62) Three-Thirty Blues

The Beatles
Star Club
Hamburg, Germany
December 1962
Three-Thirty Blues

1 Falling In Love Again
2 Twist And Shout (Incomplete)
3 I’m Talking About You
4 Ask Me Why
5 I Remember You (Incomplete)
6 Besame Mucho
7 Long Tall Sally
8 Mr Moonlight
9 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)
10 Chat
11 Road Runner (Warm-Up)
12 Chat
13 A Taste of Honey
14 Money (Tony Sheridan)
15 Sparkling Brown Eyes (King Size Taylor & The Dominos)
16 Lovesick Blues (King Size Taylor & The Dominos)
17 First Taste of Love (King Size Taylor & The Dominos)
18 Dizzy Miss Lizzy (King Size Taylor & The Dominos)
19 Hully Gully (Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers)

The Beatles – London, England (01/01/62)

THE BEATLES
THE DECCA TAPES
The Definitive Edition
January 01, 1962
Decca Studios
West Hampstead, London, England

Remasters Workshop RMW 540

Pitch, level and phase corrected January 14, 2010 from the CD on Masterdisc 005.

OK, Beatle Peetle, this is it! The Decca Tapes…at the honest-to-(insert your favorite deity here) right speed, at last, no foolin’.

Despite what they all said about their Decca Tapes being speed-corrected, they were all wrong. These tracks have always been at the wrong pitch on every single issue – Deccagone, Circuit, Yellow Dog (twice), Vigotone, Masterdisc… but this issue is guaranteed to have these recordings running at A=440 on every track. Each has been played against the grand piano preset on a Korg M50 workstation, and adjusted to match in Adobe Audition 3. Even if the group were not precisely tuned to concert pitch when they played it, they are now. You can play your instrument with all the songs without having to retune or being even a hair sharp or flat.

The source used here is the Masterdisc CD. It sounded the best out of all the other issues, and had no noise reduction, except that it ran a semitone sharp, with some variations. There was a small imbalance in level between channels – that’s fixed. Not a fraction of a second of audio is added or taken away.

Two fixes have been performed. The first note of “Hello Little Girl” ramped down in speed from a higher pitch. That has been straightened out. And the folks at Masterdisc had combined the channels of their tape to mono. This was fine because their playback was in phase to begin with. But on “Searchin'” there were two spots right next to each other where the phase was out for a very short time, as it had the telltale swishing of phase cancellations. Those have been patched with audio from the Vigotone CD “March 5, 1963 plus The Decca Tape.”

That iteration was horribly out of phase due to azimuth misalignment during digital transfer; it was at the wrong speed (which was fixed), and it has a ton of noise reduction applied, which dulled the high end and rolled off the bass. Even after phase correction, it was still brighter in the left and duller in the right, evidence of multiple-generation dubbing on different tape machines. So the two fragments needed for the patches are taken from the left channel, and re-equalized to match the Masterdisc sound as closely as possible. It worked out so well that you’ll never hear it when the patches go by (the patches are less than a second in total).

Barring another issue from even closer to the master, this is about as good as it gets for the Decca Tapes.

Track list:

01 Like Dreamers Do (2:35)
02 Money (That’s What I Want) (2:24)
03 To Know Her Is To Love Her (2:36)
04 Memphis (2:21)
05 ‘Til There Was You 3:01
06 Sure To Fall (In Love With You) (2:05)
07 Besame Mucho (2:40)
08 Love Of The Loved (1:51)
09 Hello Little Girl (1:39)
10 Three Cool Cats (2:24)
11 September In The Rain (1:55)
12 Take Good Care Of My Baby (2:29)
13 Crying, Waiting, Hoping (2:02)
14 The Sheik Of Araby (1:41)
15 Searchin’ (3:05)

Artwork is included.

Please preserve the lossless quality of this material.

Enjoy!

Uploaded to Demonoid on January 14, 2010.

