The Beatles- NEVER MIND THE TREMELOES ... HERE'S THE BEATLES

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The Beatles- NEVER MIND THE TREMELOES ... HERE'S THE BEATLES- CD- 2013-
- Toshiba-EMI Limited- 4988005480118 (TOCP-98585)- 150 grn
On 1st January 1962, some four days before the English release of "My Bonnie", The Beatles auditioned for Decca, their first for a major U.K. record label. As history records they were turned down. The session followed the label's A&R representative Mike Smith's attendance at a Cavern performance on 13th December 1961. The Beatles' performance that night hadn't been strong enough to secure them a record deal, but the label was willing to offer them a session in their studios at 165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, London. The group as it was then - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best - travelled down from Liverpool with driver and roadie Neil Aspinall. Beset by snowstorms, the party eventually arrived just in time for the 11am audition. Brian Epstein had travelled separately on train. The group was annoyed that Smith turned up late, having spent the night before seeing in the new year. Smith further unnerved them by insisting they use Decca's amplifiers, having judged The Beatles' own gear to be substandard. The Beatles recorded 15 songs altogether as appears on this disc. Three of the songs - ''Like Dreamers Do'', ''Hello Little Girl'' and ''Love Of The Loved'' - were Lennon-McCartney originals. It is likely that the majority of songs were recorded in a single take without overdubs. The entire session, which began at 11am, took roughly an hour. Five of the Decca recordings - ''Searchin''', ''Three Cool Cats'', ''The Sheik Of Araby'', ''Like Dreamers Do'' and ''Hello Little Girl'' - appeared on the Anthology 1 collection in 1995. Although The Beatles didn't perform at their best, all four members and Brian Epstein were confident that the session would inevitably lead to a contract with Decca. The label, meanwhile, was erring towards Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, who had also auditioned that day. Hence the title of this issue. But the official reason given was that "guitar groups are on the way out". These words would become infamous, and Dick Rowe later became known as "the man who turned down The Beatles". Brian Epstein didn't take rejection lying down. He travelled back to London for further meetings with Decca, even promising their sales team that he'd buy 3,000 copies of any Beatles single they released. Had Dick Rowe been informed of this, history could have been quite different. However, the Decca audition tapes did prove fortunate for The Beatles. Had they signed to Decca, their career may never have involved Ringo Starr, who joined the group only after George Martin expressed concerns about Pete Best's drumming. Furthermore, the audition gave Epstein some good-quality recordings of the group on reel-to-reel, enabling him to take them around the remaining London labels. The manager of the HMV record store on London's Oxford Street suggested that Epstein transfer the recordings from reel-to-reel to disc, to enable them to be more easily played. Epstein agreed, and immediately took the tapes to a studio and pressing plant situated above the store. Engineer Jim Foy was impressed with the recordings. When Epstein told him three of the songs were original Lennon-McCartney compositions, Foy contacted Sid Coleman, of music publishers Ardmore & Beechwood (a subsidiary of EMI), who offered Epstein a publishing deal. Epstein's priority was to get the group signed, and so Coleman arranged a meeting between The Beatles' manager and George Martin, the A&R head at Parlophone. Upon hearing the Decca recordings, Martin was sufficiently interested to offer The Beatles an audition at Abbey Road. The rest is history ..... This CD was announced as the ultimate version of the legendary Decca tapes.
Replica From Original Japanese Edition.
Comes In A Cardboard Sleeve And Includes 16-Page B/W Japanese Foldout Leaflet Plus OBI-Strip.
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