Beatles Oct. 61 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers My Bonnie German intro Rock
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Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers aka Beatles on Polydor records 24 673

 

MY BONNIE (Mein Herz Ist Bei Nui) b/w "THE SAINTS" MEGA-RARE 1961 GERMANY ORIGINAL ISSUE 1st BEATLES RECORD WITH GERMAN INTRO.

Vinyl - vg

label - good but has mark on it see picture

sleeve - vg polydor sleeve 

Tony Sheridan was billed as the leader of the group because it would be Tony who stayed on to record albums for Polydor if the first single sold. "My Bonnie"/"The Saints" (Polydor NH 24-673) was billed as by "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers." As Tony recalls it, Beat Brothers was used instead of Beatles because "Beatles" sounded a lot like the German slang word for penis, which was "peedles." (Remember John saying "Beatle peedles" on a Christmas record?) There were two versions of that first single, one (called the "rock" version) had the intro in German and the other (the "twist" version) had the slow intro in English. These were distinguished from one another both on the label and on the picture sleeve. The "twist" version of the song sold better, and very soon, "My Bonnie" found itself in the German Top Twenty, finally selling up to 180,000 copies in Germany. The single was held back until October, 1961 ("Rock"), and mid-January, 1962 ("Twist").

 




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