Have I the Right?
1964 single by The Honeycombs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Have I the Right?" was the debut single and biggest hit of British band The Honeycombs. It was composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, who had made contact with The Honeycombs, a London-based group, then playing under the name of The Sheratons,[3] in the Mildmay Tavern in the Balls Pond Road in Islington, where they played a date. Howard and Blaikley were impressed by the group's lead vocalist, Dennis D'Ell, and the fact that they had a female drummer, Anne (‘Honey’) Lantree. The group were looking for material to play for an audition with record producer Joe Meek,[4] and they played the songs Howard and Blaikley had just given them. Meek decided to record one of them, "Have I the Right?", there and then. Meek himself provided the B-side, "Please Don’t Pretend Again".[5]
"Have I the Right?" | ||||
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Single by The Honeycombs | ||||
B-side | "Please Don't Pretend Again" (Meek/Lawrence) | |||
Released | June 1964 (UK) | |||
Recorded | RGM Sound: 1964 | |||
Genre | Pop[1] | |||
Length | 2:57 | |||
Label | Pye Records 7N15664 (UK)[2] Interphon Records IN-7705 (USA) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ken Howard, Alan Blaikley[2] | |||
Producer(s) | Joe Meek[2] (R.G.M. Sound) | |||
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"Have I the Right?" on YouTube | ||||
Music critic Tom Ewing, writing for Freaky Trigger, commented that the song "invents" post-punk, "which is to say, when I listen to the instrumental break on this record, bright guitar and sharp keyboard slicing tuneless chunks out of each other, it’s not 1964 I’m hearing."[6] It was used as the opening theme for Hold the Sunset.