PLAYLIST AUG. 3 RD 2014

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3 3 9AM The Beatles - Blue Jay Way - Magical Mystery Tour (EP) (Harrison) Lead vocal: George Written by George Harrison on August 1, 1967 while vacationing in a rented house in the Hollywood Hills above Los Angeles. The story is essentially the same as the lyrics imply. On a foggy night in L.A., George sat at his rented house waiting for friends to arrive, but the maze of thin and winding streets and the thick fog rolling in got the best of them and they became lost. George: I d rented a house in Los Angeles on Blue Jay Way, and I d arrived there from England. I was waiting around for Derek and Joan Taylor who were then living in L.A. I was very tired after the flight and the time change and I stared writing, playing a little electric organ that was in the house. It had gotten foggy and they couldn t find the house for some time. On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP The Beatles - Fixing A Hole - Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band

4 4 Lead vocal: Paul On February 9, 1967, the Beatles recorded Fixing A Hole at Regent Sound Studio on Tottenham Court Road in London. The session was booked at Regent by George Martin because Abbey Road was unavailable. It marks the first time the Beatles recorded a British EMI session at a studio other than Abbey Road. No longer on the EMI staff, Martin was free to travel with the Beatles wherever they were recording. But engineer Geoff Emerick and the usual crew of tape operators at Abbey Road were all EMI employees so they couldn t go along. The Beatles - Rain - Non-LP B-side Lead vocal: John Recorded on April 14 and 16, The track is notable for the backwards vocal from John Lennon at the end of the song. The section is John singing part of the first verse but the tape is superimposed backwards in the mix. The song contains slowed down instruments, guitar distortion, and vocals recorded and played back at variable speed. Aside from Paul McCartney s dominant bass part, the song features a striking drum performance from Ringo, who has called Rain his favorite Beatles song. The B-side of Paperback Writer. Issued in America on May 23, 1966 and the UK on June 10, 1966, several months in advance of the Revolver album. On U.S. album: Hey Jude - Capitol LP (1970) 9.10 BREAK The Beatles - Baby It s You Please Please Me (David-Williams-Bacharach) Lead vocal: John Recorded in three takes on February 11, Originally recorded by The Shirelles in December 1961 on Scepter Records. Performed by The Beatles in their live act throughout 1962 and Burt Bacharach (music), and Luther Dixon (credited as Barney Williams) and Mack David (lyrics) not Hal David.his younger brother Mack was older and also wrote The Blob Steve McQueen

5 5 The Beatles - When I Get Home - A Hard Day s Night Lead vocal: John Recorded in 11 takes on June 2, It was the next to last song completed for the A Hard Day s Night album. In his 1980 interview with Playboy magazine John Lennon said: That s me trying to get that Wilson Pickett type sound, a four-in-the bar cowbell song. On U.S. album: Something New - Capitol LP The Beatles - Why Don t We Do It In The Road? - The Beatles Lead vocal: Paul Excepting a drum track played by Ringo Starr and added as an overdub a day later, Why Don t We Do It In The Road? is a Paul McCartney solo performance, recorded in

6 6 five takes on October 9, Playing an acoustic guitar, Paul started off each track tapping out the beat on the sounding board of his guitar. By the fifth and final take, Paul s ditty had turned into a raunchy rocker, showcasing McCartney s gritty, top-flight voice. The Anthology 3 album features a more restrained performance of the song. On October 10, while John and George were involved in Studio Two with George Martin s string overdubs for Piggies and Glass Onion, Paul invited Ringo to join him in Studio Three and lay down a drum track. Other overdubs included handclaps, additional vocals, and Paul playing his Rickenbacker bass guitar and an electric guitar part on his Epiphone Casino. The Beatles - Girl - Rubber Soul Lead vocal: John Written primarily by John, the song was completed in two takes on November 11, The song is notable for the naughty backing vocal (Paul and George repeating the word tit ) and John s heavy breathing during his vocal. John called this one of his best. On U.S. album: Rubber Soul - Capitol LP The Beatles - Matchbox (Perkins) Long Tall Sally EP / Something New/ Past Masters * flip of Slow Down in US Capitol 5255 (US) August 24, 1964 Recorded: 1st June 1964 "Matchbox" is sung by Ringo, and was recorded on 1st June. It's writer Carl Perkins was present at the sessions, although he did not participate. Carl had originally released "Matchbox" on the legendary Sun label on 11th February 1957, but failed to chart anywhere

