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Rattles Sunshine acetate Decca UK 7inch promo
You can't have Sunshine

Looks EX mint unplayed. Still in the plain white sleeve now somewhat yellowed with age

The Rattles began their career in the same Hamburg scene where many Liverpool based UK rock groups got their start. They met The Beatles in 1962 and played alongside them on three occasions in Germany; at Munich, Essen and Hamburg.

You can’t have sunshine every day

Acetates were almost one-offs – produced at the time of the recording so artiste/ management/ record company could hear how the recording would sound eventually when on record. They are heavy –like 78s – but generally play at 45 rpm like normal 7inch vinyl records


You can listen to online
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaYwl8motbA

Best German rock group of the Sixties. I just found them on You Tube as well as another fine group out of England that I saw on tour with them, Check out the Liverpool Five who went on to emigrate to the US.

A close friend who saw this band touring in Germany and Austria in 1963 with the Liverpool Five turned me on to both groups who now have stuff on You Tube and remastered cds. Wunderbar!!!!!

Quite groovy i like the string sections very eerie.

The Rattles were a rock band from Germany. Their biggest selling record was their 1968 recorded song, "The Witch", which sold over one million copies globally.[1]
 
Career

The Rattles began their career in the same Hamburg scene where many Liverpool based UK rock groups got their start. They met The Beatles in 1962 and played alongside them on three occasions in Germany; at Munich, Essen and Hamburg. In 1968 they recorded "The Witch", written by Hildebrandt, which was a hit in Germany.[1] The group was forced to split up owing to army service and other reasons and a new line-up formed, although Hildebrandt remained as songwriter and record producer.[1] They enjoyed sustained success in their own country through the 1960s, and recorded a new version of "The Witch" in 1970 which became their only international hit.[1]

"The Witch" went Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, in addition to hitting the Top 20 in Austria and on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. By April 1971, it had sold over one million copies, with the Rattles becoming the first German group to ever appear in the U.S. charts.[1]

  Influence

    * Rosetta Stone released a gothic rock cover of "The Witch" in the 90s.

  Members

    * Achim Reichel - vocals, guitar
    * Herbert Hildebrandt - bass
    * Hans Joachim Kreuzfeld - guitar
    * Reinhard "Dickie" Tarrach - drums

(This was the mid 1960s line-up. By the time of "The Witch" they had all left and successively been replaced by other musicians, with Edna Béjarano now being the lead singer.)


Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades. Notable for its development of recording methods (in the United Kingdom) and for the development of original cast albums (in the United States) both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group, which is owned by Vivendi, a media conglomerate headquartered in France.


British Decca had several missed opportunities. In 1960, they refused to release "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ray Peterson and even destroyed thousands of copies of the single. A cover version by Ricky Valance was released by EMI on the Columbia label, and it went to #1 on the British charts for three weeks. In 1962, British Decca executive Dick Rowe turned down a chance to record The Beatles in favour of local beat combo Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. Dick Rowe, head of the pop division, famously told The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein: "We don’t like their sound, and ‘guitar music’ is on the way out" (see The Decca audition). In retrospect this was an historic mistake. Other refusals of note include The Yardbirds and Manfred Mann. However Decca had earlier accepted another Merseyside singer, Billy Fury. Delia Derbyshire, an early pioneer of Electronic Music and one of the founders of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) was refused an interview for a sound engineer's job because Decca would not employ a woman in such a post.

Ironically, the turning down of The Beatles led indirectly to the signing of one of Decca's biggest 1960s artists, The Rolling Stones. Dick Rowe was judging a talent contest with George Harrison, and Harrison mentioned to him that he should take a look at The Stones, whom he had just seen live for the first time a couple of weeks earlier. Rowe saw the Stones, and quickly signed them to a contract. Singer Elkie Brooks recorded a version of the Etta James song "Something Got a Hold on Me", released on Decca in 1964.

British Decca lost a key source for American records when Atlantic Records switched British distribution to Polydor Records in 1966 in order for Atlantic to gain access to British recording artists which they didn't have under Decca distribution.

Staff producer Hugh Mendl (1919-2008) worked for Decca for over 40 years and played a significant role in its success in the popular field from the 1950s to the late 1970s. His first major production credit was pianist Winifred Atwell and he produced "Rock Island Line", the breakthrough skiffle hit for Lonnie Donegan and he is credited as the first executive to spot the potential of singer-actor Tommy Steele. Mendl's other productions included the first album by humorist Ivor Cutler, Who Tore Your Trousers? (1961), Frankie Howerd at The Establishment (1963), a series of recordings with Paddy Roberts (best-known for "The Ballad of Bethnal Green"), numerous "original cast" and soundtrack albums including Oh! What a Lovely War and even an LP record of the 1966 Le Mans 24-hour race, inspired by his life-long passion for motor-racing.

Mendl was a driving force in the establishment of Decca's progressive Deram label, most notably as the executive producer of The Moody Blues' groundbreaking 1967 LP Days of Future Passed. He is credited with battling against Decca's notorious parsimonious treatment of their artists, ensuring that the Moody Blues had the time and resources to develop beyond their beat group origins into progressive rock, and he also used profits for pop sales to cross-subsidise recordings by avant garde jazz artists like John Surman.

Mendl was sidelined by a heart attack in 1979; during his convalescence Sir Edward Lewis died and Decca was taken over by PolyGram, and when he returned to work he discovered that his office had been cleaned out and his diaries -- which would have provided a vital insight into the company's history -- had been thrown away.



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