The Peter Sellers Tape

In late August of  1968, Ringo Starr was busy at home compiling a cassette tape of the upcoming new Beatles' songs up to that point for his friend Peter Sellers. Ringo was scheduled to appear in a movie with Peter Sellers eventually released as "The Magic Christian" whereby Ringo plays the son of the title character played by Sellers.One of the connections with Peter Sellers is that George Martin (The Beatles' producer) recorded Sellers during the late 50s/early 60s for his comedy records and released by EMI at the time.
The duration of the tape is approximately 60 minutes and contains recent "White Album" recordings started back in May of 1968. Some of the tunes have early mono mixes and they are as yet incomplete so you get various edits that would be changed before the final mixes were authorized for disc which is why this tape is so interesting.
Side one opens with "Back In The USSR", "Rocky Raccon", "Wild Honey Pie", "Mother Nature's Son", "Sexy Sadie", "Don't Pass Me By" and ends with applause and Ringo announcing - "What A Show! Bravo! More !, etc". You can hear Ringo instruct Mr. Sellers to turn over the tape for more crazy music !!
Side two opens with some exotic music and noises made up by Ringo until we hear "Yer Blues" followed by "Good Night", "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Blackbird" and "Not Guilty". All of this is in mono.
Some of this material can be heard on the CD "Unsurpassed Masters, Volume 4" as well as "The Peter Sellers Tape". An excellent vinyl bootleg including the entire tape in order can be heard on the title "How Pink Is Your Panther?".