john@fritz.UUCP (John Gilbert) (05/06/85)
Recently, while shopping my local Compact Disc bin, I came across a Beatles disc titled "Beatles First". It sported a old photo of the Fab Four, typical of the old albums. It was on the Polydor label. The selections it contained were things like "Sweet Georgia Brown", and "When The Saints Go Marching In". I have never heard these tunes by the Beatles, and have never seen this collection in the form of an album. Were these tunes ever released in the U.S.? What have I found here? Please, if anyone is familiar with this collection, please send me some information about it. When was it recorded/released. Is it a new release? Thanks in advance ... John Gilbert ..!trwrb!felix!john
cmoore@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (05/08/85)
I have seen that collection under the name "The Beatles...in the beginning (circa 1960)" on the same label (Polydor). It features Tony Sheridan. Don't know when it was released, but you hear "Ain't She Sweet" (sung by John Lennon) and the instrumental "Cry for a Shadow" (composed by Lennon/Harrison).
sethian@acf4.UUCP (sethian) (05/09/85)
When I was young (around ten I guess), mu aunt wanted to get me a birthday present. She had heard the Beatles were popular, but thought that spending $2.98 for a record (the price in those days for a mono lp ...that's all there was ) was too much. Hoever, she found this one Beatle record that only cost $1.59 ....you guessed it ... Tony Sheridan meets the Beatles. Even in those days, they knew it was worth half as much. So she got it for me. Smart ten year old I was I thought it was fake and never played it, and think if I go digging for it, can find the world's only unopened original mint condition copy of Tony Sheridan meets the Beatles. I'll start the bidding at $.......
DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (Deryk Barker) (05/09/85)
Yup - these tracks were recorded in Hamburg in 1960/61 when Tony Sheridan was one of Polydor's great white hopes and the Beatles were just another English band in Germany. I had an EP featuring some of these songs (bought in Portugal in 1964 - pity I don't still have THAT!) and would say that unless you are a Beatles completist you'd be better off not bothering. Why haven't EMI released any Beatles stuff on CD (except Abbey Road - a Japanese import I believe). Why have EMI STILL not told the world how much money they made from the Beatles? Why are all the Beatles LP's still only available at full-price? Do the last two questions relate to each other? For info on the Beatles Hamburg period - and much else - I thoroughly recommend "Shout" by Philip Norman - unless you believe that McCartney was the most talented member. BTW the Hamburg stuff features Pete Best of course, not Ringo.
showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) (05/11/85)
> Recently, while shopping my local Compact Disc bin, I came across a Beatles > disc titled "Beatles First". It sported a old photo of the Fab Four, typical > of the old albums. It was on the Polydor label. > > The selections it contained were things like "Sweet Georgia Brown", and > "When The Saints Go Marching In". I have never heard these tunes by > the Beatles, and have never seen this collection in the form of an album. > > Were these tunes ever released in the U.S.? What have I found here? > Please, if anyone is familiar with this collection, please send me some > information about it. When was it recorded/released. Is it a new > release? > > Thanks in advance ... > > John Gilbert > > ..!trwrb!felix!john This album has been released under many different titles on two or three different labels. All were recorded in 1962 when the Beatles backed up Tony Sheridan (as the Beat Brothers). More recent versions have, I believe, on the cover a stack of newspapers with a headline "Beatles Top Poll" or some such. I've heard SGB from this album and it's fairly interesting. I wouldn't spend more than $4.99 for it on vinyl--I'm not sure about CDs.