Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. I’m Happy Nat and I put one of these out each week (usually on Mondays…to kind of help in some small way to get us through them).

When The Beatles made their October 1963 visit to Sweden, their first order of business was to record a radio performance on the Swedish National Radio program Pop ’63 in Stockholm. The Beatles performed before an audience of 100 or so teen aged girls and it was apparent from their reactions to the band that Beatlemania had arrived in Sweden. The Beatles performed I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You and Money before taking a short break. Then they continued with Roll Over Beethoven, You Really Got A Hold On Me and She Loves You, before closing with Twist And Shout. Money, Roll Over Beethoven and You Really Got A Hold On Me were all covers that would be included on their upcoming With The Beatles album released the following month. There were some minor technical problems with the recording that could have been avoided if they had made time for a rehearsal and sound check, but the show still came out good. It was broadcast on the radio in Sweden on November 11, 1963. The Beatles Anthology 1 CD set (disc 1, tracks 30-34) contains the first 5 performances (in a slightly jumbled order), so I have decided to feature this vibrant account of the show-closer, Twist And Shout with a great lead vocal by John Lennon.

Thanks go to Joe Garrity for requesting this week’s BROW (as one of the performances left off of Anthology). I thought it a cool coincidence that I already had a performance from this show on my list to do for BROW soon, and when Joe requested it, I moved it up the list.

The Beatles on the front cover of a Swedish periodical, 1963

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