COME ON TWIST
A LITTLE CLOSER NOW
(TWIST A LITTLE CLOSER)
AND LET ME KNOW
THAT YOU ARE MINE
Twist and Shout
is the first
UK
extended play
by the
English rock band
released in
the UK
on EMI's
Parlophone label
on
July,12th 1963.
It contains
four tracks
produced by
George Martin
that were previously
released on
the band's
debut album
Please Please Me.
Rush-released
to meet public appetite,
the record topped
the UK
EP chart
for twenty-one weeks,
the best-selling EP
of all time
in the UK
to that point,
and became
so successful
that it registered on
the NME
Singles Chart,
peaking at number four.
The EP's cover photograph,
featuring
the Beatles
jumping in a
London bombsite,
has been described by
The Telegraph as
"one of the key images of the 1960s".
Contents
"Twist and Shout",
written by
Phil Medley and Bert Berns
and first recorded by
R&B vocal group
the Top Notes,
typically closed
the Beatles' set
during their
1963 tour of
Great Britain
with
Roy Orbison.
The band based
their version
of the twist song
on the
US hit version
by the Isley Brothers
recording and its
"pounding beat"
and
"bloodcurdling
John Lennon screams"
made it a
popular show-stopper,
according to
Musical Express.
After the Beatles included
"Twist and Shout"
as the last track
on their debut album
Please Please Me,
EMI received a
deluge of requests
for its issue as a single.
British record shops
were reported to be similarly
"besieged"
by customers asking
for the song.
The popularity of
the Beatles version
of the song boosted
British sales of
the earlier Isley Brothers recording
that inspired it,
first released in
the UK
in July 1962,
and led to the release of
a version by
Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
on Decca.
The Beatles
and
George Martin
did not consider
"Twist and Shout"
single material;
they were opposed to
lifting songs off
Please Please Me,
Paul McCartney
believed it
"a bit too off-beat to
be commercial"
and Lennon
was concerned about
how often he would
have to sing it.
In a compromise
to meet demand,
EMI commissioned the
Twist and Shout EP
as a
"special release".
Side one of the EP
features the title track
(sung by Lennon)
and
"A Taste of Honey"
(sung by McCartney),
a Broadway song
written by
Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
that was first recorded
in a vocal version by
Billy Dee Williams
in 1961.
Side two
contains two
Lennon-McCartney originals,
"Do You Want to Know a Secret"
(sung by George Harrison),
then a recent
UK chart hit
in a version by
Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas,
and
"There's a Place"
(sung by Lennon and McCartney).
All four tracks
were recorded on
February 11th 1963
in sessions that
resulted in the bulk
of the
Please Please Me
album.
TRACKLIST
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