The Beatles Decca Audition Tape HD (1962)
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- This was recorded at Decca Studios, London on 1 January 1962 from about 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM. They played songs from their 1961 live setlists, and after Decca rejected the band, their new manager Brian Epstein sent the tape around England.
I’m really glad that Decca didn’t sign them as they wouldn’t have had George Martin as their guide and mentor which together created history 👌
I had never thought of that.
Excellent point!
GM was definitely the 5th Beatle.
Kind of a "meant to be".
Martín no tenía ni idea de rock and roll
Beatles being rejected by Decca was a happy accident. George Martin was very much more receptive to their music style and an excellent mentor for the lot of them. He taught Paul McCartney and they schooled him too. Plus EMI found them to be so hot they were given carte blanche in their recordings. The Beatles ended up producing their own music with GM help.
Similar story is Buddy Holly almost signed with Decca too but they wanted to produce contemporary 1950s music not his style of rock n roll. He quit.
A happy accident put That'll Be The Day on the radio before he signed with a label. Brunswick records owned by Warner Brothers picked him up, but they were over a barrel and he ended up doing much the same thing. Norman Petty was producer but he was allowed to produce his own music.
Some simplification of that ^ , but it's close enough.
@@ghramsey1681 love it, brilliantly put and also the Buddy Holly info 👌
I love Buddy Hollys music and such a young talent when he wrote those beauties. As I understand it he took the plane as the coach provided was really crappy and freezing cold. If only he had been better treated he wouldn’t have taken that plane and who knows what music he might have created.
Decca eventually woke up and signed the stones but the Beatles were where they were meant to be and Buddy Hollys music still lives on.
What is so astonishing is that by this time they were - by far - the best *live* rock and roll band in the world - setting Liverpool, and Hamburg, on fire with their live shows. But for their audition tape they chose the most sedate, middle-of-the-road stuff imaginable. Thank the Lord that they got the chance to play the stuff they were really spectacular at (and that they ended up with George Martin).
I love George's vocals in "Take Good Care Of My Baby".
Me too
And what about his voice in the middle of Three Cool Cats?
@@user-wd6fk4pp4d amazing, indeed!
This band will never get anywhere.
The People That Said That Ended Up Eating Crow.
Guitar-bands are on their way out .
00:00 Besame Mucho
02:40 Take Good Care Of My Baby
05:07 Till There Was You
08:07 Money
10:30 September In The Rain
12:26 Crying, Waiting, Hopping
14:28 Love Of Tne Loved
16:20 Memphis Tennessee
18:40 Sure To Fall (In Love With You)
20:44 To Know Her Is To Love Her
I hope they weren't hopping 😮. +1
@@andrewrobinson2565 lol, pretty sure it’s hoping
😅Que gran día para mi volver a oír estos temas que antes había oído. Gracias gracias.
Qué voz George. Wow. 😂🎉😊😂😊 5:47
Take good care of my bay
Thanks Lucas I like me.
George nailed his vocals at this audition (See "Three Cool Cats" and "Sheik of Araby"). The gritty, rock 'n roll sound in his voice was rarely heard later.
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It’s true… George was the best part of this performance. He sang with confidence while Paul’s voice was a bit high and warbling.
Hey, These guys are pretty good. Let's hope they make it.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to the Decca audition bootlegs since they began to emerge in the 1970’s. Nice job with the stereo separation here. I would love for Peter Jackson to get his hands on these tapes and the Star Club tapes and do his magic.
I wish he would to but then Pete Best would have to be paid royalties and i don't know how complicated that lengthy proposition would take. The idea is tantalizing though!
@@chrisbaker1207if you mean the record on Bellaphone label , " live at the Star Club in Hamburg 1962" ,the drummer is Ringo Starr, by the moment that those songs were recorded in December. I spoke with Pete when he came here in Italy for a short tour ( year 2002) , during the afternoon , before the evening concert . He told me that Ringo was the drummer. Pete gave me the impression of a good and friendly person .Nice guy .
There are many people who don’t like Pete Best. But for over two years, he was there with them.
Sooner or later they were going to break up with Pete Best. He wanted to be different from the three of them. He didn't even accept their haircuts. Look at the picture of him in the front. A foreign body accidentally got into an inappropriate place.
