22 January 1963
Radio broadcast (live):
Pop Inn
BBC Paris Studio, London
(broadcast: BBC Light Programme, 1.00 - 1.40 pm)
interview
At BBC Paris Studio with fellow Pop Inn guests Shane Fenton and Joan Regan
Radio recording:
Saturday Club
Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London
(rehearsal: 2.30 pm; recording: 4.00 - 5.00 pm; broadcast: BBC Light Programme, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm, 26 January)
Some Other Guy
Love Me Do
Please Please Me
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Beautiful Dreamer
"So we'll never know if Percy did or didn't make recordings of the Beatles and wipe them off.
Peter. He definitely made other recordings for Brian Epstein and the Beatles. One of which we found in a box that day in the studio in 1977. But he may well have made more and wiped them off too.
Really?
Peter. Yes. Brian Epstein was a regular visitor to the record shop and knew Grandpa well. Brian had a record shop too of course, NEMS, in the City centre. He sold all the top tunes of the day, LPs and sheet music but he would come to Grandpa's record shop to hear some of the one off records that Grandpa had from the States and the two of them would sit in the shop chatting and listening to R&B and country tunes. Brian would also ask Grandpa to record many of the Beatles' early radio appearances and put them onto disc, which he did. And it was one of those that we found that day in 1977.
What was on the disc?
Peter. It was a 7 inch 45 rpm acetate of 'Some Other Guy'; 'Beautiful Dreamer' and 'Keep Your Hands Off My Baby', recorded from an appearance on BBC Saturday Club in 1963.
Really? And what happened to that disc?
Peter. It continued to sit in a box in the house until 1990, when we sold it at Sotheby's in London. It was in the same sale as the rest of the Studio equipment.
Source: 2010 interview with Percy Phillips' grandson, Peter
"AFTER half a century and a worldwide search, the ECHO has found a Merseyside couple mentioned during a landmark Beatles broadcast.
The hunt for Elaine McGerrity began when Stuart Leaver, who recorded all of the Beatles early radio broadcasts, asked the newspaper to look for a woman who had a record dedicated to her on Saturday Club, the BBC music show on the Light Programme hosted by Brian Matthew.
Mr Leaver, now 70, said: "After they had played Some Other Guy, Brian Matthew said that he had a request from a man called Mike on behalf of a Miss Elaine McGerrity, from Mendip Road, Birkenhead.
"I recorded all of those programmes and I always wondered who Elaine McGerrity was, and what her relationship was with Mike. I wondered if they ended up getting married, or if they ever went to see The Beatles."
The show was recorded on January 26, 1963, two weeks after the release of Please Please Me. They performed Some Other Guy, Love Me Do, Please Please Me, Keep Your Hands Off My Baby and Beautiful Dreamer.
A few days after the story ran, Mike Hayes - the Mike who made the dedication - contacted the ECHO to say that he and Elaine - now Elaine Hayes, 68 - did indeed marry.
The 68-year-old said: "We were aware that there had been a recording, but we had no idea how to get a copy of it.
"It was a real surprise to see our story in the paper.
"Those days were a very exciting point in our lives and Elaine and I were both delighted to hear that a copy of the recording still existed."
The ECHO put the couple in touch with Mr Leaver, who has given them a copy of the programme.
Mr Hayes added: "It has been very exciting for us. We're going to get the family round and all have a listen at Christmas.
"We're so pleased to have a copy of it, and so grateful to Stuart Leaver for keeping hold of a little piece of history.""
Source: Liverpool Echo, 18 December 2012
Radio recording:
The Talent Spot
BBC Paris Studio, London
(rehearsal: 5.30 pm; recording: 7.00 - 8.00 pm; broadcast: BBC Light Programme, 5.00 - 5.29 pm, 29 January)
Please Please Me
Ask Me Why
Some Other Guy
"Lads went shopping. Paul and George bought slacks. George a shirt in Regent St. This was before the Sat Club recording and we lost them for a while. Back to Lower Regent Studios for recording talent spot. Met Patsy Ann Noble, Rog Whittaker, Gary Marshall, a really good show. Also on the bill was a Birkenhead singer. At about 8.15 the boys went to Brians room in the Mayfair for a Daily Mail interview. I parked the gear and joined them later... We left London at about 10 o'clock, stopping at 'Fortes' on M1 for large dinner - bought by the Beatles - and so homeward bound."
Source: Mal Evans's diary
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