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Jinnistan
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Many radio appearances.

The Beatles' on the BBC show Saturday Club are among their best.  Although the one showing on Here We Go, in the wake of the release of the first LP, represents the first of the BBC recordings which has been salvaged in professional quality, even though it's pretty pedestrain performance-wsie.  The Saturday Club show from March 16th is more exciting, if less fidelity.  We have the standard Chuck Berry numbers, "Too Much Monkey Business" and "I''m Talking About You", in addition with live takes on "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Please Please Me", and a unique arrangement of "Hippy Hippy Shake", with a languorous lead guitar.  This would be discarded immediately in the other versions of the tune performed without 1963.





The Beatles would also begin performing on the BBC Side By Side program, including performing the show's intro music. and on April 1st, showcased the earliest acceptable performance of "Long Tall Sally" and the premiere of "Thank You Girl" prior to the release of the single.  The premiere of "From Me To You" is only available in a small segment of a BBC broadcast of Easy Beat on April 3rd, but the a full length version from April 4th, also on Side By Side, is more indicative.  This show also includes a rare performance of a Beatle original, "I'll Be On My Way", a mostly McCartney tune which was given to Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, and remains the only available verison of the tune performed by the Beatles.  Also during this spring of 1963, John Lennon recorded a demo for a song called "Bad To Me", also destined for Billy J. Kramer.  Since neither Lennon nor McCartney could write or read musical notation, all of their original compositions which were given to others for recording must have existed in some form as direct recordings from the songwriters themselves, although only a very few have been publicly made available.  Most of what has,

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