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.