· "FROM ME TO YOU" single recording session

As it happened on March 5th, 1963, at Abbey Road studio nº 2...

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01- From Me To You (take 1)
02- From Me To You (take 2)
03- From Me To You (take 3)
04- From Me To You (take 4)
05- From Me To You (take 5)
06- From Me To You (take 6)
07- From Me To You (take 7)
08- Thank You Girl (take 1)
09- Thank You Girl (take 2)
10- Thank You Girl (take 3)
11- Thank You Girl (take 4)
12- Thank You Girl (take 5)
13- Thank You Girl (take 6)
14- Thank You Girl (take 7)
15- Thank You Girl (take 8)
16- Thank You Girl (take 9)
17- Thank You Girl (take 10)
18- Thank You Girl (take 11)
19- Thank You Girl (take 12)
20- Thank You Girl (take 13)
21- One After 909 (take 1)
22- One After 909 (take 2)
23- One After 909 (take 3)
24- One After 909 (take 4)
25- One After 909 (take 5)
26- From Me To You (take 8)
27- From Me To You (takes 9 to 13)
28- From Me To You (stereo mix 1)
29- From Me To You (stereo mix 2)
30- From Me To You (1963 stereo mix 1+2)
31- Thank You Girl (stereo mix 1)
32- Thank You Girl (alternate mono mix from take 14)
33- Thank You Girl (alternate stereo mix)
34- One After 909 (mono mix)
35- One After 909 (stereo mix 1)
36- One After 909 (stereo mix 2)

Bonus Track:
37- She Loves You (unofficial "stereo" fake mix)

· "PLEASE PLEASE ME" UK LP - stereo

Due to the incredible public demand and neverending record sales, a stereo version was finally released in mid 1963...

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01- I Saw Her Standing There
02- Misery
03- Anna (Go to Him)
04- Chains
05- Boys
06- Ask Me Why
07- Please Please Me
08- Love Me Do
09- PS I Love You
10- Baby It's You
11- Do You Want to Know a Secret?
12- A Taste of Honey
13- There's a Place
14- Twist & Shout

· "PLEASE PLEASE ME" UK LP - mono

Please Please Me is the first album recorded by The Beatles, rush-released on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of singles "Please Please Me" (#2)[1] and "Love Me Do" (#17). Of the album's fourteen songs, eight were written by Lennon/McCartney, early evidence of what Rolling Stone later called "[their invention of] the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments." In 2003, the magazine ranked the album number 39 on its list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Rolling Stone also placed two songs from the album on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: #139, "I Saw Her Standing There", and #184, "Please Please Me". According to Allmusic, "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh," the covers are "impressive" and the originals "astonishing."

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01- I Saw Her Standing There
02- Misery
03- Anna (Go to Him)
04- Chains
05- Boys
06- Ask Me Why
07- Please Please Me
08- Love Me Do
09- PS I Love You
10- Baby It's You
11- Do You Want to Know a Secret?
12- A Taste of Honey
13- There's a Place
14- Twist & Shout

· "PLEASE PLEASE ME" LP recording sessions (speed corrected)

Mainly the session from February 11st, 1963, but with some interesting extras...

https://mega.co.nz/#!6IMGAD4T!doakqm9TqTOWkqHda_liC3YJvYJZYcv4rT4A-Gfx1QU

01- How Do You Do It? (unedited)
02- Please Please Me (demo)
03- There's a Place (take 1)
04- There’s a Place (take 2)
05- There’s a Place (take 3)
06- There’s a Place (take 4)
07- There’s a Place (take 5)
08- There’s a Place (take 6)
09- There’s a Place (take 7)
10- There’s a Place (take 8)
11- There’s a Place (take 9)
12- There’s a Place (take 10)
13- I Saw Her Standing There (take 1)
14- I Saw Her Standing There (take 2)
15- I Saw Her Standing There (take 3)
16- I Saw Her Standing There (take 4)
17- I Saw Her Standing There (take 5)
18- I Saw Her Standing There (take 6)
19- I Saw Her Standing There (take 7)
20- I Saw Her Standing There (take 8)
21- I Saw Her Standing There (take 9)
22- Do You Want to Know a Secret? (take 7)
23- Do You Want to Know a Secret? (take 8)
24- A Taste of Honey (take 5)
25- A Taste of Honey (take 6)
26- There’s a Place (take 11)
27- There’s a Place (take 12)
28- There’s a Place (take 13)
29- I Saw Her Standing There (take 10)
30- I Saw Her Standing There (take 11)
31- I Saw Her Standing There (take 12)
32- Misery (take 1)
33- Misery (take 2)
34- Misery (take 3)
35- Misery (take 4)
36- Misery (take 5)
37- Misery (take 6)
38- Misery (take 7)
39- Misery (take 8)

40- Twist & Shout (take 1)

· "THE DECCA TAPES (+ Bonus)" - The Beatles

For a start, let's hear what these four guys were doing at their very beggining as professionals...

https://mega.co.nz/#!fQkRSLQT!WlgfnlYHWo8N9WIbEZxRfi96yKVzQ7j8b60s2Gj2_f8

1 January 1962 - Decca Studios, London
01- Hello Little Girl
02- Take Good Care of My Baby
03- Till There Was You
04- Love of The Loved
05- Crying, Waiting, Hoping
06- To Know Her is To Love Her
07- Bésame Mucho
08- Searching
09- Like Dreamers Do
10- Money [That's What I Want]
11- The Sheik Of Araby
12- Memphis, Tennessee
13- Sure To Fall
14- Three Cool Cats
15- September in the Rain

