in december 62 the beatles played their final few gigs in hamburg. a month earlier they had recorded 2 of their own compositions - please please me and ask me why. please please me would be released as their second single in the UK 11 days after their final hamburg gig on december 31st.
luckily enough somebody recorded one of these gigs which was released as the live at the star club lp. the quality is poor but the songs are great. one can only wonder what it would be like if it had been recorded with good equipment.
strangely enough, the beatles didnt perform please please me but did do the other song they recorded in november - ask me why. its an interesting choice - not to play your forthcoming single. perhaps epstein told them not to play it until it was released.
the songs on this are great. almost all of them are covers. these songs were like the beatles training ground as future songwriters. a full tracklisting along with the original performers, can be seen here - http://www.jpgr.co.uk/bls5560.html. info on the four omitted there are:
Where Have You Been All My Life - Arthur Alexander
Sheila - Tommy Roe
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry Over You - Elvis
Till There Was You - Peggy Lee
the unreleased song - My Girl Is Red Hot could well be a ronnie hawkins or carroll bros tune. of course, this is probably the same tune with ronnie covering the carroll bros one.
the first 5 songs are standard rock n roll fare. its not till the end of the 4th song - hippy hippy shake that we hear some on stage banter. it sounds like:
john: thats a good tune!
paul: thank you my son. thank you masumba?
hard to make out. could be german either? the beatles were probably pissed by this stage. i will be trying to make out what they say in between songs for the next few days - a sort of historic document before all hell broke lose - beatlemania...
well actully its just a beatle dork thing but anyway...
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