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Here's a list of songs that the Beatles played (live or practice) prior to recording with George Martin and EMI (Sept 4, 1962). Given that, I've not included "Please Please Me", or "Love Me Do" .... but perhaps they should be on this list.

I'd be interested if anyone can add/subtract/modify/correct this list.
(* = written by a member of the Beatles/Quarrymen)

A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues
A Taste Of Honey
Ain't She Sweet
All Shook Up
Almost Grown
Anna
*Ask Me Why
Baby It's You
Baby Let’s Play House
*Bad To Me
Be Bop a Lula
Beautiful Dreamer
Besame Mucho
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Blue Suede Shoes
Bony Moronie
Boppin' the Blues
Bound By Love
Boys
Bye Bye Love
Cat Walk
*Cayenne (Alt: Looking Glass / Thinking of Linking)
Carol
Chains
Clarabella
Claudette
Cry For A Shadow
Crying, Waiting, Hoping
Darktown Strutters Ball
Devil in His Heart
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Don't Ever Change
Don't Let The Sun Catch You
Dream
Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
Everybody's Trying to be My Baby
Everyone Wants Someone
Falling In Love Again
Fever
Glad All Over
Good Golly Miss Molly
Hallelujah I Love Her So
*Hello Little Girl
Hey Baby
Hey Good Lookin
Hippy Hippy Shake
Honey Don't
Honeymoon Song
Hully Gully
I Don’t Know
I Forgot to Remember to Forget Her
I Got a Woman
I Gotta Find My Baby
I Just Don't Understand
I Remember You
If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
If You Love Me Baby
I’ll Be On My Way
I'll Never Let You Go
*I’ll Follow The Sun
I’ll Keep You Satisfied
I'm a Hog For You Baby
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry
I'm Henery The Eighth I Am
I’m In Love
I'm Talking About You
*I Saw Her Standing There
*In Spite Of All The Danger
I Remember You
I Will Always Be In Love With You
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Johnny B. Goode
Kansas City
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Lend Me Your Comb
*Like Dreamers Do
Little Queenie
Locomotion
Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
Long Tall Sally
*Love Me Do
Love Me Tender Elvis
*Love of the Loved
Loving You
Lucille
Mabellene
Matchbox
Memphis Tennessee
Money
Movin an a Groovin / Ramrod
Mr Moonlight
My Bonnie
My Gal is Red Hot
Nobody But You
Nobody’s Child
Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves on the Trees)
One And One Is Two
Ooh! My Soul
Open
Over the Rainbow
Peggy Sue
Peppermint Twist
Pick A Bail of Cotton
Picture of You
Please Don’t Ever Change
Please Mr Postman
Puttin on the Style
Quarter to Three
Raining In My Heart
Raunchy
Red Sails In The Sunset
Reelin' & Rocking
Reminiscing
Rip It Up
Road Runner
Rock 'n' Roll Music
Rockin' Robin
Roll Over Beethoven
Searchin'
September in the Rain
September Song
Shakin' All Over
Sharing You
Sheila
Shimmy Shimmy
Shine
Slow Down
So How Come No One Loves Me
Soldier of Love
Some Days
Some Other Guy
Stand By Me
Sure to Fall
Summertime
Swanee River
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Little Sixteen
Take Good Care of My Baby
Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby
Talkin Bout You
Tell Me If You Can
That'll Be the Day
That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
That's Alright Mama
*The One After 909
The Sheik Of Araby
The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In)
The Sheik Of Araby
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Thirty Days
Three Cool Cats
Till There Was You
*Tip of My Tongue
To Know Her is to Love Her
Too Bad About Sorrows
Too Much Monkey Business
Tutti Frutti
Twenty Flight Rock
Twist And Shout
Well Darling
What A Crazy World We're Living In
What'd I Say
What’s Your Name
*When I’m Sixty-Four
When Your Heartaches Begin
Where Have You Been All My Life
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Why
Wildcat
*Winston’s Walk
Wooden Heart
Words of Love Buddy
World Without Love
Yakkety Yak
Yer Feets Too Big
You Aint No Friend
You Better Move
*You’ll Be Mine
You Just Don’t Understand
You Really Got A Hold On Me
You Must Write Every Day
Young Blood
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By the way..... 182 songs on that list.
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Impressive and thorough list, Kent. I certianly can't contribute, but am amazed to see all the songs they performed and in some cases recorded before EMI. How, and by what means did you compile it?
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I used this for starters:
http://www.liobians.com/songs.html
then added to it from various books and records I have. I bet the full list is even longer.

