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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | And Here We Are Again (Speech) |
2 | Words of Love |
3 | How About It, Gorgeous? (Speech) |
4 | Do You Want to Know a Secret |
5 | Lucille |
6 | Hey, Paul... (Speech) |
7 | Anna (Go to Him) |
8 | Hello! (Speech) |
9 | Please Please Me |
10 | Misery |
11 | I'm Talking About You |
12 | A Real Treat (Speech) |
13 | Boys |
14 | Absolutely Fab (Speech) |
15 | Chains |
16 | Ask Me Why |
17 | Till There Was You |
18 | Lend Me Your Comb |
19 | Lower 5E (Speech) |
20 | The Hippy Hippy Shake |
21 | Roll Over Beethoven |
22 | There's a Place |
23 | Bumper Bundle (Speech) |
24 | P.S. I Love You |
25 | Please Mister Postman |
26 | Beautiful Dreamer |
27 | Devil in Her Heart |
28 | The 49 Weeks (Speech) |
29 | Sure to Fall (In Love with You) |
30 | Never Mind, Eh? (Speech) |
31 | Twist and Shout |
32 | Bye, Bye (Speech) |
33 | John - Pop Profile (Speech) |
34 | George - Pop Profile (Speech) |
Disc: 2
1 | I Saw Her Standing There |
2 | Glad All Over |
3 | Lift Lid Again (Speech) |
4 | I'll Get You |
5 | She Loves You |
6 | Memphis, Tennessee |
7 | Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club |
8 | Now Hush, Hush (Speech) |
9 | From Me to You |
10 | Money (That\'s What I Want) |
11 | I Want to Hold Your Hand |
12 | Brian Bathtubes (Speech) |
13 | This Boy |
14 | If I Wasn\'t in America (Speech) |
15 | I Got a Woman |
16 | Long Tall Sally |
17 | If I Fell |
18 | A Hard Job Writing Them (Speech) |
19 | And I Love Her |
20 | Oh, Can\'t We? Yes We Can (Speech) |
21 | You Can\'t Do That |
22 | Honey Don\'t |
23 | I'll Follow the Sun |
24 | Green with Black Shutters (Speech) |
25 | Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! |
26 | That\'s What We're Here for (Speech) |
27 | I Feel Fine (Studio Outtake) |
28 | Paul - Pop Profile (Speech) |
29 | Ringo - Pop Profile (Speech) |
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In the studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Beatles performed music for a variety of radio shows. ON AIR LIVE AT THE BBC VOLUME 2 presents the sound of The Beatles seizing their moment to play for the nation.
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Disc 1 1. And Here We Are Again speech 2. Words Of Love 3. Gorgeous? speech How About It 4. Do You Want To Know A Secret 5. Lucille 6. Paul. speech Hey 7. Anna go To Him 8. Hello! speech 9. Please Please Me 10. Misery 11. I'm Talking About You 12. A speech Real Treat 13. Boys 14. Absolutely Fab speech 15. Chains 16. Ask Me Why 17. Till There Was You 18. Lend Me Your Comb 19. Lower 5e speech 20. The Hippy Hippy Shake 21. Roll Over Beethoven 22. There's A Place 23. Bumper Bundle speech 24. P.s. I Love You 25. Please Mister Postman 26. Beautiful Dreamer 27. Devil In Her Heart 28. The (speech) 49 Weeks 29. Sure To Fall in Love With You 30. Eh? speech Never Mind 31. Twist And Shout 32. Bye speech Bye 33. John Pop Profile 34. George Pop Profile Disc 2 1. I Saw Her Standing There 2. Glad All Over 3. Lift Lid Again speech 4. I'll Get You 5. She Loves You 6. Tennessee Memphis 7. Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club 8. Hush speech Now Hush 9. From Me To You 10. Money that\'s What I Want 11. I Want To Hold Your Hand 12. Brian Bathtubes speech 13. This Boy 14. If I Wasn\'t In America speech 15. I Got A Woman 16. Long Tall Sally 17. If I Fell 18. A speech Hard Job Writing Them 19. And I Love Her 20. Can\'t We? Yes We Can speech Oh 21. You Can\'t Do That 22. Honey Don\'t 23. I'll Follow The Sun 24. Green With Black Shutters speech 25. Kansas 's What We're Here For speech 27. I Feel Fine studio Outtake Sequence - take 28. Paul - Pop Profile 29. Ringo - Pop Profile --CD Insert
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.43 x 5.04 x 0.43 inches; 4.16 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Capitol
- Item model number : 3749169
- Original Release Date : 2013
- Date First Available : September 11, 2013
- Label : Capitol
- ASIN : B00F3VOL38
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,672 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #8,034 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #8,474 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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John, Paul, George, and Ringo appeared no less than 52 times at the Beeb between 1962 and 1966, performing for "The Light Programme" at the beginning of their careers both in studio and before audiences on a variety of live shows. However, it\'s been nearly 20 years since the first volume of selected recordings from that era was officially released in 1994. "On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2" at last brings us more of these broadcasts, two CDs full of great music, youthful exuberance, wit and humor. As on the first set, a 48-page booklet is enclosed, this one with an introduction by Paul McCartney. There's also a long essay, numerous photos, session details, and track-by-track commentary.
