TONY SHERIDAN & BEAT BROTHERS ( BEATLES) MY BONNIE LP

	£		258
	$		341

TONY SHERIDAN & BEAT BROTHERS - MY BONNIE 12 TRACK LP *** MEGA-RARE ***. THE BEAT BROTHERS FOR SOME OF THESE TRACKS WERE ... YOU GUESSED IT ... PAUL MCCARTNEY, GEORGE HARRISON, JOHN LENNON AND PETE BEST. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL GERMAN POLYDOR 'SCROLL' LABEL. I'VE NOT SEEN ONE OF THESE ON EBAY AND ONLY 1 ON GEMM WHICH SOLD FOR $500. AS FAR AS I'M AWARE THIS ALBUM WAS ONLY ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN GERMANY - NOT THE UK.  

POLYDOR (GERMAN) LPHM 46612, MONO  

THIS IS A WELL PLAYED COPY WITH SEVERAL SCRATCHES ON EACH SIDE. TRACK 1 SIDE 1 HAS VERY BAD HISS FOR THE FIRST THIRD OF THE TRACK SPOILING IT, IT THEN LESSENS, IT ALSO JUMPS TWICE. TRACK 3 SIDE 2 HAS ONE JUMP. THE REST OF THE ALBUM IS PERFECTLY LISTENABLE, SURFACE NOISE NOTICABLE BETWEEN TRACKS AND ON QUIETER SECTIONS. THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A TRUE PIECE OF BEAT (AND BEATLES) HISTORY. IF YOU CAN LIVE WITH THE 1 JUMP ON LET'S TWIST AGAIN 11 OF THE 12 TRACKS ARE PERFECTLY ENJOYABLE. THE ALBUM IS JUST FULL OF RAW ENERGY - BOTH THE TRACKS WITH AND WITHOUT THE BEATLES. SLEEVE IS ONLY FAIR, WITH THE SPINE PARTLY SPLIT AND THE TOP EDGE HAS A 2" SPLIT. HOWEVER IT IS COMPLETE, HAS NO GRAFFITI AND ALL INFORMATION IS PERFECTLY CLEAR - SEE PHOTOS

HERE'S SOME MORE INFO COURTESY OF AMG:

 With his 1961 recording of "My Bonnie," Tony Sheridan forever secured rock & roll immortality; while the song was certainly a respectable hit during its heyday, its place in music history is instead assured as the first studio session to feature the Beatles. Anthony Sheridan McGinnity was born in Norwich, England on May 21, 1940; he formed his first band, the Saints, at the age of 15 before relocating to London a few years later. In 1959, he joined Vince Taylor and the Playboys, one of the most popular of the many British groups which rose to fame on the decadent Hamburg, Germany club scene; over time, the band evolved into a new unit called the Beat Brothers, originally featuring Sheridan on vocals and guitar backed by guitarists Ken Packwood and Rick Richards, bassist Colin Melander, keyboardist Ian Hines and drummer Jimmy Doyle.

The Beat Brothers' lineup was notoriously nebulous, and among the various musicians which briefly passed through their ranks were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best; it was this early incarnation of the Beatles which backed Sheridan in mid-1961 on at least three tracks — "My Bonnie," "The Saints" and "Why (Can't You Love Me Again)." (Much of the information about the sessions remain murky, based on memory and conjecture; the true circumstances will likely never be definitively determined, although it is also widely agreed that the same date generated "Ain't She Sweet," sung by Lennon, as well as the instrumental "Cry for a Shadow.") "My Bonnie" sold some 100,000 copies and reached the West German Top Five; it was creditied to Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers as a result of label fears that "Beatles" bore too much similarity to the German word "peedles" — slang for the male organ.

In April 1962, the Beatles also joined Sheridan for a performance at the Hamburg Star Club; two more tracks, "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Swanee River," are believed to have been recorded at that time. (Again, conclusive proof is lacking.) By this time, Sheridan was fronting a new group called the Tony Sheridan Quartet; at one point, their ranks included drummer (and future Beatle) Ringo Starr. By 1964, Sheridan had joined the Bobb Patrick Big Six, but by now the Hamburg beat craze was dying; at that juncture he journeyed to Vietnam to play U.S. army bases. When he returned to Hamburg in 1968, he remained a cult hero, and played a number of triumphant live dates before gradually retiring from show business. Years later Sheridan converted to the Sannyasin religion, rechristening himself Swami Probhu Sharan and settling in Germany — a footnote in rock history, to be sure, but an important and enduring one.

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