Anyone ever hear John Lennon's original demos of "Bad To Me" and "I'm In Love"?

Thanks Joe!

 

"I'm In Love" runs way too fast on this Cee Dee...after you slow it down, it sounds fine...

 

Talking of "The Fourmost"... In the Eghties I used to host a Sixties revival night with various live bands.

The Fourmost introduced "Hello Lttle Girl" as " a song written especially for them by John Lennon.

Didn't have the heart to tell about the Decca Sessions version.

 

I'm In Love - The Fourmost - is on EMI Music For Pleasure - Hits of 1963 - CDB 790 681 2 - EMI Swindon pressing
I'm In Love - Billy J Kramer - is on EMI Imperial - The Best of Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas - CDP 796 055 2 - USA pressing - stereo
I'm In Love - John Lennon (credited as summer 1963 demo) - is on bootleg - With the Beatles - SMO 83568
Bad To Me - John Lennon (credited as April 1963 demo) - is on bootleg - Please Please Me - SHZE 117 (but no way is this anything to do with Die Beatles, despite the cover pic and number)
Hello Little Girl - Gerry & The Pacemakers - is on EMI - The Best Of The EMI Years - CDP 799 030 2 - EMI Swindon pressing - stereo
Hello Little Girl - The Fourmost - is on the EMI Hits of 1963 mentioned above
Hello Little Girl - The Beatles - is on pretty well every Decca Tapes bootleg - mine is on Vigotone in 'speed corrected' mono, but there is at least one fake stereo version out there.

 

Looks like I gotta take a look at Artifacts 1 and do some listening. Of course, you cant listen to just one Beatles boot. Kinda like those damn potato chips! Makes me want to pick up all 221 LLT CDs and a few more Beatles boots. As long as we are talking about what wasnt put on the Lennon Anthology, why wasnt India on it? I love that demo! There is something called Mirror, Mirror or something close to that that is wonderful as well, but it's not on any official releases. We need another Lennon Anthology!

 

Another great Lennon home demo is for 'If I Fell' - actually, several takes from the same session (I believe) have surfaced. It's great to hear his solo take on a great 'Beatles harmony' showpiece - his voice as he does the almost falsetto high bits that Paul sang on the LP version has an ethereal, other-worldly quality that I don't think he matched elsewhere, enhanced somehow by the low-fi recording (if that makes sense! - I like rough sound quality when it 'works')

 

If it is indeed a '63 publishing demo, why can't he remember all the words?


Even tho Doug Sulpy has said otherwise, it always sounded like John at the Dakota to me...

 

Which one is India?? (Can you hum a few bars?)

 

I had always heard the argument for 'I'm In Love' to not be '63 because John tended to use a guitar in his early demos and not switch to piano until later. Even all the Strawberry Fields demos are on guitar. Bad to me is a guitar demo, so that makes sense. So what is the real story behind guitar/piano demos?

 

Steve,

Good info! But then, how does composing on piano differ from making a demo? I suppose in most cases, if they had a portable tape recorder, doing a demo on guitar was likely because they probably took a guitar with them on most trips, but no guarantee of a piano nearby. I have to agree with you, the vocal does sound like early 60's to me, and my first conclusion was it is not a 70's demo.
I guess what made people think otherwise is that most of the demos John did during the Beatles were on guitar, but most of his demos during his solo years are on piano. Just an observation, it doesn't mean much.

 

Good point. Some people argue it's from 1963 and the words weren't finished yet, but why would he have recorded a demo in 63 before finishing the song? I agree it's more likely a 70s performance and he forgot the words, which was typical of him to do with his own lyrics.

 

Love Bad To Me. Got it on the Yellow Dog Acetataes CD. Where can I hear I'm In Love?

 

It's funny but the only words I can remember from India are India InDiaaa something something something.

 

It's on the Vigotone disc "Arrive without Aging" as well as disc one of the Artifacts box set, among other places.

 

Thanks