McCartney's 'Let's Love' for Peggy Lee CD being reissued

A new CD from Wounded Bird Records and coming in October has three versions of the Paul McCartney song "Let's Love" and five bonus tracks. It's the same as a previous limited version released by Rhino Handmade. Pre-order here for the U.S.

1. Let's Love (Single Version)

2. He Is The One

3. Easy Evil

4. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

5. Always

6. You Make Me Feel Brand New

7. Sweet Lov'liness

8. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

9. Sweet Talk

10. Sometimes

11. Let's Love (Reprise Version)

12. I Am His Lady

13. I Wanna Be Seduced

14. The Nickel Ride

15. Let's Keep Dancing

16. Let's Love

George Martin's work with Matt Monro coming on CD

Coming Aug. 12 in U.S., Aug. 5 in UK. Pre-order here for U.S. and here for UK. 

 1. You Keep Me Swingin' (2016 Remastered Version)

2. Love Walked In (2016 Remastered Version)

2. Love Walked In (2016 Remastered Version)

3. Portrait Of My Love (2016 Remastered Version)

4. My Kind Of Girl (2016 Remastered Version)

5. This Time (2016 Remastered Version)

6. Gonna Build A Mountain (2016 Remastered Version)

7. Can This Be Love (2016 Remastered Version)

8. No One Will Ever Know (2016 Remastered Version)

9. Softly As I Leave You (2016 Remastered Version)

10. Tahiti (2016 Remastered Version)

11. My Love And Devotion (2016 Remastered Version)

12. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) [2016 Remastered Version]

13. One Morning In May (2016 Remastered Version)

14. Walk Away (2016 Remastered Version)

15. Without The One I Love (2016 Remastered Version)

16. The Girl I Love (2016 Remastered Version)

17. From Russia With Love (2016 Remastered Version)

18. If This Should Be A Dream (2016 Remastered Version)

19. Once In Every Long And Lonely While (2016 Remastered Version)

20. As Long As I'm Singing (2016 Remastered Version)

21. Yesterday (2016 Remastered Version)

22. Sarah's Coming Home (2016 Remastered Version)

23. First Of May (2016 Remastered Version)

24. Michelle (2016 Remastered Version)

25. Ethel Baby (Mr Wonderful) [2016 Remastered Version]

26. I Am In Life (2016 Remastered Version)

27. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (2016 Remastered Version)

TV alert: "A Hard Day's Night" July 31

For those with Turner Classic Movies, the Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" will air July 31. Check your local listings at this link on their site.

New Beatles, McCartney HMC titles.

These are reportedly on the way.

Free screening of Beatles film "Yellow Submarine" at Comic Con

For those of you at Comic Con in San Diego, we've gotten word that  there will be a free screening of The Beatles' film "Yellow Submarine" Thursday night, July 21. Those attending ComicCon can pick up tickets at the Alex Ross or Mattel booths. Tickets are free and limited to first come basis. Anyone attending will get a free gift courtesy of Mattel.

Lost Beatles demo for Cilla Black song to be auctioned in August

Liverpool Beatles Auction

A two-minute demo disc for the John Lennon-Paul McCartney song “It's For You” with a vocal by Paul McCartney that was never recorded by the Beatles will be auctioned Aug. 27 at the 25th Liverpool Beatles Memorabilia Auction in Liverpool, it was announced by the Beatles Shop July 20.

According to the auction, the demo, which was recorded by Paul McCartney on a seven inch disc with the label "Dick James Music Limited," was delivered to Cilla Black in 1964 at the Palladium where she was performing, but then disappeared and had not been seen for 52 years. It was believed the record had been lost or destroyed. The recording was found by a member of Cilla Black's family in a brown envelope that had the words “It’s For You” on it with her name underneath. It was originally believed to be a copy of her hit record. The disc was among a group of records taken to The Beatles Shop on Liverpool's Mathew Street to shop manager Stephen Bailey.

“We played each of the various demo discs that we had been asked to value,” Bailey said. “The ‘It’s For You’ Cilla copy was not there but was a recording by Paul McCartney. I was shaking with excitement and speechless. I realized that this was the long lost Beatles demo disc from 1964 and I was probably one of the few people to have seen and heard it in over 50 years. What I had in my hand was probably the only copy in existence and this is going into The Beatles Auction in Liverpool.” 

A 20 second excerpt of the demo is at the Liverpool Beatles Auction website. The shop's assistant manager Anne-Marie Trace said the seller had no idea what they had. “The sleeve it was housed in listed it as a Cilla demo and the label just lists the song title without an artist,” she wrote on her blog.

In Cilla Black's book “What’s It All About,” she wrote, “John and Paul wrote my next single ‘It’s For You’ and Paul introduced me to the song by sending a demo disc that he had made of it round to The Palladium. Although Paul had sung it as a waltz, George Martin took a big hand in my recording of it and asked Johnny Spence to arrange it.” 

Black recorded the song on June 29, 1964 at a session produced by Sir George Martin. The song was released by Parlophone on July 31. It rose to No. 7 on the UK singles charts but only No. 79 on the U.S. Billboard charts. Black died after a fall at her Spanish home on Aug. 1, 2015 at age 72. 

More pictures of Paul McCartney in Cincinnati, part 2

 Here the second of two posts with more pictures taken by Olivia Anne Morris Fuchs from Paul McCartney's show in Cincinnati on July 10. Read our story here. (And subscribe to our blog!)