7 7 RINGO SEZ > Well, if you don t want Ringo s peaches, honey Please don t mess around my tree The Beatles - Please Please Me Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) Lead vocal: John and Paul The Beatles second single release for EMI s Parlophone label. Written entirely by John Lennon in the bedroom of his Aunt Mimi s home on Menlove Ave., Lennon has said it was his attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song. In fact, the original version was a slower, bluesy version which producer George Martin recalls as being rather dreary. Because Martin was insisting on releasing their previously recorded cover of How Do You Do It? as their next single, The Beatles rearranged Please Please Me as an up-tempo song with harmonies and harmonica and then stood their ground to get it selected as their second single. Martin agreed to issue this Beatles original as the next single, shelving How Do You Do It? for another month, when it again came up for consideration for a single release. This was the first record owned by Elvis Costello, who was in the Beatles Fan Club when he was eleven. The 45 rpm single was released January 11, 1963 and topped two of the UK music industry s three sales charts, compelling EMI to order a full album of songs from the band. It was the first Beatles release to list the songwriters as McCartney-Lennon. Both sides featured the credit in that last name order. Released three different times in the U.S. on Vee-Jay. The coupling of Please Please Me and Ask Me Why caused many to take notice of The Beatles, and particularly Lennon and McCartney's burgeoning songwriting partnership. It led to Dick James approaching them to found Northern Songs, their music publishing

8 8 company. On U.S. albums: Introducing The Beatles (Version 2) - Vee-Jay LP The Early Beatles - Capitol LP - Last night I said these words to my girl I know you never even try, girl C'mon (C'mon), c'mon (C'mon), c'mon (C'mon), c'mon (C'mon) Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you John Lennon Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) - Walls And Bridges 74 Where Bless You was an ode to Yoko, Surprise, Surprise was an ode to May Pang. The track included Elton John on vocal and also has an ode to Drive My Car at the end of the song. John describing various parts of May Pang The Beatles - All Together Now - Yellow Submarine

9 9 Lead vocal: Paul In May 1967, with the Sgt. Pepper album in the can and awaiting release, the Beatles went to work on two projects at the same time. They began recording the title track for Magical Mystery Tour and also starting to record the new songs they had promised for the Yellow Submarine film. The first song specifically recorded for the Yellow Submarine film was Baby, You re A Rich Man (on May 11, 1967), but that song was pulled several months later to fill the B-side of the All You Need Is Love single. George Harrison s Sgt. Pepper reject Only A Northern Song was added to the stack of film songs. Paul s sing-along All Together Now was started and finished on May 12, Nine takes were recorded. Instruments included two acoustic guitars (probably Paul and George), bass guitar (Paul), bass drum (Ringo), harmonica and banjo (John). More BEDS mentioned by PAUL he must have tired a lot Wings Hi Hi Hi Written in Spain earlier in the summer, it was a great rocking tune that brought back some credibility to Paul s solo efforts. The BBC banned it on November 30 th, 1972 for suggestive language and drug references. Paul had used the word polygon but it was incorrectly listed as body gun in the lyrics. Mentions want to lie on the bed / Sweet banana 9.42 BREAK The Beatles - It s Only Love- Help!

