Jazz, rock'n'roll, blues, music hall, guitar instrumentals, tin pan alley, rockabilly, dance band, soul, bolero, skiffle, trad, R&B, country, old-time, Broadway, doo-wop, folk, high school pop, Motown - the Beatles' early influences are so wide-ranging that the Beatles Beginnings series of discs could quite easily pass for an introduction to the history of twentieth century popular music. This repertoire enabled them to perform in many different settings - jazz clubs, strip clubs, folk clubs, working men's clubs, church dances, rock'n'roll joints. Music had to be tailored to the occasion and the Beatles' great enthusiasm for popular music of all kinds enabled them to do this. Almost all of the songs they learned were released in the UK and from 1957 onwards, they avidly followed the weekly music charts and kept up to date with the records that did not make the hit parade. Come the summer of 1960 and the Quarrymen were no more. This CD set brings together all the songs that were introduced into the newly-named Beatles' repertoire during the period when they were a five-piece band with Pete Best on drums and Stuart Sutcliffe on bass.