Do You Want to Know a Secret

"Do You Want to Know a Secret"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
from the album Please Please Me
B-side"Thank You Girl"
Released
  • 22 March 1963 (1963-03-22) (UK Please Please Me album)
  • 23 March 1964 (US single)
Recorded11 February 1963
StudioEMI, London
GenreMerseybeat, pop, doo-wop[1]
Length1:56
Label
Songwriter(s)Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)George Martin
The Beatles US singles chronology
"Can't Buy Me Love"
(1964)
"Do You Want to Know a Secret"
(1964)
"Love Me Do"
(1964)
Audio sample

"Do You Want to Know a Secret" is a song by English rock band the Beatles from their 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 No. 2 on the Billboard chart in 1964 as a single released by Vee-Jay, VJ 587. In the UK, Billy J. Kramer released a cover of the song as his debut single, reaching No. 1 on the NME singles chart and No. 2 on the Record Retailer chart.

  1. ^ Smith, Chris (2009). 101 Albums that Changed Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780195373714.