10 10 Lead vocal: John Recorded in six takes on June 15, The first Beatles song to include a reference to getting high ( I get high when I see you go by ). The working title prior to lyrics being written was That s a Nice Hat. George Martin and his Orchestra recorded the instrumental version of It s Only Love using the original title. In 1972 Lennon called It s Only Love the one song I really hate of mine. On U.S. album: Rubber Soul - Capitol LP The Beatles - Julia - The Beatles Lead vocal: John Recorded in three takes on October 13, 1968, Julia is the only John Lennon solo performance in the Beatles catalog. Written primarily in Rishikesh, India, John learned the finger-picking guitar style from Donovan while in India, and used this style on Dear Prudence, as well as some of his post-beatles recordings such as Look At Me, and Yoko Ono s Plastic Ono Band B-side Remember Love. The Julia in question is his free-spirited mother, who was killed when John was 17. In his 1980 Playboy interview, John described the song as a combination of Yoko and my mother blended into one. The lyric ocean child is a reference to Yoko Ono, whose name means child of the ocean. Julia was the last new song recorded for the White Album. According to author Bruce Spizer some of the song s lyrics were adopted from Sand and Foam, a collection of writings and drawings by Kahili Gibran, a Lebanese poet and philosopher. Gibran s words are: Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so the other half may reach you and When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. Lennon was also influenced by Yoko, who sent letters to John while he was in India. John: She would write things like I am a cloud. Watch for me in the sky.

11 11 The Beatles - Your Mother Should Know - Magical Mystery Tour (EP) Lead vocal: Paul Paul wrote Your Mother Should Know on harmonium at his Cavendish Avenue home in London. Recorded on August 22 and 23, 1967 at Chappell Recording Studios in London, those dates would be the only time the Beatles recorded at that facility. Eight takes were recorded the first evening. The second night of recording was significant in that it marked the last time the Beatles saw Brian Epstein, who died four days later, aged just 32. Written entirely by Paul, in similar vein to When I m Sixty-Four. Although the song was later re-made at Abbey Road at McCartney s request, it was the Chappell version, with overdubs recorded in September at Abbey Road, that made it onto the Magical Mystery Tour EP. On U.S. album:

12 12 Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP Dhani Harrison For You Blue Single The Beatles - Let It Be - album version - Let It Be Lead vocal: Paul Let It Be was the last song properly recorded on multi-track at Apple Studios during the Get Back sessions in January It was completed in eight takes (numbered Take 20 through 27 to match the film crew clapboard numbers) on January 31, 1969, the day after the rooftop concert. Take 27 had two complete performances of the song and the first of these Take 27 performances was deemed the best. Though the intent of the January 1969 Get Back sessions was to capture the Beatles live in the studio without benefit of studio trickery like overdubbing, an exception was made on Let It Be so that George Harrison could re-record his lead guitar solo. George s overdub was recorded on April 30, Author Mark Lewisohn: It is widely believed that there are two different takes of Let It Be publicly available - the single released (in the UK) on March 6, 1970 and the Let It Be LP version released (in the UK) May 8, Certainly the lead guitar solos in the middle eight differ considerably, and the LP version has a longer duration. But, in truth, these are one and the same version. That is, they are derived from the same tape. George Harrison Mama You ve Been On My Mind (demo) - Early Takes Vol.1 12

13 13 John Lennon Dear John - Anthology 98 One of his last tunes BREAK NEWS W/ JACKIE BREAK OK there will be a quiz that follows these next 5 songs count the references to Beatles song titles in these lyrics Start calling when you hear the 5 th song How Do You Sleep.Don t call if you have less than 10 or more titles KLOS GO! The Beatles', "Glass Onion" The Song Lyrics:

14 14 I told you about strawberry fields You know the place where nothing is real The Beatles', "Glass Onion" The Song Lyrics: I told you about the fool on the hill I tell you, man, he's living there still The Beatles', "Glass Onion" The Song Lyrics: I told you about the walrus and me man You know we're as close as can be, man The Beatles', "Glass Onion" The Song Lyrics: Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet, yeah The Beatles', "Glass Onion" The Song Lyrics: Fixing a hole in the ocean The Beatles', "I Am The Walrus" The Song Lyrics: See how they fly like Lucy In The Sky The Beatles', "Savoy Truffle" The Song Lyrics: We all know Ob-la-di-bla-da Ringo Choose Love The Long and Winding Road, is more than a song Tomorrow Never Knows, What Goes On "How Do You Sleep?" So sgt. pepper took you by surprise The only thing you done was yesterday and since you've gone it's just another day

