It was Granada TV and it was directed by Leslie Woodhead. The cameramen were John Blakeley & David Wood, sound was Phil Smith (me). The session was FILMED with an Auricon Pro600 camera. This camera was essentially a news camera and was very limited for recording sound. 2 mics only, one for the band and one for vocals. Take 2 of this version appears to have had the sound ‘doctored’. Phil Smith
I don’t know. The joy/awe/wonder on that one girl’s face (and the way she seems to be shaking her head in disbelief) - the one who appears at 5:55 - makes me think she’s thinking “Incredible. I can’t believe I’m really seeing the BEATLES in person in 1962!”
AND they wouldn't know that the bass player who would get most groupies when they became famous, would die in a car accident in 1966 and get replaced with Billy Shears
@@lolcool7309 On most of the early Beatles songs--and almost all of their early hits--it's John's voice that comes through and dominates the vocal, unless it is a McCartney solo.
There are lots of reasons the Internet sucks, but things like this are one of the blessings it can bring. I had no idea this film existed till just now, and if it weren't for the Internet, I'd probably go to my grave never having seen it.
toppop100 The Cavern Club footage was recorded on 22 August 1962 by a crew from Manchester-based Granada Television. www.beatlesbible.com/songs/some-other-guy
+Ka Boom I didn't know that , off to Savage Beatles now. Fantastic footage I'd never seen the whole of this song just a snippet, i'd assumed that was all there was.
Ha, "out-Pauling Paul," funny! When I watch some of their videos I've noticed how cool George his with moves. He never gave away too much, just a real quick little dance move, but I can tell that he could probably cut a mean step on the dance floor. I think he was the best dancer among the group. But yeah, they all had some cool moves. I watched this video again to check out John out-Paul Paul, and you're right, he did the do!
@@maggierae9918 REAL Paul was a showman. I loved how he bobbed his head while singing as he was really getting into the music. I love to sing myself & I know it just happens naturally from instinct. You won't see these movements when you watch Fake Paul perform.
I love watching the reactions of all the Liverpool teenagers in the crowd. What memories they all have ! And I love the girls' hairstyles and the guys' cool, Mod ways of dressing. What a great time to be alive and young back then.
This was when The Beatles were totally badass!! The coolest toughest hip new band out of Liverpool. Energetic, stylish, polished and dangerous. Who wouldn't want to be a part of that?
It’s the fact that the audience have no idea that they are witnessing a band that will become the biggest and most successful of all time , as well as the Beatles themselves not knowing at the time just what they were going to achieve over the next 10 years. The Beatles before they were ‘ The Beatles’
100% Agreement. Some Other Guy and their fast paced Hamburg version of Besame Mucho (not the slower Let it Be outtakes version) were up there with Twist and Shout. It's too bad they didn't appear on the first 4 albums or EPs, or officially on anything during the 60s. Besame Mucho was recorded for the Decca audition and it's lifeless. Prob. why it didn't make it on wax.
Granada TV had filmed the performance on Aug 22, 1962. Granada had decided the original audio was inadequate and sent back an audio crew to re-record the audio on Sept. 5, 1962. Granada ultimately felt the footage was un-usable and was shelved until almost a year later, after Beatlemania had burst. It was first shown on "Scene at 6:30" on Nov. 6, 1963. The film has been re-shown and re-edited with cut-away shots and alternate stage shots (filmed during different song performances) ever since then. There's 3 different "audio" versions floating around. All distinguishable by the intros. Version 1, which is the original undubbed audio, has Bob Wooler simply announcing "Its The Beatles!" and also has the "we love Pete" at the end.
Version 2 has a "dubbed on" announcement by Bob Wooler saying "Live at the Cavern, we proudly present The Beatles!" This announcement was dubbed onto the "we love Pete" version Version 3 is the September re-recording dubbed onto the August film. Wooler''s intro here is "OK This is it, The Beatles sing Some Other Guy" Also, the end of the September re-recording has Lennon saying "We'll probably have to do it again."
LOKISlog7 a camera was rolling as this was a tv company who'd come to the cavern to film the new music that was being talked about, it was originally intended to be broadcast
August 22, 1962. You can tell that they had honed their act in Germany and had become professionals. They were a year and a half away from The Ed Sullivan Show, but they probably could have alrready taken America by storm at the time of this performance.
4:50 omg, that harmony - what a sound. there's nothing on earth like the blending of the mccartney-lennon voices in their own brand of harmony. sent from above.
@@ciarancatney2974 Are you saying the song at 4:50 is a cover?? It is not, it is a McCartney original. Having said that, they didn't perform the song that night. Paul hadn't written it yet.
@@Cosmo-KramerNo I'm not. I'm saying "Some Other Guy" is a cover. The guy or gal who posted the comment I replied to has edited it to comment instead on "I saw her standing her" presumably because they no longer wanted to look like a complete dick.
The whole quote (from Anthology 1): _"We were four guys, that, eh... I met Paul, said, 'Do you wanna join me band?', you know, and then George joined, and then Ringo joined. We were just a band who made it very, very big, that's all."_ It wasn't an understatement, it was John Lennon attempting to de-mythologize The Beatles and put things into a proper perspective. Because at the end of the day, they really were just a band who happened to make it very, very big. If it wasn't them, then it would have been someone else. And before you ask, I'm a big fan of The Beatles.
@@Durwood71 "It wasn't an understatement, it was John Lennon attempting to de-mythologize..." Actually, it was both. He knew that he hit it big with what was just another group at the beginning, but he knew also that they came to have certain talents that no other band had (either then or now). John was very clever.
I always liked Some Other Guy, but instead of putting it on For Sale as you suggested, I think it would have been great on Please Please Me in place of Anna or A Taste of Honey.
@@wolfedavid3700 Nope that's the one and only Ringo. This was His first performance with them after Pete Best was fired. Notice George's black eye he got that night. from "fans" who were not pleased about the change.