Ringo was chosen by the gods. In every photo, PB looks like a miserably dick
Nobody knew what was brewing inside of these lads with all of their truly amazing songwriting potential....They seemed to have thrived and survived as a group simply on the energy they possessed among themselves...and somehow knowing that it was magical and different above and beyond the norm. As Paul stated in the movie, Eight Days A Week, when Ringo played with them, it was then that they knew they had the magic ingredients as a group for it became a complete and much more powerful musical unit with a more kick-ass and unified rhythmic engine to lift their music up. Paul clearly cited the addition of Ringo as the turning point. Go figure that George Martin signed them wholly on their personalities and not so much on their music. He had an instinct about them and somehow connected with their magic and charisma. What was to be eventually unleashed from them musically and creatively changed the entire world...all for the better.
Well said Scott! George Martin had the foresight to see a diamond on the rough.Decca should have known record companies need to develop artists to find their voice.
Exacto, Martin fue seducido por los Beatles y así le ocurrió a Brian Epstein, no tanto por su música, como bien dices, que en mi opinión era un sonido como de los años 57, lo cual ya era una desventaja. Pero ojo, ahí estaba Pete Best, no Ringo. Que hubiera pasado si ya hubiese estado Ringo en esta época? Epstein o George Martín igual hubiesen sido cautivados por el grupo ? yo opino que no, hubieran sido rechazados, Ringo realmente era muy feo, para los standards de la época y además con un cuerpo defectuoso. Esa es la razón por la que los Beatles conservaron a Pete Best, pero no le señalaban como querían que tocase la batería, así dejaron que siguiera tocando. Y Best pensó que lo estaba haciendo bien. Pero ya tenían pensado traicionarlo en cuanto cosigireran un contrato y de hecho eso lo habían convenido con Ringo en Hamburgo, en donde lo conocieron. Este tocaba con Rory Storm y lo hacía bien, porque era otro nivel musicalmente hablando. Lo que si es increíble como cayeron en las manos de George Martín, con Pete Best, no Ringo. Debemos creer en la suerte o no o en los azahares del destino. Igualmente hubieran triunfado con Best o con Ringo, menos con cualquier otro. Ringo fue el elegido de los dioses. Baterista sin suerte no es baterista. Viva la beatlemania.
Me declaro beatlemaniaco desde que escuche de niño " I want to hold your hand" no tocada por ellos (aparentemente ,) sino por una banda, en una fiesta que había en la casa de " los Monsters ". Seguramente pusieron la grabación de los Beatles. Pero para mí si fue increíble haber escuchado esa melodía. Afortunadamente tengo toda la música de los Beatles, desde que grabaron su primer disco, acompañando a Tony Sheridan, lo que si no se, quien era el que toco la batería en este disco, pero al momento eso ya es irrelevante.
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Simply badass and tight. Sounds so much better than modern cover bands.
You can the exceptional talent and potential.
Grateful by '67 they made Rock music fun, mystical, feeling provoking, cool, magical, paramount, musical, grand, crowd gathering, imaginative, masculine, bloody inspiring.
George's singing sounds better here than it does on the first few Beatles records.
He sounds the best out of the lot.
I think he sounds great here & incredible on those first few Beatles albums
Oh DECCA , WHAT A .ISTAKE TO MAKE
They all sound good. The three of them sang well collectively and individually.
@@mtp4430Too bad that they had to " run" to make the recording of the song list . It would have been so nice to hear Paul on drums with Pete singing " Boys" or " Matchbox" or " Peppermint Twist" , like they used to do during their live performances.
Remember, Decca said Rock music is on the way out. Never give up!
Actually Decca said guitar groups were on the way out and a listen to the songs that were on the radio in 1961 seems to confirm that was true. But as we know things can change and wow did it ever! 😀
That's a rumour. If they mean it, why would they sign the other guitar group instead?
Just think this amazing sound was the start of the best group that has ever existed! Wow I’m in awe, fantastic, I will love them all forever, thank you so much for this video, I love how raw this is and they were so young, bloody brilliant!
Every turn in their incredible assent to unimaginable success was kismet. They knew they had what they needed, but even they could not imagine how their songwriting would develop. The greatest rock band -- ever.
These guys were all in, make it or bust. So much talent, so much jamming and gigging.
Johns vocals in Money are on fire! 🔥
The Tremeloes went on to have a fairly successful career under Decca Records' label. Not sure what happened to the other band that auditioned for them on the same day though. I'm guessing they're long forgotten. Since they probably heeded the message that guitar groups were on the way out.
They look so cool here in leather jackets. And of course they sound Heavenly! 😍🎼🎵🎶🥰
An excellent upload. Nice to hear a "correct speed" offering of the performances, and sounds as if it's from a better audio source than many others, including classic bootlegs and various grey market releases.
