[2017-01-20] The Yardbirds "Live At The BBC (Expanded Edition)" 2CD set (Repertoire UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:26 am

Description
A comprehensive collection of the Yardbirds BBC live recordings, assembled with the assistance of the BBC, with several tracks now all together the first time on this newly restored and remastered 2CD set.

Many tracks have been expertly repaired from rare, hard-to-find and archive sources and now feature for the first time on these best available recordings.Sourced from the BBC, this newly updated 43-track set covers numerous songs - including smash hits such as 'For Your Love', 'Heart Full Of Soul' and Yardbirds classic stage favourites 'Too Much Monkey Business', 'Smokestack Lightning', 'I'm A Man' and 'Train Kept A-Rollin''.

Guitar legends Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page feature alongside front man Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith and Jim McCarty in these sessions, recorded by the world renowned broadcasting organisation for radio transmission and our CDs explore the best available Yardbirds BBC Radio One output from 1965-1968.

The booklet, with detailed data, includes authoritative liner notes by Richard Morton Jack, editor of Flashback magazine, and contains new quotes from Yardbirds Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith. Jim McCarty also adds his exclusive personal introduction for this set, looking back at those BBC years.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. I Ain't Got You
2. Interview: Keith Relf talks about the band's background
3. For Your Love
4. I'm Not Talking (Tracks 1 - 4: Top Gear, Recorded 22nd March, 1965, Broadcast 10th April, 1965)
5. I Wish You Would
6. Interview: Paul Samwell - Smith talks about the recordingand the USA tour
7. Heart Full Of Soul (Tracks 5 - 7: Saturday Club, Recorded 1st June 1965, Broadcast 5th June, 1965)
8. I Ain't Done Wrong
9. Heart Full Of Soul (Alternate version) (Tracks 8 - 9: Saturday Club, Recorded 21st June, 1965, Broadcast 26th June, 1965)
10. Too Much Monkey Business
11. Love Me Like I Love You
12. I'm A Man (Tracks 10 - 12: You Really Got Me (Kinksize Live Pop Package with The Kinks & other guests), Recorded 6th August, 1965, Broadcast 30th August, 1965)
13. Evil Hearted You
14. Interview: Paul Samwell - Smith talks about the 'Still I'm Sad' single
15. Still I'm Sad
16. Hang On Sloopy (Tracks 13 - 16: Saturday Club, Recorded 27th September, 1965, Broadcast 2nd October, 1965)
17. Smokestack Lightning
18. Interview: The Yardbirds give their New Year's resolutions
19. You're A Better Man Than I
20. The Train Kept A-Rollin'
21. Smokestack Lightning (Edited version) (Tracks 17 - 21: This Must Be The Place, (with The Hollies, The Ivy League & other guests), Recorded 18th November, 1965, Broadcast 27th December, 1965)

[CD2]
1. Shapes Of Things
2. Dust My Broom
3. You're A Better Man Than I (Tracks 1 - 3: Saturday Club, Recorded 28th February, 1966, Broadcast 5th March, 1966)
4. Baby, Scratch My Back
5. Interview: Keith Relf talks about his solo single
6. Over, Under, Sideways, Down
7. The Sun Is Shining (Edited version)
8. Interview: Keith Relf talks about their USA tour
9. Shapes Of Things (Alternate version)
10. The Sun Is Shining (Tracks 4 - 10: Saturday Swings, Recorded 6th May, 1966.Broadcast 21st May, 1966)
11. Over, Under, Sideways, Down (Original TV version)
12. Comment: Jeff Beck's guitar playing (Tracks 11 - 12: BBC1 'A Whole Scene Going', Broadcast 18th June,1966)
13. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
14. Little Games
15. Drinking Muddy Water (Tracks 13 - 15: Saturday Club, Recorded 4th April, 1967, Broadcast 15th April, 1967)
16. Think About It
17. Interview: Jimmy Page talks about touring
18. Goodnight Sweet Josephine
19. My Baby (Tracks 16 - 19: Saturday Club, Recorded 15th March, 1968, Broadcast 16th March, 1968)
20. Think About It (Alternate Take)
21. White Summer
22. Dazed and Confused

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZ1TFU0/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MZ1TFU0/?tag=imwan-21

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:33 am

To clarify, the above is an expanded 2017 edition of the Yardbirds' BBC recordings compilation that Repertoire initially released in 2016. They've now come up with a good source for the group's final BBC session -- the three tracks which have been added to the end of Disc Two -- and several other tracks have been upgraded as well. This was already the best-ever collection of The Yardbirds' BBC recordings, now the label says it's truly "finished". Well, maybe ... but I'm definitely getting this again.

Check out the audio samples at Amazon UK -- the last three tracks, especially, have never been available in anything close to this quality before:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MZ1TFU0/?tag=imwan-21

Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

Thanks Linda!

I'll chime in for others that those last 3 BBC tracks were previously exclusive to the Glimpses box in poorer sound, so yes, this is now the one to get. Thus I think it's accurate to say that all the BBC tracks (so far) are right here in this new 2017 version.

I therefore hereby declare 2017 "The Year of The Yardbirds", with this and the soon to be released revamps of "Yardbirds Live with Jimmy Page" and "Cumular Limit".

Now all we need is the Giorgio Gomelsky estate to reissue all their Yardbirds holdings in pristine condition !!

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Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

It's been pointed out that the last 3 BBC tracks were not previously exclusive to the Glimpses box in poor sound, but were also available in much better quality on the Various Artists LP & CD comp "Radio Tymes" from 2011 on the Top Sounds Records label. So if you already have that...

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

How many times has this been reissued/expanded?

[2017-01-20] The Yardbirds "Live At The BBC (Expanded Edition)" 2CD set (Repertoire UK)

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