The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Outtakes


Today's final Beatle offering of goodness. I looked back on my posts and realized it had been a good long time since I posted Beatles music. There is so many good albums and compilations to share that I am resonlably sure I will be posting more soon. As always - purchase the real albums and such, but the bootlegs are for the people - and we, the people, like to share, right? Right.


1. Magical Mystery Tour - unknown take
2. Fool on the Hill - demo 9/5/1967
3. Aerial Tour Instrumental - mono mix 9/8/67
4. Blue Jay Way - overdub session 10/6/67
5. Your Mother Should Know - alternate mono mix 8/22/67
6. I Am The Walrus - take 7 monitor mix 9/5/67
7. I Am The Walrus - take 9 9/5/67
8. I Am The Walrus - acetate source unknown take
9. Hello Hello - take 1
10. Strawberry Fields Forever - Twickenham Studios 1/1969
11. Strawberry Fields Forever - demos 1/66, take 1 11/24/66, and take 5 12/9/66
12. Penny Lane - brass overdub 1/9/67
13. Penny Lane - mono mix 1/25/67
14. Baby, You're a Rich Man - German stereo LP mix
15. All You Need is Love - TV Broadcast 6/25/67
16. Jessie's Dream - film music 10/67
17. Magical Mystery Tour - German stereo LP mix
18. Your Mother Should Know - German stereo LP mix
19. Strawberry Fields Forever - German stereo LP mix
20. Hello Goodbye - German stereo LP mix



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The Beatles - The River Rhine Tapes


Great selections from the 'Let It Be' and 'Get Back' sessions-era. Not a whole lot of Beatle-banter on this one, many boots of this era have endless studio chatter and clearly show the band falling apart. Although I value those editions as well, it gets kind of depressing to listen to. This one is just chock full of great versions of soon-to-be classics, God they are missed. The best part of this package it seems universally agreed upon is the emergence of George Harrison as a song-writig force to be reckoned with. This one (actually is part of a 3 disc set) has some wonderful sound quality and is worth many listens on your stereos children, more Beatles to come.




01 Two of Us
02 I dig a Pony
03 I got a Feeling
04 Dont Let Me Down
05 I Me Mine Waltz
06 Let it Be
07 For You Blue
08 One After 909
09 Long and Winding Road
10 Get Back
11 Oh Darling
12 Across the Universe
13 Dig It/John sings the titles
14 Mailman
15 Good Rockin Tonite
16 20 Flight Rock
17 Her Majesty
18 Maxwells Silver Hammer by John
19 Maxwells Silver Hammer by Paul
20 Suzy Parker
21 Bad Finger Boogie
22 Mean Mr Mustard
23 All Things Must Pass
24 The Walk
25 River Rhine
26 BillyBeatle Boogie


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The Beatles - Sink in the Can


Some more Beatle goodness from the 1968-69 era of the band. Near the inevitable end that was soon to pass. This time frame for the band is among my favorites (hard to beleive they were only around for about 6-7 years on the scene) and is rich with outtake material. Doesn't hurt either that 'Abbey Road' is my second favorite album of theirs - anyone guess the first? Also, as a cool side note to this boot, tracks 7-16 are Ringo drumming for a Cat Stevens session.As ever, all are welcome to post any good finds (from any blog-related band) in the comments. Good friend of the blog Bucephalus has shared many great albums in the comments and all are welcome to do so as well.




1. I Will (0:39)
2. Oh Darling Playing with Echo (1:06)
3. Oh Darling I can hear nothing in my earphone (3:05)
4. Oh Darling Latin Version (1:26)
5. Oh Darling (1:15)
6. Oh Darling (2:29)
7. Blue Monday (3:08)
8. If I Have to work for you (3:03)
9. Tuning (0:58)
10. Blue Monday Eins Zwei (2:07)
11. Blue Monday One Two (2:06)
12. Tuning (0:44)
13. I just Want To Make Love To You (4:31)
14. Working In The Coal Mine (4:36)
15. Baby I Have Some Love For You (1:18)
16. Looking For The Sailor (8:16)



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John Lennon - Let's Have A Party (Early 1970's)



It's been a long while since I posted any Beatle-related rarities, so here I go again. Sound quality is not anywhere near top-notch, but we get these to have them and not so much to play them every day at top volume, right? Since Beatle John is my favorite (a close tie for him and George) I am always seeking the rare and obscure. And what a selection of songs here for us to revel in - Lennon Solo, Beatle songs and covers. Guaranteed to make your bootleg collection shine just a little bit brighter for having it.

Heed the back cover caveat "The songs were all recorded live at a house party in the early 1970s and amateur equipment was used."






