Live at the BBC (The Beatles album)

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Live at the BBC
Live at the BBC cover
Live album by The Beatles
Released November 30, 1994
Recorded January 22, 1963 - May 26, 1965
Genre Rock
Length 133:37
Label Apple 31796
Producer(s) George Martin
Professional reviews
The Beatles chronology
The Beatles Box Set
(1988)		 Live at the BBC
(1994)		 Anthology 1
(1995)


Live at the BBC was released by The Beatles in December 1994, and includes tracks from the multitude of the recordings they made for radio shows at the BBC during 1963-1965.

Many of these recordings had most recently been heard on the BBC Radio 1 documentary series The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes (1988).

Sadly, the BBC scrapped most of its archive tapes of The Beatles performing; the majority of this album is based off of a bootleg by the Great Dane organization, most noticeable in the drops in quality during "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" and "That's All Right (Mama)" which sound unusually tinny and distant. The (almost) complete BBC sessions have surfaced in equal (or, in many cases, superior) quality on bootlegs since then, missing just a few speech links and parts of songs. (The most recent edition is the massive ten-disc version published by the Purple Chick organization, upgraded in 2004.)

There are half a dozen Beatles performances of 'unreleased' numbers which George Martin deemed as unsuitable for the album: Roy Orbisin's 'Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)', from their very first radio broadcast on March 8, 1962 (featuring Pete Best on drums); The Coasters' arrangement of 'Besame Mucho' and Joe Brown's 'A Picture Of You', both from June 15, 1962 (still with Best on drums); Slim Whitman's 'Beautiful Dreamer' from January 26, 1963; Chuck Berry's 'I'm Talking About You' from March 16, 1963; and Carl Perkins' 'Lend Me your Comb' from the broadcat of July 16, 1963.

Of these, the first five are audibly much too poor to bring up to scratch for the album - listeners' recordings that were evidently not made via direct feed into a good quality grundig, but rather with a cheap microphone placed next to the radio speaker while Mum was told to be quiet. In other words, items of historic importance that are not quite fit for general public consumption. yet the reason for omitting 'Lend Me Your Comb', which originates from the BBC's Bush House archive, is altogether less obvious but it did appear on the "Anthology 1" set the following year.


Officially George Martin's selection criteria for the material involved both technical quality and the standard of the performance, and on the latter count the number just missed the mark. Unofficially, the powers that be may also wish to keep something in the can, and thus have something in reserve to use as a 'bonus track' enticement for some future release along with all of the alternate takes


[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Beatle Greetings" (Speech)
  2. "From Us to You" (Lennon-McCartney) Previously unreleased variation
  3. "Riding on a Bus" (Speech)
  4. "I Got a Woman" (Charles) Previously unreleased song
  5. "Too Much Monkey Business" (Berry) Previously unreleased song
  6. "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" (Goffin-King) Previously unreleased song
  7. "I'll Be on My Way" (Lennon-McCartney) Previously unreleased song
  8. "Young Blood" (Leiber-Stoller-Pomus) Previously unreleased song
  9. "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" (Thompson) Previously unreleased song
  10. "Sure to Fall (In Love with You)" (Perkins-Claunch-Cantrell) Previously unreleased song
  11. "Some Other Guy" (Leiber-Stoller-Barrett) Previously unreleased song
  12. "Thank You Girl" (Lennon-McCartney)
  13. "Sha la la la la!" (Speech)
  14. "Baby It's You" (David-Bacharach-Williams)
  15. "That's All Right (Mama)" (Crudup) Previously unreleased song
  16. "Carol" (Berry) Previously unreleased song
  17. "Soldier of Love" (Cason-Moon) Previously unreleased song
  18. "A Little Rhyme" (Speech)
  19. "Clarabella" (Pingatore) Previously unreleased song
  20. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)" (Thomas-Biggs) Previously unreleased song
  21. "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" (Holly)Previously unreleased song
  22. "Dear Wack!" (Speech)
  23. "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (Robinson)
  24. "To Know Her is to Love Her" (Spector) Previously unreleased song
  25. "A Taste of Honey" (Marlow-Scott)
  26. "Long Tall Sally" (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell)
  27. "I Saw Her Standing There" (Lennon-McCartney)
  28. "The Honeymoon Song" (Theodorakis-Sansom) Previously unreleased song
  29. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) Previously unreleased song
  30. "Memphis, Tennessee" (Berry) Previously unreleased song
  31. "Lucille" (Collins-Penniman) Previously unreleased song
  32. "Can't Buy Me Love" (Lennon-McCartney)
  33. "From Fluff to You" (Speech)
  34. "Till There Was You" (Willson)

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Crinsk Dee Night" (Speech)
  2. "A Hard Day's Night" (Lennon-McCartney)
  3. "Have a Banana!" (Speech)
  4. "I Wanna Be Your Man" (Lennon-McCartney)
  5. "Just a Rumour" (Speech)
  6. "Roll Over Beethoven" (Berry)
  7. "All My Loving" (Lennon-McCartney)
  8. "Things We Said Today" (Lennon-McCartney)
  9. "She's a Woman" (Lennon-McCartney)
  10. "Sweet Little Sixteen" (Berry) Previously unreleased song
  11. "1822!" (Speech)
  12. "Lonesome Tears in My Eyes" (Johnny Burnette-Dorsey Burnette-Burlison-Mortimer) Previously unreleased song
  13. "Nothin' Shakin'" (Fontaine-Calacrai-Lampert-Gluck) Previously unreleased song
  14. "The Hippy Hippy Shake" (Romero) Previously unreleased song
  15. "Glad All Over" (Bennett-Tepper-Schroeder) Previously unreleased song
  16. "I Just Don't Understand" (Wilkin-Westberry) Previously unreleased song
  17. "So How Come (No One Loves Me)" (Bryant) Previously unreleased song
  18. "I Feel Fine" (Lennon-McCartney)
  19. "I'm a Loser" (Lennon-McCartney)
  20. "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" (Perkins)
  21. "Rock and Roll Music" (Berry)
  22. "Ticket to Ride" (Lennon-McCartney)
  23. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Williams)
  24. "Medley: Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" (Leiber and Stoller)/(Penniman)
  25. "Set Fire to That Lot!" (Speech)
  26. "Matchbox" (Perkins)
  27. "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" (Kesler-Feathers) Previously unreleased song
  28. "Love These Goon Shows!" (Speech)
  29. "I Got to Find my Baby" (Berry) Previously unreleased song
  30. "Ooh! My Soul" (Penniman) Previously unreleased song
  31. "Ooh! My Arms" (Speech)
  32. "Don't Ever Change" (Goffin-King) Previously unreleased song
  33. "Slow Down" (Williams)
  34. "Honey Don't" (Perkins) Previously unreleased variation
  35. "Love Me Do" (Lennon-McCartney)
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