Live! At The Star Club In Hamburg Germany 1962 - Original 1977 Japanese Victor label 26-track 2LP

Original 1977 Japanese Victor label 26-track 2LP Set - featuring the legendary tracks recorded in late December 1962 at the Star-Club during The Beatles' final Hamburg residencyafter Ringo Starr joined the Group.

The recordings were done by leader of The Dominoes, King Size Taylor and the club's stage manager, Adrian Barber, using a Grundig home reel-to-reel recorder with a single microphone placed in front of the stage.

Vinyl has the generic grey Company labels with black centre- and white rimprint and top 'Nipper' logo.
Vinyls comes complete with illustrated 12-page booklet featuring lyrics in Japanese and English - everything held in a sturdy gatefold Picture cover with wide 'A Piece Of History' OBI.

Condition: VG++ (Record 1 Vinyl and Labels)/M- (Record 2 Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Booklet)/VG++ (cover)/VG++ (OBI):
Side 1, 3, and 4 vinyls are mint, Side 2 vinyl has a single light and inaudible mark - otherwise perfect. Labels are perfect and vinyl is overall graded extremely close to mint and plain mint respectively.

Booklet has only very marginal signs of handling and is graded near mint - a little age spotting on back along spine and almost no wrinkling from marginal bends.
Cover is perfect apart from lower opening and spine corner dents - and hints of opening edge rubbing.
OBI has a ca 1 - 2mm upper mid rip and bend but is otherwise mint - graded neat perfect.


Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1.Introduction - 0:34
2. I Saw Her Standing There (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 2:22
3. Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry) - 2:15
4. Hippy Hippy Shake (Chan Romero) - 1:42
5. Sweet Little Sixteen (Berry) - 2:45
6. Lend Me Your Comb (Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman) - 1:44
7. Your Feet's Too Big (Ada Benson, Fred Fisher) - 2:18

Side 2:
1. Twist and Shout (Phil Medley, Bert Russell) - 2:03
2. Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson) - 2:06
3. A Taste of Honey (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) - 1:45
4. Bésame Mucho (Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar) - 2:36
5. Reminiscing (King Curtis) - 1:41
6. Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Richard Penniman) - 2:09

Side 3:
1. Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees) (Eddie Fontaine, Cirino Colacrai, Diane Lampert, John Gluck) - 1:15
2. To Know Her Is to Love Her (Phil Spector) - 3:02
3. Little Queenie (Berry) - 3:51
4. Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It) (Frederick Hollander, Sammy Lerner) - 1:57
5. Ask Me Why (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:26
6. Be-Bop-A-Lula (Gene Vincent, Bill Davis) - 2:29
7. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Ray Charles) - 2:10

Side 4:
1. Red Sails in the Sunset (Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams) - 2:00
2. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (Carl Perkins) - 2:25
3. Matchbox (Carl Perkins) ? 2:35
4. I'm Talking About You (Berry) - 1:48
5. Shimmy Like Kate (Armand Piron, Fred Smith, Cliff Goldsmith) ? 2:17 Based on The Olympics' arrangement of "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate"
6. Long Tall Sally (Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, Penniman) - 1:45
7. I Remember You (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 1:54


Credits:

The Beatles:
George Harrison ? lead guitar| harmony and backing vocals| lead vocal.
John Lennon ? rhythm guitar| harmony and backing vocals| harmonica Vocal| lead vocal.
Paul McCartney ? bass guitar| harmony and backing vocals| lead vocal.
Ringo Starr ? drums.

Additional Musicians:
Horst Fascher, Star-Club manager - Lead vocal (Hallelujah I Love Her So)
Fred Fascher, Star-Club waiter - lead vocal (Be-Bop-A-Lula)


Technical Credits:
Larry Grossberg - Production, Engineer
Larry Halpern, Mitchell Margo - Co-production
Jim Zipf - Mix
John Battaglia - Editing