Let me add – great site, Joe. Personally, I appreciate the work you do and that you keep it “BEATLES”.

It is almost impossible to determine which audio comes from what occasion; August 22 or September 5, but there are three different audios that I can tell apart anyway. If it was done once or twice at the first occasion, I do not know.
But, logically, since they have two takes of the song on film from the same occasion it should be two audios to go with these. So, my theory is two film and audio takes from the 22nd, one audio only from the 5th.

As Bill wrote last year, there is clip with a tidy quartet and a clip with a sweaty one. These have been chopped up and mixed over the years, sometimes not even showing anybody singing while there is singing going on and vice versa.
Then there are other bits of film that show John singing something completely different than Some other guy. And we can see George singing alone at the mike as well. There are bits with George singing backup with John at Johns mike -like for Kansas City-, and even a couple of clips of Paul & George shouting away at Pauls mike. This setup fits many songs from the era so without seeing their lips we cannot tell which song they were doing at the time. Same with Ringos drumming.
All this suggests at least that a lot more than just one song was indeed filmed, perhaps a whole set. Many of the audience members are positioned more or less at the same place during these clips so I would like to think that only one set was filmed, but I can be wrong here. The lighting is slightly different, but I can´t tell the reason for it.

Most likely, Some other guy was the opening song in the set, probably the version introudced: “At this mid-day session at The Cavern, we proudly present: The Beatles!”.
One ending has John saying “We probably have to do it again!”, suggesting they need to do a remake later on. These two bits could well be from the same performance, using my reasoning.

Then we have a version introduced: “Okay, this is it: The Beatles sing Some other guy”. This, to me, suggest the re-make version: like, “This is it -let´s do it good now”.
Another ending is where we hear somebody shout “We want Pete!”, to which John replies “Yes.”

Another version starts with the briefest of intros: “It´s The Beatles!” Could be from any of the recordings. This could also be the last part of a longer intro that is not saved anywhere.
Third ending is just audience cheering and applause. Three intros, three endings. Combinations are free to interpret.

And of course we have half of Kansas City to listen to as well.

Even with that aside, the Beatles themselves would have certainly disagreed with what you’re saying – you can say ‘it’s only cool because the Beatles played it’ all you want, but it won’t change the fact that the Beatles absolutely loved the rock and roll artists whom they were covering.

Lennon and McCartney would certainly have scoffed at your idea that their covers elevated what was previously just music by ‘sub par original composers’. Even many years later, the two of them expressed in interviews how much they admired the likes of Goffin-King, Smokey Robinson, Chuck Berry – the writers whose songs they’d covered.

‘You really don’t seem to understand that this is a Beatles history site’ – the importance of these early influence on the Beatles as songwriters, and as a rock and roll act, certainly shouldn’t be excluded from a Beatles history site, so I really don’t understand your point.

The Beatles performed “Some Other Guy” twice on August 22 for Grenada TV. Even though there are numerous film edits floating around everywhere, there are basically only 2 film clips. One shows the boys rather tidy, the other shows them slightly more unkempt & more sweaty. Also, the lighting is different on each clip (especially on George). All recordings from August 22 were made with only one microphone. Grenada came back to The Cavern at a slightly later date & recorded the song again (audio only-no video), using a multiple-microphone placement. I’m speculating that this latter recording was the one used for the acetates that Brian had made up.

Concerning the acetates themselves, were they 1-sided discs, or was there something on the flip-side? If so, what was it? “Kansas City”, maybe?

Were there custom labels made, or were they handwritten? If handwritten, by whom? Brian? Other NEMS employees? The boys themselves?

How many of these were made & sold? Does anyone here have one, or can provide a scan of one. I’m dying to know what they look like. I’m fascinated to know more about this Beatles “record” that many never knew existed.

Lots of close listening to Richie Barrett has left me feeling pretty sure of this. I’m also in concord with the earlier poster re: “Just don’t wanna hold my fire”.

Good work everyone, although he mystery of unintelligible lyrics is one of the great pleasures of rock and roll really, isn’t it?