Teddy Green Give Me Your Hand 1964

Wriitten by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. The story goes that this song was originally offered to the Beatles by way of thanks for them giving I Wanna Be Your Man to the Stones for their second single. Apparently the Beatles said that they d record it if the Stones recorded another one of their songs, namely One After 909. Neither band took up the offer and it s something of a mystery how Give Me Your Hand should turn up as the b side to song called Alone by an obscure singer who had played a bit part in two Cliff Richard movies, The Young Ones and Summer Holiday. The song itself is obviously an answer to I Want To Hold Your Hand and is, without doubt, one of the worst songs that Mick and Keith ever wrote and Teddy s performance is suitably excruciatingly awful It s no wonder that it never formed part of the Beatles repertoire Nobody bought the record. Teddy Green went on to become a successful choreographer.