The Beatles - Christie's Auction Acetate

From Christie's Auction House catalog.

THE BEATLES A rare double-sided acetate of The Beatles performing live at The Cavern, the acetate for Some Other Guy/Kansas City, Emidisc white label inscribed with the song titles and additional information including Recorded By Granada T.V. and The Beatles, The Cavern Club Liverpool, 5-9-62 - the two songs taped at a lunchtime session on 22 August 1962 by a Granada T.V. film unit for the purpose of a T.V. broadcast, the first time that The Beatles had been filmed by a televison crew:

This recording of Some Other Guy is different from the one which accompanies the well-known Granada T.V. footage and also different from the one alternative version previously known to exist - in this version, following their introduction by Cavern D.J. Bob Wooler, the Beatles launch into a spirited rendition of their R&B song, but one they are apparantly unhappy with, for at its conclusion John Lennon announces We'll probably have to do it again;

The film footage accompanying Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey was of such poor quality that it was deemed unfit for broadcast and was junked soon afterwards; it has long been documented that the Beatles recorded this second song but this is the first time that the recording has come to light; - as the film itself no longer exists for Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey or for this version of Some Other Guy, this acetate is likely to be the only surviving copy of both these songs - it is also the only known professional recording of The Beatles at the Cavern Club, the famous venue where the group made almost 300 appearances. Sold without copyright.

See Lewisohn (Mark): The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Reed Books, 1992, pp 75-76, 78-79.

Lot Essay

The date on the acetate label appears to refer to the date on which the acetate was cut. Epstein and The Beatles went to the Abbey Road studios on September 4th 1962, for their first proper recording session, taping Love Me Do and How Do You Do It, it is reasonable to assume therefore that Brian Epstein supplied the tape of Some Other Guy and Kansas City at this session and asked E.M.I. to cut this disc the following day along with the acetates cut for the two new songs.

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