THE BEATLES - THE SONGS THE BEATLES GAVE AWAY COMPLETE BOX
120 SONGS NEVER RELEASED BEFORE IN THIS FORMAT!
One of the passions of a true Beatles fan who wants everything, is to collect all the songs ever written (or co-written) by all of the 4 Beatles. Such a daunting (and expensive) task has just been made instantly obtainable with this 4 CD set, which, as an added bonus, includes the Beatles' own versions of many of these great songs.
The first disc What becomes obvious after only half of the first disc, is that if the Beatle chosen to record some of these songs officially as a complete album, it would have been a monster hit. For example, on the first disc (which features songs given away while the Beatles were still together) there are no less than 11 top ten hits - a remarkable feat from a group already blessed with "guaranteed hits" status.
The only known (and deliberate) omission from the set is (apart from "Leave it") all of the tracks from Mike McCartney's McGear Album, which is now freely available on CD. We've still included, however, the fab 45 "Leave It", "Sweet Baby" (not on the LP or re-issued CD) and the non-LP 45 "Dance The Do" (in it's original form - the CD version is a dramatically different recent re-mix)
The second disc continues the story into the early 70's, including one-off items like George's "Sing One For The Lord" only available on Billy Preston's otherwise unspectacular "Encouraging Words" Apple up early mixes of the various songs Ringo was given for his "Ringo" LP in 1973, the very rare McCartney penned "4th July" (for John Christie), Billy Lawrie's "Rock And Roller" (co-written by Ringo) and Peggy Lee's "Lets Love" which stands to this day one of McCartney's finest songs.
Disc three takes us through to the recent McCartney/Costello hit "Veronica" and includes both Gary Moore and Eric Claptons' versions of George's "That Kind Of Woman" (clearly Eric wins!) also included on disc 3 is McCartney's "Mine For Me" (Rod Stewart), "Giddy" (roger Daltrey), "On The Wings Of A Nightingale" (Everly Brothers), "Honorary Consul Theme" (John Williams) and the vary rare "New Moon Over Jamaica" (Johnny Cash) which also features Paul singing duet lea
This set will also satisfy those "semi-fans" who don't wish to purchase Ringo's output over the years, by including all songs given to him by the other 3 Beatles: eg. "Cookin' " (John), "Pure Gold" (Paul), "I'll Still Love You" (George), plus the many others as well.
Disc four concludes the set with as many of the Beatles own versions of these songs as has ever been heard til now, for example, we have sourced the acetates of one-off demo's of "Bad To Me", "One And One Is Two", "Step Inside Love", "Goodbye", and "On The Wings Of A Nightingale", a total of 20 performances of the 68 songs given away are included on this the final CD in the set.
DISC 1 -
1. I'll Be On My Way - Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 26/4/63 1:47
2. Bad To Me - Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 26/7/63 2:19
3. Tip Of My Tongue - Tommy Quickly 30/7/63 2:08
4. Hello Little Girl - The Fourmost 30/8/63 1:50
5. Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black 27/9/63 2:02
6. I'll Keep You Satisfied - Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 1/11/63 2:06
7. I'm In Love -The Fourmost 15/11/63 2:09
8. A World Without Love - Peter And Gordon 28/2/64 2:39
9. One And One Is Two - The Strangers With Mike Shannon 8/5/64 2:12
10 Nobody I Know - Peter And Gordon 29/5/64 2:25
11 Like Dreamers Do - The Applejacks 5/6/64 2:29
12 From A Window - Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 17/7/641:58
13 It's For You - Cilla Black 31/7/64 2:21
14 I Don't Want To See You Again - Peter And Gordon 11/9/642:00
15 That Means A Lot - P.J. Proby 5/7/65 2:33
16 Woman - Peter And Gordon 11/2/66 2:28
17 Love In The Open Air - The George Martin Orchestra 6/1/671:57
18 Cat Call - The Chris Barber Band 20/10/67 3:03
19 Step Inside Love - Cilla Black 8/5/68 2:20
20 Thingumybob - The Black Dyke Mills Band 26/8/68 1:51
21 Sour Milk Sea - Jackie Lomax 6/9/68 3:51
22 Badge - Cream 28/2/69 2:43
23 Goodbye - Mary Hopkin 28/3/69 2:22
24 Penina - Carlos Mendes 18/7/69 2:35
25 Come And Get It - Badfinger 5/12/69 2:2
26 Ain't That Cute - Doris Troy 13/2/70 3:43
27 Give Me Back My Dynamite - Doris Troy 11/9/70 4:53
28 Gonna Get My Baby Back - Doris Troy 11/9/70 2:14
DISC 2 -
1. Jacob's Ladder Doris Troy 11/9/70 3:22
