On Air also features BBC recordings of 30 well-loved songs from The Beatles’ catalogue, including five number ones and other favorites such as: “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Twist And Shout,” “Do You Want To Know A Secret,” “Boys,” “Please Mister Postman,” “Money,” “And I Love Her,” and “If I Fell.” Then we’d probably drive back to Newcastle for a gig in the evening!” “Everything was done instantly,” remembered George Harrison, “But before that, we used to drive 200 miles in an old van down the M1, come into London, try and find the BBC and then set up and do the program. Consequently, to promote their releases, The Beatles had to play live at the BBC.
Only the Light Programme network might occasionally play a record. At the time, three national BBC stations provided all daytime radio broadcasting in the U.K. The group played 88 distinct songs in their BBC sessions – some were recorded many times others performed just once.
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I get excited listening to them.” On their busiest BBC day, July 16, 1963, The Beatles recorded 18 songs for three editions of their Pop Go The Beatles series in fewer than seven hours. We were in at the count-in and that was it. Ringo Starr said in 1994, “You tend to forget that we were a working band. The group played songs on 39 radio shows in 1963 alone. One of the big things in our week was Saturday Club – this great show was playing the kind of music we loved, so that was something we really aspired to”.īetween March 1962 and June 1965, no fewer than 275 unique musical performances by The Beatles were broadcast by the BBC in the U.K. As John Lennon recalled in 1980, “We did a lot of tracks that were never on record for Saturday Club – they were well recorded, too.” Paul remembers, “We’d been raised on the BBC radio programs. The Beatles’ tribute to the BBC’s most important pop show of the early ’60s – “Happy Birthday, Dear Saturday Club” – is another surprise. Ten of On Air’s songs were never recorded by the group for EMI in the 1960s, including two making their debuts with the new release: The Beatles’ direct-to-air performance of Chuck Berry’s “I’m Talking About You” and a rocking cover of the standard “Beautiful Dreamer.” On Air also includes different versions of six rarities heard on the 1994 BBC collection: Little Richard’s “Lucille,” Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee,” Chan Romero’s “The Hippy Hippy Shake,” Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman,” and two songs they learned from records by Carl Perkins, “Glad All Over” and “Sure To Fall.” We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes”. Thrilled to hear these exciting recordings again, Paul McCartney said, “There’s a lot of energy and spirit. On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 presents the sound of The Beatles seizing their moment to play for the nation. In the studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Beatles performed music for a variety of radio shows. On Air’s 63 tracks, none of which overlaps with The Beatles’ first BBC release, include 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band’s members and their BBC radio hosts. A new companion to The Beatles’ first BBC collection, On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, was released on Monday, November 11 in 2CD and 180-gram vinyl packages with a 48-page booklet. and selling more than five million copies within six weeks. In 1994, The Beatles’ Live at the BBC was released to worldwide acclaim – hitting number one in the U.K., number three in the U.S. New 2CD and Vinyl LP Collections Feature 40 Performances from The Beatles’ 1963-1964 BBC Radio Broadcasts.
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