Oh, I knew the Beatles did it but thanks for telling us what is garbage. Our tastes aren't as refined.
Far as I know the Beatles played "Where Have You Been All My Life" during their 1961-62 sets
in Liverpool and Germany but dropped it from the set lists some time in 1962. They did revisit
a lot of that material during their BBC appearances, but no version of "Where Have You Been
All My Life" other than the Star Club material has yet shown up on CD. I have both volumes of
The Beatles Live at the BBC and "Where Have You Been All My Life" isn't anywhere, but
the second volume includes a live performance of "Anna."
Gerry and the Pacemakers cut it for their first British album---Gerry Marsden sings it well but
the band really isn't equal to him on it---and the Searchers did a version, too, but I didn't think
it suited their style as well as other R & B material did. Gerry & the Pacemakers did a
lotbetter version of another Arthur Alexander number, "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues," which kicked
off that first British album with a bang. (The Beatles did a version that turned up on the BBC
sets, but theirs wasn't quite as punchy. As if they needed it, considering what they were doing
by themselves as songwriters even then . . .)
