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The Beatles - A Taste of Honey

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Lenny Welch recorded the first vocal version. It was released as a single in September 1962 on the Cadence Records label and included on his 1963 album Since I Fell for You. This version also credits Lee Morris as a writer but it is not known if it was he who provided the lyrics. This credit does not appear on any covers of the song, with only Marlow/Scott credited. Performed during their live repertoire from 1962, the Beatles used Lenny Welch's adaptation, slightly changing the lyrics in the chorus.[2] A version from this time was released in 1977 on the album Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. As the instrumental version by Acker Bilk was popular in the United Kingdom at the time, the song was chosen to be recorded for their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me, with Paul McCartney singing lead - this version is notable in that, during the middle eight, McCartney's vocal is double-tracked, the first of many songs in which the Beatles did so. In the US this song first appeared on the VeeJay Records album Introducing... The Beatles. They also performed "A Taste of Honey" seven times for BBC radio shows, including Here We Go, Side by Side and Easy Beat.[3] In 1967, McCartney wrote "Your Mother Should Know" based on a line taken from the screenplay.[2] Chet Baker recorded the song for his 1964 album Baby Breeze. Julie London recorded the song in her 1963 album The Wonderful World of Julie London. Tony Bennett reached #94 in the US with a vocal version in 1964. Carola recorded a popular Finnish version, "Hunajainen", in 1965. Bobby Darin recorded a version of the song. The Hollies recorded two versions. First in 1966 for the US LP Beat Group!, and later in 1968. Tom Jones recorded the song for his 1966 album From the Heart. Trini Lopez included "A Taste of Honey" on his 1965 Reprise Records LP The Love Album Allan Sherman recorded a parody version called "A Waste of Money". Barbra Streisand recorded the song for her debut solo album, The Barbra Streisand Album, released in 1963. Sarah Vaughan recorded the song as the lead track on her 1963 album Sarah Sings Soulfully. Andy Williams recorded the song in 1966 for his album The Shadow of Your Smile. Popular jazz singer Lizz Wright revisited the song on her 2005 album Dreaming Wide Awake. The Rascals and Vincent Gallo recorded the song for the soundtrack to the 1998 film LA Without a Map. The song is used for the theme of the UK comedy series Hardware. The cover version of Herb Alpert is used to ID "Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto" (All the football minute by minute), an historical live commentary on sports events broadcast by the Italian radio RAI since the 1960s. The tune has begun to be used since the 1990s. The song is used in the 2000 Australian film The Dish, a partially fictionalised account of the role that the Parkes Observatory played in relaying the live television feed of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The song was performed on an episode of The Drew Carey Show by the fictitious band the Horn Dogs, made up of Drew and his friends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Honey_%28song%29