Song

Do You Want To Know A Secret

Release date: 22 March 1963

You'll never know how much I really love you,
You'll never know how much I really care,

Listen, do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, Whoa . . . . .
Closer let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you, ewww . . . . .

Listen, do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, Whoa . . . . .
Closer let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you, ewww . . . . .

I've known a secret for a week or two,
Nobody knows just we two.

Listen, do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, Whoa . . . . .
Closer let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you, ewww. . . .

"Do You Want to Know a Secret"

1964 sheet music cover, Metric Music, New York
Song by the Beatles from the album Please Please Me
Released 22 March 1963
Recorded 11 February 1963,
EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock and roll
Length 1:56
Label Parlophone
Writer McCartney-Lennon
Producer George Martin
Please Please Me track listing
14 tracks
Side one
  1. "I Saw Her Standing There"
  2. "Misery"
  3. "Anna (Go to Him)"
  4. "Chains"
  5. "Boys"
  6. "Ask Me Why"
  7. "Please Please Me"
Side two
  1. "Love Me Do"
  2. "P.S. I Love You"
  3. "Baby It's You"
  4. "Do You Want to Know a Secret"
  5. "A Taste of Honey"
  6. "There's a Place"
  7. "Twist and Shout"
"Do You Want to Know a Secret"

Sleeve of Vee-Jay 7" single, released a year after the album in March 1964
Single by The Beatles
B-side "Thank You Girl"
Released 23 March 1964
Recorded 11 February 1963,
EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock and roll
Length 1:56
Label Vee-Jay, VJ 587
Writer(s) Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
"Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
Single by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
from the album Little Children (album)
B-side "I'll Be on My Way" (Lennon-McCartney)
Released 26 April 1963
Genre Pop music, Beat music
Length 2:01
Label Parlophone (UK)
Imperial (US)
Writer(s) Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas singles chronology
"Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
(1963)
"Bad to Me"
(1963)

"Do You Want to Know a Secret" is a song by the 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 number 2 on the Billboard chart in 1964 as a single released by Vee-Jay, VJ 587. The song reached the #1 position on Billboard in 1981 and #2 in the United Kingdom in a cover version by Stars on 45 as part of a medley. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1964 album The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits.

©1963 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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