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Artist: Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers Title: My Bonnie Label:   Polydor Country: Germany Catalogue: 46 612 / LPHM 46 612 Date: Apr 1962 Format: Mono LP Genre: Beat, Rock & Roll Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns, 1 Wants Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	My Bonnie		10.0  Rate
A2	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Skinny Minny		9.0  Rate
A3	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Whole Lot Shakin' Going On		Rate
A4	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	I Know, Baby		Rate
A5	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	You Are My Sunshine		Rate
A6	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Ready Teddy		Rate
B1	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	The Saints (When The Saints Go Marching In)		Rate
B2	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Hallelujah, I Love Her So		Rate
B3	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Let's Twist Again		Rate
B4	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Sweet Georgia Brown		Rate
B5	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Swanee River		Rate
B6	Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers	Top Ten Twist		Rate

Notes

This Polydor album is the absolute first commercial disc of 33.33 rpm thru which the Beatles did backup vocals for Tony Sheridan. At that time, the Beatles were called the Beat Brothers due to the fact that the word Beatles had closely resembled a vulgar German word. Furthermore, the band members of the Beat Brothers were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliff.

Two recordings, When The Saints Go Marching In and My Bonnie, thru which the intro was sung in German, were issued in December 1961by means of Polydor 24-673. Due to the success of My Bonnie and other various tunes that Mr. Sheridan and the Beat Brothers had recorded, the record executives of Polydor had decided to make a twelve-song album of the Beat Brothers tunes. Surprisingly, this disc not initially sell well, so this record was discontinued sometime in the last quarter of 1962.

Some years later, this Beat Brothers disc was reissued in many European countries. Even though this disc sold much better, the sound quality was not quite strong as that of the very first issue, but this first issue has become so scarce that record collectors were willing to pay a high cost just to own a copy.

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78rpm-maniac 16th Jul 2022		I´m of the opinion, that in those days in Germany, the younger people bought the single and not the LP-Album, because vinyl-records were very expensive in those days. An LP-Album had a retail-price about 16-18 DM in Germany and a single-record about 4-4,75 DM. I also collect historic advertisement-items from the record-companies. That was a lot of money for a German teenager during the early 1960s. Polydor-records was the biggest record-company in Germany and well-known for German popular music, dancband-music, classical-recordings and folk-music, as well. Popular-music in foreign languages were not so well produced and promoted, like in other countries, so that also can be a reason of less success of that, now legendary, LP-Album by Tony Sheridan. The life-standard-level in Germany in those days was not the same, as in the UK or in the USA. In 1962 the term "Beat" or "Beatmusic" was not really known in Germany, but "Rock-n-Roll", "Teenage-Songs" or "Twist" were more familiar to the music-customers.
78rpm-maniac 16th Jul 2022		Yes, that re-issue came out in 1986 i think as a commemorative record with a bonus-single incl. the German-intro version of My Bonnie. The re-issue LP and the re-issue single carry different catalogue-numbers, so don´t be confused with the original and the re-issue pressings, and, of course, take care in case of some slippery offers, where the re-issues been offered as authentic copies.

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