A Taste of Honey
“Tasting much sweeter than wine”
A cover of the 1960 Bobby Scott / Ric Marlow ballad written for the Broadway play of the same name. Paul's double-tracked lead floats over a 3/4 waltz; one of two covers on Please Please Me sung by McCartney.
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This song is the only Beatles song with the ABCABC song form.
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Tags on this page are original analysis, transcribed and cross-checked against the fine work of others: Alan W. Pollack's “Notes on…” series, the Beatles Complete Scores (Hal Leonard), Mark Lewisohn's session histories, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, Dave Rybaczewski's Beatles Music History and Andy Babiuk's Beatles Gear for the instruments and studio equipment, and others besides – then verified by ear against the recordings. Full bibliography: Sources & thanks.
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