I’m happy y’all like it :3
I love this it's unexplainable
All the vocals from George and Paul have a touch of Elvis about them
It must of been tuff for them to be turned down at that time. Thank you deca.
Decca did them a favour, because their combination with George Martin & the freedom he gave them to experiment, was critical to all the success. The Tremeloes were much more polished at that time, & their decision was logical. Thanks to Decca.
These boys had some potential
I bought the Decca Sessions album in the 70s, although it hadn't been "officially" released. You're missing about 5 songs here, which I'm guessing were probably purposely left off since they were the ones that were issued on the Anthology compilation. I've always enjoyed this collection of songs from pre-fame days. Pete Best does an adequate job on the drums, not great of course, but good enough to get the job done.
wish this was on spotify
What's interesting is that from this earliest stage, Paul McCartney is affecting a different vocal personality to each song. Something consistant to today.
61 years ago today, the Beatles auditioned for and were rejected by Decca.
One of the greatest corporate mistakes of all time !
It's pretty obvious why Pete Best got fired when you listen to this, same beat in every song, four to the floor, it's also obvious why they passed. George does a good Buddy Holly imitation in Crying, Waiting, Hoping. His guitar even sounds like Buddy's strat. I'm surprised at how good George's vocals are here and also surprised at how underwhelming the other two are, I've always loved Lennon's voice and lyrics. McCartney sounds like a lounge act.
You guys have become obsessive about Pete Best. He was not that bad and Richard Starkey was not that good. Oh and you never mention some of the dreadful lead work by Harrison on Til there was you.
@@alanholloway1264 Ringo is a great drummer, Pete Best sucked and the lead work is very good on Don't Bother Me especially since the first line is major and the second is minor. OK, your turn. 😂
McCartney was still imitating Elvis here
After listening to this, all I gotta say is that these boys definitely got a future in the rock business, but only IF they change their drummer 😂
It does sound weird without Ringo.
Realy good sound! Never heard it before. 👍
I would have passed. And I’m a Beatle fan.
They simply hadn’t found their formula here. They’re coming across as yet another cover band, with nothing in particular to make them stand out from all the other bands of the same kind. They’re trying to be someone else, and why settle for a copy when you can get the original?
Moral: Trust yourself. Don’t do what you think other people will want.
I agree 200 % ( big fan to)
Marabillosos desde entonces, gracias es un tesoro.
Yesterday! Thanks chaps!
Missing 5 songs from the session, though. "Hello Little Girl", "Like Dreamers Do", "The Sheik Of Araby", "Three Cool Cats" and "Searchin'".
If you played the audition songs that were on Anothology you'd get a copyright strike so likely why they're not here.
Love of the loved is one of the best Beatles songs and the recording of them at the Star Club with Ringo is the better than pretty much anything else they ever did. John Lennon would agree.
Wow! Paul & the rest of the The Beatles sounded great even back then, in 1962!
"Paul & the rest"????? Are you daft?
Some great lead vocals from George Harrison on these tracks!
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And they said Pete couldn't play drums very good. I love the beat on till there was you,
that bass and high hat is Amazing. Good on ya Pete Best. Even though we all love Ringo.
That flat four bass drum though 😮😊.
He's alright, but honestly it doesn't sound right without Ringo to me.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The BEATLES!
_____
Enjoyed it, mucho!
That guy at Decca had ONE job to do.
The guy at Decca at the time was a certain Mr Tony Meehan (ex-Drummer with The Shadows) I would guess he rejected them due the poor standard of Drumming.
There were two bands on the same day on audition. Decca just easily preferred and chose the second band, because they were local. The Tremeloes.
I bought an album called “The Complete Silver Beatles” in 1983. This was a semi-legitimate release on the AudioFidelity Records label. Despite the questionable pedigree of the record company, the album itself was indispensable! The cover art was quite nice, and it had informative liner notes on the back. “Three Cool Cats” was my favorite track, but it’s not in this CZcams clip.
That’s true. ‘Three Cool Cats’ and ‘Like Dreamers Do’ are too copyright-intensive, and would give the video a worldwide block. I’m sorry, that’s just what we have to deal with.
i hope you guys pass the audition!
They don't
With Decca They would just have been the usual three week wonders of the early sixties, George MARTIN made and is THE BEATLES
Easy there Tiger!
