"Lend Me Your Comb" is a song written by Kay Twomey, Fred Wise and Ben Weisman and published by Alamo Music, ASCAP. It was originally the B-Side of Carl Perkins' "Glad All Over" single, released December 1957 on Sun Records as Sun 287 by "The Rockin' Guitar Man".
"Lend Me Your Comb" was Carl Perkins' last single on Sun Records. The vocals were by Carl Perkins and Jay Perkins. Today it is best known for a cover by The Beatles, with John Lennon and George Harrison dueting the verses while Paul McCartney sang the middle eight, recorded 2 July 1963 at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in London. The Beatles cover has helped the song gain some notability. Musically, it is best known as a Rock'n'Roll song, and is usually performed as such. The Beatles version was released on their Anthology 1 album in 1995 and again in 2013 on their On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 collection; McCartney also performed the song with Carl Perkins in a filmed performance on the 1993 "Old Friends" video, while Lennon recorded the song in a home recording for the 1971 film short Clock.
The song also appeared in the 1983 film The Outsiders in the re-released version.
It also appeared on the Beatles' Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 album.
Other versions
Other artists have performed the song, including: