The Tremeloes - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1965-1967

Here's the second of five volumes of the Tremeloes at the BBC.

This volume is a bit strange in that some of the songs are billed as "Brian Poole & the Tremeloes" and others are just billed as the "Tremeloes." In mid-1966, lead singer Brian Poole left the band for a solo career. But to pretty much everyone's surprise, his solo career flopped and he was soon forgotten, while the four members of the back-up band went on to have even more success without him.

What's particularly strange is that it seems the band slowly transitioned away from him, instead of the usual pattern of it happening suddenly and permanently. (For instance, Wayne Fontana of Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders quit the group in the middle of concert!) So there are two BBC studio sessions here where the Tremeloes played some songs with Poole and some without him. That's why tracks 9 and 10 don't credit him, but tracks 11 and 12 do. Then the remainder are without him again.

After a couple of flop singles, the Tremeloes sans Poole had two big British hits with "Here Comes My Baby" by Cat Stevens and "Silence Is Golden" by the Four Seasons. "Silence Is Golden" went all the way to number one. Both of those hits are here.

Everything here has been officially released. Most of the songs come from the album "Live at the BBC, 1964-1967." The rest come from "BBC Sessions, 1967-1969."

Typically, British Invasion bands like this one did covers for the BBC that they never recorded and released otherwise. That's the case with the Tremeloes. I didn't check every last song, but I know for instance that "Baby It's You," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "It Takes Two" were only done for the BBC.

As you'd expect from this time period, many of the songs had BBC DJs talking over the music (all the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles). As usual, I used the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe out the talking while keeping the underlying music. 

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 I Want Candy [Edit] (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
02 Baby It's You (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
03 Good Lovin' (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
04 Like a Rolling Stone [Edit] (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
05 Hey Girl (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
06 Walkin' My Cat Named Dog [Edit] (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
07 Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever [Edit] (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
08 That Reminds Me Baby [Edit] (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
09 Good Day Sunshine (Tremeloes)
10 What a State I'm In [Edit] (Tremeloes)
11 Everything I Touch Turns to Tears (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
12 Everything's Wrong [Edit] (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes)
13 Here Comes My Baby (Tremeloes)
14 Run Baby Run [Edit] (Tremeloes)
15 Too Many Fish in the Sea (Tremeloes)
16 Silence Is Golden (Tremeloes)
17 I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing [Edit] (Tremeloes)
18 It Takes Two [Edit] (Tremeloes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376830/TTREMLOS1965-1967BBSssonsVol2_atse.zip.html

I don't know when and where the cover photo is from exactly, but I assume from the looks of it that it dates to around 1965.