From: bchs1k@menudo.uh.edu (Edward S. Chen)
Subject: Re: The Beatles Live (was:Re: Beatles:Live at the Star Club)
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:09:19 GMT

In article <7140796045169@c00017-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu> jcsmith@eos.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith) writes:
>In article <RSHAPIRO.92Aug13174636@kariba.bbn.com> rshapiro@bbn.com 
>(Richard Shapiro) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug13.175109.29790@menudo.uh.edu> edc@evolution.bchs.uh.edu 
>>(edward s. chen) writes:
>>   Everything is included
>>
>>Well, not quite everything unless you buy both versions. But that's a
>>minor point.
>
>Okay, wait a minute, let me get this straight:
>
>The current Sony release of the Star Club material, even though it is
>ridiculously being packaged on 2 CD's, does not include the entire
>Star Club tape, right?
>
>Of course, most releases have not included all of it.
>
>But I thought there was at least one release that I'm aware of, a
>British 2 LP set on, um, was it AFM?, that had 32 tracks, including
>the song that the German waiter sang (or something like that).  I've
>got that album stashed away somewhere, and I hardly ever listen to it....
>I remember there was a Japanese CD on Teichiku (or something like that)
>that also had 32 tracks, and I suspected that it was probably mastered
>from an LP set.
>

The "most complete" set available is the 2LP set "The Beatles Historic
Sessions". The tracks are:

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry
Seventeen (I Saw Her Standing There)
Roll Over Beehtoven
Hippy Hippy Shake
Sweet Little Sixteen
Lend Me Your Comb
Your Feets Too Big
Twist and Shout
Mr. Moonlight
A Taste of Honey
Besame Mucho
Reminiscing
Kansas City / Hey,Hey,Hey,Hey
Where Have You Been All My Life
Till There was You
Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)
To Know Her is to Love Her
Little Queenie
Falling in Love Again
Ask Me Why
Be-Bop-A-Lu-La
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Sheila
Red Sails in the Sunset
Everybody's Trying to Be my Baby
Matchbox
Talkin' 'Bout You
Shimmy Shake
Long Tall Sally
I Remember You

The other Track you mention that does not have the Beatles on it is "Hully
Gully", which has made it's way onto manyh of the American releases of this
material.

In addition to the officially released material, There is at least one bootleg
with some alternate recordings of "A Taste of Honey", "'Till There was You",
and "Where Have you been all My Life", and other boots have "Red Hot", which
most likely originates from this tape.

Supposedly, Ted "Kingsize" Taylor had his assistant Adrian Barber record
five sets performed by the Beatles on that December evening.  Taylor then
claims he offered the tapes to Brian Epstein, and eventually gave them to
a recording engineer, who abandoned them when he changed offices.  Allan
Williams then discovered the tapes in 1972.  The
officially released Star Club tapes consist of excerpts from at least two
(probably three) of those sets, while the "The Beatles vs. The Third Reich"
bootleg claims to be one complete set from that evening.  That of course leaves
the question "Where is the remainder of the sets used for the (quasi)-official
LP's?  Despite the obvious limitations of sound quality, it would be
interesting to hear those tapes for historical reasons...

<ESC>


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