Sixty years ago today, the first Beatles single, Love Me Do, was released. On the same day, the first James Bond film, Dr No, opened in cinemas. Two coinciding events that shaped modern Britishness and helped define the Swinging Sixties.
Here’s a BBC story about it.
I thought their first single was “My Bonnie” from June 1961?
Love Me Do
First Bond Opening Theme
Everything I’m reading says Love Me Do was their official debut single.
You’re thinking of Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers.
Never knew The Beatles had a song called My Bonnie and was surprised it was the “my Bonnie lies over the ocean song.”
Seems like The Beatles did backup for Tony Sheridan on a couple songs. Depending on if you have the right 45 version of Bonnie, you can cash in on it, up to $5000.
Question: A friend gave me some 45 rpm singles from her mother’s attic. Among them is My Bonnie (My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) backed with The Saints, by the Beatles on MGM. Another friend says she once read in your column that this is an extremely valuable record. Is it? _ Beverly Larose, Lowell, Mass. Answer: Your copy of My Bonnie (My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) is a 1964 reissue of material first released in the United States two years earlier. Though yours is not the “extremely valuable record” your friend mentioned, it certainly isn’t chopped liver. For you and others who have any of the 45s of My Bonnie, let me list and appraise them in chronological order: