Let us don't forget that this was Tony Sheridan singing. He asked the Beatbrothers with Pete Best to go with him in a Hamburg studio 1961. The Beatles were unknown in that time.
I saw Tony Sheridan at the Scottish Rite in Chula Vista, CA in 2001. When asked about "My Bonnie," half the audience in the room went absolutely crazy. This was history in the making!
Mark Lewisohn has a great reason for Polydor calling them "the Beat Brothers". The word "beatle" rhymes with "peedle" which is German slang for a guy's junk. Polydor, in '61, wasn't going to release a record by Tony Sheridan and The Wankers, so........
@@willzimjohn too truth, as he shows playing lead in here, very reminiscent of his work with the Wreckers etc on Oh Boy a few years earlier. Just a shame he was a loose cannon off the stage.
@@firstlastname3865 they were called "beat brothers" because that was a generic term by Polydor if a song featured any kind of backing band. Theres other songs labeled Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers that had no involvement by the beatles.
i grew up with this 45 hanging on the wall behind thick glass. green paper sleeve , an orginal. it was my fathers. i had no idea what it was worth at the time. and the importance of it to many people. amazing memories even for those who were not there.. Beatles!!
The Beatels make me feel that I wish I was born in the same era as my grandmother has. In the 1940s. Then atleast I would have been there to experience them and the life back then. Kids who grew up in the 50s and 60s were really lucky
@@Snow-Stuff if they’re lucky, they’ll get signed. but they’ll only last a couple albums or single before they quit. they’e not as good as elvis, for example. they don’t have much potential
proves pete best got shafted ...this is a great example of petes drumming!! it shows he has range and tempo and can bring it when he has to...awesome..
There's no bass drum or toms in this recording becuase they were taken off him. He kept messing up and trying to play too much. Probably the correct decision for the band.
Wow, the early rocking Beatles with Tony Sheridan...What a cool video. Und ein Kompliment für den deutschen Sänger im Anfang...Merci beaucoup....You will see this video on my Facebook timeline...
Thank you, PJGM8... a nice addition to the "1962 era" category in my play list... just what I was looking for! The audio is nice -- and the pictures are an added bonus. :-) Thank you for the effort... much appreciated. I couldn't find that much on "1961" [or before, either].
actually this is Tony Sheridan playing the solo, George only fills the song with the lead wich is shared between him and tony. But is damn good solo though
@@FranzBiscuit and you're right when you Said that Harrison is on the lead, i was wrong when i said that the lead is "shared" by both of them, but the solo is played by Sheridan not by George
my intrest is in the song, as the first commercial recording with the Beatles, and re-released in early 64, I have always found this song a fantastic example of george Harrisons guitar ability, so much so, that he doesn't seem to ever have the same fevered, reckless enthusiam in any future Beatle song, his guitar solos progress to a dizzying hieght, with a reckless abandon like a run away train, raw and pure rock and roll. you can tell he loved to play the heck out of that old folk tune.
Hi! Not George! Tony Sheridan, sensational guitarist and singer. George later said that everything he ever knew about rock and roll he learned from Tony.
In the video at 1:58 I'm not sure if that is Tony Sheridan or a young Robert Mitchum . I know shortly after this the Beatles flew to Hamburg to meet and take pictures of themselves with Marlene Detrick. If I misspelled her name, sorry.
I was in Germany that year! It was the summer between the 3rd and 4th grade at Heidelberg American Elementary School #2. We will rocking out to Chubby Checker.
I was trying not to blink because I knew I'd miss something. But hey, no worries. That gives me an excuse to watch it again and again. Great vid. Thanks for posting This made my day
Grande classico de TONY SHERIDAN, merito de tony Sheridan tao-somente, cuja voz por abencoada que e, lhe pertence, do mesmo modo o jeito, a forma ou mesmo o estilo de cantar, inigualavel, - na ocasiao, os Beatles, entre outros eram contratados para lhe acompanhar, ou seja., eram seus empregados, dai o motivo de nunca lhe homenagearem, sera ingratidao? magoas do passado? certamente sim, etc., os Beatles na ocasiao so eram conhecidos em alguns bairros de Londres e onde tocavam, etc., nao quero tirar os meritos dos BEATLES, na fase pos Tony Sheridan, pois tambem gosto muito dos mesmos, sao genios, especiais, inigualaveis tambem, mas o Tony Sheridan, foi um marco marco para os BEATLES, SEM SOMBRAS DE DUVIDAS. maneco - Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre - Brasil.
I fully agree with you. Tony Sheridan was already a hero in Hamburg, when the Beatles came there. They looked up to him and were proud that he asked them to serve him in the studio.
I remember a few times I played this, saying it was early Beatles, people thought it was Elvis singing. The Beatles did meet Elvis, but not until after they became famous.
omg i'm abusing the the pausing button for my craving of catching up with that whole lot of fantastic photos! it's too fast for me...anyway thanks for posting
@ejdiii333 Wow. I completely agree. He did some good solos later, like, "Here Comes the Sun," but none of them rocked, and his solo on "I Saw Her Standing There" is just pain.
That song was wriiten by Charles Bertie/tony Sheridan. Sung by tony, the backing group were what was gunna be the Beatles, John made sorted out the proper name after this. The beatles
Bert Kaempfert didn’t use bass drums on ANY of his Pop productions, starting as far back as 1958’s ‘Ich Brauch Einen Ring’ by Ted Herold. Tony Sheridan didn’t like Pete and his playing style. Both he and the band had never worked with Kaempfert before, didn’t know his production methods and there was a language barrier between Sheridan and Kaempfert. When Tony saw Kaempfert telling Pete not to use the bass and tom drums, he thought his opinion of Pete’s playing was being validated. Unaware this was something Kaempfert did all the time. People often point to this session as evidence of Pete’s alleged bad drumming. Regardless of what anyone thinks of his playing, the bass-less production style of Bert Kaempfert undeniably proves Pete has had a black mark wrongly held against him for over 60 years
@AkiroXKE ........they both are listed as playing lead guitar, doesnt say in anything ive read who did the solo..if youve seen this stated somewhere, id like to know where
Hi jillzi7! It is totally Tony Sheridan on the fabulous guitar solo. He was already an accomplished artist when George and the others came to Hamburg, and truly a key figure in Rock history. I've found wonderful commenters on some of these videos who were on the scene then, they lived this, and they offer valuable insight. Lots of articles and interviews with contemporary musicians are out there too...but be careful of Wikipedia and Beatles fan sites, they can be misleading. I knew Tony just a little. He sang Bonnie and lots of songs to me, and told me how he recorded with some of the Beatles when they started out. He was a wonderful guy.
@jt123egypte Actually, the "beat brothers" is referring to the Beatles, who,for some reason, were forced to go by "beat brothers" on this record because the other people thought "Beatles" was a bad name. The Beatles are backing Tony Sheridan in this one. It was their first record ever. Also, back then, the Beatles went by all kinds of names, everything from "Johnny and the Moondogs" to the "Nerf Twins" (sorry I'm not trying to be a smarty pants but where do you come off calling people "Dumbo"
I think your in error, according to the 1974? interview with tony sheridian, used in the documentary "the complete beatles" (BBC) Tony states that the beat boys where a studio band, that the beatles did also play on his record,for about half of the songs, and My Bonnie was sung by himself and the Beatles where the band on that song. you can hear paul and johns cat calling, there voices are distinct. Ain't she sweet was recorded at same session, and that is clealy john singing.
hi! Tony sings and plays lead guitar on Bonnie, and that's his fabulous solo. The Beat Brothers, I think, is the generic name for the backing group that Polydor could use for its recordings---not always the same musicians. This album was Tony Sheridan with the Beat Brothers. When the Beatles became popular it was reissued, eventually becoming The Beatles with Tony Sheridan. (Business!) It's Tony on all tracks, with varying input from the others, except for two---Ain't She Sweet and Cry For A Shadow. I'm not sure about Nobody's Child, but Tony's other songs were chosen by Kaempfert to target the young German market. This was especially so with the old Scottish tune My Bonnie which they all sang in school. People write all kinds of things, but I'm pretty sure of these facts. Met Tony a long time ago, he was a wonderful guy. Thanks!
