The Beatles Do You Want To Know A Secret
UMGMK On behalf of: EMI Do You Want to Know a Secret , written in autumn 1962, was primarily composed by John Lennon but credited to LennonMcCartney. The 1963 version by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas (a UK no. 2) credited the composition to McCartneyLennon. The song was inspired by I m Wishing, a tune from Walt Disneys 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which Lennon s mother, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child. The first two lines of the song in Disney s movie ( Want to know a secret Promise not to tell ) come right after the opening lyrics ( You ll never know how much I really love You ll never know how much I really McCartney has said it was a 5050 collaboration written to order, i. e., for Harrison to sing, but Lennon, who always claimed the song as his own, explained in a 1980 interview that he had realized as soon as he had finished writing the song that it best suited Harrison. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
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