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 30 November 1994
Recorded 22 January 1963–26 May 1965
Genre Rock and roll
Length 133:37
Label Apple 31796
Producer 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 November 1994; it includes tracks from the multitude of recordings they made for radio shows at the BBC during 1963–1965.

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

The BBC scrapped most of its archive tapes of The Beatles performing; the majority of this album is based on 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.

Since the album's release, the (almost) complete BBC sessions have surfaced in equal (or, in many cases, superior) quality on bootlegs, missing just a few speech links and parts of songs. The most recent edition is the ten discs published by the Purple Chick organization, and upgraded in 2004.

There are six Beatles performances of 'unreleased' numbers that George Martin deemed too poor for the album: Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)", from The Beatles' very first radio broadcast (8 March 1962), featuring Pete Best on drums; The Coasters' arrangement of "Besame Mucho" and Joe Brown's "A Picture of You" (15 June 1962), also with Best on drums; Slim Whitman's "Beautiful Dreamer" (26 January 1963); and Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You" (16 March 1963).

Carl Perkins's "Lend Me Your Comb", from the 16 July 1963 broadcast, was also omitted; it did appear on Anthology 1 (1995).

The version of "Baby It's You" from this collection was released as a CD-single, and also on vinyl, on 1995-03-20, with three other BBC performances that are not included in the collection.

[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 (Lay Down Your Arms)" (Arthur Alexander) (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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The Beatles' compilations
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My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, Germany, 1962) • The Beatles' First (Germany, 1964 / UK, 1967) • In the Beginning (Circa 1960) (1970) • The Early Tapes of The Beatles (1984) • Beatles Bop - Hamburg Days (2001)
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Hits: A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966) • 1962–1966 (1973) • 1967–1970 (1973) • 20 Greatest Hits (1982) • 1 (2000)

Themes: Rock 'n' Roll Music (1976) • Love Songs (1977) • The Beatles' Ballads (1980) • Reel Music (1982)
Non-album tracks: Hey Jude (US, 1970 / UK, 1979) • Rarities (UK, 1978) • Rarities (US, 1980) • Past Masters, Volume One (1988) • Past Masters, Volume Two (1988)
Alternate versions: Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999) • Let It Be… Naked (2003)
Other: The Beatles' Christmas Album (US) / From Then to You (UK) (1970) • Love (2006)

Unreleased: Sessions (due date 1985)
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