Karl Hinze the sound engineer said the drummer was lousy and they did not like the sound of Pete beating the bass drummer every beat to the bar so they took away his bass drum so he could only play with the snare and hi hat. He also said there is a passage in My Bonnie where everything is a mess.
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The most thrashing rock and roll music at that time! The guitar solo is badass!
TONY SHERIDAN played the guitar solo - - GEORGE HARRISON played the fills as TONY snag -
Let us don't forget that this was Tony Sheridan singing. He asked the Beatbrothers with Pete Best to go with him in a Hamburg studio 1961. The Beatles were unknown in that time.
I saw Tony Sheridan at the Scottish Rite in Chula Vista, CA in 2001. When asked about "My Bonnie," half the audience in the room went absolutely crazy. This was history in the making!
Tony Sheridan is the singer.
This song was made when "The Beatles" were known as the "Beat Brothers"
That's what the were identified as on various record labels. This recording was requested of Brian Epstein "by The Beatles".
Mark Lewisohn has a great reason for Polydor calling them "the Beat Brothers". The word "beatle" rhymes with "peedle" which is German slang for a guy's junk. Polydor, in '61, wasn't going to release a record by Tony Sheridan and The Wankers, so........
@@willzimjohn too truth, as he shows playing lead in here, very reminiscent of his work with the Wreckers etc on Oh Boy a few years earlier. Just a shame he was a loose cannon off the stage.
@@firstlastname3865 they were called "beat brothers" because that was a generic term by Polydor if a song featured any kind of backing band. Theres other songs labeled Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers that had no involvement by the beatles.
Rip
this kicks arse! these lads are going places, i'm telling you!
Not with this drummer they ain't!
@@SpaceTravel1776you dont have to do Pete Best dirty like that lol
i grew up with this 45 hanging on the wall behind thick glass. green paper sleeve , an orginal. it was my fathers. i had no idea what it was worth at the time. and the importance of it to many people. amazing memories even for those who were not there.. Beatles!!
Great early photos of the Beatles during their Hamburg days. I wish I had some of these photos, nicely printed.
The Beatels make me feel that I wish I was born in the same era as my grandmother has. In the 1940s. Then atleast I would have been there to experience them and the life back then. Kids who grew up in the 50s and 60s were really lucky
what they know about gas station carts tho
It's amzing that we'e got Now and Then in 2023
Great video. loved the photos. Many that I'd never seen. Thank you!!
Rest in peace little Bonnie 🐈 I'll always remember when they're playing your song...
Happy birthday Paul McCartney, you’re 80 and still alive doing shows!
Well look at this nice group of young boys hope they have a good musical career
They sang the back vocals and played the instruments with Pete Best. Love the pictures!
Nobodies here !!! Then enters the real Magician with the Midas touch. Thank you BRIAN EPSTEIN. RIP brother
This guys are gonna be huge!
You think?
@@kristinasavic9376 no way. guitar bands are on their way out already.
@@ahard-daysnight6659 i saw them play this at a local club near I live called the cavern their pretty good
@@Snow-Stuff if they’re lucky, they’ll get signed. but they’ll only last a couple albums or single before they quit.
they’e not as good as elvis, for example. they don’t have much potential
@@ahard-daysnight6659 Decca! Decca! Decca!
The fabulous guitar and the fabulous singing on My Bonnie are by the one and only Tony Sheridan.
All these years I though it was George...
@@dominiccrea2306 Hi Dom! Yes, Tony is vastly uncredited!
Of all the former Beatles, I like Pete best 😅😄
@@dominiccrea2306 It was dude
@@dominiccrea2306 Tony just sang in this one
proves pete best got shafted ...this is a great example of petes drumming!! it shows he has range and tempo and can bring it when he has to...awesome..
There's no bass drum or toms in this recording becuase they were taken off him. He kept messing up and trying to play too much. Probably the correct decision for the band.
love it..
Good drummer Pete Best! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Significantly more than Four, FAB photos and images to accompany a solid sounding rendition - Thanks for posting
Wow! The lead guitar is amazing!
Yes!! The great Tony Sheridan.
so great. I reminds me , when I was a little child...Amazing !!
Wow, the early rocking Beatles with Tony Sheridan...What a cool video. Und ein Kompliment für den deutschen Sänger im Anfang...Merci beaucoup....You will see this video on my Facebook timeline...
sweet sweet sweet beatles memory video, RIP John and George and let their music Rock for all times to come ! thanks to my special friend Melanie.
We’re Paul and John singing in the background?
Hey, great early Beatles pics!! Really enjoyed that, and the song is great!
Thanks for the video. Just reading Paul McCartney - Many Years From Now . Excellent background music :)
Thank you, PJGM8... a nice addition to the "1962 era" category in my play list... just what I was looking for! The audio is nice -- and the pictures are an added bonus. :-)
Thank you for the effort... much appreciated. I couldn't find that much on "1961" [or before, either].
Thanks for the rare pictures most of them I'd never seen!
Ringo wasn't part of the band at the time.... but thanks for including the pic.
gotta love that typical John face at 0:55 !! haha
great vid, thanks a lot!**
Sami sami om
He does Elvis as well as Elvis! Thanks for posting!
Pete had a nice style the short time he was a Beatle
This is awesome Pricila! Thanks for sharing the vid!
Think one of the best beat song , i love it , Tony Sheridan great too :)
At 1:20, George is absolutely SMOKIN’ on his solo !
actually this is Tony Sheridan playing the solo, George only fills the song with the lead wich is shared between him and tony. But is damn good solo though
@@CauaH1 With all due respect to Mr. Sheridan, you just spoiled my day.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound Sorry mate
@@CauaH1 No, it is not. That is George on the lead guitar and Sheridan on as lead vocals.
@@FranzBiscuit and you're right when you Said that Harrison is on the lead, i was wrong when i said that the lead is "shared" by both of them, but the solo is played by Sheridan not by George
my intrest is in the song, as the first commercial recording with the Beatles, and re-released in early 64, I have always found this song a fantastic example of george Harrisons guitar ability, so much so, that he doesn't seem to ever have the same fevered, reckless enthusiam in any future Beatle song, his guitar solos progress to a dizzying hieght, with a reckless abandon like a run away train, raw and pure rock and roll. you can tell he loved to play the heck out of that old folk tune.
Hi! Not George! Tony Sheridan, sensational guitarist and singer. George later said that everything he ever knew about rock and roll he learned from Tony.
holy shit - your slideshow is incredible!!
bring back my johnny to me ^.^
I’m from the future and paul is 80 now and Ringo is 81, still alive doing concerts
If only time travel was possible the time I'd choose 😎👍
Depois de muitos anos ele ainda não postou video😄
Good pictures and good matching. thanks for posting this up.
great pictures !!
Punk Rock is getting energy........from......THE BEATLES
When Tony is singing it's George on lead guitar, the guitar solo is Tony.
Nicely done ✔
In the video at 1:58 I'm not sure if that is Tony Sheridan or a young Robert Mitchum . I know shortly after this the Beatles flew to Hamburg to meet and take pictures of themselves with Marlene Detrick. If I misspelled her name, sorry.
Hi! Just a guess: think the guy far left might be Gene Vincent. Tony knew and played with him. Do know that is not Tony Sheridan.
Excellent!
Wow😊 it's cool!!! 😎
very very good slideshow!!
George! 0:25
♥❇♥❇♥❇♥❇♥❇♥ OMG I l♥ve this!!! And all the pics!! Nice work!!
I love the song!!
Pete Best on Drums, among the earliest professional recordings of the Beatles in June of 1961.
I was in Germany that year! It was the summer between the 3rd and 4th grade at Heidelberg American Elementary School #2. We will rocking out to Chubby Checker.
