You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

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The B-side of the “Let It Be” single Apparently Paul McCartney’s favorite Beatles song: People are only just discovering the b-sides of Beatles singles. They’re only just… Read More

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You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) Lyrics

[Intro – Paul McCartney, John Lennon]
You know my name
Look up the number
You know my name
Look up the number
You, you know, you know my name
You, you know, you know my name

[Interlude – John Lennon]
Good evening and welcome to Slaggers
Featuring Denis O'Bell
Come on Ringo, let's hear it for Denis

[Verse 1 – Paul McCartney]
Good evening
You know my name
Look look look up the number
You know my name
That's right, look up my number
You, you know, you know my name
You, you know, you know my name
You know my name
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Look up the number
You know my name
That's right, look up the number
Oh, you know, you know, you know my name
You know, you know, you know my name
Huh, huh, huh, huh
You know my name
Ba ba ba pum
Look up the number
You know my name
Look up the number
You-a you know, you know my name
Baby you-a you know, you know my name
You know, you know my name
You know, you know my name

[Interlude – John Lennon]
Oh, let's hear it!!
Go on Denis, let's hear it for Denis O'Bell

[Verse 2 – John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison]
You know my name
You know, you know my name
You know, you know my name
Prrr you know my name and the number
You know my name and the number you know, you know my name
Look up me number
You know my number three, you know my number two
You know my number three, you know my number four
Oh, you know my name you know number too
You know my name you know my number
What's up with you?
You know my name
That's right?
Yeah

About

The B-side of the “Let It Be” single

Apparently Paul McCartney’s favorite Beatles song:

People are only just discovering the b-sides of Beatles singles. They’re only just discovering things like You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) – probably my favourite Beatles track, just because it’s so insane. All the memories…
— Paul McCartney, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

In 1980, David Sheff interviewed John Lennon for Playboy, while it appears this quote didn’t make it into the magazine, it is in the book Sheff released 20 years later.

That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul. I was waiting for him in his house, and I saw the phone book was on the piano with ‘You know the name, look up the number.’ That was like a logo, and I just changed it. It was going to be a Four Tops kind of song – the chord changes are like that – but it never developed and we made a joke of it. Brian Jones is playing saxophone on it.
— John Lennon, All We Are Saying by David Sheff