This package contains 40 musical performances, 37 of them never before issued by the BBC, EMI, Apple or Capitol (the first volume had 56 songs, 30 of them previously unreleased). Between the songs are 19 short clips of banter among the boys and their rather plummy radio hosts in which they tease one another, respond to fan requests, and discuss a variety of topics such as the making of the film "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964. These interpolations give you an experience very much like the one you would have had listening to the programs on the radio. You are a witness to the birth of British Beatlemania.
Seventeen of the tracks are Lennon-McCartney classics like "She Loves You," "And I Love Her," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "I Saw Her Standing There," "You Can\'t Do That," and "I'll Follow the Sun"; the remainder are covers of songs by the likes of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Arthur Alexander, Goffin & King, and Lieber & Stoller. So many of my favorites are here: "Chains," "Words of Love," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Twist & Shout", and "Long Tall Sally," together with delightful surprises like Chan Romero's "The Hippy Hippy Shake," Ray Charles' "I Got A Woman," Carl Perkins' rockabilly number "Lend Me Your Comb," and his country ballad "Sure to Fall (in Love with You)." There's even a tune that appears nowhere else in the Beatles discography, Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" in the form of an utterly transformed rave-up.
Extended interviews with each of the four lads are appended as "Pop Profiles," two at the end of each disc, totaling 35 minutes of relaxed, down-to-earth charm. Recorded in November 1965 just before the release of "Rubber Soul" and in May 1966 during the "Revolver" sessions, these conversations saw the Beatles talking candidly about their musical influences and the processes of composing and recording as well as their families and living situations. They discuss the activities they were enjoying, how the public seemed to perceive them, their childhood memories, and their hopes for the future.
The monophonic sound is pristine throughout save for a couple of slightly muffled tracks included for historical reasons ("Beautiful Dreamer" and the Chuck Berry rarity "I'm Talking About You"). The playing and singing, needless to say, are top-notch. You won\'t be able to resist Ringo's full-throttle vocals and George's guitar solos on "Boys" and "Honey Don\'t," and you'll thrill to John's raucous voice on "Money (That\'s What I Want)" and Paul's iconic leads on "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Lucille." You might even find yourself screaming along with the girls in the audience when you hear the boys' harmonies on "From Me to You."
In his introduction, Sir Paul expresses great pleasure at this collection: "There's a lot of energy and spirit. We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes." He explains that their fascination with American music and their first attempts at songwriting were inspired by listening to the BBC and Radio Luxembourg, browsing manager Brian Epstein's record shop, and hearing about new sounds from peers. Since there's so much talk on the set, it may not be quite as wonderful as Volume One, but no one can say that all of the world-changing music and joyful nostalgia aren\'t worth 20 bucks. Buy it!
The BBC performances in its' second volume are as equally enjoyable as its' first installment offering our favorite classics, some never heard before and tossing in the odd cover from time to time. A definite Fab treasure. Totally Gear!
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So, The Beatles. It\'s the stock answer I'll give if anybody asks me to name my favourite band of all time and, although I love a huge amount of music, I think it would be true. Other than David Bowie, The Beatles have meant more to me than any other group, right from childhood onwards. I think it\'s fair to say that I'm a hardcore Beatles fan and, therefore, this release is aimed quite squarely at people like me – someone who will want to own pretty much everything The Beatles have ever released. The original Live At The BBC Volume 1 album was released in 1994 and was one of the biggest selling albums of the year, being the first release of “new” Beatles material since the Live At The Hollywood Bowl album in 1976. Volume 2, coming nearly twenty years later and after the very successful Anthology project from the mid 1990s, didn\'t really have the same kind of excitement surrounding it and many fans, myself included, wondered what it was going to be like if Volume 1 had featured the cream of the BBC recordings. Thankfully, there were still plenty of good performances from the archives left unreleased, but I genuinely can\'t see there being anything left after this volume; it\'s not that they've scraped the bottom of the barrel, but there really can\'t be hardly anything else of broadcast standard left in terms of BBC archives.
