Saturday, September 19, 2009

More Beatles - FOUND: The WTRY "Night Before"?


This appeared earlier this decade on a music forum:
Way back in '65, I think, but at least months before the commercial release of Help!, radio station WTRY in Troy, New York started playing what they called an "exclusive" new Beatles song. The DJ even had a voice over on it [about 3 times during the song], stating "WTRY Exclusive". The song was The Night Before. They played this until the commercial album was released and, from then on, never played it again, just the commercial version. The "Exclusive" version was completly different than the released version. As I remember it, Pauls vocal tone was like the one he uses in "Lady Madonna", it was shorter having only one of what John calls "The Middle Eight", and the instruments wern't as defined. It was definately a complete early take. I ran across this version a few years ago on a site called The Beatles And McCartney Goldmine where you could stream it and download it. Unfortunately I delayed downloading it for a while and when I went back, the site had closed! Does anyone out there know of this and where it can be found? I've been searching for quite a while......... Ron
This clip is very close to the 1:59 Version WTRY played during the 1960's, AUDIO w/PICTURE and likely was recorded around the same timeframe. Just blot out the piano, and this gives you a good idea of what WTRY's cart sounded like!

3 comments:

Dave Lucas said...

Although the YOUTUBE link is gone, I have saved the song in mp3 format

Withheld said...

Hi Dave its a great blog, could you please send me the song in mp3 to my e mail xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com

Dave Lucas said...

On it's way to you! Enjoy the gift of music!