There were many Beatles covering "beatgroups" in the 1960s and one of those had the not so original name The Bottles. Records by The Bottles were released on the Discofoon label from The Netherlands (some also were sold on the Belgium market on the Smash label). Discofoon was the houselabel of department store chain Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D). They leased tracks from both the British Embassy label (CBS) and the Top Six label, which was controlled by Pye records in the UK.
The Bottles recordings came from Top Six, but the UK releases were anonymous, so in England nobody knew about The Bottles. Those tracks were also released by the German Pye distributor Deutsche Vogue in an LP series on the POP label called Original Beat aus England (aus=from). Bottles tracks appeared on those LP's under names like The Beat Kings when they were covering the Beatles, but The High Tops sounded conspicuously similar.
The Bottles were one of the best Beatles cover bands at the time. Their version of I wanna be your man beats both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones versions.
Rating: ****
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