BOYS
“Boys” is a song by Luther Dixon and Wes Farrell, originally performed by the Shirelles and released as the B-side of their “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” single in November 1960. It was recorded more than two years later by the Beatles and included on their first album released in the United Kingdom, Please Please Me (1963). It is Ringo Starr’s first recorded lead vocal with the Beatles and, as the fifth track on the Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, represents the first time many fans heard Starr singing a lead vocal. This version bears many similarities with Ray Charles’s hit “What’d I Say”, particularly during the chorus verses. The band included another song by the Shirelles, “Baby It’s You”, on the album as well. (More from Wikipedia)
Ringo Starr would typically have a lead vocal performance on each Beatles album – examples include “Yellow Submarine”, “Act Naturally”, “Boys”, and the terrific Carl Perkins cover, “Honey, Don’t” – but hardly any of his songwriting made it onto the Beatles’ disks.
(June 2015)
