Live at the BBC is the one compilation to buy if you want to hear the Beatles at their BBC best. The sepia tinting on the original cover was also removed for a black-and-white rendition. However, the dialog after A Hard Day’s Night was abbreviated, unfortunately. Originally, these tracks crossfaded into the songs however, in 2013, this was changed and some of the songs were replaced with better sound quality sources. This was done both because in some cases, the announcers would speak over the songs’ beginnings and endings, and because the Beatles’ wit showed to good effect in their banter with the hosts, which included Brian Matthew, Lee Peters and Rodney Burke. Goode, Memphis, Tennessee, Lucille, Can’t Buy Me Love, From Fluff To You*, Till There Was You Crinsk Dee Night*, A Hard Day’s Night, Have A Banana!* (replaced in 2013 by Ringo? Yep!*), I Wanna Be Your Man, Just A Rumour*, Roll Over Beethoven, All My Loving, Things We Said Today, She’s A Woman, Sweet Little Sixteen, 1822!*, Lonesome Tears In My Eyes, Nothin’ Shakin’, The Hippy Hippy Shake, Glad All Over, I Just Don’t Understand, So How Come (No One Loves Me), I Feel Fine, I’m A Loser, Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby, Rock And Roll Music, Ticket To Ride, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!, Set Fire To That Lot!*, Matchbox, I Forgot To Remember To Forget, Love These Goon Shows!*, I Got To Find My Baby, Ooh! My Soul, Ooh! My Arms*, Don’t Ever Change, Slow Down, Honey Don’t, Love Me Do, From Us To You (closing) (added to 2013 release)Īs you can see from the above list, the compilers of these releases chose to include many of the spoken asides and between-tracks chatter from the original broadcasts. Live at the BBC (released November 30th, 1994): Beatle Greetings*, From Us To You (opening), Riding On A Bus*, I Got A Woman, Too Much Monkey Business, Keep Your Hands Off My Baby, I’ll Be On My Way, Youngblood, A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues, Sure To Fall, Some Other Guy, Thank You Girl, Sha la la la la!*, Baby It’s You, That’s All Right Mama, Carol, What Is It, George?* (added to 2013 release), Soldier Of Love, A Little Rhyme*, Clarabella, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You), Crying, Waiting, Hoping, Dear Wack!*, You Really Got A Hold On Me, To Know Her Is To Love Her, A Taste Of Honey, Long Tall Sally, I Saw Her Standing There, The Honeymoon Song, Johnny B. Instead, I’ll list the songs on each album, and then point out the highlights. Most of them are brilliant, proving that the group was one of the best “bar bands” of the era.īecause of the wealth of material here, I’m not going to do a track-by-track assessment. The three albums released containing BBC material– Live at the BBC, On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2, and The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963–include almost every cover song otherwise unavailable. Still, these recordings might have been mostly forgotten, but the Beatles made a point early on of covering many songs which they never recorded in the studio. They appeared on shows like Saturday Club, Side By Side, Easy Beat, Top of the Pops, and two created especially for them: From Us To You and Pop Go The Beatles. I suspect Pete Best’s presence has something to do with it.įrom that moment, the band’s appearance on BBC radio was assured, particularly once they had their first hit with Please Please Me. 1 Since they obviously have a copy, one wonders why they didn’t put this song on an official release despite the inferior sound quality due to its historic importance. Sadly, this performance has never been issued, although Dream Baby has turned up on bootlegs and was aired on a retrospective BBC show in 1982. At the time, Pete Best was still their drummer, and they did not yet have a recording contract. They performed Roy Orbison’s Dream Baby, Chuck Berry’s Memphis, Tennessee, and the Marvelettes’ Please Mr.
The Beatles first appeared on one of these shows, Teenager’s Turn (Here We Go), on March 8th, 1962. The BBC, seeking to increase air time for teenage pop groups, began broadcasting shows which featured new recordings made in their studios of the hits of the day. Fearing for their members’ livelihoods, the union insisted that records be strictly limited with airplay. These songs, recorded from 1963 to 1965, owe their existence to the British Musicians Union. In 1994, Apple Records and the BBC combined forces to unlock the gates of unreleased recordings being issued officially with the two CD release of Live at the BBC.
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