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| Digital Re-Mastering of the Historic Lost Beatles Tapes Fuego Entertainment, Inc. announces that its majority owned joint venture Echo-Fuego has commenced the digital re-mastering and enhancement process to improve the quality of the historic Beatles lost tapes in preparation for its future release. The process will take a few months. Once finished the recordings will be part of an historic double CD featuring the 15 original recordings from 1963 and the 15 digitally enhanced recordings. The title of this historical collector's item is "Jamming with Beatles and Friends, Star Club, Hamburg, 1962". This is an important historical recording because it was the very first time that Ringo Starr actually played with the group "live" after replacing Pete Best on the drums. Seven of the songs on this tape were later studio recorded and released by the group through E.M.I. but the remaining eight tracks were never released. The recordings were made in 1962, a short time before their signing with E.M.I., during the FAB FOUR'S first live appearance together at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany playing before a small audience of about twenty to thirty people. The original tape of this live recording was "lost" for over 33 years in the record and tape collection of legendary music producer and promoter Mr. Jeffrey Collins. The complete list of all the tracks and the story of how this historic lost Beatles tape came into the possession of Mr. Jeffrey Collins is now available on our Fuego Entertainment, Inc. web site at http://www.FuegoEntertainment.net. This 15 track set was recorded at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany a short while after the Ted Taylor recordings and boast different and perhaps better takes of "A Taste of Honey" and "Hippy Hippy Shake" (using Tony Sheridan as a 5th Beatle). These are the only two songs found on the original Star Club releases with which this recording should not be confused. Other tracks make good use of Kingsize Taylor's Band "The Dominoes" who utilize their piano on such Beatles favorites as "Money, " "Twist and Shout" and "I Saw Her Standing There" all of which were subsequently used on the groups' first studio recordings for E.M.I. What makes this album truly unique are the eight songs not available on any previously released L.P.s or singles - which include Paul McCartney singing Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues" and George Harrison vocalizing Maurice Williams' "Do You Believe." One of the most outstanding tracks on this album must be "Ask Me Why" showing just how John Lennon and Paul McCartney became such a winning combination. The release date will be announced in the near future. We invite Beatles fans around the world, our shareholders, members of the media and all interested parties to subscribe to our RSS news feed to receive Fuego news updates. Our RSS news feed link can be found on the front page of our website. www.fuegoentertainment.net write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |