LIVE AT NASSAU COLLESEUM
Company: WCF as Zapple rec.
Matrix Number: 999 A / 999 B
Release date: mid 1972
Country: USA
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SIDE A
1. PEOPLE SAY
2. I'M WALKIN'
3. count-in HEY JUDE
4. count-in REVOLUTION
5. "THIS IS TO WISH YOU"
6. Brian Matthews intro TOP OF THE POPS
7. Brian Matthews intro LONG TALL SALLY B. Matthew comment
SIDE B
8. dialogue & intro A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
9. dialogue & B. Matthew intro THINGS WE SAID TODAY
10. TOP OF THE POPS (w/ B. Matthew comment)
11. SHOUT! (with DJ voiceover)
12. "EVERYWHERE IT'S CHRISTMAS"
13. "CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE AGAIN"
14. SIE LIEBT DICH
Sound quality: VG-mono (surface noise)
Source:
1, 2: officially released by "John & Paul'' (Tip Records 1021) in 1965, no Beatles involvement
3: NBC TV "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'', Oct. 6th, 1968
4: NBC TV "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'', Oct. 13th, 1968
5,12,13: from COMPLETE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION, 1969, 1966 & 1967 Xmas messages
6 to 10: BBC radio Overseas Service "Top of the Pops", 1964
11: Associated Rediffusion TV "Around the Beatles'', May 6th, 1964
14: officially released, German language version of "She Loves You."
COMMENTS
Produced by the anonymous bootlegger known as "WCF", this LP derives from a tape that was also used for parts of two CBM records - THE NEVER RELEASED MARY JANE and L.S. BUMBLE BEE. All of these tracks appear here in more complete and/or better sound quality. Tracks 6 to 10 represent a previously unreleased BBC session. This was originally recorded for "Top Gear'' on July 14th, 1964 and was broadcast two days later in the U.K. The actual source here is the Overseas Service Broadcast, featuring extracts from the original programme and renamed "Tops of the Pops'', with minor differences concerning Brian Matthew's intros but not in the Beatles' chats and performances.
RELEASES FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTERS
1. mid 1972 (photo below the title). The first version has an insert titled LIVE AT NASSAU COLLESEUM and the disc has a blue-green label with silver printed "ZAPPLE" and the track listing. The run-off grooves of side A run straight inside the label area, a typical mispressing of the WCF product, so that the matrix number on this side is invisible, covered by the label. The first track of side B skips on the first grooves.
2. 1973. Insert titled LIVE FROM GERMANY, with the same drawing as # 1; side b pressed from a new master numbered "999 B recut", with skips corrected (but with a quite noisy pressing); white blank labels.
3. 1974. Folder-type cover with the new title TOP OF THE POPS / LIVE FROM GERMANY, printed in red, retaining the original drawing of the first issue on the front and with a group of unreadable pictures on the back; same matrix as #2, white blank labels.
INTEREST. Ths LP was, at the time of its release, notable for the inclusion of the first appearance of "Top of the Pops" recordings. *** (1st pressing), * (repressings).
OTHER RELEASES
The issue #2 of the WCF release was copied, probably in 1974, by another manufacturer on matrix 0971-4 A / 0971-4 B. Two versions exist:
1. Red and yellow insert, counterfeit issue #2, with white blank labels.
2. New insert retitled THE BEATLES LAST ALBUM, in pink or light blue paper, again with white blank labels.
3. A further release had a red jacket with a new insert, blank labels.
INTEREST. Not a very common record, desirable for the nice insert of the version #2. **/*