There's more energy in this Cavern performance than anything that's happened in the past thirty years. The "electricity" in this room must have been remarkable. History in the making. Hamburg, Germany was the best thing that ever happened to these guys.
xtc1957 I remember people saying that actually The Cavern was stinking of smoke and body odour ...and because of it's unique stone walls..the condensation used to run down the walls from people breathing.
+Robin Rayfield Still not the same original place. Remodeling in one thing tearing a building down is another...no history in the new place like the original...such a loss
This was Aug. 22, 1962 & Ringo had only been a Beatle since the 18th. It was the first time they were professionally filmed by Granada TV. They were asked by the filmmaker, Leslie Woodhead, to perform "Some Other Guy" twice. The muted part is them singing "Money" (with "One After 909" playing on the soundtrack) All this is explained in Mark Lewisohn's (fantastic) book "Tune In-The Beatles: All These Years." The voice speaking at the end is their manager, Brian Epstein.
Just about finished reading that book. it has to be the most researched book on the Beatles. anyone who wants to know almost anything and everything of the Beatles early history should read it. beware it is very long and detailed. I believe the second half is in the works.
Yeah, about 600 pages and ends right before Please Please Me (LP) is released.(!) Along with JPGR bios and meticulously tracing the band's formation/development, Tune In is an excellent discussion of England's post-war social and economic turmoil, how its pop culture emerged, etc. I'm eager for next volume. And I'm really really hoping BD ceases touring long enough to produce Chronicles volume two. Back to the typewriter, Mr. Z.
Ah - thanks for the clarification, njriley - that makes sense. I'd just spent most of the video time staring at the rather quiet, slightly blurry figure on drums, trying to work out whether it was Pete or Ringo.. thinking it did look more like Ringo, but then wondering if this recording wouldn't have been a little too early for that to have been the case. I do seem to remember hearing of this TV recording before - wasn't it shown as a short segment on the burgeoning local North-West/Liverpool young people's music/club scene as part of a general current affairs programme? Sounds like I need to get round to reading that book! Again, thanks, also to vettefool and Joseph Leiper, for the recommendation.
Wow this was recorded in Aug 1962 and two years later they were on tour in America. I saw them in Atlantic City in 1964, my fourth row ticket cost $5.50.
@@countalucard4226 Right! I was living in Teaneck New Jersey at that time and we used to go to the Fillmore quite often, Jethro Tull, Chambers Brothers, Humble Pie with were just of a few of the great acts we saw, It was really a great venue.
I always preferred the early Beatles. What I mean by that is what you hear, when you listen to Live at the BBC, live, raw and rustic. That was the bands best era. They sounded so tight and it was very very good.
One thing I love about this clip is the huge light pointing at the stage. I used to work at a small venue about the size of the Cavern and we sometimes had acts filmed there by TV crews. They'd bring in all this lighting equipment in addition to everything we had. The shows had a weird brightness to them in the room but they looked great on camera. So I'm imagining the Cavern was normally a really dark place and the Beatles were getting blinded by that light, but somebody kept saying "it'll look great on film, lads."
@@theeyeinthesky3854 Yes I saw them live in Minnesota Unreal lots. Of girls screaming Caught Paul with a Teenage girl They sang great I mean great like Here
When the camera panned to the crowd they all appeared spellbound and mesmerized. Just imagine if we could go back in a time machine to that and feel the magic which was in that room.
I have purchased a number of Beatles dvds where a lot of it is interviews with people who were there and what it was like.....many comments of how hot it was and how bad the air quality was. I remember one guy in particular talking about how the kids would stop dancing and move towards the stage and just stare at them, mesmerized. They performed regularly for 8 hours a day for months, which really improved them as a band, but hard to imagine how difficult that would be to keep up that level of energy.
Paul sounds AMAZING in "Kansas City"! What an enormous talent!! (And this is coming from a John fan lol). It was lucky for the world that they found each other.
I still can't believe that the Cavern Club was demolished! Vandalism at it's very worst. I remember going on a pilgrimage from Manchester to Liverpool with some friends (circa 1963) to visit this iconic club. Absolute magic!
I've been a Beatles fan for a very, very long time, and I have to say, I've never seen all of the clips included in this one video. I've seen bits of some of the rare parts, but nothing like the sheer amount of stuff. Amazing, and it's good to see someone who knows what they're doing when it comes to correcting some of the contrast, levels, and exposure of the footage - even resurrecting some of the footage that was almost lost to time. Bravo Guernica!
In lots of ways getting old is ess aitch one tee but I can truly say I feel privileged that I was 16 years old in '62 and living near Liverpool AND visiting the (original) Cavern. So many good bands there then, not just the Beatles. ...A rickety wooden staircase going down from street level, no ventilation (except near the bottom of the stairs some cool air blew in from somewhere - probably a sewer!), sweaty as hell, jam packed, almost no lighting (a red bulb over the stage and another over one of the archways, as I remember) - you couldn't tell what the girl you were asking to dance really looked like until you were committed (groan). No alcoholic drink - it didn't have a licence. Health & Safety would close it down nowadays. ...But the source of most of the music, in truth, was American black blues / r & b, (Mississippi / Chicago) brought into the port of Liverpool by merchant seamen. Nobody this side of the Pond gave a damn where it came from, it was great. Happy days.
@michael hawkyard From everything I've read and seen, though, the Cavern was a REAL fire trap. But when you are young, you don't consider things such as that. It's fortunate that no major tragedies happened there. The atmosphere does look like it must have been fantastic. And didn't the Cavern have official membership cards for the regulars to carry with them ?
The incredible thing about the Beatles is how quickly the band evolved from "Some Other Guy" to "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" and "A Day in the Life." The Beatles were a wonderful, chance meeting of four lads whose sum as a group was much greater than its parts. Amazing.
