Acetate Collection Vol. 2

The Beatles


Acetate Collection Vol. 2 - Front Cover	Acetate Collection Vol. 2 - Back Cover

Label Unicorn

Catalogue No. UC 143

Release Date 2011

Total Time 65:08

Comments:
(from the sleeve) According to the liner notes for this release, “Ten years have passed since the release of Unicorn’s Acetate Collection in 2001,
although some were controversial, it did compile a comprehensive selection of rare and unreleased Beatles acetates.
Although this set doesn’t offer a full running order of acetates, it does provide the listener with some rare and previously un-bootlegged recordings.”
There is no overriding logic to the selection.
All of the tracks come from the original sources without any digital filtering, speed correction or mastering.
The age of the acetates are obvious by surface noise and clicks and pops in the music, but all are acceptable under the circumstances.

The C.D.

No	Tracklisting	Comments	Time
1	Sunday Night At The London Palladium 1963	Sourced from a recently discovered 10" 33rpm acetate The first side of the acetate has the edited highlights of The Beatles’ show with “From Me To You,” “I’ll Get You,” “She Loves You” and “Twist & Shout” Awful sound quality, almost like it is recorded off a television speaker	9:55
2	Christmas Message Outtake	8th November 1965 - Unreleased random chat not used on 3rd Christmas Flexi Paul makes an introduction, but after that it's hard work to get anything usable out of anyone. With the band talking about slicing babies (a la the “butcher” cover) and Lennon swearing, it’s obvious why this was never released	11:58
Tracks 3-8 are all from Liverpool Empire 22nd December 1963
3	From Me To You - I Saw Her Standing There	Starts with 20 seconds of drum beat !	4:03
4	All My Loving - Roll Over Beethoven	Paul, "A new song off the new LP we released this week !"	5:09
5	Boys - 'Til There Was You	John, "Ringo was going to sing the new song, but he hasn't learnt it"	4:59
6	She Loves You - This Boy	George introduces This Boy	4:50
7	I Want To Hold Your Hand - Money (That's What I Want)	Paul thanks everyone and rouses the audience before Money	6:10
8	Twist And Shout - From Me To You (instrumental)	Sounds like the show finishes and the band leave to the instrumental.	2:54
9	Magical Mystery Tour	Acetate of RM4 Lacking some of the instruments and overdubs of the official version	2:46
10	A Day In The Life (Interlude)	Stereo remix	0:31
11	Can You Take Me Back	Long version edited from best source	1:54
12	Hum	Unused Edit Piece for ‘A Day In The Life’	0:12
13	King Lear BBC Broadcast	As used in the I Am The Walrus fade out.	0:44
14	The Beach Boys & The Beatles	Capitol Records acetate of Telephone Interview 11th March 1964 The Capitol Records acetate with type-written label was purchased for $5 at an L.A. flea market in 2001 and later sold at auction for a staggering $10.000!! The original 6 minute recording seems to be the only one in existence. Unicorn offer a small excerpt of Brian Wilson saying he likes the Beatles’ haircuts and George Harrison joking that they cut their own hair.	0:15
15	The Elastic Oz Band - God Save Us	From 8" Apple acetate Lennon vocal and lacking saxophone and other overdubs	4:54
16	Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy	Apple 8" acetate Notably different from the released version - horns are buried in the mix, but Hallelujah is much louder	3:29

Label	Unicorn
Catalogue No.	UC 143
Release Date	2011
Total Time	65:08
Comments: (from the sleeve)	According to the liner notes for this release, “Ten years have passed since the release of Unicorn’s Acetate Collection in 2001, although some were controversial, it did compile a comprehensive selection of rare and unreleased Beatles acetates. Although this set doesn’t offer a full running order of acetates, it does provide the listener with some rare and previously un-bootlegged recordings.” There is no overriding logic to the selection. All of the tracks come from the original sources without any digital filtering, speed correction or mastering. The age of the acetates are obvious by surface noise and clicks and pops in the music, but all are acceptable under the circumstances.