Hi. The one noticeable difference from the first edition, the 1994 album (2LP set), is the final song listed, From Us To You (closing). It was not on the first set. Perhaps some other minor changes also. Anyone?? Beatle Lew.
Added BBC as secondary ("other") label. We don't want to create hybrids unless unavoidable (and this isn't one anyway) and this keeps it, correctly, in the Apple discography.
Rob, I too have just been able to download the tracks from iTunes; they are still available. Haven't listened to them yet though. Fascinating info about Calderstone.
They are available now on iTunes, at an expensive £34.99. I'm in the middle of downloading. Having checked the quality, the 'Saturday Club', and demo recordings are improved, but the studio session material is better on bootleg. I'm wondering if there is a vinyl promo to go with this.
A point I would like to make out is the fact that all Beatle releases, since late 2012, are being made through Calderstone Productions Ltd. This was formed last year after the sale of EMI to Universal. Calderstone Road, and park, lay off of Menlove Avenue in Liverpool. The previous name of the company was Beatles Holdco Ltd. name change 29th Nov 2012 (details from UK companies register).
Additional note.(26/8/14) Calderstone are the company that looks after the recordings of The Beatles, since the sale of EMI. All future releases on vinyl will no longer contain the text 'An EMI Recording', and should have Calderstone Productions instead.
The Beatles will reportedly release The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963, a digital-only album of Beatles rare tracks exclusively to iTunes next week that will include studio outtakes and more songs recorded live for the BBC, a source with knowledge of the situation told Beatles Examiner on 10 December.
For more on this story see here, and also this article about The Beach Boys doing something similar.
I wonder how long it will take before some enterprising individual puts together a vinyl album of these iTunes tracks.