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Original Music Dave Dobbyn

Instrumental Beatles' arrangements Dave Dobbyn

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"" Written by Paul McCartney/John Used by permission of MPL Communications Ltd

"" Written by /Paul MCartney Used by permission of EMI Blackwood Music Inc under license from ATV Music (Maclen)

" and Shout" Written by Phil Medley/Bert Russell Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia

"Do You Want To Know A Secret" Written by John Lennon/Paul McCartney Used by permission of EMI Unart Catalogue Inc.

"Love Me Do" "" "I Saw Her Standing There" "Do You Want To Know Secret" Performed by The Beatles courtesy of EMI Records Limited

Instrumental Beatles' arrangements

"It Won't Be Long" "I Wanna Be Your Man" "Helter Skelter" "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" "Can't Buy Me Love" "" "" "Revolution" "" "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" "Dear Prudence" "" "She's Leaving Home" "" "With a Little Help From My Friends" "" "A Hard Day's Night"

Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Used by permission of EMI Blackwood Music under license from ATV Music (Maclen) Arranged and produced by Dave Dobbyn Performed by: Dave Dobbyn Ian Belton Michael Barclay John Barrett

Recorded at: Platinum Studios Melbourne engineered by Mark Forrester Trafalgar Studios Sydney engineered by John Bee Music & Effects Melbourne engineered by Mark Ingram

Instrumental music co-ordinated by Chris Gough, Mana Music

Beatles’ music and lyrics:

As can be seen from the tail credits, the production only acquired the rights to four Beatles’ (performed by the group) to use in the film, and filled up the soundtrack with a number of Beatles’ songs arranged by underscore composer Dave Dobbyn.

Some of these songs were composed well past the 1964 Beatles’ tour featured in the film’s plot, including but not limited to Helter Skelter (1968), She Came In Through the Bathroom Window (1969), Revolution (1968), Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (1967), Dear Prudence (1968), She’s Leaving Home (1967), and With a Little Help From My Friends (1967).

Danny, an ardent Elvis fan, also suggests that the King and the Beatles were antithetical, though the Beatles made it clear that they were devoted fans of Presley’s music (though in their only meeting with Presley in 1965 they made it clear that they didn’t think much of his limited 1960s music-making or his decision to appear mainly in matinee fodder feature films - The Guardian had a story about that meeting here). Unfortunately, even these controversies amongst musical cultists didn’t help the film at the box office, and neither did the Beatles’ music.

Head credits :

The 1962 Beatles’ song Love Me Do starts after key cast credits around the main title appearing. It runs over shots of the key cast singing along, and the key cast rushing to answer questions about the Beatles’ put to air by the DJ. Lyrics as heard in the film ...

Love, love me do You know I love you I'll always be true So please, love me do Whoa, love me do Love, love me do You know I love you I'll always be true So please, love me do Whoa, love me do Someone to love Somebody new Someone to love Someone like you Love, love me do You know I love you I'll always be true So please, love me do Whoa, love me do … (the song fades out at this point)

Tail Credits Song:

A musical version of Hard Day’s Night runs over Beth Champion’s Emily seeing her dad, then rushing to catch a taxi with the others.

It dissolves into the key cast (identified by title) screaming along with Beatles’ fans as the Beatles’ 1963 version of the song Twist and Shout plays.

The song then continues over end credits. Lyrics as heard in the film:

Well, shake it up, baby, now (Shake it up, baby) Twist and shout (Twist and shout) C'mon C'mon, C'mon, C'mon, baby, now (Come on baby) Come on and work it on out (Work it on out) Well, work it on out, honey (Work it on out) You know you look so good (Look so good) You know you got me goin', now (Got me goin') Just like you knew you would (Like I knew you would) Well, shake it up, baby, now (Shake it up, baby) Twist and shout (Twist and shout) C'mon C'mon, C'mon, C'mon, baby, now (Come on baby) Come on and work it on out (Work it on out) You know you twist your little girl (Twist, little girl) You know you twist so fine (Twist so fine) Come on and twist a little closer, now (Twist a little closer) And let me know that you're mine (Let me know you're mine) Oooh … (brief guitar interlude) Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah Wow ... Well, shake it up, baby, now (Shake it up, baby) Twist and shout (Twist and shout) C'mon C'mon, C'mon, C'mon, baby, now (Come on baby) Come on and work it on out (Work it on out) You know you twist your little girl (Twist, little girl) You know you twist so fine (Twist so fine) Come on and twist a little closer, now (Twist a little closer) And let me know that you're mine (Let me know you're mine) Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now (Shake it up baby) [x3] Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah …

The song finishes before the end credits do and an instrumental version of the 1964 song Eight Days a Week takes over until end credits finish, then holds for about five seconds over black, before fading out (VHS version).

Dave Dobbyn:

Davie Dobbyn is a New Zealand , singer and , presumably one of the elements required for an official co-production between Australia and New Zealand (though the film’s credits don’t state it was official as the treaty required).

Dobbyn has an eponymous site here, http://www.davedobbyn.co.nz/, which should be locatable on the Wayback Machine if the link fails, as well as a detailed wiki here (though it fails to mention his work for the film). Dobyn’s site provided this brief biography (at one point his song was inescapable on the radio in Australia and New Zealand):

Dave Dobbyn says that since day one, he has had a tune in his head. He’d be twiddling the dial on the radiogram, “travelling the world in music”. Across the road was a church, full of songs in which to hide. A shy schoolboy, he blossomed into a peroxided popstar in his first band Th’ Dudes, formed with his schoolfriends in the late ‘70s. Taking centre-stage with his next band DD Smash, Dobbyn made history when the debut album rocketed to No 1 in the first week of its release. As a solo artist his ‘Slice of Heaven’ spent eight weeks at No 1 in New Zealand, and four in Australia where he lived for 10 years until the early ‘90s. Dobbyn has written the soundtrack to kiwi lives, with a string of hits including ‘Beside You’, ‘Be Mine Tonight’ ‘Language’, ‘Outlook for Thursday’, ‘Loyal’, ‘Whaling’, ‘Kingdom Come’, ‘It Dawned On Me’, ‘Guilty’, ‘Devil You Know’, ‘Slice of Heaven’, ‘Magic What She Do’, ‘Oughta Be in Love’ , ‘Welcome Home’.… His enduring popularity is reinforced with polls of Top 100 songs returning ‘Loyal’ at No 1 year on year, and he holds the most Silver Scroll Awards for song-writing. In 2001, Dobbyn was given a lifetime achievement award by the New Zealand recording industry. After a six-year gap, his 2006 album won him Male Artist of the Year and included the anthemic ‘Welcome Home’ , 2005’s Single of the Year. The song is well-travelled, including a performance for Kiwi War veterans and the Queen and Royal Family at the London dedication of the War Memorial. ‘Anotherland’, his 2008 release, was produced by legendary UK dub- maestro Adrian Sherwood and Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald and recorded in London. To mark his 30 years as a recording artist, Dave Dobbyn has compiled two CDs of his best-loved songs, together with a companion songbook. In the world of , longevity is rarely achieved but Dobbyn’s talents have consistently charmed their way into the consciousness of New Zealanders.

There doesn’t seem to have been a CD film tie-in release of the Secrets’ soundtrack - cost and rights issues, versus possible returns, probably made such a release unlikely.

(Below: Dave Dobbyn early in his career and later in his career)