Gerry and The Pacemakers - How Do You Like It? (1963)

 "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Gerry and The Pacemakers

The Lads from Liverpool... there were many more than just those Fab Four.  One of the earliest "rivals" to The Beatles were fellow Liverpudlians Gerry and The Pacemakers who started out just as successfully in the UK.  Also managed by Brian Epstein, The Pacemakers debuted three straight singles at the top of the charts even despite rejecting a song offered them by up-and-coming songwriting team Lennon/McCartney.  They were amongst the first wave of British Invaders and followed in The Beatles's footsteps by debuting on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Gerry and The Pacemakers released their debut album How Do You Like It? in 1963 on Columbia Records.

Note:  Like The Beatles and other British artists of the era, The Pacemakers's records become similarly fragmented as they reach the other side of the Atlantic.  Those records are included in this whistle stop.

Here is the discography surrounding Gerry and The Pacemakers's debut album:

How Do You Do It? (1963 single)

I Like It (1963 single)

How Do You Do It? (1963 EP)

You'll Never Walk Alone (1963 single)

How Do You Like It?

You'll Never Walk Alone (1963 EP)

I'm the One (1964 single)

I'm the One (1964 EP)

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (1964 single)

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (1964 EP)

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (1964 US album)

Gerry and The Pacemakers Second Album (1964 US album)

Gerry and The Pacemakers Live at NME Poll Winners Show 1964

"Chills" by Gerry and The Pacemakers

"Slow Down" by Gerry and The Pacemakers

Pass the Headphones!!

The Beatles - With The Beatles (1963)

"I Wanna Be Your Man" by The Beatles

When David Jones went on The Ed Sullivan Show to promote Oliver! with others in the cast, he saw up close one of the seismic cultural events of the century.  He saw The Beatles debut on American television.  It changed the young Artful Dodger's life as it showed him what he wanted to be a part of: his own Beatles-like experience.  That's for another time.

The Beatles released their second album in the UK, With The Beatles, in 1963 on Parlophone Records.  (Here's their first.)

Note:  In the first half of 1964, North American labels caught on to the "trend" and started releasing the existing Beatles material in their respective markets -- restructuring the UK albums with the non-album singles.  I'm including those albums in the discography but focusing the blog stops on the UK lineage even though Meet the Beatles! and The Beatles' Second Album are seminal albums in US music history.

Here is the discography surrounding The Beatles's second album:

With The Beatles

I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963 single)

Introducing... The Beatles (1964 US album)

Meet The Beatles! (1964 US album)

Twist and Shout (1964 Canadian album)

All My Loving (1964 EP)

Souvenir of Their Visit to America (1964 EP)

The Beatles' Second Album (1964 US album)

The Beatles' First (1964 compilation album)

Four by The Beatles (1964 EP)

The Beatles' Long Tall Sally (1964 Canadian album)

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles (on The Ed Sullivan Show)

"Till There Was You" by The Beatles (at Royal Albert Hall)

"Roll Over Beethoven" by The Beatles

Pass the Headphones!!