[2011-11-08] The Beatles With Tony Sheridan "First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition" 2-CD set (Time Life)

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:39 am

No tracklisting yet ...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005NF2UQ4/?tag=imwan-20

daveharrison · **Joined:** 21 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 571

Interesting. I know there are different variations out there of some of these tracks. In fact, now that I think of it, I have the Bear Family 2 disc set that I believe has all the different versions. At least, I think it's complete.

http://www.bear-family.de/repertoire/va ... tml?lang=1

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Phil Cohen · **Joined:** 16 Nov 2006 **Posts:** 1274

The Bear Family version Is complete; all that now exists.

I should elaborate. The existing 2-track stereo mixes were mixes(with added reverb) from 2-track multitracks. Unlike the early EMI recordings, The Beatles & Tony Sheridan didn't sing live with the instruments. The instruments were recorded first, then producer Bert Kaempfert edited between backing track takes(to create an ideal backing track), then the vocals were overdubbed. The multitracks were destroyed in a fire(at Kaempfert's warehouse) in the early 1970's. Therefore, the recordings can't be remixed. Even if the multitracks still existed, the outtakes would be fragments of instrumental backing tracks. Even for the one unreleased selection that once existed("Swanee River"), paperwork indicates that vocals were never added. The recording of "Swanee River" was deemed to be redundant(even in 1961) since Tony Sheridan had already recorded the song(without The Beatles). It's that non-Beatles version that is included on Polydor Beatles/Sheridan compilations.

anthontherun · **Joined:** 28 Oct 2010 **Posts:** 58

A shame about the multis--I'd always wondered why nobody has ever wiped off the Sheridan vocals and released pure Beatles versions but I guess that explains it.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:14 am

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The Beatles' early recordings with Tony Sheridan to be released

The Beatles' earliest recordings with singer Tony Sheridan are set to be released.

A deluxe double CD set entitled 'The Beatles With Tony Sheridan: First Recordings' will compile tracks cut by the quartet, with former sticksman Pete Best on drums, in Hamburg, reports Variety.

The band performed with Sheridan as Polydor artists after music executive Bert Kaempfert discovered them performing in a German nightclub in 1961.

The Beatles' numbers include 'Ain't She Sweet', which sees John Lennon taking up vocal duties and the George Harrison-penned instrumental 'Cry For a Shadow'. It is set to be released in the US on November 8. No date has yet been set in the UK.

The release will be accompanied by a booklet full of rarely seen photographs, taken by one-time Beatles guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe's fiancee Astrid Kirchherr, band contracts, poster art of early shows and handwritten biographies by each member of the group.

http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/59519

[2011-11-08] The Beatles With Tony Sheridan "First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition" 2-CD set (Time Life)

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