Video: 'The Beatles - Some Other Guy (Restored Live 1962)'

(Wednesday, August 22, 1962, approximately noon-2:00 p.m. British Summer Time) — The Beatles were filmed performing with sound for the first time this afternoon at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England, by Granada TV for a locally broadcast magazine series, Know the North.

The group performed the Leiber-Stoller-Barrett song “Some Other Guy” for the camera. The audio and video are slightly out of sync, and although John Lennon and Paul McCartney are both singing in the video, only Lennon is fully audible.

It was also the first time the group was filmed as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, the latter being the group’s new drummer who replaced Pete Best last week (coincidentally, the last time John, Paul, George, and Ringo were filmed together would be exactly seven years from today, on August 22, 1969).

Video: 'The Beatles - Ringo Joins The Beatles / Some Other Guy Live At The Cavern Club' (Aug. 22, 1962 at 2:18)

After receiving a number of letters from fans about The Beatles, a crew from Granada Television decided to investigate the growing phenomenon.

Producers from Manchester-based Granada first saw the group perform at Cambridge Hall in Southport on July 26, 1962, and the company’s Dick Fontaine visited the Cavern on Aug. 1 to check the lighting conditions before the film crew attended on this date.

The quality of the footage was judged to be too low for broadcast, and it was shelved until The Beatles became famous. ‘Some Other Guy’ was first shown on Nov. 6, 1963, on Granada’s Scene At 6.30, and has been repeated many times since.