BEATLES I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN EARLY VERSION

[Carlettyno]

it's no the Beatles! it's a new tape of early years.

[Carlettyno]

it's no the Beatles! it's a new tape of early years.

[Carlettyno]

Si sente da lontano che questa è una bufala, è solo una nuova registrazione fatta adesso da qualcun altro e di scarsa qualità audio.

[luvumo2day]

kewl

[jgentleman07]

Great early version!

[jgentleman07]

Really, really, really cool. This version swings, and the pitch is lower, sounding right out of the late 50's (rockabiliy/skiffle, Everly Bros/Buddy Holly influenced). The sound they played a major role in inventing hadn't arrived yet.

[dodeka]

I used to listen to this alot when I was younger. I could never figure out the lyrics in the chorus. Does anyone have their own interpretation? Especially that last line. I think it goes:

Don't leave me alone my dear

have courage

and ["blank"...sounds like follow me my dear.]

[Laughingman120]

WHOA! at the end their playing Red Hot by Robert Johnson. Great stuff, hard to make out but you can hear "My girl is red hot" and "I gotta girl shes long and tall, sleeps in the kitchen with her feets in the hall"

[bushkini]

Paul wrote this song when he was 16 years old.....Do your homework before you post shite

[STUDIOCHINCHAN]

This was one of the first songs written by John and Paul. Please listen and watch my version in my Video Response.

:) Eric

[shanenorberg]

this aint the beatles. paul mccartney has a much softer voice than that

[Steezie430]

shitty quality, who knows

[smillar98]

I agreed at first, but I heard some paul at

0:52. I couldn't even detect an accent.

[TheBeatlesShop]

The Quarrymen (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Sutcliffe, with M.McCartney) May 1960. Paul's house!

Outstanding!

[xxxsweettartxxx]

omg! I can't believe someone else actually knows their beatles background! this makes me smile.

[mpm111144]

@TheBeatlesShop Saw them in Hamburg, Germany in 1962 while I was in the U.S. Navy. Then again in Liverpool in 1963, when my ship took President Kennedy's helicoptors over there when he spoke at the Berlin Wall. By the way...my last name is McCartney. Same first name as Paul's brother. Middle initial P. Pauls real first name is James. My Dad and brothers middle name is James. I'm left handed. Play guitar right handed though. Go figure. :D)

[TheBeatlesShop]

@mpm111144 Wow. That's great to hear. Lots of history. And all your family names!!

[unemployedfreak]

Definitely either Paul McCartney singing or the best impersonator I've ever heard.

[unemployedfreak]

And then John near the end?!

[bgaudet3]

I agree, if its not Paul, it could have been. But the Driving rythem guitar is typical of John on his Ricky and the lead has the very tentative notes of George.

[madmanduck]

Folks...this is actually the Beatles playing around 1960! This song is actually heard briefly on the first episode of the Beatles Anthology and the one that follows also.

[rockshow21]

This is not the beatles playing or singing.

[madmanduck]

It is....0:35-0:37 is heard on the Anthology series when they talk about the early recordings.

[BeatlesManiac45]

yes it is

[lee8552]

well maybe it is.

[lee8552]

this isn't the beatles playing lol. its not a bad cover though...

[madmanduck]

It is. This version is briefly heard on the Anthology series.

[BeatlesManiac45]

yes it is!!

[LadyCayenne]

I prefer this version.

[thelmasss]

It´s a real version, isn´t it????

[joseluisyago]

THIS IS FALSE !!!

[saltysalty67]

I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you, but how do you know it's false. What research did you do? At least give us some info about your ahem..."insight" into this song's origins. Step up to the plate. Don't just swing you bat around like a witless monkey.

[beatlefannumber1]

no it is not this was a quarrymen rehearsal in liverpool.  Some people think it was in hamburg but it was not

[dlawrick]

Awesome. It manifests raw natural songwriting and vocal talents. Even the melody of the dropped bridge is a natural fit. It was a good day looking through the lace curtains on Forthlin Road..

[beatlesgirlyy6828]

ahh whats the name of the song after "i'll follow the sun"??

[bigstripeydave]

My Girl Is Red Hot. It's a cover. Original song by Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks, 1959.

[beatlesgirlyy6828]

thank yoou! :]

[Lefthandbadass]

Actually, the original is by Billy Emerson. This arrangement of the song was first recorded by Billy Lee Riley & his Little Green Men in 1957 with Jerry Lee Lewis on piano.

[punkvictim]

bullshit much? lol

[wwooddaaddyy]

TERRIBLE. I'm glad they grew as musicians and polished that song into the jewel it is in the final version.

[whitedwarf13]

is this actually when the band were the beatles? or was it by the quarrymen? or the silver beetles?

[BeatlesManiac45]

I LIKE THIS ONE BETTER THEN THE NEWER 1!

[BeatlesManiac45]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[BeatlesManiac45]

omg how old were they?!

[dsmar]

As a Beatles fan I loved it. Never had heard it before. However I like the final known version much better. We can clearly see how fast they developed as musicians and also how important George Martin was for this development.

I think they should have kept the original bridge though, I like the message it brings to the context of the song, which is one of my fav.

[JudLFC]

wow thats amazing how old were they then?

[powergirl901]

This one appears to be another song where the bridge was supplied by Lennon. The bridge here is not the ...and now the time has gone...bit.

[IDLERACER]

"Well don't leave me alone"

"Have courage and follow me my dear"

The original bridge didn't even rhyme.

[050558B]

i met my partner in lennons bar in mathew st

[Yose909]

LOVE IT! A wonderful example of a great Beatle song in its infancy.

Thank you so much!

[santasxgirlfriend]

coool! thanx for sharing

[Pealsi]

That was great...baby Beatles cutting their teeth!

[metricfoot]

way cool... Lennon always gets the nod for being the poet (and yes, he was for sure) but McCartney was there as well in the best tradition of the surrealist poets... his songs like fixing a hole, junk, et al are in a league with cats like Duncan, Bly, Thomas and Gascoyne...Surrealism as international Modernism will always out last the superficial... but having said all that, good rock and roll just feels fucking good... so i'll follow the sun...

[kikansya2004]

I'm so happy that I can listen to this song today.

Thank you very, very much!

[Crisstti]

Thanks, and thanks for the info too!.

[GingerGilligan]

It's better than the version they actually made.

[jx14aby]

oh, come on ginger.

[GingerGilligan]

So bad it's good?

[Joshua12345]

Love these tapes, really do. Signs of what was to come with this song ( somewhere! )

[lenmacharstar]

thanks beatlejim64

[beatlejim64]

Recorded in Macca's living room in April of 1960...

John Lennon...Paul McCartney...George Harrison..and

Stuart Sutcliffe. The baging you hear is Pau;s younger brother Mike...NOT Pete Best. He didn't join until August

of 1960...

"Red Hot"...The Beatles(with Ringo) taped New Years Eve

of 1962 at The Star Club in Hamburg Germany!

[ometec]

I've got Mikes Album