1. Tell Me What I Say
2. Yellow Submarine
3. Old Smokey Mountain
4. Good Night Irene
5. He's Got The Whole World
6. Like A Rolling Stone / Twist And Shout / Louie Louie / La Bamba
7. Bring It On Home To Me
8. Yesterday
9. Dance For The Chicken
10. Power To The People
11. Maybe Baybe
12. Peggy Sue
13. My Baby Left Me
14. Blue Suede Shoes
15. Crippled Inside
16. Give Peace A Chance
17. Crippled Inside
18. Uncle Albert

Motown Meets The Beatles - Various Artists



Oh boy, what a great idea and it bore such good fruit. Some of Motown's best voices singing some of the best songs ever written, what fan could ever ask for more? In my mind, the only thing missing here is Marvin Gaye singing 'In My Life' - that would have been so beautiful....sigh. But he does do 'Yesterday' and hits it right out of the park, in my humble opinion. SO many great one's here..... just download and enjoy already.


1. Hard Day's Night - The Supremes
2. Eleanor Rigby - The Four Tops
3. We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder
4. Hey Jude - The Temptations
5. Yesterday - Marvin Gaye
6. Long and Winding Road - Diana Ross
7. Come Together - The Supremes
8. She's Leaving Home - Syreeta
9. You Can't Do That - The Supremes
10. Fool on the Hill - The Four Tops
11. Michelle - The Four Tops
12. And I Love Her - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
13. Something - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
14. Let It Be - Gladys knight & the Pips
15. Imagine - Diana Ross
16. My Love - Junior Walker
17. My Sweet Lord - Edwin Starr

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The Beatles - Revolution (Bootleg)



One of my favorite Beatle collections of scraps and such. This is demos and incidental tracks from around 1965-1968, with some great quality sound, considering what I had been expecting. Early versions of 'We Can Work It Out', 'Julia' and an alternate 'Across The Universe', among other gems make it worth your while, for sure. Oh, so many more to come.... I just got the strangest feeling of deja vu wth this post. Did I already do this one? I checked my list and can't find it - maybe since I have been meaning to post this one for a while. Strange.



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John Lennon - Menlove Avenue Sessions





Many people have scoffed the Lennon album 'Rock & Roll' as a mediocre work of a fading artist, grasping at straws. True, he was in a bad place during the sessions comprising this work of outtakes and alternates, with Yoko problems and heroin taking a lot of his creative energies away from him. Still, even as reviled as 'Rock & Roll' was I was still thrilled to play it on the regular at hime as a kid - maybe having adults review albums isn't always the right way to go, eh? It had a great impact on me and led me to seek out some of the seminal influences in John's repetoire. Someof the tracks here are from the 'Walls & Bridges' recording sessions as well and I may begin a Lennon retrospective here soon - we'll see what happens. Hope you all enjoy!


Here We Go Again
Rock And Roll People
Angel Baby
Since My Baby Left Me
To Know Her Is To Love Her
Steel And Glass
Scared
Old Dirt Road
Nobody Loves You
Bless You


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The Beatles - Casualties



Yet another Beatle album for you fine folks. This one has some interesting takes, outfakes and versions from other countries. It reminds me of a favorite album from my youth, the great 'Rarities' which I played till the record hurt. My first rarities package and started a life-long addiction to these types of things. Overall a very enjoyable album and you already know there are many more to follow, so stay tuned.

For some reason, the back cover scan has been tilted to the side and I am in too big of a rush today to take it to Photoshop and rotate it to save it when you kind folks can open it and do it yourselves. But I will get to fixing it soon.


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George Harrison - Wonderwall Music (1968)



Okay, we all know as a empirical fact that George was a very important component of the Fab Four, right? No one here needs any convincing? I mean, he wrote 'Something' and who cannot fail to love that song? He also wrote and performed so much more great music than that as well. This little slab of his has been out of print for quite a while, last time I checked and can be found on Amazon for a tidy sum and we should not have to pay through our collective noses for out-of-print greatness, should we? I say nay, my friends. George's estate will not see more than a few pennies of it, anway. I am sure he would much prefer us to be good to each other and our favorite charities than enrich some faceless executives golden parachute package. Arrrgh, there he goes babbling again. You kids should really stop me befoe I get going. And besides, there is a much better description at our favorite online retailer....

"This was a great starting point to George Harrison's solo career, and also a reflection of the times that spawned it (as well as the film); a colorful slice-of-time piece of classic psychedelia, very much of it's time, but also very much ahead of it. Harrison arguably is the sole purveyor of the use of Indian music and Middle-Eastern influences in his (and that of The Beatles) music. Other artists and bands of the time incorporated the same influences into their own repertoires, but while they and their music remain squarely locked in that time period, Harrison transcended it by leaps and bounds, and this soundtrack to "Wonderwall" is a firm testament to that fact; it still sounds fresh and innovative 30-plus years later, without sounding the least bit dated. As others have pointed out, this is not the complete soundtrack to the film, only about half of it, really; but the part that is included here is nothing short of incredible!
With the exception of the track "Singing Om", there are no vocals or lyrics to be found on this album, but that's the magic of it; it doesn't need vocals or lyrics to be effective in grabbing (and keeping) your attention. Not all of the selections are Indian music, with my favorite being the track "Ski-ing" (which features some great guitar work by Eric Clapton, who is uncredited as a musician on the album, but is mentioned in the liner notes); also "Party Seacombe", and the delightful "Cowboy Music", all three of which are a radical departure from the rest of the Indian tracks, but yet do not sound out of place; it all flows together nicely."

