Ain't She Sweet (album)

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Ain't She Sweet
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Compilation album by
The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan and The Swallows
Released5 October 1964
RecordedMarch–September 1961, , , Hamburg, Germany (The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan); unknown (The Swallows)
GenreRock and roll
LanguageEnglish
LabelAtco
ProducerBert Kaempfert (The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan tracks)/Unknown (The Swallows tracks)
The Beatles and Tony Sheridan chronology
The Beatles' First!
(1964) 		Ain't She Sweet
(1964) 		In the Beginning (Circa 1960)
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic1.5/5 stars [1]

Ain't She Sweet was an American compilation album featuring four tracks recorded in Hamburg by The Beatles in 1961 and 1962. Cover versions of Beatles and British Invasion-era songs recorded by the complete the tracklist.

History[]

This compilation album was issued by Atco Records in order to cash in on Beatlemania. Six songs were recorded by the Beatles in Hamburg in 1961 and 1962 as a backup band for guitarist Tony Sheridan plus two more by them alone. One of these is this album's title track sung by John Lennon. As Atlantic Records only had rights to four Sheridan/Beatle recordings by Polydor Records, they filled the rest of the album with Beatle and British Invasion cover songs by an obscure band called The Swallows. This material was released by Atco Records in mono (catalogue number 33-169) and stereo (SD 33-169) editions. The label also added additional drum overdubs to three of the four Hamburg cuts on top of the original drum tracks with some guitar and harmonica also added; "Nobody's Child" was edited down but the instrumentation not modified.[2] American drummer Bernard Purdie claims to have performed overdubs on unspecified Beatles records, which would most likely have been for these songs, but this has never been officially confirmed.

The other four songs featuring the Beatles that were recorded in Hamburg were licensed to MGM Records and had already been released, unadulterated, on an album called The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests in February, similarly augmented by other musician's songs.[1] All eight songs, with four others by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers, were compiled that same year by Polydor in Germany under the title The Beatles' First!,[3] reissued in the UK in 1967[4] and released in the United States in 1970 under the title In the Beginning (Circa 1960).[5]

Track listing[]

Songs are written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney unless otherwise indicated. Tracks 2, 3 and 4 performed by Tony Sheridan with the Beatles as a backing band. Tracks 5 to 12 performed by The Swallows.

Side one
  1. "Ain't She Sweet" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) (performed by The Beatles)
  2. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard)
  3. "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby" (Charles Singleton, Waldenese Hall)
  4. "Nobody's Child" (Cy Coben, Mel Foree)
  5. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
  6. "She Loves You"
Side two
  2. "How Do You Do It?" (Mitch Murray)
  3. "Please Please Me"
  4. "I'll Keep You Satisfied"
  5. "I'm Telling You Now" (Freddie Garrity, Mitch Murray)
  6. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
  7. "From Me to You"

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Ain't She Sweet at AllMusic
  2. ^ Tommy Max. "1961, June 24 (disputed)". Comprehensive Beatles. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  3. ^ Joe Goodden. "Tony Sheridan". The Beatles Bible. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  4. ^ http://thebeatles-collection.com/wordpress/2012/02/04/the-beatles-first-polydor-special-mcps-236201-2/
  5. ^ "In the Beginning". All Music. Retrieved 27 April 2021.


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