Titles:	Searchin' Three Cool Cats The Sheik Of Araby Like Dreamers Do Hello Little Girl
Recorded:	Decca Studios, London, 1 January 1962
Producer:	Mike Smith
Location:	The Beatles Anthology 1 - disc 1, tracks 17 to 19

Obtaining for the Beatles a contract with a British recording company was the number one priority that Brian Epstein assigned himself in his role as the new manager of the group. Moreover, in an attempt to underline the Beatles' musical versatility, he personally selected the 15 songs cut at the Decca audition, all of which, to a greater or lesser extent, could be heard if one followed the group's frequent performances around the Merseyside dance halls and rock clubs. Searchin' and Three Cool Cats were certainly major Beatles stage favourites at the time, and both were form the same matrix: comedy numbers written by Leiber-Stroller and first recorded by the American R&B outfit the Coasters, in 1957 and 1958 respectively. For Searchin', Paul supplied the lead vocal, John and George backing vocal; Three Cool Cats featured George. Two of the other songs recorded were: Young Blood and Crying, Waiting, Hoping which the Beatles also recorded for the BBC in 1963.

The Sheik Of Araby was another big favourite, again with George Harrison delivering the lead vocal. The song was first performed in the stage musical Make It Snappy and the 1940 Hollywood movie Tin Pan Alley, but the Beatles were inspired by a cheeky, chirpy rock and roll version by Joe Brown, consequently their Decca performance had humor to the fore, right from the beat-style Arabic mood-setting kick-off through to the humorous John-Paul "not artf"s.

By the start of 1962, Lennon and McCartney had been composing music, together or alone, for some five years, often claiming in early interviews to have written "100 original songs" before being noticed. The Beatles recorded very few of these numbers once successful. Like Dreamers Do and Hello Little Girl, too name but two, are early Lennon-McCartney numbers which the Beatles never recorded once signed to EMI, although they were obviously considered strong enough for the period, that the group could pen their own material. Hello Little Girl was actually the first song ever written by John Lennon, Like Dreamers Do showed McCartney in hopeful mood, "waiting for the bliss".

Both songs did eventually see commercial release. the For most, another Liverpool group managed by Brian Epstein, were given Hello Little Girl in 1963; Like Dreamers Do was recorded by Birmingham band the Applejacks in 1964.