BONUS TRACKS:

7 March 1962 - BBC Playhouse Theatre, St. John's Road, Hulme, Manchester
16- Dream Baby
17- Memphis, Tennessee
18- Please Mr Postman

6 June 1962 - First Parlophone audition, Abbey Road studios, London
19- Bésame Mucho
20- Love Me Do

11 June 1962 - BBC Playhouse Theatre, Manchester
21- Bésame Mucho
22- Ask Me Why
23- A Picture of You

6 June 1962 - First Parlophone audition, Abbey Road studios, London
24- Bésame Mucho (Non looped fade)

· "Hodge Podge Vol. 3" - The Beatles

Back in year 2000, and far from being embarrassingly inessential, buying this CD meant that you didn't have to buy several others just to get some of these tracks. When this CD was released, I was very pleased because it contained several tracks from very hard-to-find discs. For instance, the White Album alternate mixes were only available on expensive Japanese imports. “Tomorrow Never Knows” RM11 was released on this disc long before than on Turn Me On Dead Man and before that, it was only available on the expensive (again) Japanese Revolver Mono Matrix 1, later re-released (re-made) by Dr. Ebbetts.
I also prefer this long version of “You Know My Name” to that on the Anthology album, since on there it annoyingly fades just before the end. Here instead, we get the complete Anthology version with the FULL ending. Also, the "alternate" stereo mixes of “I'm So Tired” and “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” are the regular tracks with the overdubs synced together, but they were presented here in the best sound quality for the first time.
Also rare were the A Hard Day’s Night mono mixes for the film, which are not the same mono mixes which were released on the Parlophone mono UK LP nor those on the United Artists USA album.
























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01. I Saw Her Standing There - Take 1
02. From Me To You - Alternate stereo mix
03. A Hard Day's Night - Takes 2, 3 & 4
04. A Hard Day's Night - AHDN film alternate mono mix
05. And I Love Her - AHDN film alternate mono mix
06. If I Fell - AHDN film alternate mono mix
07. She's A Woman - Take 1
08. Help! - Take 4
09. Dizzy Miss Lizzy - Backing track
10. Studio Chat
11. Run For Your Life - Guide vocal
12. And Your Bird Can Sing - Take 2
13. Tomorrow Never Knows - XEX 601-1 mono mix RM11 withdrawn
14. Lady Madonna - Alternate stereo mix
15. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Complete in/outro take 1
16. Back In The U.S.S.R. - Mono mix
17. Birthday - Mono mix
18. Yer Blues - Mono mix
19. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and my Monkey - Alternate mono mix RM5
20. Helter Skelter - Mono mix
21. Dear Prudence - Alternate mono mix
22. I'm So Tired - Alternate stereo mix
23. Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Alternate stereo mix
24. Can You Take Me Back? - Extended version # 1
25. Let It Be - Stereo with both guitar solos
26. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) - Stereo with complete ending

· "Hamburg Raw Beat" The Beatles

There have been a lot of variations of the Hamburg tapes released over the years, starting off with the Lingasong LP's in 1977. One thing in common with all the releases is that they altered the original recordings in one way or another. From removal of the between-the- songs dialogue, or song edits to loop portions of the track, to even fake stereo (as usual). This release is not going to try and re-invent the wheel. It simply presents some raw cassette transfers (speed corrected) that have been traded between collectors for many years.

The first twelve tracks here are from the bootleg Mach Shau! (Savage SC 12620) which contained alternate versions of songs such as I’m Talking About You and Roll Over Beethoven plus unadulterated versions of Till There Was You, A Taste Of Honey and Where Have You Been All My Life, all of them transferred from an original tape to vinyl.
Then the next five songs came directly from a raw tape which today belongs to a private collector in Germany. That tape contains a total of 15 songs of which only seven feature the Beatles. Here we have five of them: Hippy Hippy Shake, A Taste of Honey [rec. 30/12/62], Reminiscing, Ask Me Why [rec. 30/12/62] and I Saw Her Standing There [rec. 30/12/62]. The rest of titles included are almost certainly performed by Ted "Kingsize" Taylor and the Dominoes. This tape circulated in the mid 90's and was later brought into the public eye by Fuego Entertainment in 2008 when they announced it to be a future release. Of course Apple put an end to that.
The last five songs are from the famous "sampler" tape, copied by Allan Williams in 1978, which contained seven Star Club songs in their unadulterated original form. These are: Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey, Shimmy Like Kate, Falling in Love Again, Roll Over Beethoven [rec. 25/12/62], and Sweet Little Sixteen.

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01- A Taste of Honey I
02- Till There Was You
03- Where Have You Been All my Life?
04- Lend Me Your Comb
05- Your Feet’s Too Big
06- Talkin’ ‘Bout You
07- To Know Her is To Love Her
08- Everybody’s Trying to Be my Baby
09- Matchbox
10- Little Queenie
11- Nothin’ Shakin’
12- Roll Over Beethoven I
13- Hippy Hippy Shake
14- A Taste of Honey II
15- Reminiscing
16- Ask Me Why
17- I Saw Her Standing There
18- Kansas City/Hey, hey, hey, hey!
19- Shimmy Shimmy
20- Falling in Love Again
21- Roll Over Beethoven II
22- Sweet Little Sixteen