Rare Beatles recording turns up in Vancouver BC record store

[oldbrownhat]

Jack Herschorn said he got the tape in London "in 1968 or 1969" from a "well-known record producer" who he declines to name.

Story here

Neptoon Records owner Rob Frith with a reel-to-reel tape that is an unreleased Beatles demo recording made for Decca Records in 1962. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG

...A few years ago, Rob Frith of Neptoon Records bought a reel-to-reel tape labelled "Beatles demo."But he didn't bother to actually listen to it. He just assumed someone had put a Beatles bootleg on the tape.

"I've had that Beatles thing sitting at the store for years," said Frith, one of Vancouver's biggest record and poster collectors.

Last week, he was transferring some tapes at broadcaster Larry Hennessey's recording studio and brought along the Beatles tape.

Late in the evening, they put it on...

The tape features the Beatles' original drummer Pete Best, not Ringo Starr...

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[Ivan the Butcher]

Nobody mentioned weather it is any good or not. I'm guessing NOT!

Ivan

 

[lihpster]

Nobody mentioned weather it is any good or not. I'm guessing NOT!

Ivan

Doesn't matter. It's still worth a fortune.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Nobody mentioned weather it is any good or not. I'm guessing NOT!

Ivan

Well, according to the article:

Turns out, it really was a Beatles demo — a legendary session they recorded on Jan. 1, 1962, for Decca Records.

Decca rejected the band, which is arguably the biggest mistake in music history...

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So someone agreed with you! But EMI ended up laughing all the way to the bank, and the bloke from Decca probably had to buy everyone's drinks at the pub for decades.