Boys (sång av The Shirelles) – Wikipedia

"Boys" är en singel av den amerikanska popgruppen The Shirelles, utgiven i november 1960. Sången gavs ut som B-sida till "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", och sången finns även med på gruppens debutalbum Tonight's the Night från 1961. Sången är skriven av Luther Dixon och Wes Farrell.

Boys
Sång av The Beatles
Från albumet Please Please Me
Släppt	22 mars 1963 19 juni 1963 (album) 6 augusti 1963 (singel) 10 januari 1964
Inspelad	11 februari 1963 EMI Recording Studios, London, Storbritannien
Genre	Rock and roll
Språk	Engelska
Längd	2:24
Skivbolag	Parlophone
Låtskrivare	Luther Dixon Wes Farrell
Producent	George Martin
Please Please Me
"Chains" (4) "Boys" (5) "Ask Me Why" (6)

"Boys" var den åttonde sången som man spelade in den 11 februari 1963 vid EMI Recording Studios (nuvarande Abbey Road Studios) i London, Storbritannien. Sången är det första inspelade materialet med gruppens trumslagare Ringo Starr som huvudvokalist, och man satte även sången den första tagningen. "Boys" hade sedan länge varit en del av gruppens spelningar, och innan Ringo Starr gick med i gruppen i augusti 1962, var det gruppens dåvarande trumslagare Pete Best som sjöng sången. Av en tillfällighet var Ringo Starr redan bekant med sången då han under sin tid som trumslagare i gruppen Rory Storm and the Hurricanes ofta spelade sången och ofta sjöng den. Sången ingick i gruppens konserter fram till 1964.

Sången kom med på gruppens debutalbum Please Please Me som gavs ut den 22 mars 1963 i Storbritannien. I USA kom sången med på gruppens första amerikanska album, Introducing... The Beatles, som gavs ut den 10 januari 1964.^[1] I Sverige gavs sången ut både på albumet Please Please Me den 19 juni 1963,^[2] samt som singel den 6 augusti 1963 med "Twist and Shout" på A-sida.^[3]

Sången finns även med på samlingsalbumen Anthology 1 och The Early Beatles samt livealbumet On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2.

• Ringo Starr – sång, trummor
• John Lennon – bakgrundssång, kompgitarr
• Paul McCartney – bakgrundssång, basgitarr
• George Harrison – bakgrundssång, sologitarr

Medverkande enligt webbplatsen The Beatles Bible.^[1]

• MacDonald, Ian (1994) (på engelska). En revolution i huvudet. London: Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-6697-8 
• Lewisohn, Mark (1988) (på engelska). The Complete Beatles Chronicle. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-55798-7 

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I Love You" 1963 "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why" · "From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl" · "She Loves You" / "I'll Get You" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy" 1964 "Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That" · "A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today" · "I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman" 1965 "Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is" · "Help!" / "I'm Down" · "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" 1966 "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" · "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine" 1967 "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" · "All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man" · "Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus" 1968 "Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light" · "Hey Jude" / "Revolution" 1969 "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down" · "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe" · "Something" / "Come Together" 1970 "Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" USA (Capitol, Apple, Vee-Jay, Swan, Tollie) 1963 "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why" · "From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl" · "She Loves You" · "I'll Get You" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There" 1964 "Twist and Shout" / "There's a Place" · "Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That" · "Do You Want to Know a Secret" / "Thank You Girl" · "Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You" · "A Hard Day's Night" / "I Should Have Known Better" · "And I Love Her" / "If I Fell" · "I'll Cry Instead" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" · "Matchbox" / "Slow Down" · "I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman" 1965 "Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"  · "Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is"  · "Help!" / "I'm Down"  · "Yesterday" / "Act Naturally"  · "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" 1966 "Nowhere Man" / "What Goes On" · "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" · "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine" 1967 "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" · "All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man" · "Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus" 1968 "Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light" · "Hey Jude" / "Revolution" 1969 "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down" · "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe" · "Something" / "Come Together" 1970 "Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" · "The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue" Sverige (Parlophone, Odeon, Polydor) 1963 "Please Please Me" / "Love Me Do" · "From Me to You" / "P.S. I Love You" · "Twist and Shout" / "Boys" · "She Loves You" / "I'll Get You" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy" 1964 "All My Loving" / "I Saw Her Standing There" · "Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That" · "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" / "Sie liebt dich" · "Roll Over Beethoven" / "Please Mr. Postman" · "Long Tall Sally" / "I Call Your Name" · "A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today" · "I Should Have Known Better" / "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" · "I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman" 1965 "Rock and Roll Music" / "If I Fell" · "Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is" · "I'll Follow the Sun" / I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" · "Help!" / "I'm Down" · "Yesterday" / "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" · "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper" 1966 "Michelle" / "Girl" · "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" · "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby" 1967 "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" · "All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man" · "Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus" 1968 "Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light" · "Hey Jude" / "Revolution" 1969 "Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Don't Pass Me By" · "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down" · "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe" · "Something" / "Come Together" 1970 "Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" · "The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue" Andra länder (Parlophone, Apple, Odeon) 1963 "All My Loving" / "This Boy" (Kanada) 1964 "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" / "Sie liebt dich" (Tyskland) 1965 "Rock and Roll Music" / "I'm a Loser" (Europa, Australien) 1966 "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" / "Nowhere Man" (Australien) · "Michelle" / "Girl" (Europa) 1968 "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Europa, Australien, Japan) 1969 "You're Going to Lose That Girl" / "Tell Me What You See" (Japan) 1970 "Oh! Darling" / "Here Comes the Sun" (Japan) 1972 "All Together Now" / "Hey Bulldog" (Europa) 1978 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Within You Without You" (Tyskland) Övriga singelskivor i Storbritannien och USA 1976 "Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better" · "Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout" (endast i Storbritannien) 1976 "Got to Get You into My Life" / "Helter Skelter" · "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Julia" (endast i USA) 1978 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "A Day in the Life" 1982 "The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1995 "Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" 1996 "Real Love" / "Baby's in Black" Övriga singelskivor "My Bonnie" / "The Saints" (1962) · "Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby" (1964) Kategori