Have I the Right

About Have I the Right

"Have I the Right?" was the debut single and biggest hit of British band The Honeycombs. It was composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, who had made contact with The Honeycombs, a London-based group, then playing under the name of The Sheratons, in the Mildmay Tavern in the Balls Pond Road in Islington, where they played a date. Howard and Blaikley were impressed by the group's lead vocalist, Dennis D'Ell, and the fact that they had a female drummer, Ann (‘Honey') Lantree. The group were looking for material to play for an audition with record producer Joe Meek, and they played the songs Howard and Blaikley had just given them. Meek decided to record one of them, "Have I the Right?", there and then. Meek himself provided the B-side, "Please Don't Pretend Again". Music critic Tom Ewing, writing for Freaky Trigger, commented that the song "invents" post-punk, "which is to say, when I listen to the instrumental break on this record, bright guitar and sharp keyboard slicing tuneless chunks out of each other, it's not 1964 I'm hearing." It was used as the opening theme for Hold the Sunset. more »

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2001

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Have I the right to hold you
You know I've always told you
That we must never ever part, oh oh oh oh

Have I the right to kiss you 
You know I'll always miss you
I've loved you from the very start

Come right back I just can't bear it
I've got this love and I long to share it
Come right back I'll show my love is strong, oh yeah

Have I the right to touch you  
If I could you'd see how much you
Send those shivers running down my spine, ooh ooh

Have I the right to thrill you 
You know I'll wait until you
Give me the right to make you mine

Well, come right back I just can't bear it
I've got this love and I long to share it
Come right back, I'll show my love is strong, oh yeah, all right

Have I the right to hold you  
You know I've always told you
That we must never ever part, no, no no, no, no

Have I the right to kiss you  
You know I'll always miss you
I've loved you from the very start

Come right back I just can't bear it
I've got this love and I long to share it
Come right back I'll show my love is strong, oh yeah, yeah

Come right back I just can't bear it
I've got this love and I long to share it
Come right back right back where you belong, oh yeah
You belong, oh yeah, you belong

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The Honeycombs

The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London. The group had one chart-topping hit, the million selling "Have I the Right?", in 1964. After that song the interest in the group ebbed away, and they split up in late 1966. The group's most distinguishing mark was their female drummer, Honey Lantree. more »

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