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PeterWeatherby said

mja6758 said

While it may have been dangled over their head during the recording of Please Please Me, it had already been rejected as a single.

I'm basing that question on the following information:

"George Martin almost refused to allow them to record ['Please Please Me'] because he was not happy with the first version. He recommended that they record 'How Do You Do It,' a song written by a professional songwriter ... and make that their second single. The Beatles refused." (Beatlesongs, p. 28)

"I was still thinking that we should release their recording of 'How Do ...