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The Beatles – The Complete Live Collection, Vol. 1 – Star Club

The Beatles
The Complete Live Collection, Vol. 1 – Star Club (FIXED)

Purple Chick in association with DarthDisc
Source: Various Sources > Purple Chick > FLAC > ?? > you

This includes the fixed files
(Disc One Track 19 (7.6 MB)
(Disc Two Tracks 15, 16 (7.9 MB) and 17)

DISC ONE

25(?) December, 1962, Star Club, Hamburg, Germany

1: Be-Bop A-Lula vocal: Fred Fascher (Teichiku + unbooted)
2: I Saw Her Standing There (unbooted)
3: Hallelujah I Love Her So – vocal: Horst Fascher (Teichiku + unbooted)
4: Red Hot – incomplete (unbooted)
5: Sheila (unbooted)
6: Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey (unbooted)
7: Shimmy Like Kate (unbooted)
8: Reminiscing (unbooted)
9: Red Sails In The Sunset (unbooted)
10: Sweet Little Sixteen (unbooted)
11: Roll Over Beethoven (unbooted)
12: A Taste Of Honey – incomplete (unbooted)

13: Ask Me Why (Road Runner + Teichiku)
14: Long Tall Sally (Teichiku)
15: Besame Mucho (Teichiku)
16: Iím Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) – incomplete (Teichiku)
17: Twist And Shout – incomplete (Lingasong + Sony + Batz)
18: Mr. Moonlight (Teichiku + Lingasong)
19: Falling In Love Again (Lingasong + Teichiku + unbooted + Teichiku)
20: Iím Talking About You (Teichiku + Sony + Teichiku)
21: I Remember You (Teichiku + Batz)

DISC TWO

28(?) December, 1962, Star Club, Hamburg, Germany

1: Nothiní Shakiní (But The Leaves On The Trees) – incomplete (Teichiku + unbooted)
2: I Saw Her Standing There (unbooted)
3: To Know Her Is To Love Her (unbooted)
4: Everybodyís Trying To Be My Baby (unbooted)
5: Till There Was You (Third Reich source tape)
6: Where Have You Been All My Life? (Third Reich + Teichiku + Third Reich + unbooted)
7: Lend Me Your Comb (unbooted)
8: Your Feetís Too Big (unbooted)
9: Iím Talking About You (unbooted)
10: A Taste Of Honey (unbooted)
11: Matchbox (unbooted + Third Reich source tape + Teichiku)
12: Little Queenie (Teichiku + Third Reich source tape)
13: Roll Over Beethoven (Third Reich source tape)

31(?) December, 1962, Star Club, Hamburg, Germany

14: Road Runner (Road Runner + Teichiku + Road Runner + unbooted)
15: Hippy Hippy Shake (Teichiku + Batz + fuegoentertainment.net)
16: A Taste Of Honey (fuegoentertainment.net + Road Runner)
17: Money – vocal: Bobby Thompson (poss.) (or Tony Sheridan?) (Road Runner)

Bonus tracks:
King Size Taylor and the Dominos and *Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
31(?) December, 1962 Star Club, Hamburg, Germany

18: Sparkling Brown Eyes – vocal: Keith Hardie (Road Runner)
19: Lovesick Blues – vocal: John Frankland (Road Runner)
20: First Taste Of Love – vocal: Bobby Thompson (Road Runner)
21: Dizzy Miss Lizzy – vocal: Kingsize Taylor (Road Runner)
22: Hully Gully* – vocal: Cliff Bennett (Teichiku)

This release clears up a lot of speculation about the Beatlesí Star Club tapes, thanks to an unedited and unprocessed source tape (for which we cannot thank DarthDisc and the Darthelves enough). Although the recording dates are still guesses, we now know the correct order for about 2/3 of the songs. Even so, the second half of disc one is sequenced based more on smooth transitions than solid setlist information.

We tried to make sure every Star Club sound was accounted for, but not repeated: auditioning many Live At The Star Club CDs and LPS on a number of labels. Even so, we used Darthdiscís unprocessed tape wherever possible. As well as offering upgrades and previously unheard chat Red Hot, though still incomplete, is twice as long as before. ìRed SailsÖî now has an extra verse compared with the released version, while “I Saw Her Standing There” on disc two has an extra guitar solo. Conversely, we removed looped portions of “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down”, “Twist And Shout” and “I Remember You.”

It’s by no means perfect, but itís the best we have at the moment. And it’s the first time we’ve listened to the Star Club tapes in years. Hopefully you’ll gain a new appreciation for these historic recordings as well.

All tracks mono, at the correct speed, and eq’d for the most coherent listening experience. Enjoy!

Here’s why the original updates:

The full third version of “A Taste Of Honey” magically appeared, just after Star Club came out. It turns out that some dialogue that we placed on disc one belongs just before it. So we cut it out of disc one, put it at the end of “Hippy Hippy Shake” and did a minor tweak to “Money” just for the sake of continuity. A change of the info file and inside artwork to reflect this, and we’re all done.