1st Live Recordings ( Rus. First Live Recordings ) is a double album representing the live performances of The Beatles , recorded at the end of December 1962 at the Star Club ( Russian Star Club ) on their last visit to work in Hamburg , when The group has already entered the drummer Ringo Starr , before the period of world fame and " Beatlemania ." The album was released in the USA by Pickwick Records on January 29, 1979 .
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| Date of issue | January 29, 1979 | ||||||
| Recorded by | end of December 1962 , Star-Club , Hamburg , Germany | ||||||
| Genre | rock'n'roll | ||||||
| Duration | 58:39 | ||||||
| Label | Pickwick | ||||||
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Content
About the album
The tapes were made by Adrian Barber, Star Club stage manager, at the request of Ted "Kingsize" Taylor , vocalist and guitarist of the Liverpool band "Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes", at that time also who worked in Hamburg, nicknamed the “King size” for his height of 6 feet 5 inches - about 195 cm). The recordings were made on a Grundig domestic reel tape recorder at a speed of 3 3/4 inches / sec (9.5 cm / sec) during three performances of 25, 28 (or 29) and December 30, 1962.
Although The Beatles thought the quality of the recording was too poor to try to release in any way, in the 1970s, the Lingasong Records label spent about $ 100,000 preparing it for the release of the album - resulting in the 1977 release of the Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 .
The version released by Pickwick Records is slightly different from the Lingasong Records album - mostly more legible in vocals. In two tracks, “ Hallelujah, I Love Her So ” and “ Be-Bop-A-Lula ” The Beatles act as an accompanying band . The solo vocalists in these compositions are Horst Fasher, the manager and co-owner of the Star Club and his younger brother Fred Fascher, who worked at the club as a waiter. Another track on the album (not included in the album published by Lingasong in 1977) is not a recording of The Beatles' performance at all: “Hully Gully” is a recording of the performance of Cliff Bennett and the band Rebel Rousers (Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers), who performed on stage club that evening.
Song List
Disc 1
- " Where Have You Been All My Life " ( Cynthia Weil / Barry Mann ) - 1:55
- “ A Taste of Honey ” (Bobby Scott / Rick Marlow) - 1:40
- " Your Feets Too Big " (Ada Benson / Fred Fisher ) - 2:20
- " Mr. Moonlight "(R. Johnson) - 2:05
- " Bésame Mucho " ( T. Velasquez ) - 2:35
- “ I'm Gonna Sit Down and Cry (Over You) ” (J. Thomas / H. Biggs) - 2:40
- " Be-Bop-A-Lula " (G. Vincent / T. Davis) - 2:28
- " Hallelujah, I Love Her So " ( Charles ) - 2:08
- " Till There Was You " ( Meredith Willson ) - 1:59
- “ Sweet Little Sixteen ” ( Berry ) - 2:44
- Little Queenie ( Berry ) - 3:53
- “ Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! ( Lieber / Stoller / Richard ) - 2:09
- " Hully Gully " (F. Smith / C. Goldsmith) - 1:39
Disc 2
- " Ain't Nothing Shakin ' " ( Fontaine , Colacrai, Lampert, Gluck) - 1:14
- “ Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby ” ( Perkins ) - 2:23
- Matchbox ( Perkins ) - 2:33
- " Talking 'Bout You " ( Charles ) - 1:47
- " Long Tall Sally " (E. Johnson / Richard ) - 1:45
- Roll Over Beethoven ( Berry ) - 2:12
- “ Hippy Hippy Shake ” (Chan Romeo) - 1:40
- “ Falling in Love Again ” (S. Lerner / F. Hollander ) - 1:59
- “ Lend Me Your Comb ” (Twomey / Wyse / Weisman ) - 1:44
- Sheila ( Tommy Roe ) - 1:55
- Red Sails in the Sunset ( Jimmy Kennedy and Hal Williams ) - 2:00
- “ To Know Her Is To Love Her ” ( Spector ) - 3:01
- “ Shimmy Shake ” ( Joe South and Billy Land) - 2:16
- “ I Remember You ” ( Mercer and Victor Schertzinger ) - 1:55
See also
For more information about the circumstances in which the recording was made, as well as about preparing the recording for release - see the article about the album Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 .