In studio guest Peter Asher

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1 1 In studio guest Peter Asher 1

2 2 Playlist Sept. 29th 2013 Abbey Road out this week in 1969 FEATURED LP of the morning 9AM The Beatles Mean Mr. Mustard - Abbey Road Recorded July 24 th. Written in India as we heard on the White LP demos from Esher. When the band is playing it during the Let It Be sessions Pam was then a Shirley. Lennon 1.00 The Beatles - Her Majesty - Abbey Road The Beatles Polythene Pam - Abbey Road Recorded July 25 th w/ She Came in Through The Bathroom Window. The only Beatles song inspired by a woman in New Jersey who dressed in polythene (but not jack boots or kilts). Written in India, demoed for the White LP. Lennon

3 3 The Beatles She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Abbey Road Recorded July 25 th Written while in NYC to announce Apple. Based on a true story about some Scruffs breaking into Paul house at St. John s Wood. Paul wrote w/ Joe Cocker in mind who later coved it as he did with most Beatle songs. McCartney 1.00 The Beatles Golden Slumbers - Abbey Road Recorded w/ Carry That Weight as one song on July 2 nd 1969 Based on a 400 year old poem by Thomas Decker whose original words were: Golden Slumbers kiss your eyes; Smiles awake you when you rise. Sleep pretty wantons do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby..paul wrote the rest of the lyrics. 3

4 4 McCartney.7 / Decker.3 The Beatles Carry That Weight - Abbey Road Recorded July 2 nd 1969 Featuring all 4 fabs on Carry That Weight but Ringo bowed out on the I never give you my pillow line. The Beatles The End Abbey Road Recorded July 23 rd 1969 John, Paul and George take turns on the lead fills at the end.of The End. McCartney BREAK Let s listen to the advancement of the Lennon & McCartney songwriting team from 1962 to 1966 and then we ve got an fascinating guest with a remarkable Beatles story stay tuned 4

5 5 The Beatles - P.S. I Love You Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) Lead vocal: Paul Recorded in ten takes on September 11, 1962, with Andy White on drums. The b-side of Love Me Do, released October 5, 1962, in the UK. The Beatles originally intended this to be the A-side of their first Parlophone single but because another song with the same title had been released by Peggy Lee they were persuaded to put this on the b-side. One of the three original compositions they performed during their EMI audition. Written mostly by Paul McCartney in April or May 1962 while The Beatles were in Hamburg, Germany. John has said it was Paul s attempt to mimic Soldier Boy by The Shirelles, which was a hit in April of One of several Beatles songs Paul McCartney owns with Yoko Ono. Starting with the songs recorded for their debut album on February 11, 1963, Lennon-McCartney s output was attached to their Northern Songs publishing company. Because their first single was released before John and Paul had contracted with a music publisher, EMI assigned it to their own, a company called Ardmore and Beechwood, which took the two songs, Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. Decades later McCartney and Ono were able to purchase the songs for their respective companies, MPL Communications and Lenono Music. On U.S. albums: Introducing The Beatles (Version 1) - Vee-Jay LP The Early Beatles - Capitol LP

6 6 The Beatles - It Won t Be Long With The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John The first original song recorded for their second album, With The Beatles. Composed primarily by John in July 1963 with the intention of writing a follow-up single to the as yet unreleased She Loves You. The lyrical similarity to the chorus of She Loves You (both songs contain the phrase yeah, yeah, yeah ) was no accident. Beatles manager Brian Epstein had encouraged John and Paul to try to write songs that would appeal to the American market, specifically American teenagers. Soon American colloquial sayings and words started showing up in their songs. Ten takes were attempted on July 30, 1963 and the song was left unfinished. The group resumed work later that evening, in all logging 23 full or partial takes and edit pieces. It is the first original Beatles song with a call-and-response gimmick, with John and Paul alternating yeah throughout the song. The first song Neil Young performed live for an audience at his high school cafeteria in Canada. On U.S. album: Meet The Beatles! - Capitol LP 1963 The Beatles - I m Happy Just To Dance With You - A Hard Day s Night (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: George Written by John and Paul specifically to give George a song in the movie A Hard Day s Night. Completed in four takes on March 1, 1964, with filming slated to begin the next day. The b-side of I ll Cry Instead in U.S. On U.S. album: A Hard Day s Night - United Artists LP Something New - Capitol LP 1964 The Beatles - I ve Just Seen A Face - Help! (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul Written by Paul at the Asher family home on Wimpole Street. Paul had the tune prior to coming up with the lyrics and originally named the song Auntie Gin s Theme because his aunt liked it. George Martin s instrumental Help! album includes an orchestrated version of I ve Just Seen A Face using the title Auntie Gin s Theme. Recorded in six takes at the same June 14, 1965 McCartney-dominated session that produced Yesterday and I m Down. One of only five Beatles songs Paul chose to perform live on his Wings Over America tour in On U.S. album: Rubber Soul - Capitol LP 1965 The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows - Revolver (Lennon-McCartney) 6

7 7 Lead vocal: John The first song recorded for what would become the Revolver album. John s composition was unlike anything The Beatles or anyone else had ever recorded. Lennon s vocal is buried under a wall of sound -- an assemblage of repeating tape loops and sound effects placed on top of a dense one chord song with basic melody driven by Ringo's thunderous drum pattern. The lyrics were largely taken from The Psychedelic Experience, a 1964 book written by Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, which contained an adaptation of the ancient Tibetan Book of the Dead. Each Beatle worked at home on creating strange sounds to add to the mix. Then they were added at different speeds sometime backwards. Paul got arranging credit. He had discovered that by removing the erase head on his Grundig reel-to-reel tape machine, he could saturate a recording with sound. On U.S. album: Revolver - Capitol LP 1966 We just heard a song from every year of the Beatles recording career chronologically from which brings us to the year 1967 and our first guest of the morning welcome David Groggin aka Mr. Bonzai 7

8 8 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 8

9 9 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 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). He was found dead on August 27, aged just 32. All four Beatles met at Paul s St. John s Wood house on September 1 to discuss how they should proceed. Among other business matters, it was decided that they would press on with the Magical Mystery Tour project, temporarily postponing a planned visit to India to study Transcendental Meditation. The basic rhythm track was recorded in a six-hour session beginning at 7:00 p.m. on September 5, Sixteen takes were attempted, only five of them were complete run-throughs. Starting the next day overdubs were added to create John Lennon s textured masterpiece. Specifically, additional bass from Paul, more drums from Ringo and John s memorable lead vocal on Sept. 6, and a 16-piece orchestra under the direction of George Martin, and 16 members of the Mike Sammes Singers, a large group of vocalists who did much session and television work, that brought the Ho-ho-ho, heehee-hee, ha-ha-ha section to life, in separate sessions on Sept. 27. Issued November 24, 1967 in the UK and November 27, 1967 in the U.S. On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP 9.42 BREAK The Beatles - Revolution 1 - The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) 9

10 10 Lead vocal: John The first song recorded during the sessions for the White Album. At the time of its recording, this slower version was the only version of John Lennon s Revolution, and it carried that titled without a 1 or a 9 in the title. Recording began on May 30, 1968, and 18 takes were recorded. On the final take, the first with a lead vocal, the song continued past the 4 1/2 minute mark and went onto an extended jam. It would end at 10:17 with John shouting to the others and to the control room OK, I ve had enough! The final six minutes were pure chaos with discordant instrumental jamming, plenty of feedback, percussive clicks (which are heard in the song s introduction as well), and John repeatedly screaming alright and moaning along with his girlfriend, Yoko Ono. Ono also spoke random streams of consciousness on the track such as if you become naked. This bizarre six-minute section was clipped off the version of what would become Revolution 1 to form the basis of Revolution 9. Yoko s naked line appears in the released version of Revolution 9 at 7:53. George Harrison Sue Me, Sue You Blues - Living In The Material World 73 Inspired the Beatles legal problems, George wouldn t let a good fight go unrecorded. In characteristic good humor, George put the frustrations of Paul suing his former band mates to song (while Lennon reportedly threw bricks through Paul s windows though this is highly, highly disputed!). This song had some lyrical modifications for his 1974 US Tour, brining the story up to date to include the litigation against Allen Klein (Paul told you so, George!). 10

11 11 The Beatles - Octopus s Garden - Abbey Road FEATURED LP (Starkey) Lead vocal: Ringo Octopus s Garden is Ringo Starr s second solo composition in the Beatles catalog, credited to his real name, Richard Starkey. He got the idea for the song after he abruptly quit the group for one week during the making of the White Album, in August He traveled to Sardinia on the Mediterranean and spent time on actor Peter Seller s yacht. On board, Ringo was told that octopus go around the ocean bed and pick up stones and shiny objects and build gardens in front of their caves. The still unfinished song was played for George on January 26, This segment was shown in the Let It Be film. A proper rerecording of the song took place on April 26. The group went through 32 takes with Ringo on drums and guide vocal, George on his Stratocaster through a Leslie speaker, John on Epiphone casino electric guitar and Paul on Rickenbacker bass guitar. Overdubs were recorded on July 17 and 18 with Ringo s lead vocal with ADT (artificial double tracking), Paul adding piano and more drums, and backing vocals from Paul, George and Ringo. During the instrumental break Ringo can be heard blowing through a straw into a glass of water for bubbling sounds. Paul Can t Buy Me Love -Sound check 1993 Dhani For You Blue NEW! NEWS w/ Jackie DeShannon HERE followed by Paul McCartney LIVE Save Us Hollywood Blvd. AFTER SONG QUIZ Name 2 songs written by Paul McCartney containing the word HOLLYWOOD? BREAK WINNER HERE 11

