It was first broadcast on 24 September 1963. The Beatles recorded the final BBC rendition of ‘Ask Me Why’ on 3 September 1963, again for Pop Go The Beatles. The last three songs were not included on the 16 July broadcast. The band recorded nine songs between 6.30 and 9.30pm: ‘That’s All Right (Mama)’, ‘There’s A Place’, ‘Carol’, ‘Soldier Of Love’, ‘Lend Me Your Comb’, ‘Clarabella’, ‘Three Cool Cats’, ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’, and ‘Ask Me Why’. The fourth BBC recording was made on 2 July 1963, for the fifth edition of Pop Go The Beatles. The edition of The Talent Spot was broadcast a week later on 29 January. On 22 January 1963 The Beatles recorded a third BBC version of ‘Ask Me Why’, sandwiched between new versions of ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘Some Other Guy’. A recording of ‘Three Cool Cats’ was unused. The broadcast on 25 January featured three new Beatles recordings: ‘Chains’, ‘Please Please Me’, and ‘Ask Me Why’. The second BBC recording was made on 16 January 1963, for the renamed show Here We Go. It was broadcast on 15 June, along with the two other songs recorded for the show – ‘Besame Mucho’ and ‘A Picture Of You’. The first was on 11 June 1962, for the show Teenager’s Turn – Here We Go. The Beatles recorded ‘Ask Me Why’ on five occasions for BBC radio. Much of the day was spent perfecting the song ‘Please Please Me’ ‘Ask Me Why’ took comparatively little time to record. They remade the song on 26 November 1962, getting it right in six takes. Unfortunately EMI considered the songs to be of little consequence, and later destroyed the master tapes. The Beatles recorded an unknown number of takes of ‘Ask Me Why’ during their 6 June 1962 debut session at Abbey Road. The reissue went on sale around 10 February 1964. In the US it was included on an early reissue of the Vee-Jay album Introducing The Beatles, which replaced ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘PS I Love You’ from the initial running order, replacing them with ‘Ask Me Why’ and ‘Please Please Me’. The song was included on The Beatles’ debut album Please Please Me, released on 11 January 1963. ‘Ask Me Why’ was greatly influenced by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – the guitar motif that introduces the song is derived from their 1961 song ‘What’s So Good About Goodbye’. Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
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