Dizzy Miss Lizzie

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“Dizzy Miss Lizzie”
Single by Larry Williams
B-side "Slow Down"
Released March 1958
Format 7" single
Genre Rock and Roll
Label Specialty 626 (USA)
London HLU 8604 (UK)
Writer(s) Larry Williams
Larry Williams singles chronology
"Bony Moronie"
(1957)		 "Dizzy Miss Lizzie"
(1958)		 "Hootchy-Koo"
(1958)
“Dizzy Miss Lizzie”
Song by The Beatles
Album Help!
Released 6 August 1965
Recorded Abbey Road Studios
10 May 1965
Genre Rock
Length 2:54
Label Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
Writer Larry Williams
Producer George Martin
Help! track listing
Side one
  1. "Help!"
  2. "The Night Before"
  3. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
  4. "I Need You"
  5. "Another Girl"
  6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl"
  7. "Ticket to Ride"
Side two
  1. "Act Naturally"
  2. "It's Only Love"
  3. "You Like Me Too Much"
  4. "Tell Me What You See"
  5. "I've Just Seen a Face"
  6. "Yesterday"
  7. "Dizzy Miss Lizzie"

"Dizzy Miss Lizzie" is a song composed and sung by Larry Williams in 1958.

The song has been covered many times, including — most famously — by the Beatles on the 1965 Help! album, though the recording was initially intended for the 1965 American Beatles compilation Beatles VI along with the Larry Williams cover "Bad Boy", recorded by the Beatles on the same day. Paul McCartney has stated that he believes this song to be one of the Beatles best recordings[citation needed]. It features loud, rhythmic instrumentation, along with John Lennon's particularly rousing vocals. The song also appeared in a live solo version by Lennon on the Plastic Ono Band's Live Peace in Toronto 1969.

In the United States, the Beatles' version was on the album Beatles VI. In the UK, it was on Help!, where the title is spelled "Dizzy Miss Lizzy".

The title is playfully misleading, the actual lyric being, "You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzie".

The song was originally thought about by band manager Brian Epstein, and was later introduced to Ringo Starr, the band's drummer. He made sure that the band recorded it after loving its upbeat rhythm and interesting lyrics.[citation needed]

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