They recorded an album and the single “My Bonnie“. The single “My Bonnie” was released by Polydor records.
“Without this contract, which directly led to their involvement with (manager) Brian Epstein, the Beatles may have never been able achieve their later success as a recording group”.
The contract will now be auctioned at New York’s Heritage Auctions on September 19, with its value estimated at $150,000 (£95,500). It’s the centerpiece of a Beatles collection spanning the band’s entire career. Liking what he heard, Kaempfert enlisted the Beatles and another Top Ten Club performer, Tony Sheridan, to spend a day recording rock & roll versions of traditional songs for the German market. They performed there three months in a row, each night time. John Lennon himself famously said he was born in Liverpool but grew up in Hamburg and this collection documents that transition.
The contract was called “perhaps the most historically important Beatles document to ever appear at auction” by Dean Harmeyer, consignment director at Heritage Auctions. “They have been in all probability a C class within the pantheon of Liverpool bands”.
But their stints in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962 changed that.
“It truly is the place they honed their musical expertise to turn out to be the Beatles”, he stated.
“They set about learning new material, they worked on their instrumental abilities”.
Nevertheless it was “loopy luck” that acquired them to Hamburg, he stated. The Beatles weren’t the agent’s first selection and wound up going exclusively after different bands declined.
The 1961 contract was for a record that didn’t even bear the name of The Beatles.
The one copies that made it out of Germany initially have been those despatched to the Beatles again house in Liverpool, England.
After a local club disc jockey got his hands on one and started playing it, music fans began asking for it. Upon immediately seeing their potential, the Liverpool record shop owner secured the quartet a contract with EMI. “And at the time, it was a momentous career milestone”.
“It covers everything else”. He is acquired stuff from “Sgt”.