"IT'S GETTING BETTER"
THE BEATLES
"The Jimmy Nicol Days"
The most complete collection of
concerts
Notes:
fantastic job
Godfatherrecords
did assembling
this collection,
everything live with
Jimmy Nicol on drums
on disc 1,
this collection
"Beats"
all others
because it's the
most complete
and because
it also has the fewest
"voice-over's"
for the
Scandinavian tour recordings.
Just focus on Jimmy's
drumming for track 11,
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
never sounded
like that before!!!
TRACKLIST
Disc 1:
01 Abbey Road
Rehearsal with Jimmy
02 Pathe News Reel
(Arrival in Amsterdam)
June 5th, 1964
The Beatles in Nederland:
Excellent T.V. Broadcast
(the famous "mimed" live performance with open mics, adding new vocals):
03 She Loves You
04 All My Loving
05 Twist And Shout
06 Roll Over Beethoven
07 Long Tall Sally
08 Can't Buy Me Love
June 6th, 1964
Veilinghal, Blokker,
The Netherlands
(Early Show):
Good to Very Good
Audience Recording...
But It Is The
first actual live recording
with
Jimmy Nicol on drums!!:
09 Dutch intro
10 I Saw Her Standing There
11 I Want To Hold Your Hand
12 Intro
13 All My Loving
(crowd singing starts the chorus too early near beginning of the song)
14 She Loves You
15 Intro
16 Twist And Shout
(with Dutch voice-over)
17 Long Tall Sally
June 6th, 1964
Veilinghal, Blokker,
The Netherlands
(Late Show):
18 Intro
19 I Saw Her Standing There
20 I Want To Hold Your Hand
21 Intro
22 All My Loving
June 12th, 1964
Centennial Hall, Adelaide, Australia:
23 Intro
24 I Saw Her Standing There
25 I Want To Hold Your Hand
26 All My Loving
27 She Loves You
28 Til There Was You
29 Roll Over Beethoven
30 Can't Buy Me Love
31 This Boy
32 Twist And Shout
33 Long Tall Sally
34 Outro
Disc 2:
"Ringo's Return"
to
The Beatles:
June 17th, 1964
Festival Hall,
Melbourne, Australia
(Early Show):
01 Intro
02 I Saw Her Standing There
03 You Can't Do That
04 All My Loving
05 She Loves You
06 Til There Was You
07 Roll Over Beethoven
08 Can't Buy Me Love
09 This Boy
10 Twist And Shout
11 Intro /Long Tall Sally
June 17th, 1964
Festival Hall,
Melbourne, Australia
(Late Show):
12 Intro
13 I Saw Her Standing There
14 You Can't Do That
15 All My Loving
16 She Loves You
17 Til There Was You
18 Roll Over Beethoven
19 Can't Buy Me Love
20 This Boy
21 Twist And Shout
22 Long Tall Sally
June 18-20, 1964
Sydney Stadium,
Sydney, Australia:
23 Intro
24 I Saw Her Standing There
25 You Can't Do That
* June 17th, 1964
Festival Hall,
Melbourne, Australia
(Late Show - video remix):
26 I Saw Her Standing There
27 You Can't Do That
28 All My Loving
29 She Loves You
30 Til There Was You
31 Roll Over Beethoven
32 Can't Buy Me Love
33 Twist And Shout
34 Long Tall Sally
35 Outro
Notes:
Nicol played
eight concerts with
The Beatles,
plus a TV appearance
during which the group
mimed to their songs.
He wore Ringo Starr's
suit on stage,
with strategically-placed
clothes pegs
used to make his jacked fit.
The first performance
took place on the evening
after he was recruited,
at KB Hallen in
Copenhagen, Denmark
on June 4th 1964.
The next day
the group arrived
in the Netherlands,
where The Beatles
held a press conference
at Amsterdam's
Schiphol airport,
before recording a
performance for VARA-TV.
On June 6th
they performed two shows
in Blokker, the Netherlands.
Both shows were filmed
by local news cameramen.
The next day the group
flew back to London,
where they caught a
connecting flight
to Hong Kong.
There,
on June 9th,
they played twice
at the
Princess Theatre
in Kowloon.
The final stop
for Jimmie Nicol
was in Australia.
On June 11th
the group arrived
in Sydney.
The next day they flew
on to Adelaide,
where they played
four shows over two days.
One of the performances
was recorded for
Australian radio,
and was broadcast
on June 15th
Ringo
re-joined the group
on June 14th
in Melbourne,
and Jimmie Nicol
returned to Britain.
The other Beatles
were asleep as he left,
so he was unable
to say goodbye.
Brian Epstein
gave him a cheque,
and a wristwatch
inscribed with the words:
"From The Beatles
and
Brian Epstein
to Jimmy
with appreciation and gratitude."
"The boys were very kind
but I felt like an intruder.
They accepted me
but you can't just go
into a group like that
they have their own atmosphere,
their own sense of humor.
It's a little clique
and outsiders
just can't break in."
- Jimmie Nicol
Nicol met
The Beatles once again
on July 12th 1964,
when his band
The Shubdubs
were on the same bill
as the group at
the Hippodrome Theatre
in Brighton.
The Shubdubs
released two singles
after Nicol's time
as a Beatle,
although neither
was a success.
He was made bankrupt in 1965.
He continued to perform music,
and in later years
he ran a button factory
in Mexico,
worked as a
house renovator,
and as a carpenter.
Nicol had one other effect on
The Beatles' story.
As documented by
Hunter Davies
in his 1968 biography
of the group,
the phrase
"It's getting better"
was a particular favorite
of Nicol's,
used as a stock answer
whenever he was asked
how the tour was going.
Davies
was present one afternoon
in 1967
when McCartney
took his dog to
London's Primrose Hill.
Martha ran around
and the sun came out.
Paul thought it really
was spring at last.
'It's getting better.'
he said to himself.
He meant the weather,
but the phrase made him smile
because it was one of
Jimmy Nicol's phrases,
one which they
used to mock
all the time in Australia.
McCartney suggested to Lennon
that they record a song
with the title,
and the pair worked on
it together before taking it
to the studio.
Getting Better
appeared on
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
in June 1967.
On January12th 1969,
while The Beatles
recorded and filmed the
Let It Be sessions
at Twickenham Film Studios,
a discussion took place
about possibilities
for a live show.
McCartney was recorded
as saying:
"I think you'll find we're
not going abroad,
'cause Ringo just said he doesn't
want to go abroad.
You know,
he put his foot down.
Although Jimmie Nicol
might go abroad."
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