A Taste of Honey

The fact that The Beatles covered various songs showed they were fans of music.

This is a pop standard written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow. It was originally an instrumental track (or recurring theme) written for the 1960 Broadway version of the 1958 British play A Taste of Honey (which was also made into the film of the same name in 1961).

Herb Alpert also covered the tune in 1965.

Do you want to know a secret?

The word “listen” attracts listeners’ attention.

The same word was used by Whitman as follows:

Listen! I will be honest with you,

I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,

Baby It's You

The Shirelles, a girl group, released this song in 1961.

This group had four African American female singers.

They were schoolmates.

P. S. I Love You

“P. S.” is the abbreviation form of “postscript.”

It indicates the beginning of a postscript to a letter.

In an age of SNS, “P. S.” gives this song a kind of warmth.

Love Me Do

This is the first single of The Beatles.

How can we describe the sound of harmonica?

Bluesy? Lennon himself said it was “rock ‘n’ roll.”

Please please me

The first “please” is an adverb, and the next one is a verb.

One of my students wrote:

“The Beatles makes me want to dance.”

In another place, I found the saying, “To live is to dance, to dance is to live.” (from Snoopy and the Peanuts gang)

Ask me why

Our English textbook introduces example sentences:

This is (the reason) why they want a device to keep their food cool.

Do you know (the reason) why Mike is absent today?

Kate studied hard. That is (the reason) why she passed the exam.

John didn’t say “Ask me the reason why.”

This is a song.