George Harrison didn't like his voice on Beatles song John Lennon and Paul
John Lennon and Paul McCartney couldn't always agree on who had written what when they were composing The Beatles' songs. The two wrote the vast majority of the band's songs and every track John and Paul wrote while in the band was credited to Lennon-McCartney, irrespective of whether it was a joint effort or predominately written by one of them.
That was the result of a pact made before they rose to fame and it very occasionally led to disagreements. The ECHO has looked at how they had different recollections on who wrote the majority of 'Eleanor Rigby', 'In My Life' and 'And I Love Her'.
They were not the only songs where this was the case either. The track 'Do You Want to Know a Secret' featured on the band's 1963 debut album 'Please Please Me' and was released as a single in the USA the following year.
The song, which was sung by George Harrison, had been written in 1962 but John and Paul had differing accounts on how it was written.
About it, John said in a 1980 interview: "My mother was always… she was a comedienne and a singer. Not professional, but, you know, she used to get up in pubs and things like that. She had a good voice. She could do Kay Starr.
"She used to do this little tune when I was just a one- or two-year-old… yeah, she was still living with me then… The tune was from the Disney movie – ‘Want to know a secret? Promise not to tell. You are standing by a wishing well.’
"So, I had this sort of thing in my head and I wrote it and just gave it to George to sing. I thought it would be a good vehicle for him because it only had three notes and he wasn’t the best singer in the world.
Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk/Dan Haygarth
