- The Rolling Stones at the BBC: 1963 and 1964 (Part 1)
Like The Beatles, the Stones’ early ’60 s gigs were ruined by howling, screaming teenage girls who’d drown out any attempt to record the shows. What exists are – still never officially released – studio sessions the band recorded for broadcast on BBC radio. While the Stones were never as prolific as the Beatles at the BBC, there are some gems.
The Rolling Stones at the BBC: 1963/64
The tracks ‘Memphis Tennessee’, ‘Roll over Beethoven’ and ‘Come on’ were recorded for Saturday Club on September 23rd, 1963 and broadcast on October 26th of that year.
These four songs, ‘Mona’, ‘Route 66’, ‘Cops and robbers’ and ‘You better move on’ were recorded for Blues in Rhythm on March 19th, 1964 and broadcast on May 9th.
‘2120 South Michigan Avenue’ was recorded for Blues in Rhythm on October 8th, 1964 and broadcast on October 31st, while ‘Not fade away’ was recorded for Saturday Club on April 13th, 1964 and broadcast on April 18th.
The final four songs for today, ‘High heeled sneakers’, ‘Little by little’, ‘I just want to make love to you’ and ‘I’m moving on’ were recorded live on the Joe Loss show on April 10th, 1964.
This is only part one, when a few people have left a comment to tell me how lovely the music is, I’ll post part two.
While we’re at it, here’s one of my favourite versions of ‘Not fade away’ by the Scotch Video Tape Skeleton:
Here be the zip file with all tracks…
http://www.divshare.com/download/9563492-f98
Adam
1 Dec 09 at 3:24 pm
Magic stuff – I’ve been on a buzz for early Stones/Beatles after going to an Unseen 1963 photo exhibition just down the road..
http://longpier.blogspot.com/2009/11/feature-southends-unseen-1963.html
Mondo
1 Dec 09 at 6:41 pm
Absolutely fantastic. Takes me back to my youth when the freshness and excitement of the Stones was a revelation
Mike
Mike
2 Dec 09 at 12:27 pm
Glad to have made you happy, part two on its way, probably after Christmas.
Adam
3 Dec 09 at 4:26 pm
Great stuff, love your site. I try to post one peel session a week on my own site as well. You’ve probably got them all yourself but you never know.
Sir Charlie Palmer
5 Dec 09 at 11:29 am
Cheers Sir Charlie, by the way it looks like you’ve saved me a job posting that Crass session, which was one I’d planned to feature soon.
Good work fella.
Adam
5 Dec 09 at 9:47 pm
I’ve said to before and I’ll say it again I love your blog, just gets better every time I drop by.
Keep it up
davidwatts1978
11 Dec 09 at 10:00 pm
Thanks a lot, looks like I’ll have to get started on part two of this collection.
Adam
12 Dec 09 at 9:13 am
Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for a CD of the Stones’ BEEB sessions for an age.
They were good weren’t they?
Eddy
26 Dec 09 at 11:46 pm
Damn, I’ll have to post part two of the collection now I’ve had so many comments.
Adam
28 Dec 09 at 11:23 am
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f98
29 Mar 10 at 3:09 pm
the mundane story of this advert is where an
talking and dancing skeleton explians the
longlife guarantee that makes every recording
god as the first or we will send you a new tape
and years later they did a studie on the longlife guarantee of the high grade qualite and the results were damming it revealed that they started to disintegrate in a long period of time so after
a decade and a half the adverts got witdrawn by the itc for missleading information about the longlife guarantee protection on the scotch vhs tape brand.
frankie smales
(frankie smales tv and movie review uk)
frankie smales
4 Mar 11 at 4:25 am
Thanks Frankie. Didn’t know that.
Adam
18 Mar 11 at 3:52 pm