The Beatles - Shindig! (Granville Studio, London, October 3rd, COLORIZED, 1964) 

NOTE: This is a COLORIZED video, originally in B&W. *ALL INSTRUMENTS WERE PRE-RECORDED AS WELL AS THE THREE PART HARMONY ON KANSAS CITY, BUT THE REST OF THE VOCALS ARE LIVE* Following rehearsals on the previous day, The Beatles recorded an appearance for a British edition of US music TV show Shindig! at the Granville Studio in London. The performance was watched by London residents of the Beatles Fan Club. The Beatles performed three songs: ‘Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!’, ‘I’m A Loser’, and ‘Boys’. This was done with the help of my great friend Carter. Please subscribe to his channel! youtube.com/@CartersRemasters?si=WM62I_XQ4emu8mSp

When you find a Beatles performance you haven't seen... Heaven

No flashing lights, no fog, no lazers, no dancers, no pyrotechnics...just FAB!

I think the Beatles are literally the only band where every member is capable of credibly taking the lead for a song. Absolutely phenomenal level of talent that gets more impressive every day.

I remember shindig. Great era for tv shows. The world was much simpler & liveable back then. At 69 yrs old, I consider myself blessed to have grown up in this era

"The entertainment phenomenon of the century." He sure got that right.

George's guitar playing was so smooth and effortless.

The smile on John's face when George starts his solo is priceless.

Interesting to me is how much it appears they're enjoying themselves. John and Paul had charismatic personalities and exude confidence which I think the audience liked.

I’m always impressed by the vocals and that they didn’t have any monitors, they just sang perfect harmonies. Those all-nighters in Hamburg paid off!

And to think that Macca and Ringo are still playing live shows just amazes me! I’m glad they’re still with us and playing Beatles songs live. They’ve made millions of people happy over the years. God knows we need that especially now in these dark times. Thanks!

They are always much better than we think they were. This is another example. Pure joy and energy!

I walked past Strawberry Fields every morning on my way up Beaconsfield Road to my school, SFX in Woolton, Liverpool, a short distance from John’s home on Menlove Avenue - 1969 to 1977. Got to play at The Cavern twice with my own band years later. One degree of separation from these giants - still feel hugely privileged to have been born in the same City. They are without peers.

I watched this Shindig. I was 12. Still sounds phenomenal.

Paul sings Kansas City like the rocker he is.

1964...I was 13 yearsold - and I love them still today...😇

John's got such a great voice.

McCartneys vocal on Kansas City 🤯

How I wish the Beatles were still around right now.This world would be a better place to live in ❤❤❤

OMG ❤❤❤❤❤ There will never ever be another group like the Beatles ❤❤❤ Magic.

As a Beatle fan in Australia for 58 years I thought I had seen it all. Now in 2023 I have walked the Abbey Road crosswalk and seen the Abbey Road studios, and before year ends, seen this footage which I have never viewed before. Thanks for posting it to You Tube and to all who colored the film. Really fantastic. I am now 66 years old and The Beatles have been with me throughout all phases of my life. Of course I liked other bands and later styles of music over the last 6 decades, but still today, nothing is played by me more than The Beatles.

That colourization looks totally authentic....great job✌️

Whoever cleaned up the sound on this is a hero. Great job.......

I’m a Beatle fan. I’m 69 yrs old. Enjoying their music until now and forever!😮u

Wow Paul was really on top form in this performance! His vocals were stellar.

You know, these guys sound pretty good! They have potential!

0:15 Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! 2:48 Introduction 2:59 I'm A Loser 5:20 Boys

I am 69 years of age, was a Beatle fan from the beginning in ' 64, they still knock me out!

Paul's voice is amazing great guitar player's as well

The ridiculously high expectations from them; and they always exceeded.

Don’t tell me there is no such thing as a Time Machine, whenever I see the lads I am transported back to the 60’s. Great video I have never seen before.

Singing Kansas City in E is hard. Paul singing in G and hitting every note is amazing!

