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The Beatles will reportedly release “The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963,” a digital-only album of Beatles rare tracks exclusively to iTunes next week that will include studio outtakes and more songs recorded live for the BBC, a source with knowledge of the situation told Beatles Examiner Dec. 10.

The 59-track release, which has not been officially announced, will take place Dec. 17 and include 15 Beatles studio outtakes and 44 more live BBC tracks to add to those already on “Live at the BBC” and “On Air: Live at the BBC, Volume 2.” The album is to counter the recent non-EMI releases in Europe that have included Beatles tracks.

Here's the track list:
•1. “There's A Place” - Takes 5, 6. 2:19
•2. “There's A Place” - Take 8. 1:58
•3. “There's A Place” - Take 9. 2:04
•4. “Do You Want To Known A Secret” - Track 2, Take 7. 2:17
•5. “A Taste Of Honey” - Track 2, Take 6. 2:12
•6. “I Saw Her Standing There” - Take 2. 3:07
•7. “Misery” - Take 1. 1:54
•8. “Misery” - Take 7. 1:56
•9. “From Me To You” - Take 1 & 2. 3:24
•10. “From Me To You” - Take 5. 2:17
•11. “Thank You Girl” - Take 1. 2:09
•12. “Thank You Girl” - Take 5. 2:04
•13. “One After 909” - Take 1 & 2. 4:29
•14. “Hold Me Tight” - Take 21. 2:42
•15. “Money (That's What I Want)” - RM 7 Undubbed 2:48
•16. “Some Other Guy” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 26th January, 1963. 2:02.
•17. “Love Me Do” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 26th January, 1963. 2:31
•18. “Too Much Monkey Business” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 16th March, 1963 1:50
•19. “I Saw Her Standing There” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 16th March, 1963. 2:38.
•20. “Do You Want To Know A Secret” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 25th May, 1963 1:50
•21. “From Me To You” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 26th May, 1963. 1:54
•22. “I Got To Find My Baby” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 26th January, 1963 1:59.
•23. “Roll Over Beethoven” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 29th June, 1963 2:29
•24. “A Taste Of Honey” - Live At BBC For "Easy Beat" / 23rd June, 1963 2:01
•25. “Love Me Do” - Live At BBC For "Easy Beat" / 20th October, 1963 2:29
•26. “Please Please Me” - Live At BBC For "Easy Beat" / 20th October, 1963 2:08
•27. “She Loves You” - Live At BBC For "Easy Beat" / 20th October, 1963 2:29
•28. “I Want To Hold Your Hand” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 21st December, 1963 2:19
•29. “Till There Was You” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 21st December, 1963 2:16
•30. “Roll Over Beethoveen” - Live At BBC For "Saturday Club" / 21st December, 1963 2:16
•31. “You Really Got A Hold On Me” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 4th June, 1963 2:54
•32. “The Hippy Hippy Shake” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 4th June, 1963 1:43
•33. “Till There Was You” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" /11th June, 1963 2:14
•34. “A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 18th June, 1963 2:06
•35. “A Taste Of Honey” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 18th June, 1963 1:56
•36. “Money (That's What I Want)” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 18th June, 1963 2:41
•37. “Anna” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 25th June, 1963 3:02
•38. “Love Me Do” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 10th September, 1963 2:29
•39. “She Loves You” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 24th September, 1963 2:16
•40. “I'll Get You” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 10th September, 1963 2:05
•41. “A Taste Of Honey” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 10th September, 1963 2:00
•42. “Boys” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 17th September, 1963 2:12
•43. “Chains” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 17th September, 1963 2:22
•44. “You Really Got A Hold On Me” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 17th September, 1963
•2:57
•45. “I Saw Her Standing There” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 24th September, 1963 2:41
•46. “She Loves You” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 10th September, 1963 2:15
•47. “Twist And Shout” - Live At BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 24th September, 1963 2:36
•48. “Do You Want To Know A Secret” - Live At BBC For "Here We Go" / 12th March, 1963 1:55
•49. “Please Please Me” - Live At BBC For "Here We Go" / 12th March, 1963 1:57
•50. “Long Tall Sally” - Live At BBC For "Side By Side" / 13th May, 1963 1:49
•51. “Chains” - Live At BBC For "Side By Side" / 13th May, 1963 2:23
•52. “Boys” - Live At BBC For "Side By Side" / 13th May, 1963 1:53
•53. “A Taste Of Honey” - Live At BBC For "Side By Side" / 13th May, 1963 2:04
•54. “Roll Over Beethoven” - Live At BBC For "From Us To You" / 26th December, 1963 2:17
•55. “All My Loving” - Live At BBC For "From Us To You" / 26th December, 1963 2:06
•56. “She Loves You” - Live At BBC For "From Us To You" / 26th December, 1963 2:21
•57. “Till There Was You” - Live At BBC For "From Us To You" / 26th December, 1963 2:12
•58. “Bad To Me” - Demo 1:29
•59. “I'm In Love” - Demo 1:32

Maybe this is nit-picking, but somebody ought to re-count. There are 15 Beatles studio outtakes and just 42 more live BBC tracks. The other two are Lenmac demos of songs never officially recorded by the Beatles.

