The Quarrymen - Puttin On The Style / Baby, Let's Play House

First recordings of The Quarrymen: Eric Griffiths, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis, John Lennon, Pete Shotton & Len Garry.

Saturday 6 July 1957
St. Peters Church Field
Garden Fete
Woolton Parish Church
Liverpool, England
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This is the earliest known recording
of the group that evolved into the The Beatles.

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[Zebonka]

And to think, ten years later he'd be unleashing "A Day In The Life" upon the world!

[JapaninArmeija]

When there is the net, nothing remains rare. The original 5-minute bit is safely kept in the EMI archives; they bought it from an auction some day during 1990's. This is not yet the complete deal, I mean.

[johnbarry1965]

For a Beatles fan it would be akin to a Christian hearing the sermon on the mount!!!!

[Beanabear122]

Techinally only one of them went on to be the beatles.. haah.

[MJmarcelaMJ]

Paul and George were still children they had after 15 and 14 years;)

And John was 17:)

[QueenBeatlesWings]

the complete version is online- thanks to the BBC

[TheBeatlesShop]

@HermanJ06 They are genuine recordings of two songs from the evening performance of the Quarrymen in the Church Hall (across the road from the Church Field ) . Lonnie Donegan's "Puttin' On The Style" and Elvis Presley's "Baby, Let's Play House." In 1994, Bob Molyneux, a retired policeman, rediscovered a single reel-to-reel tape he had made of that evening performance, caught while experimenting with a bulky "portable" Grunding tape recorder.

[HermanJ06]

OK, not to be a skeptic, but how do they know that this recording is from that day? I could be wrong, and probably am, but I don't recall the song "Putting on the Style" ever mentioned as being played that day. "Come Go with Me" and "Baby Lets Play House" maybe.. And JL later said this was the first day he played "Be bop a lula".. It definately sounds just like JL singing tho..He must have always been a naturally good singer, even at 16.. I've never seen the first pic, either, that's nice..

[cullyvan]

EMI owns it, and as you can hear , its shit. Very valuable shit though.

[itgirlx1]

Wow this is rare?  Where did you find these reordings?!? and that first photo? i've always heard that the second photo was the only one taken of the quarrymen that day--that's also the very same day john lennon met paul mccartney for the first time immediately after this performance

[Satyagrahaha]

@PERROMALDO -- These short snippets of these songs, and only these few seconds, were played publicly at the auction when the reel tape was sold in the mid 1990s. What is heard here is a reporter's recording made in the auction room with a microphone off one of the auction house's speakers. Audio files were on the internet within 24 hours. Those audio files were the sources for various bootlegs. Anything longer means it came from the original tape itself.

[bikebeerrun1960]

Whoever made and has that tape is sittin' on A goldmine; an authentic turning point in pop music history !