RECORDED: 06 March, 1963, 8:00 – 8:45 p.m
TRANSMITTED: 12 March, 1963, 5:00 – 5:29 p.m.
ANNOUNCER: Ray Peters
PRODUCER: Peter Pilbeam
THE TRACKS:
1. Instrumental – The Northern Dance Orchestra
2. MISERY
3. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET
4. PLEASE PLEASE ME
5. Warmed Over Kisses – Ben Richmond
6. Waltz In Jazz Time – The Northern Dance Orchestra
7. Avalon/S.O.S – The Northern Dance Orchestra/The Trad Lads (Fragment)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This was The Beatles’ last appearance on Here We Go.
BONUS POINTS:
This show features the only live audience performance of “Do You Want To Know A Secret”
SOURCE TAPES:
Unlike most Beatles’ BBC sessions, this recording comes directly off an original open-reel copy, via a single generation bump to copy it from the original owner of the tape, who still retains possession of it. As such, you are hearing a second-generation-from-source recording (two analog and two digital generations which don’t count), which is closer to source than any of the released “Beatles at the BBC” recordings. However, the tape is shedding oxide and was poorly spooled.
GRUMPY NOTES:
When I was gathering information about the tape, and who’s dicked around with it since its discovery in 1994… I stumbled upon the liner notes from Great Dane Records, the first ones to get the tape out there. “The tape was salvaged by a recording expert in the UK, who transferred it onto analogue cassette while performing some minor tweaking.” This is why I hate bootleggers… because they think they’re also audio engineers. First of all.. there’s where your hiss is coming from, mostly. Not the source tape, but the shitty cassette bump. Second, there’s no such thing as an “audio expert” who would be fucking stupid enough to master to a cassette tape at 1 7/8ips, with no noise reduction… from a 15ips source. Audio Expert My Ass. Bootlegger with a half-assed cheap cassette deck. That’s the real deal.
OUTCOME: I UN-did this “expert” asshat’s “tweaking”… tried to reduce the noise where possible, and re-edited the other sections of the tape that were discarded by Great Dane Records but obtained by Purple Chick (yeahhh… I know. Don’t go there), and equalized the two recordings before merging them together, so that they, at least, matched, sonically.