Beatles TRIVIA

[gregga41]

Close Its was AlaN White

Already corrected...i knew i was right!

[brammy]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... tQO8pu31Ag
( listen to "Recording "Love Me Do" with the Beatles" )
"Andy White is perhaps best known for the few recordings he did with an obscure group called "the Beatles." His peerless abilty to hold time and provide a solid beat made him a drummer to whom producers felt they could turn when they needed a dependable performer. Andy is the drummer on the best-known version of the Beatles first hit, "Love Me Do." (Ringo plays tambourine.) But he also appears on recordings by Tom Jones ("It's Not Unusual") and other performers."

Andy White lives in West Orange, NJ

He also played on "P.S. I Love You"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.S._I_Lov ... tles_song)

The drummer for the Vic Lewis Orchestra was Andy White who later (as a session musician) played drums on the released version of "Love Me Do"

[brammy]

I guess a SUPER-trivia question would be "what was the name on the side of the
flatbed truck at the at Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, Liverpool, Saturday July 6th, 1957."

[brammy]

With CLARENCE 'THE FROGMAN' HENRY

[tallpat1]

Kent, that is some awesome trivia, You have a fine collection of obscure Beatles artifacts. The Quarrymen played at 4:15 pm and again at 5:45 pm that day How cool is that !

[brammy]

thanks..... it's all just stuff from internet surfing.
Now if I could only get my time machine to work!

Children enjoying the fete that day.

The Church hall where John and Paul met that evening.

A contemporary photo inside the hall.

The same view with the stage set up.

http://www.beatlesource.com/bs/audio/xQ ... eStyle.mp3
http://www.beatlesource.com/bs/audio/xQ ... yHouse.mp3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/wel ... ?select=03

[brammy]

HDN Hotel

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=40244

[brammy]

TRIVIA QUESTION: What was the first Beatles original the band ever played live? Where? When?

[jimk]

I'll take a stab at it. My guess is "Cry for a Shadow" at the Cavern Club in 1960.

JimK

[brammy]

Good guess.... according to "The Beatles: The True Beginnings by Roag Best with Pete and Rory Best" (p. 136) it was Cry for a Shadow played at St. John's Hall on July 13, 1961. This was their first show for Mo Best's "Casbah Productions".

HOWEVER, The Beatles recorded the song in Hamburg 3 weeks earlier on or about June 22-23 (Lewisohn), so it seems pretty unlikely that they never had played the song live in Germany (April 1 through July 1).

"In Hamburg we had to play so long, we actually used to play Apache... But John and I were just bullshitting one day, and he had this new little Rickenbacker with with a funny kind of wobble bar on it. And he started playing that off, and I just came in, and we made it up right on the spot."
George Harrison. Guitar Player magazine, 1987

RickResource http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/lennon325.html says that Lennon purchased the 325 in 1960, so given what George says, it's even MORE likely that "Cry for a Shadow was written soon after the purchase, or during the winter of 60-61. According to Lewisohn, The Beatles played 46 separate gigs in the first 3 months of 1961 prior to leaving for Germany. Given that, I think that it's certainly possible that the song was played during that time.

Looks like Roag Best got this one wrong..... otherwise, its a great book and a "must have" for everyone on the planet.

1960. John Lennon in Hamburg on a fairground, near the Reeperbahn,
called "Heiligengeistfeld". His guitar is still unmodified. This was taken
during the Oct 4 - Nov 30 1960 Hamburg stay.

[beatlefreak]

Who played drums on the first recording of Love me do? Hint it was not Ringo or Pete Best.

I wanted to clear up a point or two about this question. The first recorded version of LMD was performed by Pete Best on June 6, 1962, as Ringo had not yet been asked to join the group. This was the Beatles first recording session for EMI, and it's unclear as to whether it was an audition, a recording test or a proper session. This version was unused, but has surfaced on Anthology 1.

The second recorded version was done on September 4, 1962, and was played by Ringo. This was the version used for initial release of their first UK single, so it is also the first released version of the song. Re-releases of the single switched over to the Andy White version of the song. For years, initial release copies of LMD (on the red Parlophone label) were quite the collector's item, as it was the only place to find the song with Ringo on drums. In 1980, Capitol issued the Rarities album, which finally gave the world the Ringo version.

The Beatles returned to the studio a week later on September 11 and re-recorded the song, this time with Andy White on drums (Ringo played tambourine). this is the version most people are familiar with, used for the Please Please Me album, subsequent releases of the single, and all releases around the world.

Of the two versions of LMD, the easiest way to tell them apart is the tambourine.

[brammy]

Excellent point.... and on that June version of LMD I think we can all hear what George Martin was hearing when he concluded that he wanted a studio drummer for their actual recordings..... especially Pete's ham-handed transition at about 1:41 where he speeds up then slows down.

[brammy]

Another entertaining one

At 0:40 where Paul answers "I haven't got one" .... its hard to hear, but what is the question??

[beatlefreak]

Paul was complaining that the middle part of The One After 909 was hard to play (due to the fast strumming). John asked him, 'Why don't you use a plectrum (pick)?" Paul replied, "I haven't got one".

[brammy]

"plectrum" ??? Thats a new one on me.

plec·trum (plek'trum) n., pl. plec·trums or plec·tra. A small thin piece of metal, plastic, bone, or similar material, used to pluck the strings of certain instruments, such as the guitar or lute.

Strange that Paul would have one, eh?