Beatles - I Hope We Passed The Audition

22-23 June, 1961

1: My Bonnie
(German intro)
2: My Bonnie
(English intro)
3: My Bonnie
4. The Saints
5. Cry for a Shadow
6. Why (Can't You Love Me Again)
24
7.
8.
9.

June, 1961
Nobody's Child
Ain't She Sweet
Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby

Decca Audition - 1 Jan, 1962

(complied from multiple sources - including the 'Deccagone' endings)
10: Like Dreamers Do
11: Money
12: To Know Her Is To Love Her
13: Memphis
14: Till There Was You
15: Sure To Fall
16: Besame Mucho
17: Love Of The Loved
18: Hello Little Girl
19: Three Cool Cats
20: September In The Rain
21: Take Good Care Of My Baby
22: Crying Waiting Hoping
23: The Sheik Of Araby
24: Searchin
24 May, 1962
25: Sweet Georgia Brown

(backing)

EMI Audition - 6 June, 1962

26: Besame Mucho
27: Love Me Do
7 June, 1962
28: Sweet Georgia Brown (1962 vocal)
3 January, 1964
29: Sweet Georgia Brown

(1964 vocal)

Notes (by Doctor Bob):

This set is comprised of the Beatles' first studio recordings, from
those made in Hamburg with Tony Sheridan in 1961 to their audition with
EMI a year later.
Tracks 1-9 were recorded in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, between the 22nd
and 24th of June, 1961. The master tapes and original documentation
were lost in a fire, but these were apparently mixed live to stereo;
any existing mono mixes are fold-downs and therefore don't appear here.
The two introductions to My Bonnie are separate recordings (the backing
tracks are distinct so the vocals were probably recorded live each time).

Ain't She Sweet had drums overdubbed for its first US release. For some
reason Anthology 1 uses that mix. Here it appears not only in stereo,
but _without_ the additional drumming.
Tracks 10-24 are allegedly from the Decca audition of January 1, 1962.
(I say "allegedly" since there's no definitive evidence that these
particular tracks were recorded there on that day. But given their
quality and the fact that they recorded _some_ songs that day, it's
probably them.) These weren't bootlegged until 1977, and the source of
that tape is unknown, but is presumably the same source used for the
tracks used on Anthology 1.
Tracks 26 and 27 are the only existing tracks from the June 6, 1962
audition at Abbey Road. Both were intially sourced from "private reels"
(Love Me Do is likely one George Martin found in 1994) long after the
master tapes were erased.
The backing to tracks 28 and 29 was recorded by the Beatles on May 24,
1962 in another direct-to-stereo mix (with some brief fake stereo near
the end). Vocals were added as overdubs by Tony Sheridan on June 7, and
with new Beatles-referencing lyrics on January 3, 1964. Track 25 is a
modern processed version removing the vocals, leaving only the Beatles'
performance.
Track 30 is a little bit of a bonus track :-)
I believe that Pete Best plays drums on all of these tracks. Hopefully
someone will correct me if I'm wrong...
Bibliography:
The Usenet Guide To Beatles Recording Variations
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/
Internet Beatles Album - The Decca Tapes
http://www.beatlesagain.com/barchive/decca.html
The Beatles With Tony Sheridan
http://www.friktech.com/btls/tony/tony.htm
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