OOps... The Sheik Of Araby is listed twice
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See, cover bands can become successful.
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Oooooh, Jerry! Vintage Diana Rigg ---- my favorite!!
Leprosy is rare & scarce but nobody wants that!
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Here's another 34 bringing the total to 215.
Wow, I guess the Beatles never get full credit for being one of the all-time cover bands.

http://www.bootlegzone.com/beatleg/thejets.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... stbest.htm

Alright OK You Win
Cathy's Clown
Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O
Fabulous
Hit the Road, Jack
Home
Hot As Sun
I Don't Care If the Sun Don't
I Don't Need No Cigarette, Boy
I Lost My Little Girl
I Wonder If I Care As Much
It's So Easy
Jenny, Jenny
Just Fun
Keep Looking That Way
Lotta Lovin'
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Let's Twist Again
Mean Woman Blues
Shine
Skinny Minny
Stuck On You
That's An Important Number
That's My Woman
The Years Roll Along
Think It Over
Top Ten Twist
True Love
Turn The Mixers Off
You Are My Sunshine
You Know I Love You
You're In My Little Book
You Were Meant For Me
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I find it surprising that while the Beatles were fans of Buddy Holly, and covered at least four of his songs, 'Maybe, Baby,' wasn't one of them. Or maybe you just haven't found it yet. :wink:
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I recall reading somewhere that they used to cover Oz rocker Johnny O'Keefes' hit "Shout"!
And make it go on for 20 minutes to fill a set!
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gregga41 wrote:I recall reading somewhere that they used to cover Oz rocker Johnny O'Keefes' hit "Shout"!
And make it go on for 20 minutes to fill a set!
Yeah! I have a list somewhere of all the songs they've ever performed... I'll type it all, as I am bored. included are all songs performed, not written by them (some exceptions for instrumentals). This list includes 239 songs... so enjoy! Included, is the name of the artist who made the song popular.

reference : The Complete Beatles Chronicle - Mark Lewisohn 1992

Ain't That A Shame - Fats Domino
All Over Again - Johnny Cash
All Shook Up - Presley
Almost Grown - Chuck Berry
Anna - Arthur Alexandre
Apache - Shadows
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis
Baby blue - Presley/ Buddy Holly
Baby I Don't Care - Presley/ Buddy Holly
Baby Let's Play House - Elvis
Bad Boy - Williams
Beautiful Dreamer - Slim Whitman
Begin the Beguine - Pat Boone
Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
Besame Mucho - The coasters
Better Luck Next Time - June Christy
Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Elvis
Blue Suede Shoes
Bonny Moronie - Larry Williams
Boppin The Blues - Perkins
Boys
Bring it on home to me - Same Cooke
Buzz Buzz A Diddle-It
Can't Believe you wanna leave - Gene Vincent
Carol - Chuck Berry
Cathy Clown - Everly brothers
Catswalk - (instrumental written by Paul)
Clarabella - Cochran
Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings
Coquette - Pats Domino
Corrine, Corrinna - Lonnie Donegan
Crackin' Up - Bo diddley
Crying waiting Hoping - Buddy Holly
The Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan
Dance in the Street - Gene Vincent
Darktown Strutter Ball - Joe Brown
Diamonds - Jet Harris
Do You want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Don't Be Cruel - Elvis
Don't Ever Change - Crickets
Don't Forbid Me - Pat Boone
Down The Line - Jerry Lee Lewis
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Ray Charles
Dream - Cliff Richards
Dream Baby - Roy Orbison
Espana Cani - (instrumental) Marquina
Everyday - Buddy Holly
Falling In Love Again - Marlene Dietrich
A Fool for You - Brenda Lee
Fools Like Me - Jerry Lee Lewis
Glad All Over - Perkins
Gone,Gone,Gone - Perkins
Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
Good Rocking Tonight - Elvis
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Guitar boogie - Arthur smith
Hallelujah I love her so - Ray Charles
Harry Lime (third man theme) - Anton Karas
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis
Heavenly - Conway Twitty
Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton
Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
Hey Good Lookin' - Gene Vincent
Hey Let's Twist - Joey Dee
High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis
Hippy Hippy Shake - Chan Romero
His latest Flame - Elvis
Home -
Honey Hush - Joe Turner
Honeymoon song - marino marini
Honky Tonk Blues - Hank Williams
Hot As Sun (instrumental) McCartney
Hound Dog - Elvis
A House with love in it - Vera Lynn
How Do You do It?
How High The moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford
Hully Gully (the olympics)
I Feel So Bad - Elvis
I forgot to remember to forget - Elvis
I got a woman - Elvis
I gotta find my baby - Elvis
I just don't understand - Ann-Margaret
I Know - Fats Domino
I Remember - Eddie Cochran
I Remember You - Frank Infield
I will always be in love with you - Fats Domino
I wish I could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Olympics
I Wonder If I care As Much - Everly Brothers
I'll Never Let You go - elvis
I'm gonna be a wheel someday - Fats Domino
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry - Elvis
I'm Henry The Eighth I am - Joe Brown
I'm In Love Again - Fat's Domino
I'm talkign about you - chuck Berry
If you gotta make a fool of somebody - James Ray
It'll be Me - Jerry Lee Lewis
It's a long way to Tipperary - Traditional
It's Now Or never - Elvis
It's So Easy - Buddy Holly
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
Jambalaya - Hank WIlliams
Johnny Be Goode - Chuck Berry
Just Because - Elvis
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Elvis
Lazy River - Gene Vincent
Leave My Kitten Alone - Johnny Preston
Lend Me Your Comb - Perkins
Little Queenie - Chuck Berry
Livin' Lovin' Wreck - Jerry Lee lewis
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Lonesome Tear In My eye - Johnny Burnette trio
Looking Glass - Instrumental (Lennon/McCartney
Love is A Swinging thing - The Shirelles