I'm stunned. I saw this when I was thirteen. I have remembered it all these years. What an unexpected gift. I am grateful beyond words. Thank you so much.❤

It was a strange feeling being 8 years old in 1965 and seeing The Beatles. Kids riding the school bus and bringing Beatles albums to school. Everybody just generally acted like they were blown away by the Beatles. The reality of it was vast and impressionable. People wanted to be like them..😅 I mean it was kind of strange when I think about it now. When the Beatles began altering their style of writing it really affected people immensely. When people heard Rubber Soul they were shocked for some reason. Everyone around me was accustomed to hearing the earlier songs...then one day people began hearing songs from Beatles For Sale...in America Beatles 65' and acted as if they were thrown off a bit by I'm A Loser and Baby's In Black...but when people heard Rubber Soul they just backed off and couldn't believe what they were hearing. Paperback Writer and Rain were very different and eventually the single Yellow Submarine really confused people. The more Psychedelic and or Progressive Beatles felt as if the band were born again. The times we were living in were strange. It always seemed as if the average person was waiting for the Beatles to do something first....to do something different before anyone else. 😮

The backing vocals on BOYS is astounding!!! maybe because George is higher in the mix than usual and his part is hitting a very sweet spot frequency-wise. So good.

Very rare to see them doing I’m A Loser live. They sound incredible!!!

The only band that could play any type of music. Simply the best of all time.

George’s solo on "Boys" is the highlight. Awesome double restoration of sound and video!

Only 2 things could make me shake with anticipation as a child. Knowing the Riddler was going to be on Batman and Robin that afternoon when I got home from school. The other was the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show!

George is a great guitar player, my favorite band

Just four Magicians having fun and making beautiful magic. It will never happen again.

This looks live and color is legit looking. Best recorded performance I've seen many years. I remember seeing this as a tiny kid, on my old RCA vacuum tube tv. my dad said, "Look at those kids' hair!'

1:32 John's best vocal ever!

It’s the pure magic of The Beatles! They’re like no other!

What can you say? The Beatles were the best ever.

Never seen on video before, Ringo singing live with the Fabs in the early sixties. Totally brilliant, including brilliant vocals from Paul and John.

What a great performance! They were the hottest band in the world back then and I can see why! Great vocals and they were in their prime with brilliant original songs plus they were charming! No wonder the girls went nuts! They looked different with their Beatle hairstyles and Boots. They had the It factor! What a great phenomenon they were! And they harmonized well! They were the complete package! They were funny, too! A bit before my time but I’m still a fan because they were amazing and the music is so good! Thanks!

If audiences had been this sensible each time they played they might have played concerts longer then what they did. They can hear themselves and the playing is fantastic.

My parents wouldn't let this lad of ten watch this back then. I'm older now. It truly is amazing seeing this for the first time. Wonderful. 🎉😊🙏❤

Because of the later studio stuff, where they were such remarkable innovators, it's east to forget they were such a truly great live band! They certainly knew how to rock the joint!

Looks fantastic! John and George blend together nicely.

Met them in April 1964, never forget. Great guys, loved the concerts, made friends everywhere, they gave us everything. 😂❤

THE BEATLES TILL THE END OF TIME 🎉

This is great in every way. All I remember till now was a black and white film of this performance. This one is the actual video with fantastic sound. Every song on here sounds as good as the original album version. Maybe it's me but I felt every time watching the Beatles I was watching real magic.

Great footage!

何てったってビートルズが最高です。 彼らを超えるものなんて永遠に現れません。 いつ見てもカッコよくて魅了されます。 決して 色褪せることがない。 そして何より音楽の天才だ。

Wow. When they COULD hear themselves play their live performance was premium quality, top notch!! This was great!!!

That was so good. I had to watch it 3 times in a row. I could hear everything. Paul’s bass lines, the harmonies, John’s temporary insanity, George enjoying being a Beatle and the drumming introduction in the dark, intoxicating.

I didn’t know I needed this, but apparently I really did. I haven’t seen this since it originally aired, I was only 4 at the time. I love ❤️ seeing how much fun they’re having. It’s amazing how much happiness these 4 guys have brought into my life. The music, the vocals, the antics, the films 🎥 & images, the smiles they gave throughout my whole life. Here I am again at 64 smiling 😊 & crying 😭 at the same time. Paul was so right when he wrote, “And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make”

First time I hear/see the live version of "I'm a loser" Awesome 🤩

George was my favorite. Every February 25 I remember… That’s the day and month he was born.

