The Beatles...The Savage Young Beatles...Pete Best pre Ringo, Orig. LP
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This is The Beatles...The Savage Young Beatles...Savage Records BM 69 Mono LP 1968
This is the original hard thick vinyl pressing...NOT a Bootleg...
Cover: VG- with split seams..see pic
Vinyl: VG to almost VG+ with some light surface scratches...New Gloss..Plays and sounds Great...
Tracks include: see cover Pic...
Some info on this rare early beatles recordings.....(info taken from a fellow ebayer's reference)
Any serious collector of the American Beatles catalog will tell you that it still qualifies as a collector’s item. The (original) Savage Young Beatles was issued in the early fall (most likely October) 1965 in the U.S. The album contains four songs that The Beatles recorded with English singer/guitarist Tony Sheridan in Hamburg, Germany. These are filled in with 4 additional songs with Tony Sheridan’s vocals.
“Cry For A Shadow” is performed by The Beatles with Pete Best on drums. It holds the distinction as being the only song with the composition credits of Lennon/Harrison. Track 3 on side 1 is also known with the title “Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby” and along with tracks 1 and 4 on side 2 feature The Beatles with Pete Best on drums backing Tony Sheridan on vocals. The other tracks include Tony Sheridan on vocals/guitar but no work by The Beatles.
The record was released by Savage Records and was the first release by that label. Savage did not even hold the rights to any of the recordings, which in America were covered under leasing agreements with Polydor to labels MGM and Atco. The photograph shown on the front cover, taken on December 17, 1961 came from the group’s first photo session arranged by their recently hired manager Brian Epstein, who at this point, has not yet persuaded them to give up the leather.
Although Capitol Records in America did not hold the rights to these recordings any more than Savage did, they were still upset over the release of this album. One reason was because there was an understanding between them, MGM and Atco to not include photos of The Beatles with records containing these Hamburg recordings. MGM, Atco or Polydor (the company they were leasing the rights from) did not use photos of The Beatles and did not transfer any such privilege to companies it was leasing to, but yet here was a company that used both the photo and music without any authorization. Capitol’s legal department even directed their quality control section to investigate who manufactured the vinyl records and jackets, however no action was ever taken against Savage.
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