| Title: | If You've Got Trouble | ![]() |
| Credits: | John Lennon - Paul McCartney | |
| Recorded: | EMI Studios, London, 18 February, 1965 | |
| Producer: | George Martin | |
| Engineer: | Norman Smith | |
| Locations: | Anthology 2 - disc 1, track 5 |
Two songs were recorded during the evening, Tell Me What You See, written and sung by Paul, and If You've Got Trouble, written by John and Paul as Ringo's vocal offering for the new film and album. Space was usually set aside for Ringo to sing lead on Beatles discs, with Boys appearing on the album Please Please Me, I Wanna Be Your Man on With The Beatles, Honey Don't on Beatles For Sale and Matchbox on the four-song EP Long Tall Sally, the Beatles captured the basic track of If You've Got Trouble in a single take and then lead and backing vocals were overdubbed, but the overall sound did not gel and it was soon decided to pass over the recording, and, indeed, the song itself. Ringo made his vocal contribution to Help! by taping a cover version of Buck Owens' country number Act Naturally on 17 June, and If You've Got Trouble has remained locked inside EMI's archive until now.