Rory Storm - The Hurricanes' Set List

The Hurricanes' Set List

The group's typical 40-minute set list during 1963/1964:

• "Brand New Cadillac" — Storm, vocals (Vince Taylor & the Playboys);
• "Roll Over Beethoven" — Storm, vocals (Chuck Berry);
• "I'll Be Your Hero" — Storm, vocals (Taylor & the Playboys);
• "Beautiful Dreamer" — Walters, vocals (Stephen Foster song as rewritten by Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller and released by Tony Orlando in January 1963);
• "Since You Broke My Heart" — Walters/Byrne, vocals (The Everly Brothers);
• "America" — Storm, vocals (Leonard Bernstein);
• "Danny" — Storm, vocals (Marty Wilde);
• "Green Onions" (instrumental) (Booker T & the MG's);
• "Down The Line" — Storm, vocals (Jerry Lee Lewis); and
• "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" — Storm, vocals (Jerry Lee Lewis).

Other songs included in the set were:

• "Fever" — Walters, vocals (written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport (a pseudonym for Otis Blackwell));
• "Let It Be Me" — Walters, vocals (Gilbert Bécaud);
• "Summertime" — Walters, vocals (George Gershwin); and
• "Dr Feelgood" — Storm, vocals.

The Hurricanes recorded songs for Oriole's two "This is Mersey Beat" albums, but only released two singles: "Dr Feelgood"/"I Can Tell", Oriole (45-CB 1858 12/63) and "America"/"Since You Broke My Heart", Parlophone (R 5197 11/64) which was produced by Epstein at IBC Studios in London. Epstein also sang backing vocals on "America", and Starr added percussion and sang. Storm later asked Epstein to manage the group, but Epstein refused. The Hurricanes later recorded two songs at Abbey Road Studios in 1964: "Ubangi Stomp" and "I'll Be There", although they were never released.