Became mucho , I love this song to play , great chords embellishments
Yes it is, Paul and all the vocals are so good. Six months later they would do a slightly different version of this song for George Martin and it was even better, even Pete's drumming was not bad on the EMI version. Such a cool song. 😀
till there was you one f my favorite beatle songs of all time rip jojn and george
Paul sounds scared to death. He mastered Til There Was You lol. Not this day. They have his bass super low. Curious to hear his 61/62 chops! Probably genius even then. They’re non existent on this mix. George sounds great on guitar! John is the f’ing bomb.
This is probably the kinda sound we’d have got with Decca. Cleaned up and polished but…that. Took Abbey Road and Sir George to produce them the right way! (Thank freaking God🙏)
Cha Cha Boom!
Love this Beatles version!!
They look like they just walked out of Westside Story :-).
The raw talent is certainly there, but what a difference producers and marketing make!
The suits at Decca stood in a circle and repeatedly kicked each other in their respective rears for taking a pass on this little combo. The then leapt at the chance to sign that little band that played down at the Richmond Hotel. Now what were they called? Oh yea, The Rolling Stones.
Wasn't this pre-Ringo? They sound like a good usual group. But there is something "thin" or flat about their sound.
I never really appreciated how much of different sound was Ringo. To me the Beatles post-Ringo sounded 3-D instead. And gave them their unique sound. Ringo provided a presence where the genius of the other three could emerge.
Yes it was pre Ringo, Pete Best was the drummer on the Decca audition.
The famous driving beat. Pedestrian.
And Pete was also the drummer six months later at the EMI audition.
The recording and mixing probably had a lot to do with it sounding “3 D” and such, don’t you think?
Now this is the Beatles !!
Thank God for the fifth Beatle George Martin
I love their cover of the song "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" sung by George at 12:27.
I initially listened to this Memphis, and subsequently, I became aware that this song is an original composition by Chuck Berry.
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The reason they were rejected is obvious. These are all well established songs - not badly played but nothing original here at all. I don't see why the record company should think it was a mistake to reject them as they were just competently playing current songs by Bobby Vee etc. How would anyone be aware that they were in any way creative? Very bad management decision to record this stuff. They should have been doing things like The One After The Nine O Nine which they had already written years before.
There were three original songs in this performance; Like Dreamers Do, Hello Little Girl, and Love of the Loved. The first two are heavily copyright-protected, and therefore cannot be included in the upload. Love of the Loved is indeed not a great song, which may be why it’s not heavily copyright-protected. Also, it should be noted that it was common to do this type of audition at the time to show the label what the band’s breadth was, with one or two originals thrown in in-case they got signed for a single. Bands were not yet largely considered creative forces in-and-of themselves, and Decca at the time often preferred to supply its own bands with staff writers (EMI too). The bands themselves were considered workers who did what the label told them.
Everyone did covers in those days. Tin Pan Alley wrote them and "gave" them to artists (listen to David Bowie on what happened when they hired him to translate French songs). Then the Beatles changed all that.
@@Songbirdstress There were people already writing their own stuff Billy Fury, Bruce Welch, Marty Wilde, Tommy Steel.
OMG This is the first time hearing The Beatles Decca Audition tapes. I've always heard that quote about Decca turning down the Beatles for a record deal and thought it was pathetic on Decca's part. But HOLY CRAP, if I were in charge of Decca at that time and heard this, I'd turn them down to. This sould like a million other bad audition tapes that record companies had to listen to and it's HORRIBLE. Hey, I bough EVERY Beatles album as they came out and was and am a huge Beatles fan, but let's be honest, this really SUCKS.
Treasure audition tapes!!!
"Sorry, we don't see any future in signing you to our label. Better luck next time. Now BEAT IT!"
I wonder what became of Harrison's Selmer Truvoice and Lennon's Fender Tweed Vibrolux amplifiers shown in this photo? They may have been traded in when they got their first Vox amps. Their singing voices were pretty good on this audition, but their playing left something to be desired.
All good points, but I can’t help noticing the nod to Elvis evident. A little Everlies too. Just interesting how they leaned at that point.
You know, when I hear this while trying to eliminate my bias, I hear a very competent band, but not a great band. They seemed to be mimicking styles that were then popular (including some Buddy Holly!), but didn't put much of themselves into it. I know from other videos that George could really rock at this time, but the tape didn't show it.
I had no idea that there were this many songs on the Beatles audition. They basically recorded an entire album. Maybe they were rejected because it's all covers instead of their original songs?
