The Beatles - Do You Want To Know A Secret

UMG_MK On behalf of: EMI “Do You Want to Know a Secret?“, written in autumn 1962, was primarily composed by John Lennon but credited to Lennon–McCartney. The 1963 version by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas (a UK no. 2) credited the composition to “McCartney-Lennon“. The song was inspired by “I’m Wishing“, a tune from Walt Disney’s 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which Lennon’s mother, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child. The first two lines of the song in Disney’s movie (“Want to know a secret? Promise not to tell?“) come right after the opening lyrics (“You’ll never know how much I really love you... You’ll never know how much I really care...“). McCartney has said it was a “50–50 collaboration written to order“, i.e., for Harrison to sing, but Lennon, who always claimed the song as his own, explained in a 1980 interview that he had realized as soon as he had finished writing the song that it b