Lost Decca Sessions | 
| Creators: The Beatles With Pete Best, The Beatles
Label: Recall Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $9.97
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 2983
Format: Special Edition, Original Recording Remastered, Collector's Edition
Media: Audio CD
UPC: 634479568718
EAN: 0634479568718
ASIN: B000VJ3BYC
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Product Description
Authorized Lost Decca Sessions cd's are only available from Recall Records. 1. Money 2. The Shiek of Araby 3. Memphis 4. Three Cool Cats 5. Sure To Fall 6. Take Good Care Of My Baby 7. September In The Rain 8. 'Till There Was You 9. Crying, Waiting, Hoping 10. To Know Her Is To Love Her 11. Besame Mucho 12. Searchin' 13. Like Dreamers Do 14. Hello Little Girl 15. Love Of The Loved
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Caveat Emptor January 4, 2008
Timothy Schubert (Chicago,IL USA)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
For what this is,the item description says it all.If you are a Beatles fanatic,this is a must have.If you aren't,beware.Anyone who is used to hearing studio master quality,this is not it.While the songs have been cleaned up compared to the worst bootleg versions,they are not really very high quality.That's the down side.The up side is that this is the first CD I have ever seen with the entire Decca session recordings.I have heard all of these recordings on various bootlegs over the years and almost all of them have appeared in better sound somewhere,but,in order to get all of those better sounding versions,you would have to track down at least a half dozen different CD's and drop over a hundred dollars.So,if all you want is the complete Decca session,this is your best choice.
 BEATLES LOST DECCA SESSIONS FOUND !!!! September 17, 2007
Raymond R. Klotkowski (Seattle Area)
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
Through the years, we've heard snippets of these songs, many of which were often scratchy renditions. Not anymore. Recall Records (www.beatles-lost-decca-sessions.com) has removed most of the unwanted noise from songs that were only available on bootlegs and and as a single issue here and there, including the Anthology I recordings.
All 15 songs come presented on colourful cd's, which are sure to become collectors items. Anyone who has seen my reviews knows that when I say "collector's items"--- I mean it. I haven't seen these songs in one place, on one cd, anywhere else, not even Russia's CDMaximum have got these in their entirety !!
Now the collection is really complete, starting with the songs that Brian Epstein hand carried all over England in search of a recording contract for the Beatles, in the days before Ringo Starr. John, Paul, and George sing their early material, together, clearly, for the first time. My initial favourite from the get go was cut #8...'Til There Was You,' sung by Paul McCartney as it first sounded prior to it's offical release in 1963 on the U.S."With The Beatles."
Other songs include George Harrison's singing 'Take Good Care of My Baby", John Lennon on 'To Know Her is to Love Her' and both Paul McCartney and John Lennon teaming up on 'Hello Little Girl' and 'Sure to Fall'. Pete Best, still touring as I write this, is featured on the cd as the Beatles drummer.
I have to admit that some of the songs get into your head and still cause your foot to tap, even if the cd is no longer playing. Depending upon the quality of the device you'll be using to reproduce the sound, little bits come out that haven't been heard this bright in many, many years. Very little track noise can be heard and none of it will take away from the songs, at all. I am really impressed with this package and I am very glad to have it to complete a collection in one cd where once I had to search all over to get them, and put up with poor quality to boot. No more having to buy a record player and a small fortune for needles wasted on tracks that were deteriorating in the first place.
When they are gone, they're gone, as I like to say....
 True stuff November 16, 2007
whtva
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
You have to be a nut like I am about the Beatles to buy and enjoy this, but I have been very pleasantly surprised to find this album is exactly what it claims to be - the Decca sessions. This is the raw stuff, Decca's big, historic Mistake (not signing the Beatles). There are no originals (Lennon-McCartney) here, and the songs are not something that anyone but an enthusiast will enjoy, compared to the Beatles' later work. But this is the real deal - the first studio recordings by the band alone (not backing Tony Sheridan). Best, the sound quality is just fine.
I don't know how this small company got the rights to market these recordings as they say they the do, but this album is a very pleasant surprise and a happy addition to a collector's pile.
There are many, many moments of musical interest, starting with the clear but raw sound here - the boys played poor quality instruments, you can hear it -- they were just poor kids, banging their hearts out - continuing with - sorry Pete Best fans - how poor a drummer Pete Best was (compare these versions with the now-available BBC versions of the same covers to see how superb Ringo Starr is, bless him - and how plodding Pete Best is, sorry again) -- and continuing with the unanswered question, that we don't have to answer, thankfully
A must for Beatles fans, avoid if not. January 8, 2008
James R. D. Jefferies (England)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
From the open note of "Money" to The coda at the end of "love of the loved" this CD a performance of unique Beatles History, I'd heard 6 of the tracks on the Beatles Anthology CD collection (Shiek of Araby, Three Cool Cats, Besame Mucho, Searchin', Like dreamers do and Hello Little Girl) and mistakenly thought that was all that existed of the Beatles Decca audition, but as my interest and knowledge of Beatle history grew I discovered that not to be the case.
Discovering this on amazon I was undecided whether to purcase it, and I am so glad that I did. I had read and heard bad things about the audition tapes but they're actually pretty good. The Beatles here sound more fresh and new than ever, over two years before "I want to hold your hand" was number one in America and eight months before "love me do" (there first single) was released in Britain. Here they are in the classic days of the Cavern Club and Hamburg this Cd is an anparrelled glimpse into a period often unknown.
As a performance the CD does vary in quality, though the audio sound quality is good, the performance of the band alternates in quality, although having prevously recorded with Tony Sheridon the year before, the Beatles sound very nervous, especially at the beginning, but the CD picks up and by the end the performances are near perfect. Pete Best's drumming is fine, although it isn't as good as Ringo's he still does a pretty good job. John Lennon's rhythm guitar is powerful on rock numbers and sweet and melodic on the slower ballads, his singing is also fresh and powerful. Paul McCartney's bass playing is simple, but why complicate anything on an audition? His singing isn't at it's best, indeed the perfomance of "Til there was you" is off pitch and lacks the power later recordings of the song have. The tracks though really bring out the early development of this talented young musicain soon to take the music world by storm. George Harrison's guitar playing is clean and capable, if sounding nervous to fully express his true abilty, his singing sounds much more confident, if the choice of song he sings it, to me, are not the best.
If you are a true Beatles fan I strongly recomend buying this. I'm proud to put it alongside the rest of my Beatles collection, it is an essential part of Beatles history. As a casual listener of the Beatles I wouldn't recommend it, it isn't the Beatles at their best. It does though offer a unique glimpse at a young band from Liverpool hoping to one day make it big as a rock and roll band, you listen to this and realise just how much they developed and just how fantastic they really became.
Not a technical tour de force, but a historic treasure May 30, 2008
Daggsy (Australia)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
As the owner of a 1980s picture disc of the Decca sessions, I have to say that the sound quality of this product is far superior. To those who've submitted strong criticism in that regard, the originals were demo tapes - not full-blown studio masters.
As a part of 60s musical history it's priceless, and the fact that it includes the 3 Lennon/McCartney compositions (my vinyl doesn't) makes if all the more precious.
If you're a Beatles compleatist like me, or if you're just interested in hearing some pre Fab Four material, this is essential listening. Oh, the song selection is cheesy and pretty squirm-worthy, but the Fab Four clearly lurk just beneath that cheesiness.
Do yourself a favour, and buy now!
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