On a more important note, however, I wonder if this will be available in iTunes worldwide (assuming it comes out at all), or whether it will be a "Europe Only" release, as with Dylan's similarly motivated 50th Anniversary Copyright Protection releases?

There's a second thread addressing this that I just posted in. My frustration is that I tunes is lossy, & the legal "bootlegs" are lossless.

Well...the first Dylan EU copyright extension set sounded too good to be true, but was indeed true, and now there's been a second batch. I posted elsewhere that there is definitely a "use-it-or-lose-it" clause in the UK, in which performers on a recording can obtain the rights to that recording if the owner of that recording fails to release it within fifty years of creation, and I believe that the BBC, not EMI, owns the BBC material, and am guessing that these are the rest of the 1963 songs not yet released.

I'm more puzzled by the studio stuff--have these tracks been bootlegged at all? Have any other 1963 outtakes surfaced? My best guess is that this is designed to preserve the copyright in stuff already circulating, but unlike the Dylan sets, the stuff in the Beatle vault will apparently stay in the vault.

I want to look this up, but right now I'm in my last week of my last semester of school and am too exhausted.

The main one I've been hearing of is a 2 cd set with a brown cover called "I Saw Her Standing There" that has a lot of Tony Sheridan stuff & some Beatles. I haven't heard it.

Quoting my own speculation from our general Beatles thread:


What I'd really like to see is a Christmas 2014 box set, of course!

But, but,.... that's a whole year away

There's a LOT more BBC performances from 1963. They performed over 200 tracks for the BBC just in 1963 (not all different songs, just different performances), and, to date, they've only released a little over 70 of them. This is just barely scratching the surface.


Several full reels of multi-tracks from the 11 February (tape #'s E48875 & E48877), 5 March (E49015 & E49016), & 12 September (E50527) sessions were "borrowed" from the archives back in the early 80's (and subsequently returned), all of which have been released in beautiful quality on bootlegs. All of the studio outtakes above are from those reels, except "Money (That's What I Want)", which is billed above as "RM7" (remix mono #7). Problem is, there was no RM7 (it only made it to RM2). There was a *take* 7 that was edited together with take 6 to make the released version of the song. I think that's what this is, and if so, it's the only thing (including the two demos) that's not available on bootlegs.

It should be noted that some of the dates on those BBC tracks are incorrect as well.

Frank, ever considered writing a Beatles book (I'm not being sarcastic.)?

All the info I have is from other books!

Wait, I'm confused--when you say they performed over 200 tracks in 1963, do you mean the total number of performances or the total number of surviving recordings? I haven't really gone over the notes for new set that closely.

Ah, the true test of my anti-download mettle.

And I ain't buying it!

Total number of performances. Between 1962 & 1965, the Beatles did just under 280 performances for the BBC (the vast majority of them being recorded in 1963). To date, all but about 30 of them have been released on bootlegs.

Purple Chick; you be slackin'! Where's those other 300??!

With a few exceptions, they're from the few shows from which nothing has ever been released, so until somebody finds the tapes in their attic...

That's the thing that kind of has me scratching my head about the 1963 Dylan set--there's a handful of actual studio outtakes, but not every single complete (no false start) unreleased studio performance, as with the 1962 set last year. I have a hunch that maybe there is one country over there with some odd loophole--at least one performance from each recording session for each performer in that session or some such thing. Broadcasts and live performance, like I was saying somewhere else, seem to operate a separate set of rules. "Transmissions" are a big deal in the UK--you have to buy a license to own a radio or a TV, needle time, equitable remuneration, etc. And people who taped the Beatles off the air back in the 60's were breaking the law--it's still against the law over there, I believe.

Daaaaaaaannnnnnnngggg. Thems a lot of bootlegs!

That's bs that an "exclusive to iTunes, will only be sold for a brief spell." release allows a huge change in copyright law. I HATE corporations.

This could be your next Member Title after "I HATE MP3'S".

I am still sort of waiting to hear whether ot not it will be on U.S. ITunes.