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The recordings are BBC studio recordings dating from early 1969 until July 1970. Thus, there are also recordings from when the group still called themselves The Iveys. Badfinger wrote all the material (except McCartney's "Come and Get it") themselves on their nine studio albums, but here are some surprising copy numbers to be found. Except for the fine version of "Maybe Tomorrow" all Iveys recordings are covers. Aside from "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and featured "Maybe Tomorrow", the sound is pretty bad on these tracks. Musically it is quite solid and the group does sound well rehearsed. The vocals, however, tend to lie in a high / shrill tone which can make it a little strenuous to listen to; the overall poor sound does not help on this problem. Among Iveys tracks, "Maybe Tomorrow" is a stand-out. A very nice and more gutsy version than the famous one, which can be found on The Iveys’ album and Badfinger's "Magic Christian Music"

As Badfinger, there are also a couple of covers to be found. Motown track "Surrender" and The Band's "Up on Cripple Creek"; both uninspiredly sung by Joey Molland. On the rest of the Badfinger tracks the sound is pretty good and we get solid versions of "Rock of All Ages", "Come and Get it", "Midnight Sun", "I Can't Take it" and "Believe Me". On some, you get in and out of the songs a little abruptly. Overall it is pretty obvious that the absolute main force of the group was Pete Ham; both instrumentally and vocally.