(Rock) [EP] [24/96] The Rolling Stones – Camden Theatre 1964 [BBC] (Bonus EP from GRRR! (Super Deluxe Edition) - 2012, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

On Thursday March 19th, 1964, a few days after the Stones found out they were going on their first tour of America in June and the day after they recorded fourteen tracks for Radio Luxembourg, the band went to the Camden Theatre, to the east of Regent's Park in London to record a thirty minute BBC radio show.
The show itself was part of a series called Blues In Rhythm, but this was a very special experimental radio broadcast, one of the first in stereo, and was advertised in the newspapers as 'Stereophony', broadcast at 9.30 on the morning of Saturday 9th May. According to the show's producer, Ian Grant, "They had to broadcast on two separate channels, that was the only way. And so the Third Programme had television sound to use. That meant you had to move your radio near to your television and place it eight feet apart at the suitable angles and sit in the middle and you got this stereo image. Before the broadcast they put this little announcement saying, 'Just to qualify the system: have you gotyour television sound? This is the left speaker, this is the right speaker - so if you've got your left and right it's great!' And they played the tape."
The first half of the broadcast was given over to Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames and compered by singer Long John Baldry. He introduced the Stones as "those charming deviationists." They performed Route 66, Cops and Robbers, You Better Move On and Mona in front of an audience that had been imported from the Flamingo Jazz Club where the band had last performed in January 1963.
The Stones originally recorded Arthur Alexander's You Better Move On in August 1963 at Decca Studios for their first EP that had its release in January 1964. The BBC stereo recording really is superb -just listen to how Keith's guitar cuts through and how confidentially Mick sings. Mona was first recorded in January 1964 and was released on their debut UK album in April 1964 and in America on The Rolling Stones, Now! in February 1965. The BBC version is taken at a faster pace than the studio recording. This is the only Stones recording of Kent Harris's song Cops and Robbers (that was made a hit by Bo Diddley) to be found anywhere. Route 66 appeared on the first UK and American albums. It's a number the Stones performed often in these early days, played with the familiarity that you'd expect.