THIS IS NOT
AN APPLE 
The
Music of Lennon & McCartney
The soundtrack to a tv “spectacular”. Whilst all of the tracks were mimed, the Beatle links are fun.
Quality is reasonable given it was recorded on reel-to-reel in 1965!
The full line-up of songs (artists) was:
1 Song medley (the George Martin Orchestra)
2 A World Without Love (Peter and Gordon)
3 I Saw Him Standing There (Lulu)
4 From Me To You (Alan Haven and Tony Crombie)
5 She Loves You! song medley (Fritz Spiegl’s Ensemble)
6 Day Tripper (The Beatles)
7 Yesterday (Paul McCartney, then Marianne Faithfull)
8 She Loves You (Antonio Vargas)
9 Things We Said Today (in French; Dick Rivers)
10 Bad To Me (Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas)
11 It’s For You (Cilla Black)
12 Ringo’s Theme (This Boy) (the George Martin Orchestra)
13 If I Fell (Henry Mancini)
14 And I Love Him (Esther Phillips)
15 A Hard Day’s Night (Peter Sellers)
16 We Can Work It Out (The Beatles)
Extract from
The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewison
Quite apart from the Beatles’ remarkable success as a group considerable public interest was maintained in them through the songwriting endeavours of Lennon-McCartney, remaining something of a novelty at this time for two young British pop singers/musicians to compose and perform such high-quality material. In the summer of 1965, Granada Television proposed to Brian Epstein a TV special about John and Paul’s music, a big-budget production that would feature top international stars singing their songs, with the Beatles themselves topping the bill.
The idea was an attractive one so planning went ahead and the resulting 50-minute “special”, The Music Of Lennon & McCartney, was rehearsed and taped on a specially-constructed set at Granada on 1st & 2nd November 1965. It was broadcast all over Britain, except in the London area, on Friday 17 December (9.40—10.35 pm). In London, it went out the previous evening (same times).
As a group, the Beatles performed (mimed) to two songs, first ‘Day Tripper’ and then ‘We Can Work It Out’, this being an ideal opportunity to plug the new single, after all. For the latter song, John forsook his guitar in favour of Granada’s studio harmonium, the very same instrument played by Ena Sharples in Coronation Street! As well as miming, the Beatles (along with all of the other acts) pretended to be playing to a studio audience, nodding and acknowledging applause. In fact, there was no audience, a laughter and clapping track being overdubbed by Granada in post-production. (Indeed, one of the items, Peter Sellers’ hilarious performance of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in mock-Shakespearean/Sit Laurence Olivier style, had been pre-taped in London.)
John and Paul popped up throughout the production, clambering around the scaffold-like set, introducing many of the artists, discussing foreign-language versions of their songs (part of the Beatles’ own ‘Sie Liebt Dich’ was played) and having fun with Cilia Black. Alone, Paul also performed ‘Yesterday’ for 22 seconds, sound-and-vision then cutting to Marianne Faithfull for the remainder of the song.
The Music Of Lennon & McCartney was ITV’s official entry for the Golden Rose Of Montreux Award, decided at the 1966 Montreux Festival (22—30 April), but it did not win.