On Air - Live At The B.B.C. Vol.2

The Beatles
 
Live At The B.B.C. - Front cover Live At The B.B.C. - Rear Cover
On Air - Live At The B.B.C. Vol.2 - Front Cover On Air - Live At The B.B.C. Vol.2 - Rear Cover
 
The Beatles Outside the BBC Paris Theatre, London 4th April 1963
The Beatles Outside the BBC Paris Theatre, London 4th April 1963

Label Apple
Catalogue No.'s 3749169 - Standard double c.d.
3750506 - Triple L.P.
3758447 - "The Collection" four c.d. set with remastered Vol.1
Release date 11th November 2013
Total time C.D. 1 - 66:00
C.D. 2 - 64:30
U.K. Album Chart Detail :
Entry Date :17th November 2013
Highest Position :12 ... 17th November 2013 for 1 week.
Weeks in Chart :7
Detail : 19 years ago EMI put out the first BBC compilation and here we have an official follow-up (at last).

On Air features 37 previously unreleased performances (officially) and 23 newly available speech tracks.
The recordings have been remastered.

Between March 1962 and June 1965 no less than 275 unique musical performances by The Beatles were broadcast by the B.B.C. in the UK.
The group played 88 different songs on national radio - some were recorded many times, others were played just once.
Ten of the songs on this album were never recorded by the band for E.M.I. in the sixties. Two of these are released for the first time ever (officially) - Beautiful Dreamer and I'm Talking About You.

On Air also features BBC recordings of 30 well-loved songs from The Beatles catalogue including five number ones.

The Beatles lively radio banter is heard throughout this album and there are also four candid interviews included.

For plenty of interesting information of the BBC sessions that I have already written about see the first official Live at the BBC release.
Also, there is a lot of interesting programme detail on the TEN c.d. bootleg boxset: Beatles At The Beeb !

This issue includes a very nice glossy 48-page booklet with an introduction by Paul McCartney, an article about the BBC sesions by Kevin Howlett, full recording information and some interesting information included agaist each track, and some very nice old pictures.

17th November 2013 - On Air entered the Official Album Chart at number 12.
24th November 2013 - Second week in the chart and On Air dropped fourteen places to number 26.
1st December 2013 - Third week in the chart and On Air dropped twenty places to number 46.
8th December 2013 - Fourth week in the chart and On Air dropped again another fourteen places to number 60.
15th December 2013 - Fifth week in the chart and On Air bounced back up one place to number 59.
22nd December 2013 - Sixth week in the chart and On Air dropped back a place again to number 60.
29th December 2013 - Seventh and final week in the chart and just hanging on to chart status as it dropped to number 75.

This second volume was also released with the first volume as a remastered four c.d. collection (catno 3758447) called "The Collection".
This also entered the official album chart on 17th November 2013, but as it was at number 86 this is outside the official Top 75.


All of the tracks highlighted in light green were NOT recorded by The Beatles for EMI.

