Comments on: Misery

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Sat, 05 May 2018 06:45:18 +0000

It´s interesting that in my old Beatles songbook the lyrics for this one started : “You ´ve been treating me bad” , not ” the world” as the Beatles version. Then I found that early Kenny Lynch version, with this version of the lyrics. Does someone have some information about that ?
Who recorded the song first ?

By: Jorge Parasol

Jorge Parasol — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:40:48 +0000

According to this, what sounds like “shend” is where Take 7 is spliced to Take 9 for the final mix https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/beatles-please-please-me-session-hour-by-hour-w517921. Once you think of it as a tape flaw, that’s exactly what it sounds like!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:34:20 +0000

Deadman, alive or otherwise – you are my hero.

By: oldFartBassPlayer Walt

oldFartBassPlayer Walt — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:32:54 +0000

I just LOVE John vamping on the ending, la-la-la’s and ooh’s. Didn’t know he had a cold, the roughness of his voice even adds more enjoyment to the sound.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:30:43 +0000

I read years ago but don’t recall the source that the “shend” was purposely mimicking Elvis.

By: OldFartBassPlayer Walt

OldFartBassPlayer Walt — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:22:12 +0000

Yesh I did. Sheemed sho shtrange at first, but after a while can’t imagine the shong without it…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:41:32 +0000

John played acoustic rhythm guitar on this one.

By: Melv

Melv — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:35:22 +0000

The first Beatles song that I ever heard on the radio, the start of my lifelong love affair with all things Beatles, and by a strange twist it was written just 3 miles from my home in Stoke-on-Trent

By: robert

robert — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:25:40 +0000

Yes!! My friends and I started saying SHEND all the time and when we’d sing the song we would over do it and crack up laughing. Never heard the sibilance theory – but I did hear they did it on purpose.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:05:47 +0000

Has anyone noticed “SHEND her back to me”? Apparently pronouncing s’s as sh was a way of avoiding sibilance on the vocal mics

By: Dbw

Dbw — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:52:36 +0000

Yea, Sure, George Martin sang on this song without their permission just to punch up the track. Ohh, and btw, that was Yoko on the overdubs on Octopuses Garden. I think it’s really cool that I’m the only one who noticed it……

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:51:14 +0000

The Kenny Lynch cover of this song proves that no one could do it like the Beatles. It is simply atrocious compared to the Beatles’ version.

By: John

John — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:58:38 +0000

I’m sure I heard Paul say once that the song had very different words originally in a sought of messing about way when they wre all sitting in a room which would not be accepted today enough said!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:34:46 +0000

Thanks Julian for the information. Maybe my dad’s copy of that Misery/Vee Jay release was an imported record from the US because that’s the only Vee Jay single I saw on all our Beatles records then. Locally released Beatles 45 rpm singles & LP records here in our country were all in Parlophone label.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:36:54 +0000

Vee-Jay is (or was at the time) a smaller US label that released some Beatles singles in 1963. The first US Beatles album “Introducing The Beatles” came out on Vee-Jay as well!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:23:21 +0000

When I was still a kid, I remember my dad has a 45 rpm record/single of ‘Misery’. If my memory serves me right, the B-side is ‘I’ll Get You’ and the record label is ‘Vee-Jay’ not Parlophone. I wonder where was this Vee-Jay label from. USA or UK?
Parlophone is the authorized record label of The Beatles here in the Philippines. Our local distributor of Beatles records here doesn’t carry Beatles-Capitol releases. Only Parlophone.

By: Tony Vose

Tony Vose — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 03:04:21 +0000

Also, we can’t forget that John had a cold that day. I do think it’s only John & Paul together.

By: Epenguin

Epenguin — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:34:34 +0000

” I have listened to the Beatles for decades”, yes, then you should know how outlandish your statement was. You may have listened, but you never actually heard or you would easily be able to spot a Fab voice.

By: Upsiditus

Upsiditus — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:09:38 +0000

This is a good song. It is even better when played at 50% speed however.

By: Buddy

Buddy — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:41:07 +0000

It’s one of the Beatles’ songs that I enjoy very much. I heard the Kenny Lynch version and now I know why that version flopped. The Beatles gave it more pep and more power on it. I like how John mashes up the tune of the “LaLaLaLa” ending part on every incarnation of this song.