Circa July 1960
Home recordings, aka "The Braun Tape"
For The Beatles
Last updated on October 8, 2015
Circa July 1960
For The Beatles
Last updated on October 8, 2015
Recording studio: Paul McCartney's Childhood Home - 20 Forthlin
Previous session May 10, 1960 • Audition for Larry Parnes
Concert Jun 25, 1960 • United Kingdom • Wallasey
Concert Jun 30, 1960 • United Kingdom • Neston
Session Circa July 1960 • Home recordings, aka "The Braun Tape"
Concert Jul 02, 1960 • United Kingdom • Wallasey
Session Circa July 1960 (?) • Home recordings, aka "The Hodgson Tape"
AlbumSome of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Anthology 1" Official album
From The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four:
The July 1960 demos compiled on the Braun Tape represent a considerably more professional version of the Beatles than the April 1960 Kirchherr Tape represents. In terms of instrumentation, the demos are distinguished by McCartney’s June 30th purchase of a Rosetti Solid 7 electric guitar.
The tape includes nearly 60 minutes’ worth of music, and while most of it is valuable simply for its historical merits alone, the July 1960 recordings feature intriguing versions of Ray Charles’s “Hallelujah, I Love Her So” and a Lennon-McCartney parody of the Ink Spots entitled “You’ll Be Mine”. It also includes such future Beatles tracks as “I’ll Follow the Sun” and “One After 909”. Eleven tracks from the Braun Tape were later included on the Hodgson Tape, which McCartney compiled in 1960.
Written by Ray Charles
Recording • Take 1
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Written by Ray Charles
Recording • Take 2
AlbumOfficially released on Anthology 1
Recording • Take 1
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Written by Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Written by Al Casey
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Instrumental #1
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Recording
AlbumOfficially released on Anthology 1
Written by Carl Perkins
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
I'll Always Be In Love With You
Written by Sam H. Stept
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Written by Gene Lockhart, Ernest Seitz
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
That's When Your Heartaches Begin
Written by Fred Fisher, William Raskin, William Hill
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Instrumental #2
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Written by Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Recording • Take 1
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Recording • Take 2
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
Written by Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Recording
AlbumReleased on bootleg The Silver Beatles - Lapis Lazuli
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions • Mark Lewisohn
The definitive guide for every Beatles recording sessions from 1962 to 1970.
We owe a lot to Mark Lewisohn for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details - the number of takes for each song, who contributed what, a description of the context and how each session went, various photographies... And an introductory interview with Paul McCartney!
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