The Beatles Deccagone Collection of Rare 45's

	£		90
	$		107

On January 1st 1962, The Beatles recorded 15 tracks at the Decca studios for their first English record company audition. In 1976 a series of unofficial singles came out on wonderful coloured vinyl with some very nice picture sleeves.

The Deccagone singles featured in this collection consist of:

A: Three Cool Cats
B: Hello Little Girl     On Yellow vinyl 

A: Shiek Of Araby
B: September In The Rain    On Yellow vinyl

A: Memphis
B: Love Of The Loved  On Green Vinyl

A: Searchin'
B: Like Dreamers Do    On Red Vinyl

A: Sure To Fall
B: Money           On CLEAR vinyl

A: To Know Him Is To Love Him
B: Besame Mucho      On  Yellow vinyl

"By Royal Command" EP

A:From Me To You
    She Loves You

B:Till There Was You
    Twist And Shout

The EP "By Royal Command" has the live concert of 4th November 1963 which includes John's legendary "rattle your jewellery" quote. It came in a very similar picture sleeve to the other Deccagone singles and  is on clear vinyl.

How Do You Do it/Revolution

The How Do You Do it/Revolution (rare live version with the  "shoo-bee-do-wah" backing vocals) single SOK 21 is on Blue vinyl. It also features a great looking picture sleeve.

This single came out at the same time as the Deccagone singles, and was in the same style of pressing, so I have included it with this little collection. It was pressed as a special souvenir for those attending the 3rd annual convention of Beatles fans mystery tour 1976, and came in five different colour vinyls. This one is on Blue vinyl, but they are also available in yellow, green, red and clear vinyl versions.

The label says: Strawberry Fields Forever presents a special souvenir record. Celebrating the third annual convention of Beatle Fans Mystery Tour 76 - Boston July/Aug 1976.

Side 1:  How Do You Do It (Murray) Recorded In England 1962   1976 SFF/SOK Productions (Mono)  1:57

Side 2: Revolution From The Original Soundtrack (Lennon-McCartney) Recorded In England 1968   1976 SFF/SOK Productions (Mono)   3:27

The very last single featured in this rare little collection is entitled:

 Beatles Interview: Meet The Beatles, January 1964. T-2047

The label reads Capitol 33 Compact. NB THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL RELEASE but appears to be a faithful reproduction.

Side 1 runs in at 6:08 PRO 2548 and contains the interview and fades out with " I Want to Hold Your Hand"

Side 2 runs in at 2:11 PRO 2549 and features "This Boy" (ASCAP) 2:11 and "It Won't Be Long" (ASCAP) 2:11

It also says on both sides: Especially prepared for Radio & TV programming use - Not For Sale

ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW ON THIS RECORD:

To promote the Meet The Beatles album and their upcoming first American visit, Capitol Records conducted the following interview with the Beatles. Discs of the recorded interview were then sent to American radio stations.

It was created to be an 'Open-end' interview, meaning that once the interview was recorded, the questions were edited out so that local disc jockeys could read scripted questions along with the recording to sound as if they were personally conducting the interview.

This promotional disc also contains 3 tracks from the album, This Boy, It Won't Be Long, and I Want To Hold Your Hand. This is quite an unusual disc as on the reverse of the cover is the actual script. So you too can interview the Beatles!!!

For many years, the musical portions of this disc have been identified as "ping-pong" mixes, taking on a kind of "rarity" status. Under further examination, these turn out not to be special mixes of any kind, but the result of a mastering error at the Capitol plant. It sounds as though a mono signal was being fed to the stereo cutting head, passing through a stereo compressor which had different attack and release settings in each channel. This resulted in random, asynchronous pumping and breathing in the left and right. The stamper was mastered this way, and all copies of the record sound the same.

All the singles/sleeves are in very good condition,given that they are 37 years old. I aquired them in the early 1980's, and since I have owned them, they have ony been played a few times, as they were recorded onto tape, and then placed into protective covers and stored in a singles 45 hard wood case. 

Over the years all of the above material has been released on various CD's, but for those of you who LOVE good old fashioned vinyl, and in this case some lovely coloured vinyl too, this would make an EXCELLENT addition to any BEATLES COLLECTION or a GREAT present for that Beatles NUT in your life! 

Dont miss out!!!

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