#decca audition

[pjiminly]

Of all the baffling decisions the beatles made for their decca audition I'm not sure any are quite as weord as deciding to do there cool cats, for some reason

[the-cosmic-empire]

“I told Mike he’d have to decide between them. It was up to him – The Beatles or Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. He said, ‘They’re both good, but one’s a local group, the other comes from Liverpool.’ We decided it was better to take the local group. We could work with them more easily and stay closer in touch as they came from Dagenham” [Dick Rowe, Decca Records]

On January 1st 1962 the Beatles, then comprising John, Paul, George and Pete Best auditioned for Decca in London.

[appreciatingmclennon]

Letter 160: Note to Paul re Decca Audition, December 1971

Happy Xmas! (war is over if you want it …) THE BEATLES Dear Paul Linda et al, this is the DECCA AUDITION*!! I found the bootleg not the tape: they were a good group fancy turning THIS down! Love John & Yoko

Lennon, John. The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies (pp.233-234). 

*‘The Decca Audition tape didn’t surface till 1977. What John most likely obtained was a 1971 bootleg called Yellow Matter Custard which contained poor-quality BBC broadcasts from 1963, which were often bootlegged as the Decca Audition Tape.’ 

[tavolgisvist]

“Love of the Loved” is definitely a Paul-dominated effort, and while it might sound a tad awkward and unpolished judged next to the songs the Beatles were coming up with by 1963, it has definite hallmarks of what would often characterize the group’s compositions. There are those unexpected, almost off-the-wall chord changes, almost to the extent that you feel this might have been one of the first times McCartney set out to deliberately explore unconventional structures; a blend of major and minor moods; the commanding glide from the bridge back to the main verse; and, as a quality prevalent in Paul’s writing in particular, an almost pervasive, haunting eerieness. A strange, skittering guitar line recurs throughout this uneasily mid-tempo arrangement, and Paul feels a little more comfortably settled into his lead vocal than he does on some other cuts, despite the aforementioned leaps into some Elvis Presley–isms.

(Richie Unterberger about Three Cool Cats on Decca Tapes in The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film, 2006)

[beatleshistoryblog]

LECTURE 8: ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC: Here’s the ill-fated Decca audition of January 1, 1962, in all of its glory – or maybe lack thereof (you be the judge). Give it a listen. Alas, Decca A&R man Dick Rowe broke the bad news to Brian Epstein not long afterwards that The Beatles would be signed on at Decca.  “Guitar groups are on the way out,” Rowe advised. “The Beatles have no future in show business.” Instead, Decca signed on a band they thought would take Great Britain by storm:  Brian Poole and the Tremeloes.

[beatlesradioshows]

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Beatle Brunch, Joe Johnson, January 4, 2020.  Download  

Pete Best discusses the Decca audition.

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[beatlesradioshows]

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Beatles, Dennis Mitchell, January 5, 2019.  Download  

This show’s 28th anniversary; Decca audition

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[pepperslonelyblog]

Yellow Matter Custard

Yellow Matter Custard, an early Beatles bootleg album, was their audition tape for Decca (that was turned down), which had been thought to be lost for over ten years. Even the Beatles themselves didn't have a copy. So, when it came out, John traded for it with a fan, for a signed copy of Yesterday and Today.

Personal Note: I highly recommend listening to this album. It's hard to find, and poor quality, but it is very good (and I normally don't like their covers as much).

Source: 1972 WPLJ-FM