RECORDED: 03 September, 1963, 2:00 – 4:30 p.m.
TRANSMITTED: 10 September, 1963, 5:00 – 5:29 p.m.
ANNOUNCER: Rodney Burke
PRODUCER: Ian Grant
GUEST GROUP: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
TRACK LIST:
1. POP GO THE BEATLES
2. TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS
3. TILL THERE WAS YOU
4. A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues – Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
5. Dr. Feelgood – Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
6. LOVE ME DO
7. SHE LOVES YOU
8. I Can Tell – Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
9. I’LL GET YOU
10. A TASTE OF HONEY
11. THE HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE
12. POP GO THE BEATLES
NOTES/SOURCES:
It’s been widely accepted in the bootleg community (yes, that really is a thing) that someone messed up the edits in this program prior to it being aired. Track listings also seem to vary between source tapes ranging from Yellow Dog, Great Dane, Purple Chick (who never seem to get anything right) etc. Liner notes from one source says: “After track 2 Paul announces “Till There Was You”, and it is also listed in the BBC archives. But in fact “Too Much Monkey Business” is followed by “Love Me Do”, and this really seems to be the way the programme ran”. It goes on to say “Also, track 6 is not indicated in the BBC archives. It is very likely that some mistake occurred at the BBC during the preparation of this show”. I call “bullshit”. In 1998, a box of several reels turned up with songs spliced from various BBC performances but with no ID Tags or identifying information regarding the source shows. One of them was an unheard (seemingly) performance of “Till There Was You”. It was put out as a “bonus disc” accompanying a box set some time that year. I’m willing to bet that’s our request from PGTB #13. The production sounds the same as the other tracks.
With or without “Till There Was You”… the whole show seems a little “Paul-Centric, in balance and tone. Producer Ian Grant had an engineer who had overdriven the board, as every available source copy seems to have the same issues, but their copies are recorded fairly nicely at a decent volume. This indicates to me that whoever sat next to Ian Grant didn’t know how to properly record Rock & Roll. The vocal mics seem to be the most distorted. Cleaning this one up was a bit of a challenge. However… I am fairly certain this is the actual, true and correct running order, with Till There Was You added back to the sequence. The tracks have been de-noised as much as possible and re-equalized to a more realistic frequency balance.
Final note: AT LAST!! They had a decent guest group!