@@stevenforrett3665 ..."And do the Twist!"
I was trying not to blink because I knew I'd miss something.
But hey, no worries. That gives me an excuse to watch it again and again.
Great vid.
Thanks for posting
This made my day
What a nice song #
#beste klasse ever warum haben wir so wenig hobbys
@@emil7314 aha
0 dislikes!!!! LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY!!!!! GREAT SONG!!!!
never another band like the Beatles.
Jamás The Beatles es y será la mejor banda de la historia
The DOORS 😅
Awesome.
Grande classico de TONY SHERIDAN, merito de tony Sheridan tao-somente, cuja voz por abencoada que e, lhe pertence, do mesmo modo o jeito, a forma ou mesmo o estilo de cantar, inigualavel, - na ocasiao, os Beatles, entre outros eram contratados para lhe acompanhar, ou seja., eram seus empregados, dai o motivo de nunca lhe homenagearem, sera ingratidao? magoas do passado? certamente sim, etc., os Beatles na ocasiao so eram conhecidos em alguns bairros de Londres e onde tocavam, etc., nao quero tirar os meritos dos BEATLES, na fase pos Tony Sheridan, pois tambem gosto muito dos mesmos, sao genios, especiais, inigualaveis tambem, mas o Tony Sheridan, foi um marco marco para os BEATLES, SEM SOMBRAS DE DUVIDAS. maneco - Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre - Brasil.
I fully agree with you. Tony Sheridan was already a hero in Hamburg, when the Beatles came there. They looked up to him and were proud that he asked them to serve him in the studio.
I remember a few times I played this, saying it was early Beatles, people thought it was Elvis singing. The Beatles did meet Elvis, but not until after they became famous.
They would achieve greater heights, but they would never attain the sheer coolness of John, Paul, George, Pete, and Stu.
omg i'm abusing the the pausing button for my craving of catching up with that whole lot of fantastic photos! it's too fast for me...anyway thanks for posting
The photos changes are sync to the music so lets just dont doubt it
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ no sh
😂
Some rare photos here! Must have taken a long time to put this together.
Yup
Los amo eran maravillosos su música jamás morirá el mejor grupo totalmente innovadores
Pete Best カッコいい！ ドラムは上手いか下手かわからない。
@ejdiii333 Wow. I completely agree. He did some good solos later, like, "Here Comes the Sun," but none of them rocked, and his solo on "I Saw Her Standing There" is just pain.
@TheDiddlysquat
Oh no,it`s Pete in April 1961.
Ringo joined in August 1962.
Rip...Paul..John...George.....
Peaked at #48 in U.K. on 6 June 1963
this guys have to make a band
That's matter Ringo photograph when he was a kid? Did not find anyone of Pete?
매니저 브라이언과의 인연의 시초였던 노래..
비틀스의 위대한 역사의 시작..
OMG! Those r some awesome pics! Where did u get them?
That song was wriiten by Charles Bertie/tony Sheridan. Sung by tony, the backing group were what was gunna be the Beatles, John made sorted out the proper name after this. The beatles
10... Trying to sleep❤️
Pete Best sounds steady and solid as a rock, even though Kaempfert took his bass drum away. Hmmm
Bert Kaempfert didn’t use bass drums on ANY of his Pop productions, starting as far back as 1958’s ‘Ich Brauch Einen Ring’ by Ted Herold.
Tony Sheridan didn’t like Pete and his playing style.
Both he and the band had never worked with Kaempfert before, didn’t know his production methods and there was a language barrier between Sheridan and Kaempfert.
When Tony saw Kaempfert telling Pete not to use the bass and tom drums, he thought his opinion of Pete’s playing was being validated. Unaware this was something Kaempfert did all the time.
People often point to this session as evidence of Pete’s alleged bad drumming. Regardless of what anyone thinks of his playing, the bass-less production style of Bert Kaempfert undeniably proves Pete has had a black mark wrongly held against him for over 60 years
@FranFNH thx man u rock
1:09 Yeah!