@@tr5947 That's true, but I still think he looks shorter in comparison to Paul than he should. I'm going to check out some of their later concert clips just to see how the two compare heighth wise.
This first song is one of the most important and memorable musical performances ever recorded. There was enough electricity in this show to power a major city for a century. Right up there with their "rooftop" concert, Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey, Buddy Holly on Sullivan, Elvis on Sullivan, Led Zeppelin at Madison Square, Cream at Albert Hall, the list goes on and on. Go on then, add your own personal favorite.
Bob Dylan and the Hawks, 1966...pick any concert. Then The Band at their last concert, 1976...forgetting the brass sections, they were ridiculous...and in their mid-late 30's.
The camera work here is ahead of its time. The shots and angles showing the view from behind the band, including the band and their crowd's-eye view: they are remarkable.
this video was supposed to be aired on granada tv but it was too ruddy and it is not the first Beatles recording it is a recording from early 1962 wearing leather jackets with peete
Cuz they played music in REAL Paul style! Once Fake Paul stepped in to replace Real Paul the music changed dramatically. I noticed it immediately! Did NOT sound like Beatles I'd known. It MUST be Fake Paul's style. Smh
moviebuff1941 - yeah, as someone above mentioned - it was hamburg that got them drilled. remember they had no speakers facing themselves as bands do today and consequently (at later screamfests) couldnt hear themselves for shit. only reason they continued to play in perfect time was because, well.. a) they were geniuses but more pertinently - theyd been drilled together from their hamburg days. as the above mentioned commenter put it; hamburg made them.
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 así es hay un antes y un después del viaje a Hamburgo, fueron siendo unos críos y volvieron mucho más maduros musicalmente y en todos los sentidos.
Pure gold! I was exposed to this song via a documentary I watched in the early 80's. A Beatles fan ever since. The Beatles for ever!!! The first take sounds and looks so good.
Pero George Martin y los técnicos se quejaron al principio que Ringo no mantenía el ritmo parejo. Paul John George insistieron que era perfecto para ellos.
@@macgp44 O sea..., es cosa de escuchar, prestar bien atención y comparar... No, el muchacho estaba muy bien, y ya traía experiencia. Con el paso del tiempo, se fue puliendo más. Además, Ringo era elegante para interpretar, lo que le daba un aire muy especial sentado a la batería. Creó, también, algunas técnicas de golpes en la batería...
They evolved into the world's greatest band. In the 7 years they were famous, they scored 20 #1 hits. After they broke up, Paul hit the #1 spot 9 times, John and Ringo 2 times each and George Harrison 3 times. Try to think of any group whose members scored 36 #1 hits. you won't find another to thiis day and probably not in any future universe.
how intimate is it to actually watch this pre-fame Beatles??? it feels lovely and precious of them, what a gem they'd become sooner.. the stars aligned perfectly for them ✨✨✨
1980 to us now, is what 1940 was to us in 1980...he says, stating the bleeding obvious. Although in my defence it is mind blowing to think that, say, “Don’t you want me baby” by The Human League is that kind of distance from us now.
Imagine being from an intelligent civilization 57 light years from here, and your radio telescopes are pointed this way, and you're hearing the Beatles for the first time. I always thought that would have been a great gag for Star Trek to explain Vulcan haircuts, that they picked up a Beatles broadcast, thought they were brilliant, and got here as fast as they could.
The remastered first take of some other guy is incredible!!! It’s like it was filmed yesterday and gives some sort of idea of what it must’ve been like to be there (sort of) the energy gives me rushes👌
The first time that I saw this film, and heard this song was in 1983, a documentary, narrated by Malcolm McDowell, “The Beatles -story/forever-?” My parents bought a Beta video, from Sears. You could rent videos from them, so that documentary, and “2001:aSO” were the first I picked to rent. I was 14 years then. “Some other guy” got stuck in my mind -yet, no official release. It’s not even on the Hamburg concert. I did find a bootleg that included this song. Until the official “BBC” radio set, in 1994, an official copy of the song, and the film used in Anthology. 🎸😎
this video was supposed to be aired on granada tv but it was too ruddy and it is not the first Beatles recording it is a recording from early 1962 wearing leather jackets with peete
Desde que escuche su música mi vida se siente más feliz.. gracias por su amistad apesar de los años y las discusiones son increíbles personas ....les deseo que sean felices y se diviertan en el cielo te extrañamos Harrison y jhon con cariño un servidor mas
Beatles number 1 I sales ,then a tie for second between Zeppelin and Queen and ACDC not far behind..Garth brooks doesn't count because he cheated with his 8 album box sets and such which gets counted as 8 records when it's only 1 I reality..shouldn't be allowed
I remember holding my mother hand when I was little boy down town in the 60s and seeing the Beatles pictures and music flowing thru the stores and thinking wow this is special refreshing...Wow great memories I’ll never forget!!!
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This was recorded on August 22, 1962. The next day John married Cynthia Powell.
my birthday is on the 21st lol
I turned 12 that next day. Never been the same.
Hans van Rongen I was only a little over a year old and in the crib that day. 👶🏾
@@charley1188 me too
nice :)
It was Granada TV and it was directed by Leslie Woodhead. The cameramen were John Blakeley & David Wood, sound was Phil Smith (me).
The session was FILMED with an Auricon Pro600 camera. This camera was essentially a news camera and was very limited for recording sound. 2 mics only, one for the band and one for vocals.
Take 2 of this version appears to have had the sound ‘doctored’.
Phil Smith
Thank you, could you write down your recollection of that session please?
Kudos to you, Phil, and the team. Doubt you'd seen much of them before this. Wonder what your impressions were.
Thank you, phill!
Hope you stay healthy and great. You recorded a part of history.
The first version is the best, as often is the case
Those people in the audience had no idea how great of a band this would become.
I don’t know. The joy/awe/wonder on that one girl’s face (and the way she seems to be shaking her head in disbelief) - the one who appears at 5:55 - makes me think she’s thinking “Incredible. I can’t believe I’m really seeing the BEATLES in person in 1962!”
AND they wouldn't know that the bass player who would get most groupies when they became famous, would die in a car accident in 1966 and get replaced with Billy Shears
I have read that many of them felt that they were too good to be playing the CC and that they were going to lose them to the rest of the world.
Tavistock experiment
Well, some astute talent manager might have noticed they had "a star quality...."
Watching John and Paul share in singing the lead vocals is priceless...
The Nurk Twins
I heard John more the Paul on both takes tho
@@lolcool7309 So?
I can play this on an electric
guitar.
@@lolcool7309 On most of the early Beatles songs--and almost all of their early hits--it's John's voice that comes through and dominates the vocal, unless it is a McCartney solo.
God bless the person who recorded this video 😍
Gergana Ivanova God bless Granada Television.
Granada TV then
Gergana Ivanova sainthood in order
Will u be my girlfriend?
Thanks to the man who wrote 'Back in the USSR: How the Beatles Rocked Kremlin'. he was the man who recorded this film back in 1962
This video disproves the existence of time travel because if time travel existed, there would be 100x more people in the crowd.
PackerBronco this is certainly where id go if i could time travel.
:)))
All the time travelers are sitting behind the camera
I’m the dude with the bass
What if they're all time travelers
Lennon has the most iconic voice in the history of rock n roll. The early Beatles were lightning in a bottle.
100%!
There are lots of reasons the Internet sucks, but things like this are one of the blessings it can bring. I had no idea this film existed till just now, and if it weren't for the Internet, I'd probably go to my grave never having seen it.
I just like us in UA-cam to look at things like gaming and automotive content and beatles that's about it
Thank God this was filmed. I love seeing The Beatles from this period. Raw, beautiful, real talent.
Does anyone know who filmed it?
toppop100 The Cavern Club footage was recorded on 22 August 1962 by a crew from Manchester-based Granada Television.
www.beatlesbible.com/songs/some-other-guy
MrGandharva108 - Google "Savage beatles" and you will find a website that has tons of stuff like this
+Ka Boom I didn't know that , off to Savage Beatles now. Fantastic footage I'd never seen the whole of this song just a snippet, i'd assumed that was all there was.
+samgub me too
I just love how their whole bodies move when they perform. They just have that little bounce that is completely adorable.
+Addie Vielmas Oh yeah, they did have moves !! Paul was truly a showman!
And here John has it too! Later he developed that more deep-planted alpha-man pose. But here he is totally out-Pauling Paul. Definitely adorable.
Ha, "out-Pauling Paul," funny! When I watch some of their videos I've noticed how cool George his with moves. He never gave away too much, just a real quick little dance move, but I can tell that he could probably cut a mean step on the dance floor. I think he was the best dancer among the group. But yeah, they all had some cool moves. I watched this video again to check out John out-Paul Paul, and you're right, he did the do!
@@maggierae9918 REAL Paul was a showman. I loved how he bobbed his head while singing as he was really getting into the music. I love to sing myself & I know it just happens naturally from instinct. You won't see these movements when you watch Fake Paul perform.
@@snap2114 - Sorry my friend, but I believe the Paul that is still alive and performing now is the REAL James Paul McCartney.
This will be my first choice when I'll have a time machine.
Tell Lennon to be wary of signing records for insane people.
Having two or three guys singing and not just one frontman, as all the other bands did, made a great difference.
You can tell John has a lot of energy here crazy to think these guys would become the most influential band of all time.
Yeah
It's good that so much of the Cavern performances were recorded. So good so young. And with Ringo.📻🎸🎙
They were on serious doses of "uppers"
prellies.
all the same there was a version by an outfit called Johnny Kidd & the Pirates around the same time which was even better...
How amazing is it that 50 years later we can all watch this film on our portable handheld computers? Just astounding.
I love watching the reactions of all the Liverpool teenagers in the crowd. What memories they all have ! And I love the girls' hairstyles and the guys' cool, Mod ways of dressing. What a great time to be alive and young back then.
Rip
@@thebeatlesandqueen8817 This was 61 right? So 61 years later?
@@Dazbog373 this was around August of 62. I believe this was their first show with ringo on drums.
How about 60 years ago this month
Love the guy at 4:14 who shouts "We want Pete!"
who,was the drummer ???
@@akulinamackenzie4492 Ringo. It was not long after Pete was fired, so the Pete fans were still (rightly) pissed.
@@kajafreur527 thanks 💕
This right here is what made the Beatles The Beatles. Just listen to it. If that doesn’t make you feel something I don’t know what to tell you.
This was when The Beatles were totally badass!! The coolest toughest hip new band out of Liverpool. Energetic, stylish, polished and dangerous. Who wouldn't want to be a part of that?
Absolutely love this early period in The Cavern.The bobbing of their heads.....
They were genuinely having fun and it showed.
Perfect comment!
They really perked up when Ringo joined!
Probably the most epic recorded moment in rock 'n roll history.
I don't think so! Their 1st Sullivan show.
@@jeffcory1056 you dont get it
@@trnsprntradiation OK. Enlighten me, please.
It’s the fact that the audience have no idea that they are witnessing a band that will become the biggest and most successful of all time , as well as the Beatles themselves not knowing at the time just what they were going to achieve over the next 10 years. The Beatles before they were ‘ The Beatles’
Great point.@@brucebiw
Their success is no luck. They are fantastic
Like that old saying, "and the harder I worked, the luckier I got';-)
Can't believe the Beatles didn't record this for their first album..or any album!
It's a great song.
There is a live recording of Some Other Guy on The Beatles Live At The BBC album
@@robincampbell3050 Yes..I have both volumes. Going to buy their Get Back DVD for Christmas, and also the Magical Mystery Tour.
Every Band in Northern England played that song live
100% Agreement. Some Other Guy and their fast paced Hamburg version of Besame Mucho (not the slower Let it Be outtakes version) were up there with Twist and Shout. It's too bad they didn't appear on the first 4 albums or EPs, or officially on anything during the 60s. Besame Mucho was recorded for the Decca audition and it's lifeless. Prob. why it didn't make it on wax.
@stephenellis2866 none of them like this though
Thank god that someone had the presence of mind to have a camera rolling. To whomever it was;
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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It was specifically filmed for a t.v. special.
Granada TV had filmed the performance on Aug 22, 1962. Granada had decided the original audio was inadequate and sent back an audio crew to re-record the audio on Sept. 5, 1962. Granada ultimately felt the footage was un-usable and was shelved until almost a year later, after Beatlemania had burst. It was first shown on "Scene at 6:30" on Nov. 6, 1963. The film has been re-shown and re-edited with cut-away shots and alternate stage shots (filmed during different song performances) ever since then. There's 3 different "audio" versions floating around. All distinguishable by the intros. Version 1, which is the original undubbed audio, has Bob Wooler simply announcing "Its The Beatles!" and also has the "we love Pete" at the end.
Version 2 has a "dubbed on" announcement by Bob Wooler saying "Live at the Cavern, we proudly present The Beatles!" This announcement was dubbed onto the "we love Pete" version Version 3 is the September re-recording dubbed onto the August film. Wooler''s intro here is "OK This is it, The Beatles sing Some Other Guy" Also, the end of the September re-recording has Lennon saying "We'll probably have to do it again."
oh yeah, we should thank the camera team from granada tv for doing their job!?
LOKISlog7 a camera was rolling as this was a tv company who'd come to the cavern to film the new music that was being talked about, it was originally intended to be broadcast
August 22, 1962. You can tell that they had honed their act in Germany and had become professionals. They were a year and a half away from The Ed Sullivan Show, but they probably could have alrready taken America by storm at the time of this performance.
Bono said it best. You have the Beatles and then everyone else.
newms69 absolutely
Man, that's true.
Bono's statement is totally cool and so true.
Spot on, Bono. Not even close.
The Rolling Stones are immortal, but not the “greatest rock and roll” band. The Beatles are on Mt. Olympus looking down on every band.
Most definitely!!! The Beatles are on the number one list for all time favorite bands and music awards. Thanks for your comment!
It's an RnB track.
Of course they are. By a long shot. (I mean the Beatles.)
They are the Gods of Rock. There is none higher.
The Greatest Band in the History of Music
4:50 omg, that harmony - what a sound. there's nothing on earth like the blending of the mccartney-lennon voices in their own brand of harmony. sent from above.
No he didn't. It's a cover.
@@ciarancatney2974 right you are, thanks!
@@ciarancatney2974 Are you saying the song at 4:50 is a cover?? It is not, it is a McCartney original. Having said that, they didn't perform the song that night. Paul hadn't written it yet.
@@Cosmo-KramerNo I'm not. I'm saying "Some Other Guy" is a cover. The guy or gal who posted the comment I replied to has edited it to comment instead on "I saw her standing her" presumably because they no longer wanted to look like a complete dick.
@@ciarancatney2974 LOL...gotcha.
The Beatles will be remembered like Shakespeare', Mozart, Dickens, Wordsworth, they are in that category
Hopefully they will
Who are those other guys you named ha ha ha
@@engagementengagement8836 they already are 🙏
This is Priceless....The Greatest Rock and Roll Band.. doing their stuff.... unbelievable....
To quote John Lennon..."We were just a band that made it really big." UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE MUSIC CENTURY!
Anthology 1 is great
The whole quote (from Anthology 1): _"We were four guys, that, eh... I met Paul, said, 'Do you wanna join me band?', you know, and then George joined, and then Ringo joined. We were just a band who made it very, very big, that's all."_
It wasn't an understatement, it was John Lennon attempting to de-mythologize The Beatles and put things into a proper perspective. Because at the end of the day, they really were just a band who happened to make it very, very big. If it wasn't them, then it would have been someone else.
And before you ask, I'm a big fan of The Beatles.
They were just a band that wrote incredible songs and sounded unlike anybody else.
No, they WERE just another band
@@Durwood71 "It wasn't an understatement, it was John Lennon attempting to de-mythologize..." Actually, it was both. He knew that he hit it big with what was just another group at the beginning, but he knew also that they came to have certain talents that no other band had (either then or now). John was very clever.
They should have recorded Some Other Guy for one of their earlier albums. Such a great tune. Would've been great on Beatles For Sale.
It was recorded by another very popular (in Liverpool) band called The Big Three, about '64. They didn't make it big.
Totally agree, they absolutely nail this
I always liked Some Other Guy, but instead of putting it on For Sale as you suggested, I think it would have been great on Please Please Me in place of Anna or A Taste of Honey.
Anna is one of the best vocal songs though.
Beatles at the BBC album.
This takes me back to my teenage years at The Cavern in the early 60s, which is odd as I wasn't born until '80.
🤔 👍
Hahaha 😂
Ringos drums on this track are supreme. keeping good time on a extremely fast shuffle. Tricky stuff
that is pete best o0n drums................
Nope. It’s ringo if you look closely in the back it’s easy to tell it’s him, also the fills sound like his style of drumming.
@@wolfedavid3700 It's Ringo!!
Ringo. His premier kit Best couldn't keep time to save his life. Ringo rock solid. Best tempos up and down like brides nighty on honeymoon .
@@wolfedavid3700 Nope that's the one and only Ringo. This was His first performance with them after Pete Best was fired. Notice George's black eye he got that night. from "fans" who were not pleased about the change.
There's more energy in this Cavern performance than anything that's happened in the past thirty years. The "electricity" in this room must have been remarkable. History in the making. Hamburg, Germany was the best thing that ever happened to these guys.
The Beatles = Ass-Kickers, Inc.
imagine led zepplein playing in this room
Dom Levy The bricks would have melted...
haha the who would be awsome too
xtc1957
I remember people saying that actually The Cavern was stinking of smoke and body odour ...and because of it's unique stone walls..the condensation used to run down the walls from people breathing.
I can't believe they tore down the Cavern Club. It is like demolishing the Taj Mahal or the Sphinx. I am sure they regret it by now.
They rebuilt and reopened it. I was there about 7 years ago.
+Robin Rayfield Still not the same original place. Remodeling in one thing tearing a building down is another...no history in the new place like the original...such a loss
Karol K That is a valid point.
+Appleholic1 You can find it in Second Life
the cavern is still here I went there
That signature side to side head shake can’t be imitated while playing left hand bass ❤
Such a great recording. I wish there was at least one filmed performance in Hamburg when they were still wearing the leather gear and all.
this is all the video of the leather years.. ua-cam.com/video/P5Lwh6BJGyw/v-deo.html
@@breathspray Yes, but the sound is from December 1962 during the last guest performance in Hamburg (subsequently synchronized with the color film).
My grandpa and grandma were here for their first right when the beatles were playing.
Epic Bankz lucky.
Why don't you make us original fans feel old? At least you didn't say your great-grandparents ;-)
yeah, sure champ ;)
I'm sure...lol
Epic Bottom Bankz
Woah what same here!? Well just my Grandad but still!
Being there that night is as epic as being a Titanic survivor.
More like being there for MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
ericynot I get the importance, but there were many many more people there for the famous speech.
No rock videos can compare to this! It's where it all started for these guys before they took rock'n'roll in their hands and tore it apart!
no rock videos can compare ? bit of an overstatement
The Cavern was really claustrophobic!
This was Aug. 22, 1962 & Ringo had only been a Beatle since the 18th. It was the first time they were professionally filmed by Granada TV. They were asked by the filmmaker, Leslie Woodhead, to perform "Some Other Guy" twice. The muted part is them singing "Money" (with "One After 909" playing on the soundtrack) All this is explained in Mark Lewisohn's (fantastic) book "Tune In-The Beatles: All These Years." The voice speaking at the end is their manager, Brian Epstein.
Just about finished reading that book. it has to be the most researched book on the Beatles. anyone who wants to know almost anything and everything of the Beatles early history should read it. beware it is very long and detailed. I believe the second half is in the works.
3 years ago he said he was 40% finished with part 2! Wish he would hurry up!
Yeah, about 600 pages and ends right before Please Please Me (LP) is released.(!) Along with JPGR bios and meticulously tracing the band's formation/development, Tune In is an excellent discussion of England's post-war social and economic turmoil, how its pop culture emerged, etc. I'm eager for next volume. And I'm really really hoping BD ceases touring long enough to produce Chronicles volume two. Back to the typewriter, Mr. Z.
Ah - thanks for the clarification, njriley - that makes sense. I'd just spent most of the video time staring at the rather quiet, slightly blurry figure on drums, trying to work out whether it was Pete or Ringo.. thinking it did look more like Ringo, but then wondering if this recording wouldn't have been a little too early for that to have been the case.
I do seem to remember hearing of this TV recording before - wasn't it shown as a short segment on the burgeoning local North-West/Liverpool young people's music/club scene as part of a general current affairs programme?
Sounds like I need to get round to reading that book! Again, thanks, also to vettefool and Joseph Leiper, for the recommendation.
I was thinking Pete's drumming sounded pretty good here - thanks for the clarification.
Wow this was recorded in Aug 1962 and two years later they were on tour in America. I saw them in Atlantic City in 1964, my fourth row ticket cost $5.50.
You got robbed .
Alabama
That was a lot of money then. I'm sure they were way cheaper in Oz. $3.70 to be exact, has the purchasing power of around $100 now.
Lenny Anders I saw Grand Funk Railroad at Fillmore East in 1969 for a $5 ticket price. All major bands including Led Zep played the Fillmore for $5
@@countalucard4226 Right! I was living in Teaneck New Jersey at that time and we used to go to the Fillmore quite often, Jethro Tull, Chambers Brothers, Humble Pie with were just of a few of the great acts we saw, It was really a great venue.
I always preferred the early Beatles. What I mean by that is what you hear, when you listen to Live at the BBC, live, raw and rustic. That was the bands best era. They sounded so tight and it was very very good.
One thing I love about this clip is the huge light pointing at the stage. I used to work at a small venue about the size of the Cavern and we sometimes had acts filmed there by TV crews. They'd bring in all this lighting equipment in addition to everything we had. The shows had a weird brightness to them in the room but they looked great on camera. So I'm imagining the Cavern was normally a really dark place and the Beatles were getting blinded by that light, but somebody kept saying "it'll look great on film, lads."
This was not luck or chance the universe wanted the Beatles
I lived in this era, heard them live in 65. It was meant to be.
Tell us more please.did you see them live in concert? In that year?
Sweet home alabams
@@theeyeinthesky3854 Yes
I saw them live in Minnesota
Unreal lots.
Of girls screaming
Caught Paul with a
Teenage girl
They sang great
I mean great like
Here
When the camera panned to the crowd they all appeared spellbound and mesmerized. Just imagine if we could go back in a time machine to that and feel the magic which was in that room.
I have purchased a number of Beatles dvds where a lot of it is interviews with people who were there and what it was like.....many comments of how hot it was and how bad the air quality was. I remember one guy in particular talking about how the kids would stop dancing and move towards the stage and just stare at them, mesmerized. They performed regularly for 8 hours a day for months, which really improved them as a band, but hard to imagine how difficult that would be to keep up that level of energy.
@@monica11760 Energy? Easy. They were young. Tablets were involved also.
monica11760 Time goes by fast when you’re singing songs
They could’ve also been pissed off because they kicked out Pete Best days before they preformed.
A guy recorded this on his super 8. It’s the only recording of them performing in the cavern club ever.
Amazing piece of history! Excellent work!
The GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME PERIOD.
Paul sounds AMAZING in "Kansas City"! What an enormous talent!! (And this is coming from a John fan lol). It was lucky for the world that they found each other.
And you should remember the year they met, 1957
@@Cuber-ml8gj definitely do!
I wish I could find the quote, but I believe John said Paul had that sound in his audition.
SirPaul too your like
I still can't believe that the Cavern Club was demolished! Vandalism at it's very worst.
I remember going on a pilgrimage from Manchester to Liverpool with some friends (circa 1963) to visit this iconic club. Absolute magic!
What a journey those four guys were about to embark upon... what a journey they took us all on.
George still has his black eye in this. Go Ringo!
Liverpudlians were tough guys weren.t they?
I love how when the singing starts all 4 of them are moving in sync together!! They're a band now!!
I might be an ignorant, but I didn't know there were footages from the Cavern!!! Oh my God, I can't believe it! Thanks for sharing it!!
footage is an uncountable noun and does not require an 's'
I've been a Beatles fan for a very, very long time, and I have to say, I've never seen all of the clips included in this one video. I've seen bits of some of the rare parts, but nothing like the sheer amount of stuff. Amazing, and it's good to see someone who knows what they're doing when it comes to correcting some of the contrast, levels, and exposure of the footage - even resurrecting some of the footage that was almost lost to time. Bravo Guernica!
Dude this 60s cheerful sexy twang on the guitars is just... 😭🥵
Imagine walking into a bar today and hearing this band. They were a great rock band!
In lots of ways getting old is ess aitch one tee but I can truly say I feel privileged that I was 16 years old in '62 and living near Liverpool AND visiting the (original) Cavern. So many good bands there then, not just the Beatles. ...A rickety wooden staircase going down from street level, no ventilation (except near the bottom of the stairs some cool air blew in from somewhere - probably a sewer!), sweaty as hell, jam packed, almost no lighting (a red bulb over the stage and another over one of the archways, as I remember) - you couldn't tell what the girl you were asking to dance really looked like until you were committed (groan). No alcoholic drink - it didn't have a licence. Health & Safety would close it down nowadays. ...But the source of most of the music, in truth, was American black blues / r & b, (Mississippi / Chicago) brought into the port of Liverpool by merchant seamen. Nobody this side of the Pond gave a damn where it came from, it was great. Happy days.
m coolhandluke sounds magical
Lucky, so lucky!
While you were in the cavern I was in Perth, Australia -one of the most isolated cities in the world.
We were on different planets.
Did you think Pete was better at the time?
@michael hawkyard From everything I've read and seen, though, the Cavern was a REAL fire trap. But when you are young, you don't consider things such as that. It's fortunate that no major tragedies happened there. The atmosphere does look like it must have been fantastic. And didn't the Cavern have official membership cards for the regulars to carry with them ?
Even back then you can see they were something special
The incredible thing about the Beatles is how quickly the band evolved from "Some Other Guy" to "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" and "A Day in the Life." The Beatles were a wonderful, chance meeting of four lads whose sum as a group was much greater than its parts. Amazing.
Paul hardly looking at his bass while singing, now that’s a musician (:
And he was barely 20 or so.
Paul must be standing on something. He appears taller than John, even though he's not.
@@oldiesgeek454 John's splay-legged stance makes him look shorter.
@@tr5947 That's true, but I still think he looks shorter in comparison to Paul than he should. I'm going to check out some of their later concert clips just to see how the two compare heighth wise.
Well john was 5'10" and Paul 5'11" so Paul was taller than john
One of those "I wish that I was there" moments.
Paul is a showman already... he times the count in perfectly "2, 3, 4..." right as Bob Wooler says... "THIS IS IT. THE BEATLES SING ..."
Greatest band of all time
This first song is one of the most important and memorable musical performances ever recorded. There was enough electricity in this show to power a major city for a century. Right up there with their "rooftop" concert, Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey, Buddy Holly on Sullivan, Elvis on Sullivan, Led Zeppelin at Madison Square, Cream at Albert Hall, the list goes on and on. Go on then, add your own personal favorite.
Bob Dylan and the Hawks, 1966...pick any concert. Then The Band at their last concert, 1976...forgetting the brass sections, they were ridiculous...and in their mid-late 30's.
Hard to believe that it was only 6 1/2 years between this Cavern Club show and their "Rooftop" performance in January 1969.
xtc1957 b
xtc1957 How about Elvis on the Milton Berle show? Check out Mary Lou by the Creative Force, amazing
Led Zeppelin played this song inside the whole lotta love medley LA 1970 blueberry hill
The Beatles what a gift from above.
The camera work here is ahead of its time. The shots and angles showing the view from behind the band, including the band and their crowd's-eye view: they are remarkable.
This is why I named my only son John Paul
Definitely one of the rarest videos ever caught.
this video was supposed to be aired on granada tv but it was too ruddy and it is not the first Beatles recording it is a recording from early 1962 wearing leather jackets with peete
Damn! The early Beatles were brilliant!
Cuz they played music in REAL Paul style! Once Fake Paul stepped in to replace Real Paul the music changed dramatically. I noticed it immediately! Did NOT sound like Beatles I'd known. It MUST be Fake Paul's style. Smh
@@snap2114 lmao this guy though
The early Beatles were best
Snap211 there was never a “fake Paul”! He’s not dead!
If there was a fake Paul, then he's a better musician than the og one. So I dont really care.
このライブでのこの最高の演奏。自然に体を揺さぶってしまうグルーヴ感。この録音が残っていたことに感謝します。
It's a miracle that these early recordings exist when so much has been wiped. Thank you local TV stations.
Forever The Beatles...
Great Band In the World...
Only 2019 year....
Group.
This is great thanks for posting xx
Ringo on drums so this near the end of their Cavern gigs.
That is ringo?
Joseph G yep
August 22nd 1962 to be precise
They have there makeover Brian Epstein style. They were on their way to world-wide fame and fortune.
This was recorded in Aug '62, their first #1 was in Feb '63. Last Cavern gig Aug '63.
People whom became beatlemaniac since chilhood, appreciated this vídeo and blessed when appeared in a film called The Beatles in 1980
Man this song is so excellent. Wish more than anything they recorded this in the studio. But the footage is great..... timeless.
They are truly masters at their craft. Playing off of each other. They even bob in perfectly synchronized unison.
moviebuff1941 - yeah, as someone above mentioned - it was hamburg that got them drilled. remember they had no speakers facing themselves as bands do today and consequently (at later screamfests) couldnt hear themselves for shit. only reason they continued to play in perfect time was because, well.. a) they were geniuses but more pertinently - theyd been drilled together from their hamburg days. as the above mentioned commenter put it; hamburg made them.
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 así es hay un antes y un después del viaje a Hamburgo, fueron siendo unos críos y volvieron mucho más maduros musicalmente y en todos los sentidos.
Pure gold! I was exposed to this song via a documentary I watched in the early 80's. A Beatles fan ever since. The Beatles for ever!!! The first take sounds and looks so good.
Me encanta cómo Ringo lleva el ritmo. Como una máquina, parejito, sin descuadrarse, como reloj.
Pero George Martin y los técnicos se quejaron al principio que Ringo no mantenía el ritmo parejo. Paul John George insistieron que era perfecto para ellos.
@@macgp44
O sea..., es cosa de escuchar, prestar bien atención y comparar...
No, el muchacho estaba muy bien, y ya traía experiencia.
Con el paso del tiempo, se fue puliendo más. Además, Ringo era elegante para interpretar, lo que le daba un aire muy especial sentado a la batería.
Creó, también, algunas técnicas de golpes en la batería...
Na verdade quem está na bateria não é Ringo, mas Pete Best.
the audience had no idea how fortunate they were.
Always loved Some other guy and One after 909, its as close as we get today to a Live Cavern Performance. Lennon n Macca on absolute 🔥
I got hammered in the Cavern Club,it is a magical place and the air is rarified.
me too
I heard it used to smell of Dettol, amongst other rather less salubrious fluids.
I keep coming back to this. The way they move together. There is something beautiful about it.
God bless the cameraman and generations out to come
They evolved into the world's greatest band. In the 7 years they were famous, they scored 20 #1 hits. After they broke up, Paul hit the #1 spot 9 times, John and Ringo 2 times each and George Harrison 3 times. Try to think of any group whose members scored 36 #1 hits. you won't find another to thiis day and probably not in any future universe.
They were the biggest selling act while at the same time being the most progressive act. That’s never happened since
how intimate is it to actually watch this pre-fame Beatles???
it feels lovely and precious of them, what a gem they'd become sooner.. the stars aligned perfectly for them ✨✨✨
I watched this in 1980 thinking it was ancient as a kid, and that seems like only yesterday
1980 to us now, is what 1940 was to us in 1980...he says, stating the bleeding obvious. Although in my defence it is mind blowing to think that, say, “Don’t you want me baby” by The Human League is that kind of distance from us now.
Imagine being from an intelligent civilization 57 light years from here, and your radio telescopes are pointed this way, and you're hearing the Beatles for the first time. I always thought that would have been a great gag for Star Trek to explain Vulcan haircuts, that they picked up a Beatles broadcast, thought they were brilliant, and got here as fast as they could.
OMG this is absolutely pure gold for The Beatles fans: thanks so very much for having it posted, cheers !! ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
The remastered first take of some other guy is incredible!!! It’s like it was filmed yesterday and gives some sort of idea of what it must’ve been like to be there (sort of) the energy gives me rushes👌
The first time that I saw this film, and heard this song was in 1983, a documentary, narrated by Malcolm McDowell, “The Beatles -story/forever-?”
My parents bought a Beta video, from Sears. You could rent videos from them, so that documentary, and “2001:aSO” were the first I picked to rent. I was 14 years then. “Some other guy” got stuck in my mind -yet, no official release. It’s not even on the Hamburg concert. I did find a bootleg that included this song. Until the official “BBC” radio set, in 1994, an official copy of the song, and the film used in Anthology. 🎸😎
Absolutely the best music band in history, Period.
This is such a great rock and roll cover. They were always serious rockers who just wanted to play songs.
This footage from the Cavern never gets old
this video was supposed to be aired on granada tv but it was too ruddy and it is not the first Beatles recording it is a recording from early 1962 wearing leather jackets with peete
Desde que escuche su música mi vida se siente más feliz.. gracias por su amistad apesar de los años y las discusiones son increíbles personas ....les deseo que sean felices y se diviertan en el cielo te extrañamos Harrison y jhon con cariño un servidor mas
Still the top selling musicians of all time. And 20 number 1 songs in 7 years.
yes, the forbes reported
@@Bella-nt7ec And the consensus greatest act of the rock era. Google any list, dufus.
Beatles number 1 I sales ,then a tie for second between Zeppelin and Queen and ACDC not far behind..Garth brooks doesn't count because he cheated with his 8 album box sets and such which gets counted as 8 records when it's only 1 I reality..shouldn't be allowed
Can only imagine the sadness of the Cavern Club regulars who were there from the very beginning. What freakin memories.
I didn't know any footage from the cavern club existed until this moment. Needless to say I'm very satified
The Beatles ❤
I remember holding my mother hand when I was little boy down town in the 60s and seeing the Beatles pictures and music flowing thru the stores and thinking wow this is special refreshing...Wow great memories I’ll never forget!!!