Talk:A Taste of Honey (song)

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[edit] Seems more like a plug for the Beatles.

I want more about the song and less about the Beatles and the song. It was covered by them, not an original.

Do something about it then.--Patthedog 07:49, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I suggest you extend the information about the songwriters/original performers rather than worrying about how much content is provided for the Beatles version. I reduced the Beatles info somewhat and gathered it together in a section about them. John Cardinal 12:37, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry; this is NOT a "Beatles-related article"; the Beatles covered the song in 1962 and of all the cited covers theirs is the least popular. Much as I love the Beatles, there is no reason they should have more than a factual citation like everybody else, much less dominate the entire page with track listings of Please Please Me, etc. I removed the heading for "The Beatles Version". Also removed "The Movie" and added a disambiguation link at the top; this is appropriate as there's a play, movie, and song by this name, and there's already a brief article about the film.

A citation is needed on the "Howard Bailey" cover of this song; a Google search for "Howard Bailey" and "A Taste of Honey" finds only mirrors of the wiki article; and Amazon does not find an artist called Howard Bailey.Sebum-n-soda 20:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

This article is about the song, and the version by The Beatles is as valid as any other. The lack of contents for other versions is no reason to delete notable content for their version. Add information about the other versions. John Cardinal (talk) 03:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification on song origin

The article begins by saying the title "may have been inspired by the 1958 English play A Taste of Honey which reached Broadway in 1960." "May have been" is probably overcautious. In fact, Bobby Scott composed the music for the 1960 David Merrick Broadway production, according to a reissue of the album, combined with another Scott album, on Collectables COL CD 6407. This CD includes three instrumental versions of the song, credited solely to Scott. If someone knows how lyrics were added, and whether they were written by Ric Marlow or by Marlow and Scott, it would be interesting.

Also, with all due respect to Patthedog, I'd love to know how this came to the attention of the Beatles. David Fell (talk) 05:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

McCartney says that he was introduced to this “slightly left and right of rock and roll” music by his older cousin, Bett Robbins, when she would baby sit him and his brother, probably early to mid ‘50’s. This sort of stuff appealed to McCartney, but definitely not to Lennon. It later came into its own when Epstein was able to “upgrade” their gigs to cabaret. When Acker Bilk had a UK hit with an instrumental version in January,1963, it was decided to include it on the Please Please Me album.--Patthedog (talk) 21:58, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beatles infobox

Someone should add one. I don't know enough about the song to do so. Cubzrule (talk) 07:26, 10 April 2008 (UTC)