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1 1 2 PLAYLIST JAN. 20TH 2013 9AM The Beatles - I’m So Tired - The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John John Lennon’s “I’m So Tired” was started and finished in 14 takes on October 8, 1968. No overdubs were added. The session was a marathon 16-hour session which started at 4 p.m. on the 8th and finished at 8 a.m. on October 9 (John’s 28th birthday), and saw the completion of two Lennon compositions (“I’m So Tired” and “The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill”) and work on George Harrison’s “Long Long Long.” Written in India while the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the all-day regime in Rishikesh, India, prevented John from sleeping at night, so he decided to write a song about it. At the end of the song John can be heard muttering a phrase that when played backwards offered “Paul is dead” conspiracy theorists another major clue: “Paul is a dead man, miss him, miss him.” John Lennon – Look At Me - Plastic Ono Band ‘70 A song written around the time of “Julia” during the White Album sessions, it was never offered for that particular record. 2 3 QUIZ #1/ BACKBEAT…1/27 LIVE BWTB Broadcast & 1PM matinee show @ Ahmanson Theater A certain Beatles album was released today in 1964 on the Capitol Records label called MEET THE BEATLES…yer quiz question is…how many minutes of music was contained on the MEET THE BEATLES album…who ever gets closest to the number our experts have totaled up WINS! 9.10 BREAK Side 1 - (13.34) The Beatles -I Want To Hold Your Hand – Past Masters Recorded 17th October 1963 Parlophone and Capitol single Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! Parlophone EP The Beatles’ Million Sellers Parlophone LP A Collection Of Beatles Oldies The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There - Please Please Me 3 4 11th February 1963 along with 12 of the 14 tunes recorded that day. Lead vocal Paul st st 1 Song on the first LP…and the 1 credited to (McCartney/Lennon) McCartney .8 Lennon .2 US - Meet The Beatles The Beatles - This Boy – Meet The Beatles US EP Four By The Beatles /Meet The Beatles/Past Masters I flip of I Want To Hold You Hand in UK The Beatles – It Won’t Be Long - With The Beatles Recorded July 30th 1963 The first song Neil Young performed live for an audience at his high school cafeteria in Canada. Lead vocal John Lennon 1.00 US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! The Beatles – All I’ve Got To Do - With The Beatles Copyrighted in 1961 in the UK The song was later re-copyrighted when Lennon and McCartney had their own music publishing company in 1964 recorded September 11th 1963 lead vocal John Lennon 1.00 US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! The Beatles – All My Loving - With The Beatles McCartney “ It was the first song I ever wrote where I had the words before the music” recorded July 30th 1963. Lead vocal Paul McCartney 1.00 US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! VOICE BREAK 4 5 Side 2 - (12.24) The Beatles – Don’t Bother Me - With The Beatles Harrison’s first recorded song recorded September 11th and 12th 1963 Lead vocal George US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! The Beatles – Little Child - With The Beatles Written equally between John and Paul. Recorded September 1963 Lead vocal John and Paul US - Capitol LP Meet The Beatles! The Beatles – Till There Was You (Meredith Wilson) - With The Beatles The song was written for the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man. Recorded July 1963, it was also one of the four songs performed during the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show February 9th 1964. Lead vocal Paul US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! The Beatles – Hold Me Tight - With The Beatles Recorded Sept. 12 1963 Recorded during the Please Please Me sessions. Said McCartney “certain song were “work” songs…you haven’t got much memory of them…and that’s one of them”. Lead vocal Paul 5 6 McCartney .8 / Lennon .2 US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! The Beatles – I Wanna Be Your Man - With The Beatles Written in the time it takes to have lunch for the Rolling Stones. This mainly McCartney composition was recorded by The Rolling Stones in Oct. of 1963. Recorded by the Beatles in Sept & Oct that same year. Lead vocal Ringo. McCartney .7 / Lennon .3 US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! The Beatles – Not A Second Time - With The Beatles A fine John Lennon number recorded in an after dinner session 7-ish at Abbey Road on September 11th 1963. Lead vocal John Lennon 1.00 US - Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! There it is…released 49 years ago TODAY right here in the USA in 1964 9.45 (long) BREAK Coming up at the end of this long set…Jackie DeShannon w/ this week in Beatles News. 6 7 The Beatles - Hello Goodbye - Non-LP track (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul The Beatles’ sixteenth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. Originally titled “Hello Hello,” Paul’s “Hello, Goodbye” was recorded during the sessions for the “Magical Mystery Tour” TV movie, but was intended for release as a stand-alone single to be issued two weeks before the “Magical Mystery Tour” EP, and would not be included in the film. Work began on October 2, 1967 with 14 takes of the rhythm track. Over the next month, the Beatles added overdubs to create the finished recording. Specifically, Paul’s lead vocal and John and George’s backing vocals on Oct. 19, outside musicians playing two violas on Oct. 20, Paul’s bass guitar on Oct. 25, and a second bass guitar line from Paul on Nov. 2. From the very first take the song included its unique reprise ending, which the group nicknamed, somewhat strangely, the “Maori finale.” Issued November 24, 1967 in the UK and November 27, 1967 in the U.S. On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP 7 8 The Beatles - Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John Recorded February 17, 1967. The lyric of “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!” was derived almost entirely from a vintage poster purchased by John Lennon at an antique store in Sevenoaks, Kent, on January 31, 1967, while the Beatles were there filming the promotional clip for “Strawberry Fields Forever.” The poster advertised the February 14, 1843 performance of Pablo Fanque’s Circus Royal at Town-Meadows, Rochdale, Lancashire, and was hung proudly on the living room wall of Lennon’s Weybridge house. Paul: “We pretty much took it down word for word and then just made up some little bits and pieces to glue it together.” The backing track consisted of John on guide vocal, Paul on bass, Ringo on drums, George Harrison on tambourine, and George Martin on harmonium. Because the harmonium is powered by pumping feet, the producer was exhausted after the rehearsals and seven takes. Features Paul on lead guitar. The Beatles - I Am The Walrus - Magical Mystery Tour (EP) (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John The Beatles’ sixteenth single release for EMI’s Parlophone label. John Lennon pushed to have his “I Am The Walrus” as the A-side of the coupling with Paul’s “Hello, Goodbye,” but his song was deemed too unconventional and less commercial than Paul’s catchy tune. The title is inspired by the Walrus and the Carpenter from Lewis Carroll’s “Through The Looking Glass.” Lennon described his lyrics as purposely being Dylan-esque. In his 1980 Playboy interview he explained, “In those 8 9 days I was writing obscurely, a la Dylan, never saying what you mean, but giving the impression of something.” The “I Am The Walrus” session is notable because it was the first Beatles recording session following the untimely death of their manager, Brian Epstein. Ironically, Epstein had stopped by the last time the Beatles were recording (for “Your Mother Should Know” at Chappell Recording Studios on August 23, 1967). On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP The Beatles - Across The Universe - Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John Prior to leaving for an extended trip to India to study Transcendental Meditation in early 1968, the Beatles recorded several new songs to fill the sides of their upcoming single, which would be released while they were away. John had originally wanted his new composition, “Across The Universe,” for the A-side of the single but was still not happy 9 10 with the mix of the song. When the Beatles sat down to decide which two of their new recordings should be used, John preferred “Across the Universe” remain on the shelf for the time being, giving Paul’s more commercial “Lady Madonna” the A-side. “Across The Universe” was written entirely by John and was recorded February 4, 1968, in eight takes. Overdubs were recorded on February 8. Comedian and author Spike Milligan had been at Abbey Road when the group was working on the song and some months later inquired about it. He was surprised to learn that “Across the Universe” was sitting unreleased in EMI’s vault, so Milligan asked Lennon to donate the song to a charity album he was organizing for the World Wildlife Fund. Milligan was a British comedy legend who, along with Peter Sellers, starred in “The Goon Show,” one of John’s all-time favorite programs.