Title:	You Know What To Do No Reply (demo)
Credits:	George Harrison John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded	EMI Studios, London, 3 June, 1964
Producer	George Martin
Engineer	Norman Smith
Location	The Beatles Anthology 1 - disc 2, tracks 19/ 20

Two demo recordings taped by the Beatles at EMI the day before they flew to Denmark to begin an inter-continental concert tour.

The drummer on the first few dates of that tour was a substitute, Jimmy Nicol, drafted in at the eleventh hour after Ringo had been taken ill the morning of 3 June. The EMI recording session booked for the remainder of the day was thrown into disarray by Ringo's indisposition; instead of taping the fourteenth and final song for the album A Hard Days Night, John, Paul and George spent an hour listening to playbacks and running Nicol through some of the songs in their stage repertoire. Then, after the drummer had gone home to pack his suitcase, they remained at Abbey Road and, during a four-hour evening session in Studio Two, loosely recorded three songs, two of which are presented here. The tape of the session was miss filed and re-discovered in 1993.

Incorporating vocal, guitar, bass and tambourine tracks, this is believed to be the only exiting recording of George Harrison's second song composition You Know What To Do. (The first was Don't Bother Me, issued on With The Beatles in 1963.) George did not contribute any songs on the albums A Hard Days Night and Beatles For Sale and then added two on the next, Help!, but You Know What To Do never re-surfaced and remained un-issued until now.

With greater application extended during a session on 30 September 1964, John Lennon's No Reply was issued, on the album Beatles For Sale, but this 3 June demo recording of the song certainly has not been heard before. It was announced at the time that John was giving No Reply to Tommy Quickly, another of Brian Epstein's artists, and - as John sings it in a staccato, jaunty style more typical of Quicly's than his own - it's feasible that this demo was recorded with that donation in mind. (All the same, if he recorded it at all, Quicly never issued his version.) Intriguingly, a drummer is evident, even though no recognized player - neither Ringo or Jimmy Nicol - was present.

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