0:54 look at their faces~!
@AkiroXKE ........they both are listed as playing lead guitar, doesnt say in anything ive read who did the solo..if youve seen this stated somewhere, id like to know where
Hi jillzi7!
It is totally Tony Sheridan on the fabulous guitar solo. He was already an accomplished artist when George and the others came to Hamburg, and truly a key figure in Rock history.
I've found wonderful commenters on some of these videos who were on the scene then, they lived this, and they offer valuable insight. Lots of articles and interviews with contemporary musicians are out there too...but be careful of Wikipedia and Beatles fan sites, they can be misleading.
I knew Tony just a little. He sang Bonnie and lots of songs to me, and told me how he recorded with some of the Beatles when they started out. He was a wonderful guy.
That was the beginning of pop 🎶 music
my bonnie lies over the ocean my bonnie lies over the sea
Bring back my Bonnie to me.
@jt123egypte
Actually, the "beat brothers" is referring to the Beatles, who,for some reason, were forced to go by "beat brothers" on this record because the other people thought "Beatles" was a bad name. The Beatles are backing Tony Sheridan in this one. It was their first record ever. Also, back then, the Beatles went by all kinds of names, everything from "Johnny and the Moondogs" to the "Nerf Twins"
(sorry I'm not trying to be a smarty pants but where do you come off calling people "Dumbo"
No photos of the lead singer??
That guy at 1:41 looks good.
That lead singer is terrific...but I'm not so sure that backup band is ever going to amount to much.
RIP tony ):
Increíbles, en ésa canción estaba Pete de baterista.
Y Tony sheredan es el que canta cantaba con beatles en la caverna, que en ese entonces de llamaban thr Best beats, algo así jeje
super Gitarrensound
irre gut
nice beat- these guys might go somewhere......
I think your in error, according to the 1974? interview with tony sheridian, used in the documentary "the complete beatles" (BBC) Tony states that the beat boys where a studio band, that the beatles did also play on his record,for about half of the songs, and My Bonnie was sung by himself and the Beatles where the band on that song. you can hear paul and johns cat calling, there voices are distinct. Ain't she sweet was recorded at same session, and that is clealy john singing.
hi! Tony sings and plays lead guitar on Bonnie, and that's his fabulous solo. The Beat Brothers, I think, is the generic name for the backing group that Polydor could use for its recordings---not always the same musicians. This album was Tony Sheridan with the Beat Brothers. When the Beatles became popular it was reissued, eventually becoming The Beatles with Tony Sheridan. (Business!) It's Tony on all tracks, with varying input from the others, except for two---Ain't She Sweet and Cry For A Shadow. I'm not sure about Nobody's Child, but Tony's other songs were chosen by Kaempfert to target the young German market. This was especially so with the old Scottish tune My Bonnie which they all sang in school. People write all kinds of things, but I'm pretty sure of these facts. Met Tony a long time ago, he was a wonderful guy. Thanks!
These English kids in Hamburg, eh? Pure Faustian genius.
i have one question in min 1:14 the second guy is ringo star?
jon bullick it is Pete best (The drummer before Ringo Starr joined)
{Sorry 9 years to late}
Ringo on this video ...( ??????)
hey, could you make the pictures go by a little faster please? thanks so much
ehy el intro en aleman es de otra toma o como? lo que sigue despues es la version del disco no? no existe version en aleman??
🥰🥰🥰
so who said Pete Best couldn't drum??
PETE SOUNDED GREAT ON MY BONNIE !!
George Martin,how wrong he was!
Karl Hinze the sound engineer said the drummer was lousy and they did not like the sound of Pete beating the bass drummer every beat to the bar so they took away his bass drum so he could only play with the snare and hi hat. He also said there is a passage in My Bonnie where everything is a mess.
For the early Beatles Pete was good. But John, Paul and George were innovators, you know.
No problem
To get all of my wishes today
schöne version
Why photos of ringo?
Пит Бест- красавчик.
Check out guitar George. He knows all the chords! ;-)