Actually there were a couple original songs as well, which CZcams copyright blocks so they can’t be added here; Like Dreamers Do & Hello Little Girl
"guitar bands are on the way out"
Johns voice on “that’s what i want” wow
Cha-Cha-Boom ... ¡Los Beatles para siempre!
Random (and useless) fact time...As far as I know, the only tune that both the Beatles and the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins played is the ballad "Till There was You", written by Meredith Wilson. A corny little song but I like it anyway. I am a huge fan of both Sonny Rollins and the Beatles for entirely different reasons. The Sonny Rollins version is on the 1958 album "Freedom Suite" for those of you who wish to hear it.
I can tell Paul practiced his ass off for this audition
I didn’t think these recordings would have done good. I see why they were rejected.
Besame mucho
Take good care of my Baby
Till there was you
Money
September in the rain
Crying, waiting, hoping
Love of the loved
Memphis Tennessee
Sure to fall
To know her Is to love her
I think i would have signed them based on John’s voice in “Memphis, Tennessee”
The Beatles sounded so average until Ringo came and took up a notch or two...or 11
Ringo was overrated.
And they were better recorded and produced.
So weird that even the experts in their field like Dick Rowe made such a huge mistake. Not only was this a win for George Martin but a win for the world.
They did a pretty good version of Buddy Holly's "Crying, waiting, hoping" ironically Buddy didn't have a successful audition at Decca either!
The beatles the real ones great.
“Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr. Epstein,”
Rumour.
Lojequerido conseguir en LP vivan los Beatles!!!!!!
I guess they got rejected because it wasn't original material, but it's still very charming and beautifully performed. It's odd that they overlooked that. Were there really better bands walking around back then..?
I'm not sure about that, since Decca accepted The Rolling Stones as a band despite the fact that they had no original material. It was all covers of songs by people like Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry.
It was Epstein taking this acetate to E.M.I. to make a copy of this and according to Mark asking Brian about the songs the engineer did not know and Brian explaining that they wrote the songs that got E.M.I. Interested
No bands had original material in those days. Decca passed because they were simply unimpressed. (In fact a couple of the tracks were their own compositions, but they weren't terrific songs.) The Beatles had to play the session with equipment provided by the studio, and by all accounts just never got going.
The other band was local to London. Not a group of Scoucers. Based their pick on that.
That's the point. The Tremeloes were local, The Beatles weren't.
Good Band! I think they will be great 😂
They hadn't quite found their own voice yet
interestingly, I can't even hear the drums....they are so in the background -- no cymbals -- no emotional fills.
They can play better here than many established modern bands can today. Not a good drum sound though.....
As stated by so many, you can hear the potential. Decca the dumkofs.
OMG This is the first time hearing The Beatles Decca Audition tapes. I've always heard that quote about Decca turning down the Beatles for a record deal and thought it was pathetic on Decca's part. But HOLY CRAP, if I were in charge of Decca at that time and heard this, I'd turn them down to. This sould like a million other bad audition tapes that record companies had to listen to and it's HORRIBLE. Hey, I bough EVERY Beatles album as they came out and was and am a huge Beatles fan, but let's be honest, this really SUCKS.
SE OS BEATLES FOSSEM APROVADOS PELA DECCA NUNCA SERIAM OS BEATLES QUE MUDARAM A HISTÓRIA DA MÚSICA, POIS NAO TERIAM CONHECIDO O GÊNIO QUE OS DISCÍPULOU CHAMADO GEORGE MARTIN
jeff lynn sound sharpen that Take Good Care of My Baby up and make a single out it.
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In several places it almost sounds like Elvis.
And they wouldn't have had Ringo sorry Pete
IMHO the Beatles were much better at the rockin' numbers (Money, Twist & Shout, etc) than the slow romantic ballads sung by Paul.
Odd song selections knowing what we know now. Besame Mucho ..😮 and Till there was you? They picked the wrong songs.
To some extent, I think they picked songs based on Pete’s drumming strengths, which are different from Ringo Starr’s strengths. If I’m not mistaken, they pretty much dropped Besame Mucho after Starr officially joined the band.
Maybe that's why they played it with Ringo in Hamburg in December 1962.
Not enough original material. McCartney had pressed the point with Lennon years earlier that they needed to write and perform their own stuff to set themselves apart.
no wonder decca declined to sign them, it sucks.
George is really struggling on lead guitar.
I get it…
Amazing how bored Pete Best looked in this picture. They sound so american!
But one could hear the diamond underneath. Paul and John's voice is so beautiful. George so sweet. I love them.!