Have I the Right

HAVE I THE RIGHT?

 

 
“Have I the Right?”  was the début single and biggest hit of British band The Honeycombs, being released in June 1964.  It was composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, who had made contact with The Honeycombs, a London-based group, then playing under the name of The Sheratons, in the Mildmay Tavern in the Balls Pond Road in Islington, where they played a date.  Howard and Blaikley were impressed by the group’s lead vocalist, Dennis D’Ell, and the fact that they had a female drummer, Ann (‘Honey’) Lantree.  The group were looking for material to play for an audition with record producer Joe Meek, and they played the songs Howard and Blaikley had just given them.  Meek decided to record one of them, “Have I the Right?”, there and then.  Meek himself provided the B-side, “Please Don’t Pretend Again”.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
   

February 19, 1965 marked the appearance of the third single (on Pye) by the Soul Agents, Don’t Break it Up b/w Gospel Train.  The British songwriting team of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley wrote Don’t Break it Up”; they are probably best known for the U.K. Number One hit (and U.S. #5) by the Honeycombs, “Have I the Right?”. 

 

(May 2014)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021