The Beatles-1st Live Recordings (Volume 1) (1979)


 


Artist: The Beatles

Title: 1st Live Recordings

Label: Pickwick

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: P8-3661

Year of Release: 1979

Country and Year of Edition: US 1979

Sell Price: $17.09

Sell Date: 12/23/25

Condition: VG/VG+ untested

Discogs Last Sold: 12/7/24 M/NM $18.00

Low: $14.99

Median: $16.05

Average: $16.27

High: $18.00

Current low price: $20.99 VG/+VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 21/10

Where Sold: Villanueve, D'Ascq, France

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years

Where and When Bought: ebay lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

Pickwick reconfigured Live At The Star Club in Hamburg recorded in 1962 when they got the rights to put it out in 1979, a couple years after Lingasong did.  They were issued as 2 different albums and left some songs off.  This 8-track I got 2 copies of in a fairly short time period a couple years back.  They were both roughly in the same good shape and were the exact same variant. 

Pickwick was the well distributed budget company specializing primarily in RCA artists from Elvis to Mario Lanza.  The Star Club tapes came out on an independent label as a double album.  Pickwick was a step above distribution-wise, but the completion of having all the recordings on a two records set was replaced with only some of the recordings spread over two volumes.   In 1980 Pickwick reissued everything as The Historic First Live Recordings.  Yes, Maryann, even on 8-track.  Even K-Tel got their mitts on these tapes in 1986 to put them out on CD.  Every budget label wanted a piece of the Beatles and there was plenty of opportunity to go around with these recordings owned by Ted "Kingsize" Taylor.  They passed to Larry Grossburg, Warhols manager in 1977.  At some point the Beatles/Apple Corp got the rights back in the mid to late 90's although they haven't been officially issued through them yet.

You may hear some of these songs on the early studio releases or the BBC recording.  Some never made it to either like "Your Feets Too Big"  or the opener "Where Have You Been All My Life."  Chuck Berry dominates with both "Little Queenie" and "Sweet Little 16."  Paul still manages to get "A Taste of Honey" and "Till There Was You" in the mix.

Worth getting around to listening to for the first time in God Knows How Long.

 

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