Today in Beatles History: July 24

** The following events in Beatles history all took place on July 24. **

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Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other
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1961
The Beatles perform at Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool.

1962
The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at lunchtime.

1963
The Beatles perform at the Odeon Cinema in Weston-super-Mare,
Somerset. Earlier in the day they had been in London, attending a
recording session for the Fourmost, who were recording the
Lennon-McCartney song "Hello Little Girl".

1967
An advertisement appears in the "London Times", signed by all four
Beatles and Brian Epstein, urging the British government to
legalize marijuana.

1968
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). Recording "***y Sadie" (23 takes). But The Beatles will
start a second re-make in August. At the end of the session,
various and sundry sound effects are taped.

1969
The Beatles in the recording studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios,
London). Paul McCartney records a demo of his song "Come and Get
It", which he intends to give to The Iveys. Paul will later
produce The Iveys' recording of the song, persuade them to change
their name to 'Badfinger', and arrange for "Come and Get It" to be
selected as the theme song for the movie "The Magic Christian".
Later, The Beatles record "Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard" (35 takes).
The two songs are recorded as one continuous work. The demo of
"Come and Get It" was released on "The Beatles Anthology 3" (Disc
two, Track 18). Also on "Anthology 3" is a jam of "Ain't She
Sweet", recorded during this day's session (Disc two, Track 19).

[P] 1989
UK release of Wings album "Back to the Egg" on CD (EMI). Contains
bonus tracks "Daytime Nightime Suffering", "Wonderful
Christmastime", and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reggae".



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