2. You Gave Me Joy Joy Doris Troy 11/9/70 3:35
3. Sing One For The Lord Billy Preston 3:52
4. Try Some, Buy Some Ronnie Spector 16/4/71 4:04
5. Tandoori Chicken Ronnie Spector 16/4/71 2:17
6. God Save Us Bill Elliot & The Elastic Oz Band 16/7/71 3:10
7. The Hold-Up David Bromberg 2/6/72 2:56
8. I'm The Greatest (early mix) Ringo Starr 2/11/73 3:25
9. Photograph (early mix) Ringo Starr 2/11/73 3:57
10. Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond) Ringo Starr 2/11/73 2:43
11. Six O'Clock Ringo Starr 2/11/73 4:17
12. Six O'Clock (reprise) [unreleased] Ringo Starr 2:07
13. You And Me (Babe) (early mix) Ringo Starr 2/11/73 4:42
14. Rock And Roller Billy Lawrie 9/11/73 3:13
15. Ten Years After On Strawberry Jam Scaffold 24/5/74 2:56
16. Liverpool Lou Scaffold 24/5/74 2:56
17. 4th Of July John Christie 28/6/74 2:48
18. Mucho Mungo Harry Nilsson 30/8/74 2:30
19. Leave It Mike McGear 6/9/74 3:43
20. Sweet Baby Mike McGear 6/9/74 3:40
21. Let's Love Peggy Lee 25/10/74 2:53
DISC 3 -
1 Mine For Me Rod Stewart 27/9/74 4:03
2 (It's All Down To) Goodnight Vienna (45 mix) RingoStarr 15/11/74 2:56
3 Fame (mono 45 edit) David Bowie 28/3/75 3:29
4 Dance The Do (orig 45 - diff mix) Mike McGear4/7/75 2:58
5 Band Of Steel Guthrie Thomas (w/Ringo Starr) 5/12/75 5:25
6 Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) Ringo Starr 17/9/76 3:37
7 Pure Gold Ringo Starr 17/9/76 3:14
8 I'll Still Love You Ringo Starr 17/9/762:55
9 Giddy Roger Daltrey 13/5/77 4:30
10 How Long Can Disco Go On Harry Nilsson 2/9/80 3:02
11 Send Me The HeartDenny Laine 2/12/80 3:40
12 On The Wings Of A Nightingale The Everly Brothers 3/5/80 2:33
13 Wrack My Brain Ringo Starr 27/10/81 2:23
14 Attention Ringo Starr 27/10/81 3:21
15 Private Property Ringo Starr 27/10/81 2:44
16 Theme From "The Honorary Consul" John Williams 15/6/81 3:45
17 New Moon Over Jamaica Johnny Cash (w/Paul McCartney) 23/2/893:16
18 Veronica Elvis Costello 12/11/89 3:10
19 Run So Far Eric Clapton 4:09
20 That Kind Of Woman Eric Clapton 3:57
21 That Kind Of Woman Gary Moore 4:30
DISC 4 -
1 I'll Be On My Way The Beatles
2 Bad To Me John Lennon
3 Hello Little Girl The Beatles
4 Love Of The Loved The Beatles
5 One And One Is Two Paul McCartney
6 Like Dreamers Do The Beatles
7 That Means A Lot The Beatles
8 Woman Paul McCartney
9 Catswalk (Catcall) The Beatles
10 Step Inside Love Paul McCartney
11 Goodbye Paul McCartney
12 Penina The Beatles
13 Come And Get It The Beatles
14 Six O'Clock (reprise) [mix #2 - unreleased] Paul, Linda & Ringo
15 God Save Us John Lennon / Elastic Oz Band
16 Mucho Mungo John Lennon
17 Let's Love Paul McCartney
18 (It's All Down To) Goodnight Vienna John Lennon
19 Suicide Paul McCartney
20 On The Wings Of A Nightingale Paul & Wings)
21.And I Love Her (single lead vocal & 6 bars at the end)
22 I'll Cry Instead (longer, extra middle verse)
23 Thank You Girl (true stereo w/more harmonica, during & at the end)
24 From Me To You (in true stereo w/more harmonica, during & at the end)
25 Movie Medley (45 only, stereo, not issued on vinyl LP - anywhere)
26 I Feel Fine (mono single version, completely different take to "Past Masters" stereo version)
27 Help! (mono single version, different vocals)
28 All You Need Is Love (mono single, totally different version to LP & 10 secs longer)
29 Mein Herz Ist Bei Dir Nur (orig 45 "My Bonnie" intro, prior to english overdub)
30 Please Please Me (vocal mistake)
31 All My Loving (5 hi hats at start)
32 Money (extra guitar at start & no tapping)
33 I Should Have Known Better (break in harmonica intro)
34 I'm Looking Through You (2 false starts)
35 Penny Lane (extra 8 seconds of trumpet at end)
36 Slow Down (without John's wow! at the end)
37 I Call Your Name (cowbell starts later)
38 Matchbox (diff. guitar solo at the end half)
39 What Goes On (no lead guitar solo at end)
40 I'm Looking Through You (extra 5 secs of Paul at end)
41 I'm Only Sleeping (additional reverse guitar during verse)
42 Yellow Submarine (guitar starts immediately & 1 extra John bit)
43 Sgt Pepper (reprise) (diff chicken, crowds, mumbling, end vocal louder)
44 Obladi-Oblada (no handclaps at start)
45 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (No yeah yeah's at end)
46 Don't Pass Me By (diff violin solo at end)
47 Why Don't We Do It In The Road (no handclaps at start)
48 Yer Blues (almost one minute longer at end)
49 Honey Pie (extra guitar, mistake? during middle solo)
50 Helter Skelter (diff mix & shorter, no blisters quote)
