New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Webster & Associates) Louise Harrison will travel to New York this week to promote the recent release of THE BEATLES WITH TONY SHERIDAN: FIRST RECORDINGS: 50th Anniversary Edition and share her memories of The
Beatles and her brother, George. An integral part of the band's breakthrough in America, where she had been living when the group released their first single,
Louise is credited with working tirelessly to get their song played on American radio for the first time. Her interviews in New York with media outlets including the CBS Early Show, NPR program The Takeaway, VH1's Classic Rock Nights with Eddie Webb, SiriusXM, The Fox Business Channel, Better TV, and many more will coincide with the 10th anniversary of
George Harrison's death.
As one of the earliest supporters of The Beatles, it is fitting that
Louise Harrison speak about their first recordings, captured in the new double-disc collection. Released by Time Life on November 8th, THE BEATLES WITH TONY SHERIDAN: FIRST RECORDINGS: 50th Anniversary Edition is a remarkable story, told through music, mementos and words, of a band on the cusp of changing music and pop culture forever. The collection is a fascinating and comprehensive view of one of the most important yet overlooked moments in
Beatles history.
Entertainment Weekly noted that the set "hints at the greatness to come" while calling Harrison's "Cry For a Shadow" one of its best tracks. Along with the songs, the box set includes a deluxe booklet which presents an in-depth look into the beginnings of one of the greatest and most influential groups in pop music history. The historical text by
Beatles scholar Hans Olaf Gottfridsson is brought to life with rare and candid photos by Astrid Kirchherr, copies of contracts, and personal biographies handwritten by each member in 1961. The earliest days of The
Beatles have never been revisited in such detail.
The set includes every recording they made for German producer Bert Kaempfert and Polydor in 1961 and 1962 and feature Tony Sheridan on lead vocals, a decision made by Kaempfert. However,
John Lennon sings lead vocals on "Ain't She Sweet," and
George Harrison plays an instrumental, "Cry For A Shadow." Multiple versions have been released throughout the past several decades - some in mono, some in stereo - each with distinctly different sounds. Most notably, the US versions of these tracks were overdubbed with another guitar player and drummer in an attempt to mirror the edgier sound the group had evolved into, unbeknownst to American fans at the time of their release in 1964. All versions of every track, including mono and stereo mixes, are included in the double disc set, remarkable in their difference but all bearing the same unmistakable sound of a wholly new kind of band.
