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“Beautiful Dreamer” live

The early Beatles singing “Beautiful Dreamer” a popular American song, the last known song written by Stephen Foster. It was published posthumously in 1864, the year Foster died.
The video is an edit with the Fabs’ early footage “Some Other Guy” at the Cavern Club

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“Helter Skelter” rare Apple promo

A rare footage showing Paul McCartney singing an acoustic promo for the song “Helter Skelter”

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Summer With The Beatles

A collection of pictures of the Beatles having fun in warm weather….kind of like Summer, no?
Well, to the tune of George Harrison’s “Here Comes The Sun”…

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Rare footage from “Hey Jude” session

This video shows a rare session at the Apple Studios in 1968, when the Beatles were recording “Hey Jude”.

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John Lennon singing “Year Blues” with The Dirty Mac (1968)

The band was called “The Dirty Mac”. With Lennon, Mitch Mitchell (drums), Eric Clapton (guitar) and Keith Richards (bass guitar). Lennon put together the band for The Rolling Stones’ TV special entitled The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Recorded on 11 December 1968, this was the first time that Lennon, who was still with The Beatles, had performed in public without the other Beatles.

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“Please Please Me” in italian by Fausto Leali (1967)

In 1967 italian singer Fausto Leali published a cover of “Please Please Me” with italian lyrics…

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I’ll Be On My Way

“I’ll Be on My Way” is a Lennon/McCartney song, which was first released on 26 April 1963 by Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas as the b-side of their single “Do You Want to Know a Secret?”, a song also written by Lennon/McCartney. The single reached number two in the UK charts while “From Me to You” by The Beatles was occupying the number 1 position. According to John Lennon, the song was mainly written by Paul McCartney: “This was early Paul.”

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The Beatles, 30 July 1968, EMI Studio 2

The date is 30 July 1968 and we find Paul, John and Ringo on piano, acoustic guitar and drums respectively. George spends most of the session in the control room with producer George Martin and engineer Ken Scott.

The video begins with a bizarre clip of a printer spewing out Beatles song titles. The group is then shown running through rehearsal takes of “Hey Jude”, including a brief rendition of “St. Louis Blues”. Following this are portions of take 7 and take 9, ending with Ringo complaining of getting his pants caught in his drum pedal. (John’s answer: “Take ‘em off!”). None of the audio has seen commercial release.

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“Red Sails In The Sunset”

“Red Sails In The Sunset” is a song from “The Beatles Live! At The Star Club, 1962″ album.

“Red Sails in the Sunset” is a popular song. Published in 1935, its music was written by Hugh Williams (pseudonym for Will Grosz) with lyrics by prolific songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. The song was inspired by the “red sails” of Kitty of Coleraine, a yacht Kennedy often saw off the northern coast of Ireland and by his adopted town Portstewart, a seaside resort in County Londonderry.

One of the earliest versions recorded was by Guy Lombardo, done on October 11, 1935. This recording was issued by Decca Records as catalog number 585.

The song was revived by Nat King Cole in 1951. This recording was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 1468. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on July 13, 1951 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at #24.

[Source: Wikipedia]

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Studio Improvisation at Apple Studios

The Beatles Song: “(Studio Improvisation)” From: “Best of Apple Studios 06″

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