(From amazon.com)
RARE 16-track version. Track Listings: 1. I Saw Her Standing There 2. Sweet Little Sixteen 3. Where Have you Been all my Life 4. Hippy Hippy Shake 5. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby 6. Matchbox 7. Hallelujah, I Lover her so 8. Hully Gully 9. Roll Over Beethoven 10. Ask me Why 11. Twist and Shout 12. Kansas City / Hey, Hey, Hey 13. Be-Bop-A-Lula 14. Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees) 15. I'm Talking About You 16. Long Tall Sally
I used to have the German Lingasong/Bellaphon vinyl double (sleeve artwork as
Live at the Star Club - Germany CD) and single albums, the first of MANY releases of these recordings. It is a very long time, since I heard them. When I get around to it (and when it arrives), I may do a more detailed review of this.
This seems an intelligent selection from the 30-odd tracks that exist, as my memory serves. I will be interested to see how it sounds. Much was made, at the time of the original album, of the filtering job that was done to 'clean up' the original tape recording. It sounded as though the recordings were separated into frequency bands across the spectrum, and then recombined in a sort of mixing process. My memory is that it made the recordings sound rather hollow. It will be interesting to see how this release from a few years later (1991) came out.
At the time (1977) I found this album fascinating in spite of the sonic deficiencies. As a temporary rating I award four for that memory, minus one for the sound. I will say that I was more excited when
THE BEATLES AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL (JAPANESE CD) came out in the same year.