Comments on: You Know What To Do

By: Franco Zanetti

Franco Zanetti — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:29:28 +0000

Re: It’s For You, a McCartney composition written for Cilla Black
That’s incorrect. You’re my world is an italian song, Il mio mondo, written by Umberto Bindi and Gino Paoli in 1963. Cilla recorded the song with english lyrics by Carl Sigman, and the single was on top of the charts the month before, May 13, 1964.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 01:36:41 +0000

I can hear that. Never thought about it in relation to Holly before. Interesting…..

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:11:29 +0000

A simple sweet song with a Buddy Holly lilt to it. George was writing great stuff from the start.

By: Young Fred

Young Fred — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 02:19:03 +0000

If given the time and opportunity, this may have turned out as a good song. The lyrics melody is well combined with the chords progression, which develop quite well from the “middle part” to the third verse.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:57:35 +0000

As for that “No Reply’ demo. As a musician and beatles obsessive fan I make this observation. It’s Johns demo so it only makes sense he’d play guitar and sing and you hear Paul singing and playing bass.

George is not heard doing anything else… and the drumming sounds like somebody who can’t play very well (at least at that point in time) If I didn’t know better I’d say that was Pete Best.. lol cause it’s so shaky and basic. 😛

So yeah… it’s George. HIS excuse was… he’s a guitar player and not a drummer. hehe

By: exarctly

exarctly — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:05:30 +0000

Glad I just heard this song. I like it a lot. The bass is cool sounding, sort of like it is Paul just fooling around, or someone else trying to play it. But I really do like the track.

By: David

David — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:26:35 +0000

I always wondered why AHDN only had 13 songs. Now I know.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:45:28 +0000

Actually, listening to the No Reply demo now, it sounds like there’s only one guitar on it, so the drums could easily have been played by John or George.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:22:50 +0000

There’s a tambourine, but it’s far from certain that Nicol was playing it. There are no drums, though.

It’s been suggested (notably in Revolution In The Head) that Harrison may have recorded the demo alone, playing all the instruments. It’s almost impossible to be certain, though, given that little is known about it (and George isn’t around anymore).

Incidentally, in the liner notes for Anthology 1 Mark Lewisohn says that, although there are drums on the demo of the No Reply demo (recorded on the same day), neither Starr nor Nicol was present. My guess is that Jimmy left after the live rehearsals. It could have been one of the studio staff playing drums on No Reply – engineer Norman Smith is said to have been a fairly adept percussionist.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:42:42 +0000

In addition to your lineup, Wikipedia lists Jimmy Nicol as having played drums on the recording. I don’t have the album on me, so I don’t know if there are actually drums or not.