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The original safety master tape the group recorded at Decca's London studios was auctioned by the Fame Bureau in December 2012 to a Japanese collector for £35,000. A spokesman for the auctioneers said at the time, "The tape went to a Capitol Records executive after the Beatles signed with EMI.
Other high prices for obscure Beatles-related tapes include The Silver Beatles' Decca audition tape, which fetched £35,000 at auction, [14] and $30,000 at Bonhams in 2008 for a recording of John Lennon singing at a party in 1973. [15] The Beatles' "Till There Was You" 10-inch acetate sold in March 2016 for £77,500, according to Record ...
1914 advertisement for Decca Dulcephone. The origins of the Decca Record Company were not in making records but in making the gramophones on which to play them. Shortly before the First World War the first Decca product was offered to the public: the "Decca Dulcephone" a portable gramophone, retailing at two guineas (£2.10 in decimal currency, and equivalent to about £250 in 2023 terms).
The Beatles' international discography is more complicated due to different versions of their albums sometimes being released in other countries, particularly during their early years on Capitol Records in North America. Prior to 1967, it was common practice for British releases to be reconfigured for the American market.
Beatles for Sale (1964) Lennon initially wrote “No Reply” for Tommy Quickly, a singer managed by Brian Epstein. Quickly, who’d retire from the music industry in 1965, didn’t release the song.
On New Year's Day, the Beatles recorded an audition for Decca Records in London at around 11am. They likely performed only one take of each song with no overdubbing . The Beatles did not pass the audition, but their manager, Brian Epstein , kept the reel-to-reel tapes to present to other record producers.
Beatles for Sale: Lennon McCartney Lennon (with McCartney) 1964 [61] "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" The Beatles ("White Album") Lennon McCartney Lennon 1968 [62] "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" Beatles for Sale: Carl Perkins † Harrison 1964 [61] "Fixing a Hole" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Lennon ...
MGM Records and Atco Records also secured rights to the Beatles' early Tony Sheridan-era recordings and had minor hits with "My Bonnie" and "Ain't She Sweet". These record releases led to a new dimension of chart success for the Beatles, and they held the top five positions on the Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart [ 12 ] and the Cashbox magazine ...