on the top octave)

By: kirbygene

kirbygene — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:02:07 +0000

Agree! As much as I love the Beatles, this is one they could have dropped

By: Barry Smith

Barry Smith — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:15:57 +0000

The “Live at the Star Club” version of “Taste of Honey” is actually one of the better sounding tracks of the recording. Paul’s vocals are rather clear, and so is the instrumentation. In fact if you listen carefully to the album, John’s rhythm guitar comes through very well.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:40:29 +0000

You obviously are not fans of free speech

By: johnlennonsrhythmguitar

johnlennonsrhythmguitar — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 05:13:04 +0000

I do not like this song. On the upbeat Please Please Me when 3 perfectly acceptable songs (From Me To You, Thank You Girl and One After 909) would have filled this void well, the most out of place, groove-removing, tempo crashing song is chosen. Oh well, the other 13 songs are perfect.

By: Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 05:54:03 +0000

I love this song so much and their version is fantastic!

By: Susan Parr Montague

Susan Parr Montague — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:09:08 +0000

The song alone is a masterpiece – sexy and romantic. I heard it first by other artists and I’m sorry about that. I was in my senior year of college before I ever even heard of The Beatles – 1964-65. Back then I was still stuck in shit music (no, not sheet music – you heard me.) Anyway, you can’t live twice so I’m destined to hear it sung in my mind by banal American crooners, Andy Williams, for example, and never by Paul and his troupe. Another reason: Would that I could redo the 60s.
(I am working on being reborn in England for my next life.) I mean there’re English detective stories and like that and English authors and English you know, everything. Even my English Parrs of Manchester area like near St Helens … I could go on, but boooorrring. But somehow I missed the 60s. Entirely. Susan near Seattle.

By: Oudis

Oudis — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:11:38 +0000

Simply a masterpiece.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:28:29 +0000

I like their “Live At The Star Club, Hamburg” version of A Taste Of Honey. Although it was crudely recorded, I like the raw sound & a little bit faster tempo than the studio version.

By: Tutu888

Tutu888 — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:34:43 +0000

I read somewhere (I believe it is in Mark Lewisohn’s book of all the recordings) that John changed the lyrics live to “A Waste of Money” to express his feelings about this song. Does anybody know this is true?

By: John K. Walker

John K. Walker — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:42:47 +0000

Dos anyone know which specific BBC version contains Paul’s singing the line (“No other lips may cling to mine…”) from Lenny Welch’s hit that The Beatles removed on their studio recordng? Because of this difference, this should have been the version released by EMI on the LIVE AT THE BBC album, if the fidelity was acceptable.

By: pepperland

pepperland — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:46:03 +0000

George does sing in this which is surprising because you can’t hear him until the final section and in Take 6 you can’t hear him at all. If you want to hear his vocal, listen to the BBC version. If you listen really carefully, you can hear his voice above John’s for example at 1:19. So I guess that when they double-tracked Paul they also added the backing vocals or at least just George’s vocal but George was too far away from the mic on the takes or the mic wasn’t on which would also mean that they had already put on Johns vocal before or he had a different mic. So they probably didn’t notice that you couldn’t hear George until it was too late and the Beatles had left.

By: Howard Patterson

Howard Patterson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:46:53 +0000

Yes, that album cover was the sexiest thing my pre-adolescent brain had ever been exposed to. My best friend was Herb Alpert’s cousin, and at age 11 we got a tour of A&M studios, ending with meeting the Man himself. We shook hands, and his was the softest adult male hand I’d ever touched. The complete lack of callouses in part inspired me to take up a career in the arts.