AUTOGRAPHS
ITEM # : AA077
PRICE : $16,500




ULTRA-RARE 12" X 8" TELEVISION PRODUCTION
CALL SHEET FOR "THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW"
SIGNED IN DARK BLUE BALLPOINT
BY
THE BEATLES
WITH " all the best from THE BEATLES " WRITTEN BY PAUL
AUTOGRAPHED 2 DECEMBER 1963

ON MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 1963 THE BEATLES SPENT THE PERIOD
FROM MID-MORNING TO LATE-AFTERNOON
AT ASSOCIATED TELEVISION'S ELSTREE CENTRE, THE OBJECT -
VERY SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVED - BEING TO REHEARSE AND SHOOT AN APPEARANCE
ON THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW,  HOSTED BY THE MUCH-LOVED BRITISH
COMEDY DOUBLE-ACT ERIC MORECAMBE AND ERNIE WISE.
IT WAS NETWORKED BY ATV ON SATURDAY 18 APRIL 1964.

PERFORMING LIVE BEFORE A MINIMAL STUDIO AUDIENCE, THE BEATLES
INITIALLY SANG TWO NUMBERS, THIS BOY  AND ALL MY LOVING, AND THEN
RETURNED AFTER MORE ERIC AND ERNIE COMEDY SKETCHES
TO SING A THIRD, I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND.

AFTER THIS LAST SONG, JOHN, PAUL, AND GEORGE PUT DOWN THEIR INSTRUMENTS
AND STEPPED FORWARD TO WHERE MORECAMBE AND WISE HAD WALKED ON,
WHILE RINGO STAYED AT THE BACK, ON HIS DRUM PODIUM.
WHAT FOLLOWED NEXT WAS FINE COMEDY, MORECAMBE CALLING THE
THREE BEATLES "THE KAYE SISTERS", SHOUTING UP TO RINGO,
"HEEELLLLO BUNGO!", AND THEN ENGAGING IN WITTY AND APPARENTLY
AD-LIB (THOUGH SCRIPTED) REPARTEE. WISE AND THE THREE BEATLES
NEXT SUGGESTED THEY JOIN FORCES FOR A NUMBER. WHILE THEY KITTED
THEMSELVES OUT WITH STRAW HATS AND STRIPED JACKETS
AND LAUNCHED INTO 44 SECONDS OF "MOONLIGHT BAY",
MORECAMBE RUSHED ON IN BEATLES WIG AND COLLARLESS JACKET,
SCREAMING "YEAH YEAH YEAH, AND "I LIKE IT!" (GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS' HIT).
THIS ITEM CLOSED THE SHOW, THE END CREDITS APPEARING OVER VISION OF RINGO
FINALLY STEPPING DOWN FROM HIS KIT. THOUGH THE BEATLES APPEARED ON
TELEVISION WITH A NUMBER OF COMEDIANS,
THE END RESULT WAS NEVER BETTER THAN THIS.

AS STATED IN "THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY 1",
PAUL McCARTNEY WAS ASKED IN 1994 TO NAME HIS FAVORITE
OF THE MANY TELEVISION PROGRAMMES THE BEATLES HAD APPEARED ON.
HE SCARCELY HESITATED IN RESPONDING
THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW .

FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT AND FOR PROSPERITY . . . .

EMANATING FROM THIS HISTORICAL APPEARANCE OF THE BEATLES,
(A PORTION OF WHICH IS ALSO DOCUMENTED IN "THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY" DVD)
COMES THIS ULTRA-RARE FRONT PAGE PRODUCTION CALL SHEET FROM THE TAPING
OF THIS PROGRAMME ON 2 DECEMBER 1963
SIGNED BEAUTIFULLY BY THE BEATLES IN DARK BLUE BALLPOINT PEN :

 A MOST OUTSTANDING HIGHLIGHT OF
THE CALL SHEET,  IS WRITTEN BY PAUL ABOVE HIS SIGNATURE :
"all the best from The Beatles"

As seeN IN THE CLOSE-UP scanS,
which doES not TRULY depict the beauty of the autographs,
the signatures are extremely well proportioned, CRISP, clear,
AND unhurrieD. IT REMAINS bright and IN EXCELLENT condition.
NO RIPS, NO TEARS, NO FADING.

THERE IS SOME SLIGHT, AND FADED DISCOLORATION TO
THIS delicate, thin PAPER STOCK IN Three AREAS.
(please see above image of the entire call sheet).
ONE IS directly BELOW RINGO'S SIGNATURE,
WHICH DOES NOT INTERFERE AT ALL WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH.
THE OTHER AREA IS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE,
JUST TO THE LEFT OF THE TYPED LIST OF THE CREW MEMBERS.
LASTLY, RUNNING ACROSS THE "h" IN PAUL'S SENTIMENTS OF "THE".
THE DIGITAL SCANS MAKE THESE AREAS MORE PRONOUNCED
THAN THEY TRULY ARE TO THE NAKED EYE IN PERSON.
AGAIN, THESE DISCOLORATIONS DO NOT DETRACT
OR AFFECT THE DARK SIGNATURES OR OVERALL BEAUTY OF THE PIECE.
 

BEATLES SIGNED TELEVISION DOCUMENTS ARE VERY RARE AND NOT MANY
HAVE SURFACED. THIS EXAMPLE, WHICH EPITOMIZED BEATLEMANIA AT THAT
PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME, AND SIGNED AS NICELY AS IT IS, TRULY REPRESENTS
AN IMPRESSIVE SIGNED BEATLES ITEM.

AND JUST THINK, WHEN THE PROGRAMME WAS FINALLY BROADCAST FOR THE
FIRST TIME IN ENGLAND IN APRIL 1964, THE BEATLES HAD ALREADY
CONQUERED AMERICA, AND HAD STARTED SHOOTING "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT" !!

THIS FANTASTIC CALL SHEET HAS BEEN
PROFESSIONALLY MATTED AND FRAMED IN CLASSY BLACK WOOD -
IN A RICH AND LUXURIOUS CHOCOLATE BROWN WITH BEIGE FLOORING,
WITH OVERALL DIMENSIONS OF A TREMENDOUS 30" X 18½".

SINCE THERE ARE NO EXISTING QUALITY PHOTOS OF THE BEATLES
APPEARANCE ON THIS SHOW, WE HAVE CHOSEN A FANTASTIC 9" x 12"
COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BEATLES WHICH IS WINDOWED IN
ABOVE THE SIGNED CALL SHEET.  IT WAS TAKEN DURING ANOTHER BRITISH
TELEVISION APPEARANCE -  JUST ONE WEEK PRIOR TO
THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW.  IT IS FROM THE LATE SCENE EXTRA
PROGRAMME, WHICH WAS TAPED ON MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 1963 :

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INTEGRITY OF  THE SIGNED CALL SHEET HAS BEEN
RESPECTED AND IS FULLY EXPOSED WITHOUT MATTING CUTTING OFF THE EDGES.
transparent photograph corner holders ARE UTILIZED to hold IT In place  : 

ACCOMPANIED BY
LIFETIME LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY FROM
FRANK CAIAZZO & FAB 4 COLLECTIBLES

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