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8 November 2012
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Couldn’t find a topic dedicated to this song, one of my Top 10 favorite Beatles songs.
HappyNat featured it in this week’s Beatles Rarities podcast. He constructed a version that creates a more complete picture of the edits taken out of the final version.
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29 November 2012
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It’s ok…as a joke song I enjoy it but I can’t listen to it repeatedly like I do with their other songs. I do like the unedited version with the ska bit added back in.
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8.31pm
15 January 2014
Offline I like this song. I’m pretty good at doing all the weird voices. The other day I was in the kitchen making tea whilst “singing” it. My sister looked at me like I was mad. Unfortunately she’s into today’s naff, and keeps forgetting who George Harrison is.
You know my name you know number too
You know my name you know my number
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9.21pm
8 November 2012
Offline I got one of my classmates hooked on the song when I played it in the car for her. She always refers to it as “that Beatles song where the guy goes pbbbtpahpbabbbprrbbt.”
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9.31pm
22 December 2013
Offline I personally think that Brian Jones should’ve got some guest billing on the sleeve, Brian got into this one and likely inspired the others to new heights of craziness, it should’ve read ‘The Beatles (featuring the Late Great Brian Jones on Saxophone)’, but there’s only so much room on a 45rpm single sleeve and they opted for ‘(Look Up The Number)’ instead…:-)
3.51am
17 January 2013
Offline I love this song. I laughed my ass off the first time I heard it!
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29 August 2013
Offline It is right up there with Revolution 9 for me …… 
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4.40am
18 January 2014
Offline I hated this song the first time I heard it… until I got the “You know my number too, you know my number three… you know my number four…” part stuck in my head. Since I listen to Past Masters so often I’ve come to like it.
9.11am
17 October 2013
Offline It was the B side to the Let it Be single in England……. Although I wasn’t gonna buy the single for one song, (I had the Album) I probably coughed up the cost because i used to choose it on the Pub juke-box.
It’s fun and quite clever.
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Mr. Kite10.20am
3 May 2012
Offline It’s a fun little song, but I don’t think it has that much artistic merit. Makes me smile, though. Classic mad John humour
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29 November 2012
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14 April 2010
Offline On one of my playlists, I placed this song between the “run out groove” of the Pepper album and the opening of the Magical Mystery Tour album. It works nicely in that spot. Especially when you consider recording started on it right after the Pepper sessions, IIRC.
It is a fun song and I like it alot, but I rarely find myself going to it first when I fire up the iPod.
My wife, on the other hand, finds it pointless and grating. That surprises me as she loves the Beatles and fun almost as much as I.
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7.25pm
10 November 2009
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It is one of my favorite songs, and one of the first I heard of them. This is a song that demonstrate that The Beatles could do anything and it will stick to you in someway. I would love to hear a complete stereo version of it, the closest thing is the Anthology + Past Masters edit. Brian Jones did a catchy job for it, and yeah, he should have been billed there, though by the time release of it, The Beatles were no longer working together.
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1.09am
27 December 2012
Offline Fun song to play on the piano 
6.12pm
11 November 2010
Offline Billy Rhythm said
I personally think that Brian Jones should’ve got some guest billing on the sleeve, Brian got into this one and likely inspired the others to new heights of craziness, it should’ve read ‘The Beatles (featuring the Late Great Brian Jones on Saxophone)’, but there’s only so much room on a 45rpm single sleeve and they opted for ‘(Look Up The Number)’ instead…:-)
Ideally, yes, he should have been billed, but that sort of thing was pretty uncommon in those days. Eric Clapton isn’t credited on While My Guitar Gently Weeps . George Harrison isn’t credited on Cream’s Badge (well, he is, but under a pseudonym). Part of it may be because The Rolling Stones and The Beatles were on different record labels at the time.
On-topic and off-tangent, I like You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) as a fun, novelty song, rather than a good piece of music. I mean, obviously, the music isn’t poorly played, but the song isn’t meant to be taken as seriously as, say, Come Together or Eleanor Rigby .
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6.23pm
22 December 2013
Offline Necko said
Billy Rhythm said
I personally think that Brian Jones should’ve got some guest billing on the sleeve, Brian got into this one and likely inspired the others to new heights of craziness, it should’ve read ‘The Beatles (featuring the Late Great Brian Jones on Saxophone)’, but there’s only so much room on a 45rpm single sleeve and they opted for ‘(Look Up The Number)’ instead…:-)Ideally, yes, he should have been billed, but that sort of thing was pretty uncommon in those days. Eric Clapton isn’t credited on While My Guitar Gently Weeps . George Harrison isn’t credited on Cream’s Badge (well, he is, but under a pseudonym). Part of it may be because The Rolling Stones and The Beatles were on different record labels at the time.
When ‘You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)’ was first issued in 1970, Brian Jones was no longer a member of The Rolling Stones, not only had he drowned the previous summer but had also been replaced by Mick Taylor before he died by The Stones due to his inability to perform his daily duties as they were about to go back out on the road. I just think that it would’ve been a nice tribute, after all, the ‘Get Back ‘ single from the previous year was billed as ‘The Beatles (featuring Billy Preston)’, but yeah, no doubt that there was some sort of legality preventing them from doing so…:-)
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17 December 2012
Offline Billy Preston was credited because a) he was virtually a fifth Beatle at the time, no musician other than George Martin is on as many Beatles recordings as Preston; b) he was not hugely famous.
The fact is that The Beatles rarely credited any musician that played on their records, and not always by their own choice. Clapton was offered a credit for WMGGW, and he turned it down.
Brian, in fact, was not a huge part of the recording of YKMN. He attended the third of the five sessions it took to complete it, and joined in the lunacy. It was not uncommon for the people around in the studio during certain recordings to join in. That was all Brian really did.
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7.04pm
21 November 2012
Offline Fun song, hysterical.
I don’t listen to it that often, but when I do I enjoy it.
Can’t really make out who sings what part though.
1.19am
8 November 2012
Offline Had to chuckle because I’m watching the new AHDN DVD with commentary, and Dennis O’Dell is one of the commentators.
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3 June 2014
Offline Oddly, I find the beginning to be pretty catchy, even though the vocals sound a bit out of tune, and Paul’s harmony has this weird quality, like he’s shouting it from the corner of the studio or something, I can’t really describe that sound.
After that… eh, I don’t really like it much as a song, but it is interesting. To be honest though, I’ve only listened to it three times, so I’ll have to listen to it some more, probably. I do enjoy the goofy voices, but I don’t consider it much of a song at all.
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