As big a Beatles fan as I am, it\'s difficult to treat this album as any more than it is: a collection of archive live performances The Beatles made for the BBC in the early sixties, some of which aren\'t of the best sound quality. It is going to be enjoyable and of great interest to any hardcore fan of The Beatles, but for anyone who has owned Volume One for the past couple of decades, this album simply adds another volume of curios, asides and performances of songs we have all (mostly) heard before. There are the old rock 'n' roll classics The Beatles hammered out in Hamburg as live versions of singles and album tracks from their first few years of recorded output (1962 to 1965), plus a few profile interviews tagged onto the end, but in many cases, studio and Anthology versions are superior to some of the performances on offer here. There are a few exceptions, however, such as the gorgeous performance of Buddy Holly's Words Of Love, which pre-dates the Beatles For Sale studio recording, an excellent rendition of Chains, with the group harmonising with more warmth than their album version, and a spirited There's A Place, always one of my favourite tracks from their incredible debut. George's guitar solo on I Saw Her Standing There is surely better than the recorded version, as is a beautifully radiant I'll Follow The Sun.
There are a few places where the quality drops a little. Paul's version of Lucille fails to capture the excitement that such a energetic song should bristle with and, musically, The Beatles fail to do the song justice, with George's guitar solo sounding particularly off-kilter. Some of the tracks exclusive to this collection, namely I'm Talking About You and Beautiful Dreamer, aren\'t anything very special at all and the sound quality of both leave a lot to be desired. I'm not entirely convinced that the rocking treatment of Beautiful Dreamer works at all, really. Although it is an otherwise lovely performance (including a superb guitar solo from George), I do wonder what Ringo was thinking on Till There Was You with his unnecessarily busy drum beat. Occasionally, the quality of the recordings get in the way of the enjoyment of the music, but, thankfully, the vast majority of the music here is very listenable indeed.
Live At The BBC Volume 2 is a really enjoyable, quality package which features a introduction from Paul McCartney written in July 2013 in the beautifully detailed, glossy booklet, and made me grin many times whilst listening to it, thanks to the between-song chatter that highlights the unique character and wit of The Beatles, but, I have to admit, this is the first time I've re-listened to Live At The BBC Volume 2 since I bought it nearly four years ago, so it\'s not really the kind of album I've found myself wanting to listen to often, despite my deep love of the band. I'm not criticising any aspect of this collection, far from it, it does exactly what it says on the tin, but if I had to put my finger on why I haven\'t listened to this live album regularly, it is probably due to the lack of a wow factor. There was a palpable excitement listening to and watching the Anthology project and there were certain tracks on Live At The BBC Volume 1 that really got the hairs on the back of the neck tingling. Unfortunately, there aren\'t enough of those intense feelings generated by this double album this time round; indeed, unlike previous raids of the Beatles archives, I can\'t really claim that Volume 2 has increased my love for or appreciation of The Beatles, or that there is much here that got me excitedly taking to internet forums to spread the word of the brilliance of particular tracks on the album when it was first pleased.
To surmise, these two discs are a very pleasant, decent listen that are possibly a lot more interesting because of the in-between record dialogue, the interviews and the pleasure of hearing the four of them chat at the beginning of their careers. Maybe even more pleasurable than listening to the music itself, as good as most of it is. Apart from one or two tracks still buried in the archives, it seems like this is probably going to be the last original material that we will hear from the Fab Four, so that, in itself, makes it something to treasure, but for the songs, live performances and sound quality, I have to say, objectively, that it isn\'t exactly the toppermost of the poppermost. Wouldn\'t it have been great to have been there, eagerly listening to this emanating from the wireless at that point in time, though? Perhaps for those people who were there, this is every bit as special hearing it now as it was then, but, for me, this is amongst the lesser Beatles releases... if there is such a thing as a lesser Beatles product, that is.
In contrast, 'On Air' (Vol 2) contains three of the remaining six unreleased songs, namely, Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You", Carl Perkin's "Lend Me Your Comb" and Gerry Goffin-Jack Keller adaptation of Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer". Out of the remaining songs, some are either already heard in Vol.1 in alternate versions, or have been released in the official studio albums. Thus attraction for this 'On Air' BBC volume 2 will naturally be less than that of the 'Live at the BBC' (remastered) volume 1. I still bought it as a completist.
