Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Beatles Complete: February 11(a) to 11(b), 1963

Label: Silent Sea Productions, V.1

1. There's A Place tk 1
2. There's A Place tk 2
3. There's A Place tk 3
4. There's A Place tk 4
5. There's A Place tk 5
6. There's A Place tk 6
7. There's A Place tk 7
8. There's A Place tk 8
9. There's A Place tk 9
10. There's A Place tk 10
11. I Saw Her Standing There tk 1
12. I Saw Her Standing There tk 2
13. I Saw Her Standing There tk 3, edit piece
14. I Saw Her Standing There tk 4, edit piece
15. I Saw Her Standing There tk 5, edit piece
16. I Saw Her Standing There tk 6
17. I Saw Her Standing There tk 7
18. I Saw Her Standing There tk 8
19. I Saw Her Standing There tk 9
20. Do You Want To Know A Secret? tk 7
21. Do You Want To Know A Secret? tk 8
22. A Taste Of Honey tk 6
23. A Taste Of Honey tk 7
24. There's A Place tk 11
25. There's A Place tk 12
26. There's A Place tk 13
27. I Saw Her Standing There tk 10
28. I Saw Her Standing There tk 11
29. I Saw Her Standing There tk 12
30. Misery tk 1
31. Misery tk 2
32. Misery tk 3
33. Misery tk 4
34. Misery tk 5
35. Misery tk 6
36. Misery tk 7
37. Misery tk 8
38. Do You Want To Know A Secret? tk 8, RS1
39. There's A Place tk 13, RS1
40. I Saw Her Standing There edit of tk 9 & 12, RS1
41. A Taste Of Honey, tk 7, RS1
42. I Saw Her Standing There edit of tk 9 & 12, RS'76

The Beatles Complete: December 25, 1962 to January 22(a), 1963

Label: Silent Sea Productions, BC 621225.V2

Concert, December 25, 1962
1. Be Bop A Lula
2. I Saw Her Standing There
3. Hellelujah! I Love Her So
4. Red Hot (partial)
5. Sheila
6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) (partial)
7. Twist And Shout
8. Mr. Moonlight
9. Besame Mucho
10. Sweet Little Sixteen
11. Red Sails In The Sunset
12. I'm Talking About You
13. Roll Over Beethoven
14. Falling In Love Again
15. Shimmy Like Kate
16. Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
17. Long Tall Sally
18. I Remember You
Concert, December 31, 1962
19. Road Runner
20. The Hippy Hippy Shake
21. A Taste Of Honey (partial)
22. Money (That's What I Want)
23. Reminiscing
24. Ask Me Why
25. I Saw Her Standing There
Radio, January 22(a), 1963
26. Some Other Guy
27. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
28. Beautiful Dreamer

The Beatles Complete: September 11 to December 21, 1962

Label: Silent Sea Productions, BC 620911.V1

Studio, September 11, 1962
1. Love Me Do
2. P.S. I Love You
3. Please Please Me
Home Tape, September, 1962
4. I Saw Her Standing There
5. One After 909
6. One After 909
7. Catswalk
8. Catswalk
Radio, October 27, 1962
9. Beatles and Monty Lister Chat
Television, October 29, 1962
10. A Taste Of Honey (partial)
Studio, November 26, 1962
11. Please Please Me
12. Ask Me Why
Concert, December 21, 1962
13. A Taste Of Honey
14. Till There Was You
15. Where Have You Been
16. (interlude #1)
17. Lend Me Your Comb
18. Your Feet's Too Big
19. Talkin' About You
20. (interlude #2)
21. To Know Her Is To Love Her
22. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
23. (interlude #3)
24. Matchbox
25. (interlude #4)
26. Little Queenie
27. Nothin' Shakin'
28. (interlude #5)
29. Roll Over Beethoven

June 17, 1964 - The Beatles Sing for Shell

Taped: Wednesday 17 June 1964
Aired: Wednesday 1 July 1964

At the Festival Hall in Melbourne, the Beatles played two sets. Channel Nine filmed the final concert for a TV show: The Beatles Sing For Shell (the oil company).



Monday, January 12, 2009

Beatle Books: From Genesis to Revolution

by W. Fraser Sandercombe

This is a book about Beatles books. There are thousands of listings inside. What was written about them during the 1960s was nothing compared to what came next. People had finally realised how absolutely unique The Beatles truly were. And they were beginning to realise that nothing quite like The Beatles would ever exist again. By 1983, there had been two hundred books about them; and by 2008, about twelve hundred more. And every year brings another mountain of writing about them, enough to keep a collector hunting forever. The titles are listed alphabetically, with publisher and author information included. Books by the band, about the band and featuring the band, as well as the better reproductions of their music in print are included.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Beatles: Paperback Writer - 40 Years of Classic Writing

Edited by Mike Evans

The Beatles: Paperback Writer collects the most illuminating interviews, articles, reviews, and essays on the rock icons, from contemporary accounts of the group’s rise in 1962 to recent analyses of their enduring cultural legacy. The band’s influence on the Baby Boomer youth culture and its descendants is discussed by figures from all places on the pop culture spectrum: mainstream reporters, rock journalists, cultural commentators, performers, and the band’s acquaintances and friends. Provocative articles cover the Beatles’ pop-redefining experimentation with song structure and recording techniques and their embracing of psychedelic drugs, hippie utopianism, and pacifism — all set against the dramatic backdrop of the counterculture. Editor Mike Evans includes penetrating pieces on such fascinating byways as the right-wing claims that the group was communist and the “Paul is dead” myth. The band’s acrimonious split and each member's disparate, post-Beatles path are also profiled in this book that’s a must-have for any serious Beatles fan.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

August 22, 1964 - Royal Canadian Air Force Station & Empire Stadium, Vancouver

Taped: Saturday 22 August 1964

The show began at 8.14 and The Beatles came on at 9.23. Despite the long show, many reporters still thought that The Beatles' 29-minute set was too short. William Littler, in a grumpy piece in the Vancouver Sun, said, "Seldom in Vancouver's entertainment history have so many (20,261) paid so much ($5.25 top price) for so little (27 minutes) as did the audience which screamed at The Beatles in Empire Stadium Saturday night."

Three attempts were made to smash the ten-foot high stadium gates, and it finally buckled under the strain seconds after The Beatles began their performance, but only a dozen or so fans managed to get in before police and ushers got it closed again and held it shut with their bodies. Their exit was timed to perfection. They completed 'Long Tall Sally', bowed low while unstrapping their guitars, bolted from the stage into waiting limousines and with motorcycle outriders, they were out of the stadium fewer than 30 seconds from their last note. The Beatles drove straight to the airport where they caught a plane to Los Angeles.

Thousands of teenagers left their seats and rushed the stage, crushing hundreds of young girls against the restraining fence. Dozens of girls suffered broken ribs and hundreds were treated for hysteria and shock.