The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests

The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests was an American album featuring "Cry for a Shadow", a track recorded by the Beatles in Hamburg in 1961, with five tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 in which the Beatles provided backing music for vocalist Tony Sheridan, some of which had been released in Germany on the album My Bonnie under the name "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers"; the name "Beatles" had been avoided as it sounded too like Piedels, Low German for "penises".[2] The album was supplemented with six previously released recordings by the American session group the Titans. Packaged in an attempt to capitalize on The Beatles' success, the record was only moderately successful, as the album peaked at only No. 68 on the Billboard album chart. It was released by MGM Records in both mono (catalogue number E-4215) and rechanneled stereo (SE-4215.)

The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests
Compilation album by
the Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan
Released3 February 1964
RecordedTony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers: March–September 1961,
Hamburg, Germany;
The Titans: 1961,
New York, New York,
United States
GenreRock and roll
LanguageEnglish
LabelMGM
ProducerBert Kaempfert, Danny Davis
The Beatles and Tony Sheridan chronology
My Bonnie
(1962)		 The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests
(1964)		 Ain't She Sweet
(1964)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

MGM augmented the six Sheridan/Beatles tracks with six instrumental tracks by Danny Davis and the Titans, a group of New York session musicians built around guitarist Bill Mure. The Titans also included Don Lomond on drums, Dick Hickson on bass trombone, and Milt "the Judge" Hinton on bass. The six Titans tracks had been previously released on the 1961 MGM album, Let's Do the Twist for Adults. (On the original release, the songs "Flying Beat", "Rye Beat", "Summertime Beat", and "Happy New Beat" were originally titled, "Flying Twist", "Rye Twist", "Summertime Twist" and "Happy New Year Twist.")

Track listing
Side one
  1. "My Bonnie" (performed by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan)
  2. "Cry for a Shadow" (instrumental) (performed by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan)
  3. "Johnson Rag" (performed by the Titans)
  4. "Swanee River" (performed by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)
  5. "Flying Beat" (a.k.a. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze") (performed by the Titans)
  6. "Darktown Strutters' Ball" (performed by the Titans)
Side two
  1. "The Saints" (performed by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan)
  2. "Rye Beat") (performed by the Titans)
  3. "You Are My Sunshine" (performed by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)
  4. ""Summertime Beat") (performed by the Titans)
  5. "Why" (performed by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan)
  6. ""Happy New Year Beat") (performed by the Titans)

References
  1. The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests at AllMusic
  2. Lewisohn, Mark (14 Nov 2013). The Beatles: All These Years. 1: Tune In (Extended special ed.). pp. 881, 916. ISBN 978-1408704783.; "Piedel in Low German". plattmakers.de. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
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