I watched it too. Very sad. Not sure why I watched it.
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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!
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Fantastic, Nixxy! Thanks, bunches. I just started my Christmas Wish List!
I also added this website to the bottom of the Resources section of the All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!! Wiki page.
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Huh? Wha...? Well, . . . .
Happy birthday, Nixxy baby!
... and many more!.
Yes, it's very sad that ABC TV chose to dwell sensationally on that one tragic day of John's fantastic life. After watching the previews and reading the announcements, I'm not at all sorry I couldn't find a link to the full program.
A much better memorial of his solo career for his 80th birthday, IMO, is the 2010 John Lennon NYC documentary that I watched on PBS recently. I've added a link to it near the bottom of the Resources section of the All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!! Wiki page for future reference.
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I guess I’m just a sucker for anything Beatles. Probably the reason I watched.
When I was still in the biz in the 90's, I had the opportunity to spend several days with Rick Nielson of Cheap Trick and at a different time spend some time with Tony Levin. One thing I wish I would have done is asked both of them about their experiences recording Double Fantasy with John Lennon. Unfortunately, I just wasn't on that wavelength then.
Could, shoulda, woulda...
Thanks very much, @G-Dog!
The MonaLisa Twins have a new record, Live At The Cavern Club.
MonaLisa Twins Homepage - MonaLisa Twins
The double album is from their 100th session at the Cavern.
I love the MonaLisa Twins. They play the Beatles like it should be played.
Didn't see the ABC thing, and I'm glad about that. I, too, watched the PBS John Lennon NYC program instead. It was his birthday. Much better to celebrate someones arrival on this planet, rather than their untimely departure from it.
Outtake from which album cover shoot?
(Shouldn't be too hard to figure out)
(Shouldn't be too hard to figure out)
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Another thread is talking about early Four Seasons/Beatles albums and Frank Ifield/Beatles albums. Well, I never heard or saw those, but here's a couple I did own and hear.
The American Vee Jay Records album that didn't sell until after Capitol's "Meet The Beatles" seemed to me to have a more raw quality to it. Here's me with my first decent amp and a borrowed guitar in '67. See album in lower right corner.
Then there was the very disappointing, to me, Tony Sheridan album. Although The Beatles got top billing on this re-designed album cover, it was very obvious they were just intended to be his backup band for some old "standards" instead of new rock 'n roll. Hence the disappointment.
Anyone else have any early Beatles albums with re-designed covers?
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Another thread is talking about early Four Seasons/Beatles albums and Frank Ifield/Beatles albums. Well, I never heard or saw those, but here's a couple I did own and hear.
The American Vee Jay Records album that didn't sell until after Capitol's "Meet The Beatles" seemed to me to have a more raw quality to it. Here's me with my first decent amp and a borrowed guitar in '67. See album in lower right corner.
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That Vee-Jay story blows me away, that they could have whiffed so badly on that sale. Given Vee-Jay’s deep involvement with the Chicago blues scene, the Beatles US presence might have been quite different. But they were a struggling company and I imagine cash in hand was more appealing than an overseas act. These last dozen or so posts have been some very cool stuff. Thx!
In addition to the Vee-Jay story, there was another label called Swan. They had the rights to She Loves You.
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/04/she-loves-you-bw-ill-get-you-beatles-swan-s-4152
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/04/she-loves-you-bw-ill-get-you-beatles-swan-s-4152
Agreed. They capture the spirit on this one too. I bet Paul is proud, Lennon would be too.
Intended to con a gullible, uninformed public, all of that stuff was made up of older existing recordings that were repackaged and exploited. VJ only had rights to Please Please Me, their first UK album that Capitol passed on releasing in the US. They issued that(as Introducing...)actually a week before Meet The Beatles came out and then used various repeated songs reconfigured with other material, like the Ifield(a British country-flavored singer)and Four Seasons tracks, along with a rag-tag collection of interviews that featured percussion interjections by Hal Blaine. Capitol sued to stop all of it, and then issued the PPM album, in an altered form, as The Early Beatles. Meet... is an altered version of their second UK album, With The Beatles.
That green MGM album only featured six true Beatle related tracks (the rest being American session player filler). I don’t know what you might have expected, but those are historical recordings, even if the band was primarily backing Tony Sheridan. Their first professional studio experience, they did get a spotlight with the surfy instrumental, “Cry For A Shadow”(the only Lennon-Harrison composition, and the record that led to them being discovered by Brian Epstein), and “My Bonnie” does rock even though it was a showcase for Sheridan’s Elvis/Gene Vincent mimicry. The recordings were supervised by German MOR band leader Bert Kaempfert, who had a number of international easy listening hits of his own.
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^ just one point ^
we would say Frank Ifield is an Aussie country flavoured singer (with a yodel no less
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we would say Frank Ifield is an Aussie country flavoured singer (with a yodel no less
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