In what language (other than English) did the Beatles record?

[Love Bug]

Extra credit if you give the title of the song(s)!

[peekaloo]

1. French. Michelle, my belle, sunday monkey won't play piano song.

[Frank Cannon]

2. German, for one

Sie Liebt Dich, for one. I think they did a German version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", but I don't remember the title.

[SCantiGOP]

3. and German

they started out playing in a club in Hamburg. There is an early album with a German version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

[Frank Cannon]

5. Ich Moechte Deine Hand Halten

I just made that up.

[Squeech]

7. Not quite

"Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand." Sensibly, they went for scansion over accuracy.

Also "Sie Liebe Dich."

Apologies if I didn't spell those correctly. German isn't my first language. It's not even in the top half-dozen :crazy:

[Frank Cannon]

12. I think it's "Sie Liebt Dich", isn't it?

Liebt being the third-person singular present tense for "love". Liebe would be first-person singular, like "Ich Liebe Wienershnitzel mit Kartoffeln".

It's been a long time ago since I spoke German, so maybe I'm way off.

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. They also recorded in German.

A friend of mine from Germany had several original Beatles albums in German. "Sie Lieb Dich" is great in German! :) (And yes, it really WAS the Beatles and not some cover group!)

[retrospective66]

6. French and Farsi?

Michelle My Belle.... Can't think of other French at the moment

The Farsi is WILD guess especially since I can't think of any such song(s) at the moment. However their fascination with India made me throw it out there.... Caution to the wind! :-)

[Richardo]

9. But Farsi is Iranian...

:crazy:

[retrospective66]

10. You're right- I checked

:blush:

But on the same line of thinking as before...Hindi, Telugu or Bengali?

[SteppingRazor]

8. Michelle actually isn't French...

it's nonsense words strung together in a vaguely Frenchy way. Many of the words really are French, but they make no sense toogether, so it can't really be called "recording in French." The Beatles did, however, do a few songs in German

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble

Translation: Are words that go well together

But agree, it's not perfect French. However, it is French used in a poetic way.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

13. Scottish?

[jeff30997]

14. I remember my cousin had an entire German Beatle album...

Sorry but I forgot which one but it was before Sargent Pepper.

[Deja Q]

15. Judging by "goo gachoob", something dope-induced...

:rofl:

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand."

The spelling may not be totally correct. They also did "She Loves You" in German.

John, at the end of Sun King, also strung together a set of words in several Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.). Does that count?

[Love Bug]

17. Kudos to those who picked German!

They recorded Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You) and Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want to Hold Your Hand) in German for the West German market.

And yes, they did use some other languages in other songs, but those two are the only ones completely in another language.