Here the harmonic shape is open at both ends. Granted, this device is a relatively garden-variety chord progression used in all kinds of songs, but the correspondence on this detail between the very two songs performed by this group of musicians on a day in 1958 is uncanny. Outro - The outro is based on a petit reprise of final four measures of the verse section with a small vocal flourish to signal that this is the end. The answer depends directly on what you might have been expecting. By the same token I think you'd be precipitant to dismiss them as merely uninteresting or incompetent juvenilia.
Perspective is all.
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