15 15 QUIZ #1 (Give away a few) We just heard 5 songs that all incorporated Beatles songs titles somewhere in the lyrics. There is a total of 12 actual song titles referred to. The first KLOS and can name at least 10 of the Beatles song titles mentioned in those last 5 songs WINS! Pair of tix to Hollywood Bowl Beatles extravaganza featuring Dave Stewart BREAK BUMPER/The Beatles - I m Looking Through You - Rubber Soul sessions Lead vocal: Paul Written by Paul after an argument with then-girlfriend, actress Jane Asher. Initially recorded on October 24, 1965, the song was re-recorded from scratch on November 6, but McCartney was still not satisfied. Four days later, on November 10, the group took another stab at it. Paul s lead vocal was superimposed the next day. The version issued by Capitol Records has two false starts. On U.S. album: Rubber Soul - Capitol LP The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Revolver sessions 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

16 16 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. BREAK A far cry from the Cavern Club TAKE 1 of Tomorrow Never Knows and speaking of The Cavern Club it s time for QUIZ #2 (Give away a few) Today in years ago The Beatles LAST Performance at the Cavern, The show lasted from pm. During The Beatles set a power cut and the place went dark. Lennon and McCartney performed an acoustic version of what song.aug. 3 RD `63 HINT It s a song from Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band ` KLOS Also on the bill were The Escorts, The Merseybeats, The Road Runners, Johnny Ringo and the Colts, and Faron s Flamingos. Let s hear a few numbers you might have heard The Beatles lay down at the Cavern Club. Note George solo 1.45 in the Beatles really JELL as a band The Beatles Nuthin Shakin` The Beatles Kansas City The Beatles Roll Over Beethoven WINNER HERE

17 17 The Beatles - When I m Sixty-Four - Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band Lead vocal: Paul One of the oldest songs in the Beatles catalog, it was written by Paul McCartney when he was 15 or 16 and the Beatles had performed a variation of it in their pre-fame Cavern Club days whenever the amplifiers broke down. It was the second song recorded for the Sgt. Pepper LP (following Strawberry Fields Forever ), but when Strawberry Fields Forever was pulled for release as a single, Paul s When I m Sixty-Four became the first song recorded for the album that ended up on the album. The initial rhythm track was finished in two takes on December 6, 1966, and consisted of Paul on guide vocal, bass and piano, John on guitar, and Ringo on drums with brushes. On December 8, Paul recorded his lead vocal, on December 20, John, Paul and George recorded backing vocals and Ringo played bells. Although John helped with a few lyrics for the official recording of Paul s childhood song, he was later quoted as saying, I would never even dream of writing a song like that. Paul McCartney That Was Me - Memory Almost Full 07 A little boogie rocker that waxes incredulous at a charmed life: That was me / Sweatin cobwebs / Under contract / In the cellar / On TV / That was me / The same me that stands here now / If fate decreed that all of this would make a lifetime, who am I to disagree? BREAK

18 The Beatles - Hello Goodbye - Non-LP track 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 18

19 19 The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles Lead vocal: Paul Written by Paul while in Rishikesh, India. In Barry Miles Many Years From Now Paul recalls walking through the Indian jungle near the Maharishi s compound with his guitar singing Ob-La,Di, Ob-La, Da, life goes on, bra, taking the phrase from Jimmy Scott, a Nigerian conga player who had been a part of the London music scene since the 50s. In Scott s native language, Ob la di ob la da is an expression meaning life goes on. Paul created characters for his story - Desmond and Molly and their barrow in a Caribbean marketplace. A barrow is a cart or small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand. Recording started on July 3, 1968, but would be worked on and re-worked virtually every day until mid-july. In one take Paul accidently reversed the roles of Desmond and Molly in the third verse and the error was purposely kept in the released version. The song went through multiple changes and a more reggae-flavored version can be heard on the Anthology 3 album. In Japan, EMI Toshiba issued the single Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da b/w While My Guitar Gently Weeps on March 10, Paul had wanted the same combination released as an official Beatles single in England and America but the idea was voted down by John and George. John Lennon What You Got - Walls And Bridges 74 The Beatles - Hey Bulldog - Yellow Submarine Lead vocal: John