And I could not agree more.


1. Microbes
2. Red Lady Too
3. Tabla And Pakavaj
4. In The Park
5. Drilling A Home
6. Guru Vandana
7. Greasy Legs
8. Ski-ing
9. Gat Kirwani
10. Dream Scene
11. Party Seacombe
12. Love Scene
13. Crying
14. Cowboy Music
15. Fantasy Sequins
16. On The Bed
17. Glass Box
18. Wonderball To Be Here
19. Singing Om


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The Beatles - The Abbey Road Companion



Ok, before all you Beatle Bootleg experts chime in - I already know this isn't the best Abbey Road Beatleg there is. But this isn't a Beatle Bootleg blog, is it? I am just trying to share some of these things with my friends here. These are alternates (and one or two outright fakes, depending upon whom you ask...) and outtakes of songs from my favorite Beatle album and although it lacks the best sound quality I am still a proud owner. I am also proud I didn't pay the $75 that import record store wanted and they wouldn't even let me take a test spin in the store. If you love these boys then I am reasonably sure you will find something to grasp onto with this one and I am always looking for more Abbey Road rarities if anyone wants to bring them to the Ape. Give it a spin and add it to the collection - there's always more to come.





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The Beatles - Corn Of The Apple




Yet another disc of thses fellas, I think they are good enough to have some kind of a future in this business, you know? Anyone sick of these yet? Because I sure love these boys. These tracks are selected from the infamous Twickenham sessions in 1969 when someone had the bright idea to record the entire sessions /rehearsals for the next Beatles album. Of course they caught all the rancor and bile of a group falling apart and it is painful listening if you have all of the (many, many) discs of these sessions, like some of us do. Just a lot of in-fighting and jockeying for position and we all get to see how shabby George was treated and how Ringo basically happened upon the greatest gravy train in history. This disc has, lucky for us, most of the great songs that were recorded and none of the arguments and is a favorite of DaddyRichs' and I hope you all will enjoy it, too.



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DaddyRich's Mega Beatle Boots Post For X-Mas!!




For you, my friends - a few of the best band ever. Some hard-to-find gems here and I do hope you enjoy. My gift to you all for being friends of the Ape. Have a Merry Christmas, A Krazy Kwanzaa and hope you had a dignified Ramadan. Not a lot of time to post track lists but I will soon. Listen and enjoy!



Acoustic Submarine (2 Discs)



The Off-White Bootleg



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The Beatles - Revolution Bootleg


Ah, the gift of music at Christmas time. I do love me some Beatles rartities any time of the year, actually. This is definitely one of the better boots out there and includes some rare gems. We have included here the great David Frost show versions of 'Revolution' and 'Hey Jude' as well as crucial demos and home recordings and we can all just ignore Yoko on the 23 minute ( ! ) long 'Revolution # 9 ' which I could never stomach anyway. Please share this one with all your Beatle-fan-friends and look foward to more from DaddyRich in the future.



01 Mellotron Music No.1 (May 1968, John's home demo)
02 Girl (Nov 1968, Monitor mix)
03 We Can Work It Out / Lucy From Littletown (Oct 1965, Paul's demo 1965, John's poem recorded over Paul's demo)
04 Michelle (Sep 1965, Paul's instrumental demo)
05 We Can Work It Out (20 Oct 1965, Take 2, SS.PM1.02.02, Prior to vocals and harmonium overdubs)
06 It's Not Too Bad (Sep 1966, John's demo #1)
07 It's Not Too Bad (Sep 1966, John's demo #2)
08 It's Not Too Bad (Sep 1966, John's demo #3)
09 Good Morning, Good Morning (Feb 1967, Home demo)
10 Mellotron Music No.2 (May 1968, John's home demo)
11 Revolution (10 Jul 1968, mono mix - minus bass & organ)
12 Across The Universe (8 Feb 1968, Take 8 RM2 ('Hums Wild'), SS.PM2.13.08.RM2, Alternate mix with the extracts of the 'Hums Wild' Sounds effect. No Orchestration or Animal Sounds at this stage)
13 Revolution 9 (Jun 1968, Alternate Mix)
14 Mellotron Music No.3 (May 1968, John's home demo)
15 Julia (1968, John's home demo)
16 Strange In My Arms (May 1968, John's home demo)
17 Revolution 1 (4 Jun 1968, offline recording Take 20, with Yoko commentary)
18 Hey Jude (4 Sep 1968, Promo TV David Frost Show)
19 Revolution (4 Sep 1968, Promo TV David Frost Show)



