One of a remarkable nineteen songs recorded for BBC radio on 3 September 1963, the song was also recorded during one of The Beatles’ last Hamburg club appearances and was released in 1977 on the "unofficial" album "The Beatles Live! At The Star-Club, Hamburg." Early live versions included the rising vocal refrain between the introduction and the first verse later live versions omitted the last verse and chorus. The Beatles song with the most recorded versions (thirty-two), it was also released as a single in the US in 1964, reaching number two on the Billboard chart and number one in both Cashbox and Record World. book: Twist And Shout (2:32) INSTRUMENTS PLAYED: JOHN: Rhythm guitar (Rickenbacker 325 '58) and lead vocal PAUL: Bass (Hofner 500/1 '61) and backing vocal GEORGE: Lead guitar (Gretsch Duo Jet) and backing vocal RINGO: Drums (Premier kit)Ĭomposers: Phil Medley and Bert Berns (under the alias "Bert Russell")Ī rock & roll classic, recorded in one take at the end of the day-long sessions for "Please Please Me". Part of a rehearsal take of "12 Bar Original" survives for the exact same reason and has turned up on bootlegs.įrom My P.N.T.B.P. Even at that point, it was standard procedure to record over rehearsal takes when starting to record the songs proper. On a related note, the vibraphone(?) version of "I'm Only Sleeping" from Anthology 2 only exists because the engineer didn't rewind all the way back to the beginning of the tape when they began recording proper takes.
Starting with the "I Want To Hold Your Hand" single, EMI preserved everything the band recorded, with the odd tape here or there being lost/misfiled or stolen. Otherwise, we probably would have heard a snippet in the Anthology documentary or on last year's "1963 Bootleg Recordings" official release. While it's certainly possible it exists somewhere, it's very doubtful. No such luck for "Twist and Shout" Take 2, unless it was undocumented by EMI staff, which seems unlikely since it wasn't the master take. Things like "How Do You Do It" survived because an acetate disc was made at the time.
The "From Me To You" sessions probably only survived because "One After 909" was recorded at that session and wasn't released-they kept that reel of tape in case they found a use for it later. Same goes for the "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" singles.
In fact, it was gone by 1966 b/c they prepared "fake stereo" versions of the song for the "Collection of Beatles Oldies" album that year while other songs on the album were remixed to true stereo from the master tapes. The "She Loves You" tapes were certainly destroyed which is why no true stereo version has ever been released. The stuff that has made it onto bootleg from those albums only survives because someone at EMI made a copy of a few reels for reference purposes around the time the album was produced, and they survived by accident. Actually, rumor has it that everything from the first two albums that hasn't been bootlegged was destroyed/lost/taped over back in the early 60s, as was EMI policy at the time, so as to reuse expensive recording tape.
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