Ask Me Why, the Glossary
"Ask Me Why" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles originally released in the United Kingdom as the B-side of their single "Please Please Me".[1]
Table of Contents
38 relations: A-side and B-side, Abbey Road Studios, B-Sides The Beatles, Bésame Mucho, BBC Light Programme, Capitol Records, EMI, From Me to You, George Harrison, George Martin, Guitar, Ian MacDonald, Introducing... The Beatles, John Lennon, Lennon–McCartney, Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962, Love Me Do, Norman Smith (record producer), On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, Parlophone, Paul McCartney, Pete Best, Playhouse Theatre, Manchester, Please Please Me, Please Please Me (song), Pop music, Relative key, Ringo Starr, Rock music, Simon & Schuster, The Beatles, The Early Beatles, The Miracles, The Smithereens, Time signature, Tip of My Tongue (Tommy Quickly song), Tommy Quickly, Vee-Jay Records.
- Vee-Jay Records singles
A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London.
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B-Sides The Beatles
B-Sides The Beatles is the ninth studio album by The Smithereens, released September 2, 2008 on Koch Records.
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Bésame Mucho
"Bésame Mucho" ("Kiss Me A Lot") is a bolero song written in 1932 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez. Ask Me Why and Bésame Mucho are song recordings produced by George Martin and the Beatles songs.
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BBC Light Programme
The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
From Me to You
"From Me to You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in April 1963 as their third single. Ask Me Why and From Me to You are 1963 singles, 1963 songs, Parlophone singles, song recordings produced by George Martin, songs written by Lennon–McCartney, the Beatles songs and Vee-Jay Records singles.
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George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
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George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Ian MacDonald
Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Introducing... The Beatles
Introducing...
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.
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Lennon–McCartney
Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942) of the Beatles.
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Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962
Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 is a double album featuring live performances by the English rock band the Beatles, recorded in late December 1962 at the Star-Club during their final Hamburg residency.
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Love Me Do
"Love Me Do" is the debut single by the English rock band the Beatles, backed by "P.S. I Love You". Ask Me Why and Love Me Do are Parlophone singles, song recordings produced by George Martin, songs written by Lennon–McCartney and the Beatles songs.
Norman Smith (record producer)
Norman Smith (22 February 1923 – 3 March 2008) – accessed March 2011 was an English musician, record producer and engineer.
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On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2
On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 is a 2013 live/compilation album featuring 40 previously unreleased tracks from the Beatles' 1963–1964 BBC Radio broadcasts (accompanied by 23 interview tracks from the associated broadcasts).
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Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.
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Pete Best
Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is an English musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962.
Playhouse Theatre, Manchester
The Playhouse Theatre, a community arts centre called the Niamos Centre, is a theatre in Hulme, Manchester, England.
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Please Please Me
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
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Please Please Me (song)
"Please Please Me" is a song released by the English rock band the Beatles. Ask Me Why and Please Please Me (song) are 1963 singles, 1963 songs, Parlophone singles, song recordings produced by George Martin, songs written by Lennon–McCartney, the Beatles songs and Vee-Jay Records singles.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Relative key
In music, relative keys are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures (enharmonically equivalent), meaning that they share all of the same notes but are arranged in a different order of whole steps and half steps.
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Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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The Early Beatles
The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth album released on Capitol Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market.
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The Miracles
The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and most influential groups in the history of pop, soul, R&B and rock and roll music.
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The Smithereens
The Smithereens are an American rock band from Carteret, New Jersey.
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Time signature
A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).
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Tip of My Tongue (Tommy Quickly song)
"Tip of My Tongue" is a single by Tommy Quickly. Ask Me Why and Tip of My Tongue (Tommy Quickly song) are 1963 singles, 1963 songs and songs written by Lennon–McCartney.
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Tommy Quickly
Tommy Quickly (born Thomas Quigley, 7 July 1945) is an English rock and roll singer who recorded mostly in the early 1960s.
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Vee-Jay Records
Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
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See also
Vee-Jay Records singles
- Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby (Jimmy Reed song)
- Ain't That a Shame
- Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)
- Ask Me Why
- At My Front Door
- Baby What You Want Me to Do
- Big Boss Man (song)
- Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons song)
- Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)
- Bright Lights, Big City (song)
- Candy Girl (The Four Seasons song)
- Dimples (song)
- Do You Want to Know a Secret
- Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song)
- Duke of Earl
- Every Beat of My Heart (Gladys Knight & the Pips song)
- For Your Precious Love
- From Me to You
- Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite
- He Will Break Your Heart
- Hello Trouble (song)
- Hey Little Girl (Dee Clark song)
- How About That (song)
- I Can't Hear You No More
- I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song)
- I'm Going Back to School
- Just Keep It Up
- Just a Little Bit (Rosco Gordon song)
- Let It Be Me (The Everly Brothers song)
- Make It Easy on Yourself
- Moon River
- New Mexican Rose
- Nobody but You (Dee Clark song)
- Please Please Me (song)
- Raindrops (Dee Clark song)
- Sherry (song)
- Stay (Maurice Williams song)
- Stay in My Corner
- Tainted Love
- Teen-Age Crush
- Thank You Girl
- The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
- Walk Like a Man (The Four Seasons song)
- What (song)
- You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobbs song)
- You're No Good
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_Me_Why
Also known as Ask Me Why (The Beatles song).