However, after listening through the two-disc album, I recommend it for the new listeners. The freshness of these Live performances along with the 23 newly available jittery speech tracks, really takes one back to the early swinging sixties.
TRACK LIST: DISC ONE
1. "And Here We Are Again" (0:15)
2. "Words of Love" (Buddy Holly), Lead Vocals - John Lennon, Paul McCartney (1:56)
3. "How About It, Gorgeous?" (0:27)
4. "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - George Harrison (1:48)
5. "Lucille" (Little Richard, Albert Collins), Lead Vocals - McCartney (2:29)
6. "Hey, Paul..." (0:21)
7. "Anna (Go to Him)" (Arthur Alexander), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:50)
8. "Hello!" (0:19)
9. "Please Please Me" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon (1:56)
10. "Misery" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (1:50)
11. "I'm Talking About You" (Chuck Berry), Lead Vocals - Lennon (1:52)
12. "A Real Treat" (0:37)
13. "Boys" (Luther Dixon, Wes Farrell), Lead Vocals - Ringo Starr (2:29)
14. "Absolutely Fab" (0:27)
15. "Chains" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King), Lead Vocals - Harrison (2:15)
16. "Ask Me Why" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon (1:54)
17. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson), Lead Vocals - McCartney (2:16)
18. "Lend Me Your Comb" (Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (1:46)
19. "Lower 5E" (0:23)
20. "Hippy Hippy Shake" (Chan Romero), Lead Vocals - McCartney (1:46)
21. "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry), Lead Vocals - Harrison (2:22)
22. "There's a Place" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon (1:49)
23. "Bumper Bundle" (0:49)
24. "P.S. I Love You" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - McCartney (1:59)
25. "Please Mister Postman" (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:17)
26. "Beautiful Dreamer" (Stephen Foster, Gerry Goffin, Jack Keller), Lead Vocals - McCartney (1:46)
27. "Devil in Her Heart" (Richard Drapkin), Lead Vocals - Harrison (2:22)
28. "The 49 Weeks" (0:17)
29. "Sure to Fall (in Love with You)" (Carl Perkins, Bill Cantrell, Quinton Claunch), Lead Vocals - McCartney (2:21)
30. "Never Mind, Eh?" (0:34)
31. "Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Berns), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:25)
32. "Bye, Bye" (0:24)
33. "John – Pop Profile (Bonus interview track)" (8:22)
34. "George – Pop Profile (Bonus interview track)" (8:06)
TRACK LIST: DISC TWO
1. "I Saw Her Standing There" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - McCartney (2:36)
2. "Glad All Over" (Aaron Schroeder, Sid Tepper, Roy Bennett), Lead Vocals - Harrison (1:53)
3. "Lift Lid Again" (0:37)
4. "I'll Get You" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (2:02)
5. "She Loves You" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (2:15)
6. "Memphis, Tennessee" (Chuck Berry), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:15)
7. "Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club" (Mildred J. Hill, Patty Hill, arr. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr (0:33)
8. "Now Hush, Hush" (0:25)
9. "From Me to You" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (1:51)
10. "Money (That\'s What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:43)
11. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (2:23)
12. "Brian Bathtubes" (0:59)
13. "This Boy" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (2:16)
14. "If I Wasn\'t in America" (0:45)
15. "I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:36)
16. "Long Tall Sally" (Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, Little Richard), Lead Vocals - McCartney (1:58)
17. "If I Fell" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (2:09)
18. "A Hard Job Writing Them" (1:20)
19. "And I Love Her" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - McCartney (2:20)
20. "Oh, Can\'t We? Yes We Can" (0:20)
21. "You Can\'t Do That" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon (2:32)
22. "Honey Don\'t" (Carl Perkins), Lead Vocals - Starr (2:24)
23. "I'll Follow the Sun" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon, McCartney (1:51)
24. "Green with Black Shutters" (0:59)
25. "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Little Richard), Lead Vocals - McCartney (2:43)
26. "That\'s What We're Here For" (0:24)
27. "I Feel Fine (Studio outtake sequence)" (Lennon–McCartney), Lead Vocals - Lennon (3:29)
28. "Paul – Pop Profile (Bonus interview track)" (7:50)
29. "Ringo – Pop Profile (Bonus interview track)" (8:04)