Disc 1

No. Track Composer Broadcast Information Time
1 "And Here We Are Again" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 23rd July 1963 0:14
2 Words Of Love Holly "Pop Go The Beatles" - 20th August 1963 1:54
3 "How About It, Gorgeous ?" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 30th July 1963 0:36
4 Do You Want To Know A Secret Lennon-McCartney "Pop Go The Beatles" - 30th July 1963 1:47
5 Lucille Collins-Penniman "Pop Go The Beatles" - 17th September 1963 2:29
6 "Hey, Paul ..." (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 0:21
7 Anna (Go To Him) Alexander "Pop Go The Beatles" - 27th August 1963 2:49
8 "Hello !" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 0:17
9 Please Please Me Lennon-McCartney "Pop Go The Beatles" - 13th August 1963 1:55
10 Misery Lennon-McCartney "Here We Go" - 12th March 1963 1:49
11 I'm Talking About You Berry "Saturday Club" - 16th March 1963 1:51
12 "A Real Treat" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 0:35
13 Boys Dixon-Farrell "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 2:27
14 "Absolutely Fab" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 0:26
15 Chains Goffin-King "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 2:14
16 Ask Me Why Lennon-McCartney "Pop Go The Beatles" - 24th September 1963 1:53
17 Till There Was You Willson "Pop Go The Beatles" - 30th July 1963 2:16
18 Lend Me Your Comb Twomey-Wise-Weisman "Pop Go The Beatles" - 16th July 1963 1:47
19 "Lower 5E" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 10th September 1963 0:22
20 The Hippy Hippy Shake Romero "Pop Go The Beatles" - 10th September 1963 1:45
21 Roll Over Beethoven Berry "Pop Go The Beatles" - 3rd September 1963 2:20
22 There's A Place Lennon-McCartney "Pop Go The Beatles" - 3rd September 1963 1:47
23 "Bumper Bundle" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 0:48
24 P.S. I. Love You Lennon-McCartney "Pop Go The Beatles" - 25th June 1963 1:58
25 Please Mister Postman Dobbins-Garrett-Holland-Bateman-Gorman "Pop Go The Beatles" - 30th July 1963 2:16
26 Beautiful Dreamer Foster-Keller-Goffin "Saturday Club" - 26th January 1963 1:46
27 Devil In Her Heart Drapkin "Pop Go The Beatles" - 24th September 1963 2:20
28 "The 49 Weeks" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 24th September 1963 0:16
29 Sure To Fall Perkins-Claunch-Cantrell "Pop Go The Beatles" - 24th September 1963 2:19
30 "Never Mind, Eh ?" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 24th September 1963 0:33
31 Twist And Shout Medley-Russell "Pop Go The Beatles" - 6th August 1963 2:24
32 "Bye, Bye" (Speech) "Pop Go The Beatles" - 24th September 1963 0:13
33 John - "Pop Profile" (Speech) "BBC Transcription Service" - 30th November 1965 8:18
34 George - "Pop Profile" (Speech) "BBC Transcription Service" - 30th November 1965 8:03

Disc 2

No. Track Composer Broadcast Information Time
1 I Saw Her Standing There Lennon-McCartney "Saturday Club" - 5th October 1963 2:34
2 Glad All Over Bennett-Tepper-Schroeder "Saturday Club" - 24th August 1963 1:52
3 "Lift Lid Again" (Speech) "Saturday Club" - 24th August 1963 0:37
4 I'll Get You Lennon-McCartney "Saturday Club" - 5th October 1963 2:02
5 She Loves You Lennon-McCartney "Saturday Club" - 5th October 1963 2:14
6 Memphis, Tennessee Berry "Saturday Club" - 5th October 1963 2:14
7 Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club Hill-Hill "Saturday Club" - 5th October 1963 0:32
8 "Now Hush, Hush" (Speech) "Easy Beat" - 20th October 1963 0:23
9 From Me To You Lennon-McCartney "Easy Beat" - 20th October 1963 1:50
10 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford-Gordy "From Us To You" - 26th December 1963 2:42
11 I Want To Hold Your Hand Lennon-McCartney "From Us To You" - 26th December 1963 2:22
12 "Brian Bathtubes" (Speech) "Saturday Club" - 21st December 1963 0:58
13 This Boy Lennon-McCartney "Saturday Club" - 21st December 1963 2:15
14 "If I Wasn't In America" (Speech) "Saturday Club" - 15th February 1964 0:44
15 I Got A Woman Charles-Richard "Saturday Club" - 4th April 1964 2:35
16 Long Tall Sally Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell "Top Gear" - 16th July 1964 1:56
17 If I Fell Lennon-McCartney "Top Gear" - 16th July 1964 2:07
18 "A Hard Job Writing Them" (Speech) "Top Gear" - 16th July 1964 1:18
19 And I Love Her Lennon-McCartney "Top Gear" - 16th July 1964 2:20
20 "Oh, Can't We ? ... Yes We Can" (Speech) "From Us To You" - 30th March 1964 0:20
21 You Can't Do That Lennon-McCartney "Top Gear" - 16th July 1964 2:29
22 Honey Don't Perkins "Top Gear" - 26th November 1964 2:23
23 I'll Follow The Sun Lennon-McCartney "Top Gear" - 26th November 1964 1:48
24 "Green With Black Shutters" (Speech) "TOTP - BBC Transcription Service" - May/June 1965 0:55
25 Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey ! Leiber-Stoller-Penniman "Saturday Club" - 26th December 1964 2:43
26 "That's What We're Here For" (Speech) "Top Gear" - 26th November 1964 0:22
27 I Feel Fine (Studio Outtake) Lennon-McCartney "Outtake" - 17th November 1964 3:29
28 Paul - "Pop Profile" (Speech) "BBC Transcription Service" - 2nd May 1966 7:44
29 Ringo - "Pop Profile" (Speech) "BBC Transcription Service" - 2nd May 1966 8:00


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