Beatles at the BBC for 2010
Due to the surfacing of some new and some upgrades of the recordings The Beatles did for the BBC in 1962-1965, the old Beatles at the Beeb catalogue has gotten a facelift. It is being re-released in full, and is starting to appear as individual releases, packaged as bundled flac and cue files on the internet, together with artwork for those who still like to store physical media on their shelves.
The releases is the undertaking of a single collector, who has done improvements to the material in the following fashion:
- new and better versions of quite a number of songs were broadcast by the BBC last year and has been included,
- some vinyl-only bootlegs have been found to contain material in better quality than previous CD releases,
- audio equipment for the home computer has improved and has been put to good use in ‘cleaning up’ the sound quality.
The standard catalogue for the Beatles BBC recordings has for the past few years been Purple Chick‘s The Complete BBC Sessions (upgraded for 2004), and this new set is called Unsurpassed Broadcasts. The first two volumes released thus far have been Vol. 2 and 3. They have been distributed freely on the internet, and if you have connections, I’m sure you will be able to find them. Here’s the tracklists for the first released volumes:
Unsurpassed Broadcasts Vol. 2
Swinging Sound ’63 recorded 18th April 1963 / txd live
1. Twist And Shout
2. From Me To You
Side By Side recorded 1st April 1963 / txd 22nd April 1963
3. Side By Side Theme (partial)
4. Chat / Do You Want To Know A Secret? (fragment)
Side By Side recorded 1st April 1963 / txd 13th May 1963
5. Chat
6. Long Tall Sally
7. Chat
8. A Taste Of Honey
9. Chains
10. Chat
11. Thank You Girl
12. Chat
13. Boys
Side By Side recorded 4th April 1963 / txd 24th June 1963
14. Side By Side Theme
15. Announcer
16. Too Much Monkey Business
17.Chat
18. Boys
19. Chat
20. I’ll Be On Way
21. From Me To You
Saturday Club recorded 21st May 1963 / txd 25th May 1963
22. Announcer
23. I Saw Her Standing There
24. Chat
25. Do You Want To Know A Secret?
26. Boys
27.Chat
28. Long Tall Sally
29. Chat
30. From Me To You
31. Money
Steppin’ Out recorded 21st May 1963 / txd 3rd June 1963
32. Please Please Me
33. I Saw Her Standing There
Pop Go The Beatles (1) recorded 24th May 1963 / txd 4th June 1963
34. Announcer
35. Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
36.Chat
37. Do You Want To Know A Secret?
38. Announcer
39. You Really ot A Hold On Me
40. Misery
41. Chat
42. The Hippy Hippy Shake
Unsurpassed Broadcasts Vol. 3
Pop Go The Beatles (2) recorded 1st June 1963 / txd 11th June 1963
1. Too Much Monkey Business
2. Chat
3. I Got To Find My Baby
4. Announcer
5. Young Blood
6. Announcer
7. Till There Was You
8. Chat
9. Baby It’s You
10. Announcer
11. Love Me Do
12. Pop Go The Beatles (long theme)
Pop Go The Beatles (3) recorded 1st June 1963 / txd 18th June 1963
13. Pop Go The Beatles (short theme)
14. Announcer
15. A Shot Of Rythm And Blues
16. Chat
17. Memphis Tennessee
18. Chat
19. A Taste Of Honey
20. Announcer
21. Sure To Fall
22. Announcer
23. Money
24. Chat
25. From Me To You
Easy Beat recorded 19th June 1963 / txd 23rd June 1963
26. Some Other Guy
27. Chat
28. A Taste Of Honey
29. Thank You Girl
30. Announcer
31. From Me To You
Pop Go The Beatles recorded 17th June 1963 / txd 25th June 1963
32. I Saw Her Standing There
33. Announcer
34. Anna
35. Chat
36. Chat
37. Boys
38. Chat
39. Chains
40. Chat
41. P.S. I Love You
42. Chat
43. Twist And Shout
44. Announcer
45. Pop Go The Beatles (long theme)
Saturday Club recorded 24th June 1963 / txd 29th June 1963
46. I Got To Find My Baby
47. Chat
48. Memphis Tennessee
49. Money P
50. Till There Was You
51. Chat
52. From Me To You
53. Roll Over Beethoven
The Beat Show recorded 3rd July 1963 / txd 4th July 1963
54. A Taste Of Honey
55. Twist And Shout
Covers look more suited for some dodgy bootleg one find at a car boot sale than an officially-sanctioned product by the BBC…
Well, maybe because these are not officially sanctioned product by the BBC?
All that work that's been put in to make these and all you can do is moan about the covers? Get a grip!
Where I can find them?
Please, Please Wogew, where can we found This. I can´t pay a money torrent!!!
This is a message to "Red Rooster" Wogew: "I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of all other Beatles-followers and myself, and I'm sure you pleased the audience!"
And this is a message to all fellows asking where to find them: "Find them in Northern Europe!"
Greetings from Germany…
Wait a sec, I can't find this at the "usual places." Does anybody know which site offers this torrent? Or is it imaginary like the fancy Magical Mystery Tour multi-disc set?
Ok Urchinn, I'll make it easy for you: "To find them there's neither place nor way!"
Greetings from Germany…
Geez, Ennolenno…thanks for the hint but I don't get it!!! I only know of one site nor way….but it ain't there.
Hey Urchinn,
next week I'll go for a walk through a Norwegian wood and I hopefully find a forum there to help me improve my Norwegian language…
Greetings from Germany…