Helter Skelter

2009-06-19T01:19:05Z

McLerristarr:

Ask Me Why

2009-06-19T01:18:10Z

McLerristarr:

{{Infobox Single
| Name = Ask Me Why
| Cover =Please Please Me 45.jpg
| Caption =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Please Please Me (album)|Please Please Me]]
| A-side = "[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]"
| Released = 11 January 1963 (UK) 25 February 1963 (US)
| Recorded = 26 November 1962
| Genre = beat
| Length = 2:24
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R4983 (UK) [[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]] 498 (US)
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Misc = {{Extra track listing
| Album = [[Please Please Me]]
| Type = studio
| Tracks = ;Side one
# "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"
# "[[Misery]]"
# "[[Anna (Go to Him)]]"
# "[[Chains]]"
# "[[Boys]]"
# "'''Ask Me Why'''"
# "[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]"
;Side two
# "[[Love Me Do]]"
# "[[P.S. I Love You]]"
# "[[Baby It's You]]"
# "[[Do You Want to Know a Secret]]"
# "[[A Taste of Honey]]"
# "[[There's a Place]]"
# "[[Twist and Shout]]"}}
}}

{{cquote|It was John's original idea and we both sat down and wrote it together, just did a job on it. It was mostly John's.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now''|1997}}

"Ask Me Why" was first presented to a national audience via the BBC, on a show entitled "Teenagers Turn (Here We Go)", recorded on June 11, 1962, and broadcast on June 15, 1962.

It features Pete Best as the drummer in the broadcast, although Ringo Starr had replaced him by the time the song was actually recorded in Abbey Road Studios on November 26, 1962, at approximately nine o'clock pm.

Six takes of Ask Me Why were recorded,the sixth deemed as the best. This is a live version, with no overdubs or edits.

The song also appears on the Hamburg Star Club Tapes 1962 (the US version released in 1977 named "The Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany 1962")

It is a very obscure song, only mentioned by any of the Beatles in passing, most notably in reference to choosing a B-Side for "Please Please Me". It was between "Ask Me Why" and another Lennon-McCartney penned song named "Tip Of My Tongue" for this B-side, the latter ultimately being rejected by producer George Martin, citing it needed more work. "Tip Of My Tongue" was finally handed off to Tommy Quickly to record, which he did in July of 1963.

[[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Lennon/McCartney]][[Category:Singles]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:1963]]

Ask Me Why

2009-06-19T01:16:48Z

McLerristarr:

User:McLerristarr

2009-06-19T00:54:53Z

McLerristarr: Replacing page with 'The Beatles.'

The Beatles.

User:McLerristarr

2009-06-19T00:54:19Z

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Talk:Helter Skelter

2009-06-19T00:50:34Z

McLerristarr:

==Layout==
Everything is out of order! The quotes aren't under the heading and the edit links aren't where they should be. How do I fix it? [[User:McLerristarr|McLerristarr]] 00:50, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

==Samples==
Wikipedia has samples of songs but when you copy them they don't work. How can we have samples on this site? [[User:McLerristarr|McLerristarr]] 00:50, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Helter Skelter

2009-06-19T00:48:45Z

McLerristarr:

Helter Skelter

2009-06-19T00:47:23Z

McLerristarr:

Talk:Helter Skelter

2009-06-19T00:45:20Z

2009-06-19T00:18:16Z

McLerristarr: Updated infobox from Wikipedia

{{Infobox Single
| Name = Helter Skelter
| Cover = suckmepedia.jpg
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| from Album = [[The Beatles (The White Album)]]
| A-side = "[[Got To Get You Into My Life]]"
| Released = '''Album:''' 22 November 1968 '''Single:''' 31 May 1976 (U.S.)
| Format = 7"
| Recorded = [[Abbey Road Studios]] 9 September 1968
| Genre = hard rock
| Length = 4:30 (Stereo LP) 3:38 (Mono LP)
| Label = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] 4274 (U.S.)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Last single = "[[Yesterday (song)|Yesterday]]" (UK-1976) ------ "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" (US-1970)
| This single = "Got to Get You into My Life" (1976)
| Next single = "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]" (1976)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Beatles into my life.ogg |format=[[Ogg]] |title=Got to Get You into My Life |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[The Beatles (The White Album]]
| Type = studio
| Tracks = ;Side one
#"[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]"
#"[[Dear Prudence]]"
#"[[Glass Onion]]"
#"[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]"
#"[[Wild Honey Pie]]"
#"[[The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill]]"
#"[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]"
#"[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]"
;Side two
#<li value=9>"[[Martha My Dear]]"
#"[[I'm So Tired]]"
#"[[Blackbird (song)|Blackbird]]"
#"[[Piggies]]"
#"[[Rocky Raccoon]]"
#"[[Don't Pass Me By]]"
#"[[Why Don't We Do It in the Road?]]"
#"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"
#"[[Julia (The Beatles song)|Julia]]"
;Side three
#"[[Birthday (The Beatles song)|Birthday]]"
#"[[Yer Blues]]"
#"[[Mother Nature's Son]]"
#"[[Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey]]"
#"[[Sexy Sadie (song)|Sexy Sadie]]"
#"''Helter Skelter''"
#"[[Long, Long, Long]]"
;Side four
#<li value=8>"[[Revolution (song)#Revolution 1|Revolution 1]]"
#"[[Honey Pie]]"
#"[[Savoy Truffle]]"
#"[[Cry Baby Cry]]"
#"[[Revolution 9]]"
#"[[Good Night (song)|Good Night]]}"
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Beatles helter skelter.ogg |format=[[Ogg]] |title=Helter Skelter |Type=song}}
}}
{{cquote|Umm, that came about just 'cuz I'd read a review of a record which said, 'And this group really got us wild, there's echo on everything, they're screaming their heads off.' And I just remember thinking, 'Oh, it'd be great to do one. Pity they've done it. Must be great-- really screaming record.' And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn't rough and screaming and tape echo at all. So I thought, 'Oh well, we'll do one like that, then.' And I had this song called 'Helter Skelter' which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}

{{cquote|That's Paul completely. All that (Charles) Manson stuff was built 'round George's song about pigs and this one... Paul's song about an English fairground. It has nothing to do with anything, and least of all to do with me.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|The Who had made some track that was the loudest, the most raucous rock 'n roll, the dirtiest thing they'd ever done. It made me think, 'Right. Got to do it.' I like that kind of geeking up. And we decided to do the loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number we could.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1985}}

[[Helter Skelter- Lyrics|'''Lyrics''']]

'''Watch a music video of Helter Skelter'''

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