Beyond the Beatles 1964-1966 [Import]

Pete Best | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 28, 1996)
• Original Release Date: May 28, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Griffin Records
• ASIN: B000001LK1
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. All Aboard

2. Why Did You Leave Me Baby?

3. Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

4. I Need Your Lovin'

5. I Can Do Without You Now

6. Castin' My Spell

7. I'm Blue

8. She's Alright

9. Keys to My Heart

10. I'm Checkin' Out Now Baby

11. I'll Try Anyway

12. I Don't Know Why I Do

13. How Do You Get to Know Her Name?

14. She's Not the Only Girl in Town

15. If You Can't Get Her

16. More Than I Need Myself

17. I'll Have Everything Too

18. The Way I Feel About You

19. Don't Play With Me

20. Rock 'N' Roll Music

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

After leaving the Beatles in 1962 to be replaced with Ringo Starr, Pete went on to re record over 40 songs in the 60's of which 20 are included here and 4 are bonus tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but overlong, August 12, 1999

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Aaron Goldberg ([e-mail]) (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beyond the Beatles 1964-1966 (Audio CD)

First off I would like to correct this snob David. To begin with Pete Best is an excellent drummer, and this shows on many tracks on this album such as "Keys To My Heart" and "I'm Blue". He could certainly have done a much better job on "Yellow Submarine" or *EVERY SINGLE SONG THE BEATLES EVER RECORDED* for that matter. Also before you call Pete Best a poor singer, I strongly suggest you *HEAR HIM SING FIRST, AS HE DOES NOT SING ON THIS ALBUM*. Many of these songs would be excellent but unfortunately they sound either unfinished or they are played too long. This is not Pete's fault. Some of those tracks would sound great edited.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Odd and fascinating..., September 19, 2008

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burritobrother (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond the Beatles 1964-1966 (Audio CD)

With the August 2008 Pete Best Band cd "Hayman's Green" currently in heavy rotation in my player, I decided to revisit his old recordings with the Pete Best Combo. It's been a while since I've listened to these.
Well, these don't sound any better, or any worse, than I remembered. I've always believed that this band had some good songs and really did show some promise, but they were sadly subjected to very chintsy studios and not given any time to polish the tracks up. These tracks sound extremely raw and low-budget; half the time you can barely make out what the instruments are doing and most of the time the entire band sounds tired, presumably from being rushed and pressured. There is something to be said for the lack of technology, though; the tracks possess a very dark atmosphere which does fit in with the sounds of some of their contemporaries like the Shadows Of Knight, the post-Errico Vejtables and the Seeds, to name a few American outfits laying down seminal garage-psych at roughly the same time as the Pete Best Combo were in New York doing their thing. Supposedly Pete's group were cut from the early British Invasion cloth, and that appears to be how they were being 'promoted', but I can't identify very much of that genre at play here. This stuff is catchy, a lot of it, but noone would mistake it for, say, Gerry and the Pacemakers or Herman's Hermits. Maybe it would sound that way if they'd had more than a fifty-dollar session (only a slight exaggeration I believe) at their disposal, but it sure doesn't as it is.
The very best of their material ('I Don't Know Why I Do', 'I'll Try Anyway' and the great 'She's Not The Only Girl In Town') is as good as just about anything being done in America at the time. The worst of it really isn't abominable, but in all honesty, the group never had a chance to show what they had or didn't have. It seems pretty clear that Pete Best and his crew weren't given any respect by their handlers (their sole lp had quite the unfortunate title), and even less by the critics and radio programmers of the day, which is why by 1968 it was all over, and also why hardly anyone knew or cared that the drummer had packed it in.
But heard today, there's nothing really wrong with the Pete Best Combo that couldn't have been fixed. Sadly, neglect and indifference won out.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Pete's Best, But some good songs., November 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Beyond the Beatles 1964-1966 (Audio CD)

This is not Pete Best's greatest drumming .(For that I suggest you check out his excellent work with the Beatles and his even better work with his newest group the Pete Best Band.) But, for historical reasons I would reccomend this disc. Several songs are pretty good and it certainly beats some of Ringo's solo work.