Sadly I don’t have any original recordings. I don’t think my Dad does either. I’ll check a couple of other sources and let you know if I find anything.
Regarding your comment about the master tapes, I don’t think it’s very surprising to be honest. Even more recent shows wouldn’t necessarily retain the raw audio. It’s hit and miss with most shows what’s retained. The slightly more concerning thing is whether the edited versions become the new masters.
That would result in the original versions being lost altogether.
No worries. I was a big fan of the series having watched it back when it was first shown on ITV in 1992, partly through my dad watching it as he loved the 60s. The earlier series were the best, never liked the later series after Nick and Claude Greengrass left. I’m not sure whether they would have lost the raw master tape without the audio track because they do occasionally show the early series on the UK ITV channel with the songs included (though I do recall over 10 years when they showed an ep from series 7 they replaced “Goodday Sunshine” by the Beatles with A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum, and I’ve also seen versions on youtube from the Filmrise channel which retain some of the songs used in the original broadcasts, other versions I’ve come across they have kept some songs but changed others, even the song Rawhide by Frankie Laine was replaced in one epsiode, though the source of the recording seems to be unknown as the channel logo was blurred out. Surely they could get the rights to that song?.
In episode 9 from series 2 “Wall of Silence” (DVD version this is), they have replaced “Hey Jude” with a cover version of “If I Fell” by the Beatles but they have cut a few seconds out of that scene the song is heard during, but it’s clear from watching the scene that they must’ve had the original raw tape in order to remove the original song and replace it something else as there’s a scene with the characters speaking with the music heard, something that would’ve been impossible to keep if they couldn’t remove the audio, unless there’s a mix of the two songs (no software I know can remove an audio track completely). Can’t think of any reason why they trimmed a few seconds off that scene.
In another episode from series 4 (ep 9 Red Herring), again from the DVD, in one scene where it cuts to the next scene we hear the beginning of “Back in the USSR” with the noise of a plane, but when it cuts to the next scene we now have a cover version of “You Can’t Do That”. The fact that in the previous scene you can hear the opening to Back in the USSR but it then next there’s a different used, suggests to me that what the DVD studio did was mute or remove the audio in the next scene because they couldn’t remove Back in the USSR, they added a few sound effects to make it match the live sounds from the filming and then add the different song on top.