20 20 In early February 1968, the Beatles were on a tight schedule. They had two weeks to audition and record possible songs for their next single, which would be released while they were away on an extended trip to India where the group would meditate with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In addition to picking the single sides they would need to spend a day with a film crew making a short promotional film for the song. The Paul McCartney-penned Lady Madonna was chosen as the A-side and would be the subject of the promo film. On the last weekend of recording, the Beatles were informed they were one song short of the four new songs needed for Yellow Submarine, and a new song had to be recorded before they left for India. The song shortage was due to Baby, You re A Rich Man, which had been earmarked for the film soundtrack, being used as the B-side of the All You Need Is Love single. George Harrison Art Of Dying - All Things Must Pass 70 Originally written after the Beatles last concert in 1966 George had constantly been searching for a life and meaning outside of the Beatles. The original lyrics of the track include a reference to Brian Epstein being able to keep George with you (meaning the Beatles), instead of the eventual Sister Mary. The Beatles - Long Long Long - The Beatles (Harrison) Lead vocal: George George, Paul and Ringo ran through 67 takes of George s Long Long Long, then titled It s Been A Long Long Long Time, on October 7, John Lennon was not at any of the sessions for the song. Harrison provided the lead vocal, accompanying himself on his Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar, Paul played Hammond organ, and Ringo played drums. George has said the you he is referring to in the song is God, and admits that the

21 21 chords were taken from Bob Dylan s Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, which is on Dylan s 1966 album Blonde On Blonde. Chris Thomas: There s a sound near the end of the song which is a bottle of Blue Nun wine rattling away on the top of a Leslie speaker cabinet. It just happened. Paul hit a certain note and the bottle started vibrating. We thought it was so good that we set the mikes up and did it again. The Beatles always took advantage of accidents. The rattling sound is best heard in the right channel of the stereo version. The Beatles - Revolution - Non-LP Track Lead vocal: John The Beatles eighteenth single release for EMI, their first on the Apple Records label. John Lennon lobbied hard to get his magnificent rocker on the A-side of the band s summer 1968 single, but by any standard, Paul s Hey Jude was an unbeatable choice for the A-side. There are three versions of John s Revolution. The first one recorded was the slower version which opens the fourth side of The Beatles and was released under the title Revolution 1. That track was the first song to be recorded for what would be known as the White Album. Ultimately, the song ran over 10 minutes. Much of it was cut out and used to create the sound collage entitled Revolution 9, which would also appear on side four of the new album. Shortly before his death in 1980, John explained the reason for the song s remake into a fast rocker: Paul and George refused to allow the original slower recording to be released as the next Beatles single, fearing it was not upbeat enough. So Lennon decided they would record the song fast and loud. Recording began on the fast and loud single version of Revolution on July 10, Additional overdubs were added on July 11 and 12, and the final mix was completed on July 15. The single was issued on August 30, 1968, in the UK, and on August 26 in the U.S. The Hey Jude / Revolution single would go on to sell nearly five million copies in the U.S. and eight million copies worldwide. On U.S. album: Hey Jude - Capitol LP BREAK

22 22 BUMPER/Paul McCartney - Ebony and Ivory/Rainclouds (single) Paul McCartney That Would Be Something McCartney 70 Written in Scotland, Paul sings and plays acoustic guitar, bass, tom toms and cymbal on this song. Shortly after the McCartney album's release, George Harrison described the album versions of this song and "Maybe I'm Amazed" as "great". Paul McCartney & Wings Mamunia Band on the Run 73 Inspired by a hotel of the same name in Marrakesh (in Arabic, the word means save haven ). Originally intended to be the B-Side of the Jet single. An animated music video was created for the song and debuted on The Dave Cash Radio Show television show in 1975.

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