Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Beatles On Tour 1964

Label: Silent Sea Productions, ssdv.008

80 minutes - b+w - stereo and mono

WASHINGTON COLISEUM - WASHINGTON
The Beatles' first American concert and the earliest available complete concert film of the Beatles, playing before a crowd of 8092 just two days after their historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. They took a morning train down from New York. Videotaped by CBS and shown in theaters via closed circuit.

VEILINGHAL OP HOOP VAN ZEGEN - BLOKKER
With Jimmy Nicol filling in for the tonsil-stricken Ringo, this was the second show in their world tour of Denmark, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

FESTIVAL HALL - MELBOURNE
The Beatles played two shows a night for three nights in Melbourne, and the sixth and last show was videotaped by Australia's Channel 9 for use in the hour-long special, The Beatles Sing For Shell, first broadcast on July 1st. Presented here is the raw tape used to produce the special.

HOLLYWOOD BOWL - LOS ANGELES
The fifth show on "The Beatles' First American Tour" was at the Hollywood Bowl. Not only was the concert captured on multi-track audiotape, but several cameras were running at various times through most of the show. Presented here is a new edit of the available footage married to the stereo mix of the soundboard tape.

WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 11TH
1 intro
2 Roll Over Beethoven
3 From Me To You
4 I Saw Her Standing There
5 This Boy
6 All My Loving
7 I Wanna Be Your Man
8 Please Please Me
9 Till There Was You
10 She Loves You
11 I Want To Hold Your Hand
12 Twist And Shout (p)
13 Long Tall Sally

BLOKKER, JUNE 6TH
1 I Saw Her Standing There (p)

MELBOURNE, JUNE 17TH
1 I Saw Her Standing There (p)
2 You Can't Do That
3 All My Loving
4 She Loves You
5 Till There Was You (p)
6 Roll Over Beethoven (p)
7 Can't Buy Me Love
8 Twist And Shout
9 Long Tall Sally

LOS ANGELES, AUGUST 23RD
1 intro (s)
2 Twist And Shout (s)
3 You Can't Do That (s)
4 All My Loving (s)
5 She Loves You (s)
6 Things We Said Today (s)
7 Roll Over Beethoven (ps)
8 I Want To Hold Your Hand (ps)
9 Boys (s)
10 A Hard Day's Night (s)
11 Long Tall Sally (s)

(p) partial (s) stereo

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