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The Beatles - Songs, Pictures & Stories



One of my favorite releases on the Vee-Jay label from back in the day (1964, even before my time) and, also one of the most often bootlegged of their catalogue. Early Lennon/McCartney originals interspersed with some R&B gems of the time make for a nice outing. I have so very many Beatles' records/dics and am tempted to begin posting some rarities for you kind folks coming soon, beginning with this one and following (hopefully tomorrow) with the collection of Christmas records they did. I remember sitting in my room as a youth and listening to these songs (albeit on a different record) on my Bee Gee's portable record player - with the Brothers Gibb in all their sequinned glory on the front and singing my 8 year-old lungs out. Ah, the memories - they fade when you get old like me, you know.




1 I Saw Her Standing There
2 Misery
3 Please Please Me
4 From Me to You
5 Chains
6 Boys
7 Love Me Do
8 P.S. I Love You
9 Baby It's You
10 Do You Want to Know a Secret
11 Taste of Honey
12 There's a Place
13 Twist and Shout


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Paul McCartney - The Nashville Sessions 1974

Ah, more solo Beatle goodness for you all. These are reportedly the first sessions with Wings recorded in Nashville 1973-74 and this disc is interspersed with sessions for songs to be released with a film that never saw the light of day 'One Hand Clapping' and judging by some of the movies the Beatles found themselves involved with at this point, maybe we are all better off for it. I, of course, love nearly all Beatle music so I hope you will as well.



1. Proud Mum - Nashville outtake 1:57
2. Sally G - alternate take 3:37
3. Send Me The Heart - Denny Laine, Nashville outtake 3:33
4. Hey Diddle - Nashville outtake 3:43
5. Bridge Over The River Suite - alternate take 3:12
6. Walking In The Park With Eloise - remastered version 3:07
7. Junior's Farm - alternate mix w/ count in 4:31
8. One Hand Clapping - instrumental theme 0:50
9. Jet 4:19
10. Soily 3:53
11. Studio Discussions 2:07
12. C Moon 3:15
13. Maybe I'm Amazed 4:52
14. My Love - excerpt 2:44
15. Bluebird - sax overdubs and take 2:26
16. Band On The Run 5:17
17. Live And Let Die 3:51
18. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five 4:47
19. Blue Moon Of Kentucky 2:59
20. Proud Mum - reprise 0:33

Tracks 1-7,20 Outtakes & Alternate Versions From The 1974 Wings Nashville Sessions.
Tracks 8-18 From A Newly Discovered Mag Audio Tapes
(Tracks To Be Used In The Unrelesed Film "One Hand Clapping")
Track 19 "One Hand Clapping Outtake"

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The Beatles - Love (2006)

Here's a special one that's a request by a pretty lady and we all know that DaddyRich is a pushover (ask my kids). I imagine this one'll set a land speed record for link-acide but here it is. An apt description was on the internets... Also, I have heard many Beatle albums and have only heard this one enough to really appreciate the sound quality of the remastered tracks - what the hell is track #8?

"It begins with a twittering of birdsong lifted from "Across the Universe." And once the triple-tracked a capella harmonies of "Because" enter, followed by snatches from "A Hard Day's Night" and "The End," leading into a fired-up "Get Back," it becomes obvious that this is far more than just another Beatles compilation. This is Love, conceived by the Fabs' former producer George Martin and son Giles as a stageshow soundtrack to Cirque de Soleil's Las Vegas spectacular of the same name, but appears to have taken on a life of its own. Whereas the Beatles' last release, 1, delivered the (over?) familiar hits in a nice, simple package, Love is a mélange of the familiar and obscure, all literally mixed together in one 78-minute audio collage which succeeds in reminding the listener just why the Beatles truly are, as Lennon put it, "toppermost of the poppermost." There's no new Beatles material per se, but the songs are all approached differently--some are cut together in a flawlessly mixed medley (check out "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You/Helter Skelter"), some reassemble different backing tracks and vocal performances to create new spins on old classics; but all the songs are revitalized considerably. Even in its weakest moments (which probably work better in the context of the show itself), Love is still a formidable prospect, and one has to admire Martin's willingness to go out on a limb with such a project. While purists may complain that the cut 'n' paste nature of the project is simply tampering with perfection, at the very least it'll make them reach for the originals and enjoy them all over again. For newcomers and everyone else, it makes a fine listen, both in its sonic clarity (the actual tracks are the best they've sounded on CD) and audacious nature. --Thom Allott"


1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love

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