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Billy J. Kramer

I had recently added to the lead that Billy J. Kramer had a UK NUMBER 2 HIT with the song. This has been removed on the basis it was "not noteable enough for the lead". If that's true then why is the fact this was a #2 US hit for The Beatles noteable? The Billy J. Kramer version was the ORIGINAL BRITISH HIT VERSION. This is enough for it to be a worthy leader in articles for all other songs, why not this one? The Stars on 45 single uses a bit of this song as part of a medley and it is also included in the opening. Billy J. Kramer had a hit with the song in it's entirety!

Not on Red Album

If this song reached #2 in the US, why wasn't it on the Red Album? Certainly that meant it was highly popular. It's also very well-known.67.188.172.165 23:15, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Red Album was a selection of songs chosen by The Beatles. There were many hit singles not on it. It's not "The Beatles: Complete Singles Collection" is it? It's a chosen selection of hit's and album cuts by the band, and thus no song HAS to be on it!

Punctuation

The Internet isn't much help in determining whether the correct title of this song does or does not have a question mark in it, and I can't find my copy of the LP, but any images of the back cover seem to show it without the punctuation. Not sure.

The original album cover has it without the question mark. --Patthedog 19:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The CD cover and disc have no "?". The discography in Lewisohn's "The Beatles Recording Sessions" on page 200 has no "?", nor does any other mention in it, including the "Recording Sheet" written at the session. I think the evidence is clear: no "?". John Cardinal 19:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to add more fun to this, I agree that there's no "?" -- but the Americans couldn't make up their minds! The Vee-Jay Introducing the Beatles label has no question mark, but the cover does; the 45 rpm single of "Do You Want to Know a Secret" has no "?" on the label, but it does have one on the picture sleeve; the original sheet music has a "?". The Capitol re-releases from 1965 all have no question mark, though. Cheemo 03:53, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Funny thing is that the sleeve cover that illustrates this article has the "?" Bedivere (talk) 04:48, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Differences between George Harrison and Billy J Kramer versions?

It sounds as if George sang a version where lines ended "I'm in love with you", whereas Billy J's version sounds like "I ain't in love with you". Could this possibly be a reference either to him not rating the song (at first, anyway) or, possibly, to his manager, Epstein, who'd taken him to New York City on a reconnaisance visit even before The Beatles landed there in February 1964? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.246.152 (talk) 16:56, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

About Lennon's marriage

During the radio 2 recreation of the LP's recording, Stuart Maconie said that the song was about Lennon being asked to keep his marriage secret. That's the first I've heard of that; is there a citation somewhere? If so, it would seem worth adding to the page.

Apepper (talk) 15:20, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The week Do You Want to Know a Secret hit #2, Can't Buy Me Love was NOT #1. Hello, Dolly! by Louis Armstrong was.

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