What was The Beatles first recorded song?

Answer 1

1962 they released their first single, which became a hit!

Officially, "Love Me Do." They recorded some backup instrumentals with Tony Sheridan before that, and bootleg recordings of the Beatles at the Star Club in Hamburg predate their first official release.

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Actually, this requires a multilevel answer as there were several "firsts" as far as recordings are concerned.

When The Beatles were called The Quarrymen, they recorded an acetate record in 1958, which is a one of a kind disc. Side one featured John Lennon singing the Buddy Holly classic That'll Be The Day while side two was a song co-written by Paul McCartney and George Harrison, In Spite Of All The Danger. There was only one copy of this disc, long thought lost but more recently found. Paul McCartney paid a reported handsome sum for it, had it remastered and then pressed 50 replica copies and gave them out as Christmas gifts one year. That was their first recording and record.

After they officially became The Beatles, they firstrecorded in 1961 as the backup band for singer Tony Sheridan in a German only release of My Bonnie backed with The Saints. A request for this record in a Liverpool, England record shop first brought them to the attention of future manager Brian Epstein.

Epstein then attempted to swing a record deal featuring just The Beatles on their own. Their first recordings as a group were for Decca Records as a trial session. The first song recorded for that session was Like Dreamers Do, a Lennon/McCartney song.

They eventually signed with EMI's Polydor label and recorded two songs during their first session with George Martin in 1962, How Do You Do It? and Love Me Do, the latter which became their first single released as The Beatles, peaking in the U.K. at number 17.

Answer 2

"My Bonnie" and "When the Saints Go Marching In" with Tony Sheridan, recorded in May 1961. The Beatles were billed as the Beat Brothers.

As the Beatles, their first recorded song was "Love Me Do."