The Original Decca Tapes & Cavern Club Rehearsals

The first CD to compile all the Decca tapes together, in the best quality (up to 1991). Recorded January 1, 1962 at Decca House, London. Tracks 16-20 are the most complete tapes of a rehearsal at The Cavern Club in May 1962. Still, they are all transferred out of phase and are all at the wrong speed. This CD is listed as by "The Silver Beatles." However, that is historically incorrect. The group was called "The Silver Beatles" for a couple of weeks in 1960, before they were famous. By the time these recordings were made, they had been called simply "The Beatles" for nearly two years, with only a couple of exceptions: when they were The Quarrymen, and when Bert Kaempfert called them "The Beat Brothers" on the Polydor recordings with Tony Sheridan. All the recordings on this disc are by The Beatles, despite what the bootlegger had printed on the covers. Also see the reissue of this CD at a slower speed, on Yellow Dog YDB 101 and again on YD 061.