12 12 The Beatles - Honey Pie - The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul Similar in style to his When I m Sixty-Four and Your Mother Should Know, Honey Pie is a 1920s-style vaudeville number written entirely by Paul McCartney. The demo recorded at George Harrison s home in late May 1968, which can be heard on the Anthology 3 album, shows the song was mostly intact as the Beatles began work on their new album, but at that stage it didn t have the spoken introduction found in the final version: She was a working girl North of England way Now she s hit the big time In the U.S.A. And if she could only hear me This is what I d say After some rehearsal, the backing track was recorded in one take on October 1, 1968, at Trident Studios. The instrumental line-up was Paul on piano, John on Epiphone Casino electric guitar, George on Fender Bass and Ringo on drums (with brushes). On October 2, Paul superimposed his lead vocal and a lead guitar part. More overdubs were added on October 4, including George Martin s score for five saxophones and two clarinets. Paul recorded the line now she s hit the big time in a manner mimicking the low fidelity recordings of the 1920s, and superimposed with the sound of a scratchy old phonograph, to make the end result sound like a vocal from a worn 78 rpm record. Wings Rock Show - Early take `74 (yup) 12

13 13 The Beatles - Do You Want To Know A Secret Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) Lead vocal: George Recorded February 11, Written primarily by John Lennon for George Harrison to sing. The song was given to another Brian Epstein-managed act, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, to cover. Their version topped the British charts in late spring Inspired by "I'm Wishing," a song from Walt Disney s 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that Lennon s mother used to sing to him when he was a child. On U.S. albums: Introducing The Beatles - Vee-Jay LP The Early Beatles - Capitol LP The Beatles - If I Fell - A Hard Day s Night (NEXT SUNDAY ALL LENNON) (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John and Paul John Lennon s stunning ballad If I Fell was by far the most complex song he had written to date. It could be considered a progression from This Boy with its similar chord structure and intricate harmonies by John and Paul, recorded at their request together on one microphone. Performed live on their world tour throughout the summer of Completed in 15 takes on February 27, Flip side of And I Love Her in the U.S. On U.S. album: A Hard Day s Night - United Artists LP Something New - Capitol LP I Don't Want To See You Again In Touch With w/ P&G And LP favorite BREAK 13

14 14 Saturday, October 5, :30 p.m. Acoustic Music SD Concerts, San Diego, CA Saturday, October 12, p.m. and 7 p.m. The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA Presented by the British-American Business Council Los Angeles Paul - A World Without Love (L&M) - Demo / Peter & Gordon - A World Without Love 1 st Single #1UK (Feb. `64) #1 US (June) Peter & Gordon - If I Were You (P&G) - flip of A World Without Love 14

15 15 Paul McCartney NEW - NEW 4 Producers on the NEW LP a first for Paul RiNGO Golden Blunders (Posies) Time Takes Time 1992 Produced by Peter Asher Ringo - Lead vocals, drums, percussion Robbie Buchanan - Keyboards Waddy Watchel - Guitar Andrew Gold - Acoustic guitar, guitar solo, backing vocals Rob Glaub - Bass Peter Asher - Tambourine, backing vocals Nine others - Backing vocals BREAK * James Taylor Apple 15

16 16 The name of the show Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond Saturday, October 5, :30 p.m. Acoustic Music SD Concerts, San Diego, CA Saturday, October 12, SHOWS 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA Presented by the British-American Business Council Los Angeles 16

17 17 Apple artist James Taylor Something In The way She Moves (JT) - Produced by Peter Asher.. w/ Paul on bass and I see now George on bv s??? ADD/The Beatles - Something - Abbey Road FEATURED LP (Harrison) Lead vocal: George The Beatles twenty-first single release for EMI, and fourth on the Apple Records label. Although initially crediting Lennon and McCartney as the songwriters, legendary crooner Frank Sinatra called George Harrison s Something the greatest love song ever written. Commonly referred to as George s first Beatles A-side, some sales chart makers at the time considered the single a double-a, as both sides of the record received significant radio airplay, and charted both Something and its flip side (John s Come Together ) as one combined chart listing. The song is the first of two CLASSIC songs George delivered for the Abbey Road album, the other being Here Comes The Sun. It was a phenomenal one-two punch that had to have Lennon and McCartney wondering what else Harrison had up his sleeve. Paul Juniors Farm - Live on Hollywood Blvd BREAK QUIZ #2 How many songs from the Abbey Road album have we played this morning here on BWTB? A/ (# 9) 17

18 18 The Beatles - Hey Jude Single/ Hey Jude / Past Masters Recorded: 29/30/31 July, 1 August 1968 The Beatles most successful single in their entire career. It was #1 for NINE weeks straight in the USA (3 weeks in the UK) Lennon: I always heard it as a song to me. When Paul say s go out and get her he meant go ahead leave me. This was the FIRST record released on Apple Records. 18

19 19 BWTB Bulletin Board Oct. 6 th - TIM PIPER & Band Just Imagine / Heyworth Theater playing a few Lennon numbers on our Lennon birthday special. Oct. 13 th - Author Larry Kane When We Were Boys (just added) Oct. 20 th - Laurence Juber Nov. 3 rd Julian Lennon IN STUDIO 19