With 5,242 hits and counting, 10-year-old Elizabeth Merrick of Hanson is hoping her YouTube duet with dad Joe on the Beatles’ “Let It Be” is a foot in the door to her future as an actress/singer.

The video took a day to shoot in a conservation area in West Bridgewater and a month of pre-production in the studio. Elizabeth and Joe are the only musicians heard on the track with overdubbed background singing they recorded. Nine of those backup tracks are Elizabeth.

Her acting talent also shows in the video shot by photographer-videographer Sam Haddix, which impressed her dad.

“She turned on the charm, I didn’t know she was able to do that,” Joe said.

What makes her achievement even more notable is her hearing impairment. She has mild-to-moderate hearing loss in both ears and wears hearing aids.

“I don’t have that much hearing loss,” she said. “But I was born not hearing well. I hear fine when I’m trying to do my music.”

But she’s not letting that stop her from her goal of acting and singing. She’d like to be the next Selena Gomez, and a lot like her dad.

“My dad is a mucisian and I want to be like him,” she said. “I don’t know when I started singing.”

Joe Merrick is the owner of Guilty Dog Studio and an award-winning singer/songwriter who has worked in the Boston area for more than 20 years.

The Indian Head School fifth-grader has always admired the Beatles, especially Paul McCartney, whom she and her dad used to listen to before she’d go off to afternoon kindergarten classes when she was 5. Since then she has made two other recordings — one of “The Saints Go Marching In” — and has appeared in several school and community plays and in the Worcester cable access show “The Wacky Factory,” which is a lot like the PBS children’s show “Zoom.”

Arts of all kinds have always been important to her. She loves reading, writing poetry, drawing and singing with her dad.

“We’re kind of flaky, tweaky people,” said Joe Merrick. “[Her] mom and [sister] Gracie are very organized, grounded people. We need each other.”

The choice of “Let It Be,” was one of those happy accidents that are the stuff of music legend. One day, they were sitting in the family room with her pet bird tweeting in the background and Joe  started singing the song with Elizabeth joining in. The idea to do it as a music video was a spur-of-the-moment idea that came to Joe as they sang.

“When my mom came home, I performed it and then we did the recording and the video,”  Elizabeth said. The next logical step was to post it on YouTube.

“I wanted to put it on there because everyone watches YouTube,” Elizabeth explained. “So I wanted people to see that music video that I did, to see how I sing — and 5,000 people did.”

“What people are getting out of this video is that, people with  hearing loss, are being inspired,” Joe said. He received a recent e-mail by a woman whose hearing-impaired daughter is now inspired to sing, too. “That video shows people that even though she has a hearing loss, she’s proud of herself and wants to sing.”

They are considering other songs on which they can duet, and Joe would especially like Elizabeth to write the lyrics for a song as she writes a lot of poetry. One of her favorite poets is Sylvia Plath.

Rhianna, Katy Perry and “all those messed up singers” have talent Elizabeth admires, but she really finds her inspiration in the Beatles and, specifically, McCartney’s work.

“When I had a break at school, I’d tell him ‘Watch Paul because he has music videos of him.”  she said.

Her acting has ranged from the lead in “Pinocchio” to parts in productions of “The Jungle Book,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Snow White” and “Peter Pan.”

Her dad thinks acting might be her thing as it incorporates both the drama and music she loves.

The music video is available at youtube.com/watch?v=hZrjjCojHqc

To see the Wacky Factory, which is seen in Worcester and parts of New York state visit thewackyfactory.com. Joe Merrick’s Web site is  joemerrick.com.