Love Love Love - Bobby Vee
Love Me Tender - Elvis
Love Of My Life - Everly brothers
Loving You - Elvis
Lucile - Little RIchard
Maggie May - Vipers Skiffle group
Mailman Blues - Lloyd Price
Main Title theme (the man with the golden arm) - Jet harris
Mama said - Shirelles
Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Mean Woman Blues - Jerry Lee Lewis
Memphis tenessee - Chuck Berry
Midnight Shift - Buddy Holly
Midnight Special - Lonnie Donegan
Mighty Man - Davy Jones
Miss Ann - Little Richard
Moonglow and the theme from Picnic - the McGuire Sisters
More than I can say - The crickets
movin and grooving - Duane Eddy
My Bonnie - Tony Sheridan
Mystery Train - Elvis
New Orleans - Gary Bonds
No Other baby - viper skiffle group
Nobody but You - The Lafayettes
Nothin shakin - Eddie Fontaine
One Track mind - Bobby Lewis
Ooh! My Soul - Little Richard
Open (your loving arms) - Buddy Knox
Over the raindow - Gene Vincent
Party - Elvis
Peaches and Cream - Larry Williams
Peanut Butter - The Marathons
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Pepermint Twist - Joey Dee
A Picture of You - Joe brown
quarter to three - Gary Bonds
Railroad Bill - Lonnie Donegan
Raining in my heart - Buddy Holly
Ramrod - Duane Eddie
Raunchy - Bill Justis
Ready Teddy - Little Richard
Red Hot - Ronnie Hawkins
Red sail in the sunset - joe turner
Reelin and rocking - chuck berry
reminiscing - buddy holly
rip it up - little richard
road runner - Bo didley
Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
Runaway - Del shannon
San Fransisco Bay Blues - Ramblin Jack Elliot
Save the last dance for me - The Drifters
Say Mama - Gene Vincent
Searchin - Coasters
Send me some lovin' - Little Richard
September in the rain - Dinah Washington
September Song - Johnny ray
Shakin all over - Johnny Kidd
Sharing You - Bobby Vee
Sheik Of Araby - Joe Brown
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Shimmy Shimmy - Bobby Freeman
Short Fat fanny - larry williams
a shot of rhythm and blues - arthur alexandre
shout - Isley brothers
So How come (no one loves me) - Every brothers
Soldier of love - Arthur alexandre
some other guy - ritchie barrett
stand by me - Ben e king
stay - Maurice Williams
Sticks and Stones - Ray charles
Summertime - Gene Vincent
Sure to fall - Perkins
Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck berry
Take Good Care of my baby - bobby vee
teenage heaven - eddie cochran
tenessee - perkins
tequila - the champs
that'll be the day - buddy holly
that's when your heartache begins - elvis
There's no one in the whole wide world - Jackie Lee
think it over - buddy holly
thirty days - chuck berry
three cool cats - coasters
thee steps to heaven - eddie cochran
thee-thirty blues - Duane Eddie
thumbin a ride - coasters
time - craig douglas
time will bring you everything - Gene Vincent
To know her is to love her - The Teddy Bears
Tonight is so right for love - Elvis
Too Much Monkey business - Chuck berry
True Love - Bing Crosby
Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran
Vacation Time - Chuck Berry
Walk Don't run - Ventures
Walk Right in - the rooftop singers
watch your step - bobby parker
wayward wind - Gene Vincent
Wedding Bells - Gene Vincent
Weep No More Baby - Johnny Kid
Wee (baby Please don't go) - The olympics
What a crazt world we're livin in - Joe Brown
What I'd say - ray Charles
When - the Kalin twins
When my little girl is smiling 0 the drifters
When the saints come marching in - jerry lee lewis
whole lotta shaking going on - Jerry lee Lewis
Where have you been all my life? - Arthur alexandre
wild cat - gene vincent
wild in the country - elvis
wooden heart - Elvis Presley
The world is waiting for sunrise - Les Paul and Mary Ford
Worried Man Blues - Lonnie Donegan
Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
Yakety Yak - Coasters
You Are My Sunshine
You Don't Know what you got - Ral Donner
you don't understand me - bobby freeman
you were ment for me -
youngblood - the coasters
your feet's too big - fats waller
Your True Love - Carl Perkins

Hope you enjoyed that... now I gotta take care of this terrible cramp in my hand after writing all that!
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BTW - I didn't include covers they released on albums either.
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gregga41 wrote:I recall reading somewhere that they used to cover Oz rocker Johnny O'Keefes' hit "Shout"!
And make it go on for 20 minutes to fill a set!
In 1964 on a show called "Around the Beatles," The Beatles closed with a version of Shout. This is the show on which they did a version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in costume. I believe that the songs were recorded in the studio and they mimed.
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What “tennis nick” has demonstrated is just how wide ranging The Beatles live repertoire was back in those early 1960s playing days. Which was very much the product of the type of recordings that were around at the time and the available practice / performance time in Hamburg to just about try anything they could get away with. The Beatles could have sung the phone book and German club goers wouldn’t have know the difference or for that matter cared, as long as it sounded something like rock ‘n’ roll.

Unlike the majority of other groups in Liverpool at the time, that was one of the attractions of The Beatles. One never quite knew what they were going to play onstage. Watching other local groups perform live on a regular basis invariably meant that sooner or later one would hear the same numbers coming round again and again. Only the likes of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes and Derry and the Seniors could compete with The Beatles when it came to strength of repertoire. And, like The Beatles, that was by virtue of them being fully (rather then semi) professional that resulted in long summer residential bookings at UK ‘holiday camps’ and frequent monthly tours round Continental Europe playing at US Air Force and Army bases.

