The Beatle's 1st Live Recordings. Volume Two

Vinyl Long Play · Pickwick International · SPC-3662.
1979 · U.S.A.

 Back cover.

Labels.

Liner notes:

The Beatle's

1st LIVE RECORDINGS

HAMBURG, GERMANY, 1962

JOHN. PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO

VOLUME TWO

Side One
1. Nothin' Shakin' (but the leaves on the trees) 1:14
      C. Colocrai, E. Fontaine. D. Lampert & J. Cleveland - ARC Music/BMI
2. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby 2:23
      Carl Perkins - Knox Pub. Music Corp./BMI
3. Matchbox 2:33
      Carl Perkins - Knox Pub. Music Corp./BMI
4. I'm Talkin' About You 1:47
      Chuck Berry - ARC Music/BMI
5. Long Tall Sally 1:45
      E. Johnson, R. Penniman & R. Blackwell - Venice Music/BMI
6. Roll Over Beethoven 2:12
      Chuck Berry - ARC Music/BMI
7. Hippy Hippy Shake 1:40
      Chan Romeo - Jonware Music Corp./BMI

Side Two
1. Falling In Love Again 1:59
      S. Lerner and F. Hollander - Famous Music Corp./BMI
2. Lend Me Your Comb 1:44
      Twomey, Wyse and Weisman - Hill & Range Songs Inc./BMI
3. Sheila 1:55
      Tommy Roe - Low-Twi Music/BMI
4. Red Sails In The Sunset 2:00
      J. Kennedy & H. Williams - Shapiro Bernstein & Co., Inc/ASCAP
5. To Know Her Is To Love Her 3:01
      P. Spector - Vogue Music/BMI
6. Shimmy Shake 2:16
      Joe South & Billy Land - Lowery Music Co/BMI
7. I Remember You 1:55
      J. Mercer and V. Schertzinger - Paramount Music Corp./ASCAP

This is it. Inside this package. The first recording of the Beatles - Live - Including Ringo. Along with every bit of the slop, energy, ad libbing, clowning, mocking and excitement that makes a live club band what it is...and what made the Beatles become what they became.

For those are the Beatles. This is the history. The raucous vitality of rock n' roll in its early years. You must hear this.

Lennon's irreverent, caustic wit. McCartney's "Little Richard" voice. Ringo's famous Boomp-Pa-pa-Bom-pa rock 'n' roll beat. Harrison's leads and vocal harmonies. Without studio retakes. Without over-dubs or synthesizers. The real Beatles. Real rock 'n' roll.

This album is a collector's item. It captures an explosion of energy. A rollicking Saturday night. Hamburg, Germany, 1962. The Star Club.

Every Beatlemaniac's fantasy. Seeing and hearing the Beatles Live! In a club where the audience is part of the performance. They got so big so fast that few from the U.S.A. ever had the experience.

Gather your friends, turn up the volume, and have it!

- Steven Rossi

And for those of you who want all the background of this recording, here it is.

Liverpool singer, King Size Taylor originally recorded this first tape of John, Paul, George and Ringo for a lark. The tape was subsequently lost and not rediscovered until 1972. The Beatles' original manager, Allan Williams, found it in a deserted Merseyside office "beneath a pile of rubble on the floor."

Williams immediately launched a campaign to have the tapes released, but even once legal obstacles had been cleared, a larger one remained: the tape had been recorded with a single microphone at 3-1/4 ips on a Grundia home tape recorder, and the verdict of almost everyone who heard it, including the Beatles, was the sound quality was that the sound quality was absolutely hopeless. 

But when you're dealing with a property as hot as this one, miracles can be made possible. Lingasong Records, which had obtained rights to the tape, decided to invest some $100,000 (as much as it had cost the Beatles to record Sgt. Pepper, their most extravagant work) in the most ambitious "reconstruction" job in the history of the recording industry. The monaural tape was painstakingly converted into a 16-track master recording. 

Producer Larry Grossberg, Billboard reported, separated  the information track-by-track using Burwen, dbx, and Dolby noise suppressors, UREI compressors and limiters, Orban Parasound and API silibance controllers, API equalizers, Kepex noise gates, Audio Design spectrum analyzer, and an Orban stereo synthesizer. 

A special group of new Ashley parametric equalizers capable of suppressing frequencies of .05 of an octave was extremely valuable in recouping practically all the rhythm tracks and bringing out substantial lead voices and background vocals when they were apparently drowned out by general extraneous sounds.... 

Despite the performers' own objections , aired in court too late to have any effect, the Beatles' nightclub performance came as a fascinating counterpoint to the sounds of Beatlemania at the Hollywood Bowl. 

© 1977

The Beatles Forever

Nicholas Schaffner

Stackpole books

Pickwick's acquisition of these tapes presented their studio with the same problems faced by the Lingasong people. Fortunately, most of the glaring technical atrocities were remedied by the 16 track transfer and remix. But the vocals were still less than ideally recognizable. Armed with their own battery of equalizers and noise gates, Pickwick's engineers carefully altered the original tonal balance to allow the vocals more prominence in the final mix.

We happily present it to you!

Cover Art: Christine Moore

Remastering Engineering: Steven Vining

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