Great job on this one and the sound is excellent

I'm screaming right now!!! I just now found this on You Tube! I've heard so many versions Kansas City in my 69 years. The Beatles version is still my favorite!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊 Love John's voice especially in " I'm a Loser". I used to watch Shindig every week as a kid😊. Beatles forever and ever!!❤❤❤😊

The Beatles made life such a joy for Boomers in the 60's and 70's!🎉

*THE best band ever. Beatles forever ❤️ EDIT: YALL I FIXED IT

They WERE amazing❤

They rocked their cover versions but when they went into their original "I'm a loser," you could just feel it - something new was being unleashed in the world

One of very few live performances by The Beatles where girls were NOT screaming through the whole performance. Amazing video.

This is gold I love it.

Ive been watching this video once a day for a while now. Theres something magically nostalgic about it that i cant get enough of. Theres no way these 21 yr olds sounded this good live like im just mindblown. Those vocals from Paul on "Kansas City" are something else man and his stage presence to top it off i could watch this all day

Was a kid when they came out. I was about 11. Any new Beatle song that came out on the radio would give me chills of excitement. The tunes, so many so different than we'd hear in the past. The arrangements, the originality, great voices and particularly the harmonies. Can't imagine any group surpassing them.

That is fantastic!!!! 👍🎁

Boggles my mind that we just accepted all the great music back then and expected it to continue as usual. And then there were The Beatles. I remember crying for days when they broke up. I knew they were special. But looking at this - how can they be so good???

So cool!

I saw this when it was originally aired. There will never be a group better than The Beatles 🤠👍🏻❤️

Amazing, feels like I'm in the front row! The color generates so much intimacy.

Thank you for digging this up and sharing it with all of us! After all, we are all Beatles fans, right!?

The Beatles espetacular, sensacional. The Beatles para sempre!

Never knew they were on Shindig. Probably the cleanest live performance from them I've ever heard. Tight band

60 years later and still in gear!! This is absolutely incredible classic footage.

The sharpness of the picture and the sound also seem to be improved along with the color. Thank you for the work you put into this. Great job!

They are not adlibbing ! This is a live performance and demonstrates how great they were!!

BEATLES LIVE 1964 LOVE IT! The year I graduated high school. As my father once said to me. "Eddie, those were the good ole days"!

Oh! My! John and the guys take the cake!! Sooo funnyyy! LOL! Great songs and great performance, always!!

John at the very end. hysterical

Nice clip, as here we can see and hear them fresh off their 10,000+ hours of relentless performing over several long, hungry years (starting in the 50s), touring and playing all-night gigs at seedy, rough clubs in Hamburg and halls all over the UK, to culminate in this, a lean, mean, ultra pro unit ready to take on the whole world! A unique moment in history to be sure!

Wow, never saw this. Amazing..... When music was real music.

Boy. Paul can really rock. That Kansas City was choice.

Not only a great performance, but the colorization and audio restoration are on point. Very well done!

Great performance and so much fun. HOWEVER, the music was pre-recorded prior to the show and they sang over their own backing. You can hear Ringo’s actual drum playing as clicks as he hits the rim during Boys. You can hear multiple vocal tracks on the Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey parts during Kansas City. You can also hear George’s solo guitar continue even after his finger stopped and he went back to the rhythm chords.

Is it just me or is it the first time that we've seen John appear on our left side of the stage instead of the right? I'm 66 years old and I've been watching The Beatles since I was six or seven I think! But I don't remember seeing John placed like this. God they were great!

Ringo and Paul still out there playing. Amazing.

Beautiful job and the performance was incredible. The Beatles taught me how to sing and play music and harmonies and timing in 1964. The best band although there are many. Vocals were overdubbed beautifully!

That put a smile on my face.

I remember watching this ( black and white) on TV as a 8 and a half year old 3rd grade boy. First time I have seen the colorization.

Still new footage being found and released after almost 60 years... Only The Beatles can garner this kind of interest and attention after all these years... AMAZING!

What a GEM of a clip!

I was in the Ed Sullivan Theater yesterday to see a taping of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and sitting in the balcony I was wondering what it must have been like seeing The Beatles in that same theater. But I didn't have to wonder too much since I did see them at Shea Stadium! It always astounds me to see how good they really were.

Oh my gosh! I was 11 when this aired and haven't seen it since. Seeing my boy Ringo sing Boys again brought tears to my eyes. 😳 How is that possible after all these decades?

This is an absolutely *wonderful* addition to the extant video library of their performances which were preserved for posterity! So very well enhanced, in both the visual and sonic aspects! Thanks for posting this gem!👌