However, what was musically noticeable about many of The Beatles live sets was how suddenly they could stop local Liverpool club audiences in their tracks by throwing in a number that was seeming so out-of-place for a three-guitar and drums group. I can remember numbers like, Wooden Heart, September In The Rain and I Remember You.

I also seem to recall George Harrison doing a lot more vocally live than he was allowed to do on record. Harrison and McCartney onstage were akin to a well-oiled machine on either side of a freestanding ribbon microphone. One could see that the pair had obviously endlessly practised their technique of single and dual use of a standalone microphone while simultaneously playing their shoulder slung instruments.

Looking down the list of live numbers that The Beatles are purported to have performed, I’m surprised that one particular number is not included – and that's Zip-a-dee-doo-dah from Walt Disney’s Song of the South.
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Lewisohn admits that his list is probably far from complete for 1957-63, and we can see that that is true in that he leaves out songs like: Moonglo, Why, Ain't She Sweet, Nobody’s Child, Sweet Georgia Brown, Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby, which we know were played.

So, with a little cleaning up, here is the combined list so far:

Ain't She Sweet – trad. (Ager/Yellen)
Ain't That A Shame - Fats Domino
All Over Again - Johnny Cash
All Shook Up - Presley
Almost Grown - Chuck Berry
Alright OK You Win – The Mar-Keys
Anna - Arthur Alexander
Apache - Shadows
Are You Lonesome Tonight – Elvis
*Ask Me Why
A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues – Arthur Alexander
A Taste Of Honey – Lenny Welch
Baby blue - Presley/ Buddy Holly
Baby I Don't Care - Presley/ Buddy Holly
Baby It's You - The Shirelles
Baby Let's Play House - Elvis
Bad Boy – Williams
*Bad To Me
Beautiful Dreamer - Slim Whitman
Begin the Beguine - Pat Boone
Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
Besame Mucho - The Coasters
Better Luck Next Time - June Christy
Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Elvis
Blue Suede Shoes
Bonny Moronie - Larry Williams
Boppin The Blues - Perkins
Boys
Bring it on home to me - Same Cooke
Buzz Buzz A Diddle It – Freddy Cannon
Bye Bye Love - Everly Brothers
Can't Believe You Wanna Leave - Gene Vincent
Carol - Chuck Berry
Cathy’s Clown - Everly Brothers
*Cayenne
Catswalk - (instrumental written by Paul)
Chains - The Cookies
Clarabella – Cochran
Claudette - Everly Brothers
Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings
Coquette - Pats Domino
Corrine, Corrinna - Lonnie Donegan
Crackin' Up - Bo Diddley
*Cry For A Shadow
Crying Waiting Hoping - Buddy Holly
The Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan
Dance In The Street - Gene Vincent
Darktown Strutter Ball - Joe Brown & the Bruvvers
Devil in Her Heart - The Donays
Diamonds - Jet Harris
Do You Want To Dance - Bobby Freeman
Don't Be Cruel - Elvis
Don't Ever Change - Crickets
Don't Forbid Me - Pat Boone
Down The Line - Jerry Lee Lewis
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Ray Charles
Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O
Dream - Cliff Richards
Dream Baby - Roy Orbison
Espana Cani - (instrumental) Marquina
Everybody's Trying to be My Baby - Carl Perkins
Everyday - Buddy Holly
Fabulous
Falling In Love Again – (Hollander/ Lerner)
Fever – Peggy Lee
Falling In Love Again - Marlene Dietrich
A Fool for You - Brenda Lee
Fools Like Me - Jerry Lee Lewis
Glad All Over - Perkins
Gone,Gone,Gone - Perkins
Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
Good Rocking Tonight - Elvis
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Guitar boogie - Arthur smith
Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles
Harry Lime (third man theme) - Anton Karas
Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis
*Hello Little Girl
Heavenly - Conway Twitty
Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton
Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
Hey Good Lookin' - Gene Vincent
Hey Let's Twist - Joey Dee
High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis
Hippy Hippy Shake - Chan Romero
His Latest Flame – Elvis
Hit the Road, Jack
Hippy Hippy Shake
Home
Honey Don't - Carl Perkins
Honey Hush - Joe Turner
Honeymoon Song - Marino Marini
Honky Tonk Blues - Hank Williams
Hot As Sun (instrumental) McCartney
Hound Dog - Elvis
A House With Love In It - Vera Lynn
How Do You do It?
How High The Moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford
Hully Gully (the Olympics)
*I Don’t Know
I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
*I Don't Need No Cigarette, Boy
I Feel So Bad - Elvis
I forgot to remember to forget - Elvis
I Got a Woman - Elvis
I Gotta Find My Baby - Elvis
I Just Don't Understand - Ann-Margaret
*I Lost My Little Girl
I Know - Fats Domino
*In Spite Of All The Danger
I Remember - Eddie Cochran
I Remember You - Frank Infield
*I Saw Her Standing There
I Will Always Be in Love With You - Fats Domino
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Olympics
I Wonder If I Care As Much - Everly Brothers
*I'll Always Be in Love With You
*I’ll Be On My Way
*I’ll Follow The Sun
*I’ll Keep You Satisfied
I'm a Hog For You Baby - The Coasters
I'll Never Let You go – Elvis
I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday - Fats Domino
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry - Elvis
I'm Henry The Eighth I am - Joe Brown
I'm In Love Again - Fat's Domino
I'm Talking About You - Chuck Berry
If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody - James Ray
If You Love Me Baby
It'll Be Me - Jerry Lee Lewis
It's a Long Way to Tipperary - Traditional
It's Now Or never - Elvis
It's So Easy - Buddy Holly
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
Jambalaya - Hank Williams
Jenny, Jenny
Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Just Because – Elvis
*Just Fun
Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey – Little Richard
*Keep Looking That Way
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby – Little Eva
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Elvis
Lazy River - Gene Vincent
Leave My Kitten Alone - Johnny Preston
Lend Me Your Comb – Perkins
Little Queenie - Chuck Berry
Livin' Lovin' Wreck - Jerry Lee lewis
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Lonesome Tear In My eye - Johnny Burnette Trio
Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
Looking Glass - Instrumental (Lennon/McCartney)
Lotta Lovin' - Gene Vincent
Love is A Swinging thing - The Shirelles
Love Love Love - Bobby Vee
*Love of the Loved
*Love Me Do
Love Me Tender - Elvis
Love Of My Life - Everly Brothers
Loving You - Elvis
Lucile - Little Richard
Maggie May - Vipers Skiffle group
Mailman Blues - Lloyd Price
Main Title Theme (the Man With the Golden Arm) - Jet Harris
Mama said – Shirelles
Matchbox – Carl Perkins
Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Mean Woman Blues - Jerry Lee Lewis
Memphis Tenessee - Chuck Berry
Midnight Shift - Buddy Holly
Midnight Special - Lonnie Donegan
Mighty Man - Davy Jones
Miss Ann - Little Richard
Money - Barrett Strong
Moonglow and the theme from Picnic - the McGuire Sisters
More Than I Can Say - The Crickets
Movin and Grooving - Duane Eddy
Mr Moonlight - Johnson
My Bonnie - Tony Sheridan
My Gal is Red Hot - Ronnie Hawkins
Mystery Train - Elvis
New Orleans - Gary Bonds
No Other Baby - viper Skiffle Group
Nobody But You - The Lafayettes
Nobody’s Child – Tony Sheridan (by Coben/Foree)
Nothin shakin - Eddie Fontaine
One Track mind - Bobby Lewis
Ooh! My Soul - Little Richard
Open (your loving arms) - Buddy Knox
Over the Raindow - Gene Vincent
Party - Elvis
Peaches and Cream - Larry Williams
Peanut Butter - The Marathons
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Pepermint Twist - Joey Dee
Pick A Bail of Cotton
A Picture of You - Joe Brown
*Pinwheel Twist
Please Don’t Ever Change
Please Mr Postman
Puttin on the Style
Quarter to Three - Gary Bonds
Railroad Bill - Lonnie Donegan
Raining in my heart - Buddy Holly
Ramrod - Duane Eddie
Raunchy - Bill Justis
Ready Teddy - Little Richard
Red sail in the sunset - Joe Turner
Reelin and rocking - Chuck Berry
Reminiscing - Buddy Holly
Rip it Up - Little Richard
Rip It Up/Shake, Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes (medly)
Road Runner - Bo didley
Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
Rock 'n' Roll Music
Rockin' Robin
Roll Over Beethoven
Runaway - Del shannon
San Fransisco Bay Blues - Ramblin Jack Elliot
Save the last dance for me - The Drifters
Say Mama - Gene Vincent
Searchin - Coasters
Send me some lovin' - Little Richard
September in the rain - Dinah Washington
September Song - Johnny ray
Shakin All Over - Johnny Kidd
Sharing You - Bobby Vee
Sheik Of Araby - Joe Brown
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Shimmy Shimmy - Bobby Freeman
Shine
Short Fat Fanny - Larry Williams
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues - Arthur Alexander
Shout - Isley brothers
So How Come (no one loves me) - Every brothers
Soldier of love - Arthur Alexander
*Some Days
Some Other Guy - Ritchie Barrett
Stand by me - Ben e king
Stay - Maurice Williams
Sticks and Stones - Ray Charles
Stuck On You
Summertime - Gene Vincent
Sure to fall – Perkins
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck berry
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby
Talkin Bout You
Teenage Heaven - Eddie Cochran
Tell Me If You Can
Tenessee - Perkins
Tequila - the Champs
That'll be the Day - Buddy Holly
That's Alright Mama
That's An Important Number
That's My Woman
That's when your heartache begins – Elvis
*The One After 909
There's no one in the whole wide world - Jackie Lee
The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In)
The Sheik Of Araby
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
The Years Roll Along
Think It Over - buddy holly
Thirty Days - chuck berry
Three Cool Cats - coasters
Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran
Three-Thirty Blues - Duane Eddie
Till There Was You
*Tip of My Tongue
Thumbin a ride - Coasters
Time - Craig Douglas
Time Will Bring You Everything - Gene Vincent
To Know Her is to Love Her - The Teddy Bears
Tonight is So Right for love – Elvis
Too Bad About Sorrows
Too Much Monkey business - Chuck berry
True Love - Bing Crosby
Turn The Mixers Off
Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran
Twist And Shout
Vacation Time - Chuck Berry
Walk Don't Run - Ventures
Walk Right in - the rooftop singers
Watch Your step - bobby parker
Wayward Wind - Gene Vincent
Wedding Bells - Gene Vincent
Weep No More Baby - Johnny Kid
Wee (Baby Please Don't Go) - The olympics
*Well Darling
What a Crazy World We're Livin in - Joe Brown
What I'd say - Ray Charles
What’s Your Name
When - the Kalin Twins
*When I’m Sixty-Four
When My Little Girl is Smiling - The Drifters
When Your Heartaches Begin
Where Have You Been All My Life
Whole Lotta Shaking Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
Where Have You Been All My Life? - Arthur Alexander
Why
Wild Cat - Gene Vincent
Wild in the Country – Elvis
*Winston’s Walk
Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley
Words of Love – The Crickets
The World is Waiting for The Sunrise - Les Paul and Mary Ford
*World Without Love
Worried Man Blues - Lonnie Donegan
Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
Yakety Yak – Coasters
You Aint No Friend
You Are My Sunshine
You Better Move
You Don't Know What You Got - Ral Donner
You Don't Understand Me - Bobby Freeman
You Just Don’t Understand
You Know I Love You
*You’ll Be Mine
*You're In My Little Book
You Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles
*You Must Write Every Day
You Were Meant for Me - Gene Kelly
Youngblood - The Coasters
Your Feet's Too Big - Fats Waller
Your True Love - Carl Perkins
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Re: Beatle Songs pre-EMI

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Peter.... you sound like you had been there and seen the Beatles in the early days... is that true? If so, can you tell us lots more?

Can you verify that they played "Wooden Heart" and "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah"?
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