Playlist sept. 21st 2008
I was gonna stick to ALL Beatles piano songs but it will be much too McCartney heavy…
That’s not fair to John…certainly not to George or Ringo….
So we are gonna have to add “solo” piano stuff too….
9AM
The Beatles - Hey Jude –Single/ Hey Jude / Past Masters
Recorded: 29/30/31 July TRIDENT, 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.
Paul on piano
The Beatles – For No One – Revolver
Recorded May 9th 1966
Paul recorded this song again on Give My Regards To Broad Street.
McCartney 1.00
Paul on piano
The Beatles - Old Brown Shoe (Harrison) – Past Masters
Recorded April 16th 1969 Abbey Road right before the Abbey Road sessions began, though some Abbey Road material was already laid down.
flip of Ballad of John & Yoko
June 4, 1969 US
The Beatles 1st STEREO single in the USA
Featuring George Martin on piano.
The Beatles - Slow Down (Williams) – Past Masters
Recorded June 1964
Long Tall Sally EP/ Capitol LP Something New – Capitol Single 5255 released August 24, 1964 – Cover of Larry Williams’s 1958 original. The 3rd Larry Williams tune covered by The Fabs – “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” / “Bad Boy”
Featuring George Martin on piano.
Paul McCartney – I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra – New Boots & Panties Tribute LP
Paul on piano
Break
John Lennon – Imagine – Imagine `70
John piano
The Beatles – You Never Give Me Your Money - Abbey Road
Recorded May 6th 1969 at Olympic Studios w/ overdubbing 2 months later at Abbey Road.
Paul weighing in on the sad but true aspects of the Apple business plan circa spring 1969…..
McCartney 1.00
Paul on piano
The Beatles - Sexy Sadie LONG - The Beatles
Recorded July 19th 1968
Written about the Maharishi Yogi when John was leaving India with quote “a bad taste in his mouth”.
Lennon 1.00
? on piano
Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie – Flaming Pie
Paul on piano
John Lennon - #9 Dream – Walls & Bridges `74
Nicky Hopkins on piano
The Beatles - Your Mother Should Know - Magical Mystery Tour Recorded 22nd August 1967 at Chappell Recording Studios London (1st of two)
Abbey Road was booked on this day so they went to another George Martin used studio owned by the Chappell Publishing Co. also in London.
Lead vocal Paul
McCartney 1.00
UK EP /Paul on piano
Break
10AM /No News
PIANO ViNYL…very quiet….shhh
John Lennon – LOVE – Plastic Ono Band `70
John piano
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In the Road? - The Beatles
Recorded Oct. 9th 1968
Paul & Ringo only. Upset John as he really liked it. Paul saw some monkeys living free in India and wrote the song based on those there monkeys.
McCartney 1.00
Paul on piano
The Beatles – Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams) - HELP!
Recorded May 10th 1965
First appearing on the US LP Beatles VI in June of 1965 two months BEFORE HELP! was released. Lead vocal John
US - Capitol LP Beatles VI
Paul on piano
The Beatles – Drive My Car - Rubber Soul
Recorded Oct. 13th 1965.
Lead off track to Rubber Soul on the UK version. This session was a first Beatles recording history to go past 12 Midnight…..!
Lead vocal Paul
McCartney .7/ Lennon .3
US - Capitol LP Yesterday and Today
Paul on piano
The Beatles - You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) – Past Masters
flip of Let It Be
Recorded: 17 May, 7/8 June 1967, 30 April 1969
Paul has named "You Know My Name" his favorite Beatles track due to its irregularity. The song was recorded over a two-year span, being worked on and shelved several times between 1967 and 1969. John came up with the lyric and title after seeing a postal advertisement reading, "You have their name? Look up their number." The karaoke segment was developed during the second sessions for the song, and a reference to 'A Hard Day's Night' associate producer Dennis O'Dell was added, prompting numerous calls to his home by crazed fans who chanted mindlessly "We have your name and now we've got your number", as well as drugged fans coming en masse to his doorstep wanting to live with him.
Recording dates
May 17, 1967 (instrumentals)
June 7, 1967 (instrumentals)
June 8, 1967 (instrumentals, inc. Brian Jones sax solo)
June 9, 1967 (mixed into one master take)
April 30, 1969 (vocals and sound effects)
John Lennon – (Just Like) Starting Over – Double Fantasy
Break
John Lennon – HELP! – Home `70
John piano
The Beatles – The Word - Rubber Soul
Recorded Nov. 8th 1965
Written by both John & Paul probably a little more by John…Paul says it was there attempt to write a song with just one note in it…like “ Long Tall Sally“….
Lead vocal John & Paul
Lennon .6 / McCartney .4
The Beatles – Good Day Sunshine – Revolver
Recorded June 8th 1966
One of the fastest recorded tracks from the Revolver sessions. Finished in about a day in a half….and a big favorite of Leonard Bernstein. Inspired by The Lovin Spoonful’s “Daydream”
Lead vocal Paul
McCartney 1.00
Featuring George Martin on piano
The Beatles - Hello Goodbye - Magical Mystery Tour
Recorded Oct. 2nd 1967
Released as a single Nov. `67
The sixteenth official EMI release.
Banned by the BBC for lip-syncing, which was against the rules of the British musicians union. The film (not video) was shot at the Savillie Theater in London.
Beatle John always disliked the song as it took the A side over his “I Am The Walrus”…though John did like the end bit.
Lead vocal Paul
“Hello Goodbye“was No. 1 for seven weeks in the UK, tying “From Me To You “as the longest running Beatle chart-topper
McCartney 1.00
The Beatles - Hey Bulldog - Yellow Submarine
Recorded 11th February 1968
John said, ”it’s a good sounding record that means nothing”.
Newly remixed for the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack expanded version.
Lead vocal Lennon
Lennon. .95 .05
The Beatles - Back In the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles
Recorded Aug. 22nd 1968
Based on Chuck Berry’s “Back in The USA”
Featuring Mr. Paul McCartney on drums as Ringo had quite the group …briefly
McCartney 1.00
Paul on piano
Wings – Live & Let Die – Single `73
Paul on piano
We lost 2 important figures in music this week
Rick Wright from Pink Floyd who we’ll play a song by to close the show) and songwriter / producer Norman Whitfield passed away this week as well…an amazing body of work…along w/ partner Barrett Strong who the Beatles loved (Money)
Just a few Barrett Strong hits
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
(I Know) I'm Losing You
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
WAR
Papa Was A Rolling Stone…this one…QUIZ
Norman Whitfield 67
Q/WHAT SONG from DID Norman Whitfield along w/ Barrett Strong write that contained this line “the Beatles new record's a gas”…it was sung by The Temptations got to #3 in `70
A/ “Ball of Confusion
(That's What the World is Today)” - Gordy
11AM
In studio ROCKIN Rob C. and handsome Joey G.
Wings – Nineteen Hundred & Eighty Five – Band On The Run
Paul on piano
The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko – Single
Recorded April 14, 1969 by John 7 Paul only.
June 4, 1969 US
Released less than a month after Get Back (John needed an A- Side)
First STEREO single in the UK. Banned by the BBC and some US stations as well.
It was actually recorded during the beginning of the Abbey Road sessions.
Paul on piano
The Beatles – You Won’t See Me - Rubber Soul
Recorded Nov. 11th 1965
Written entirely by Paul.
The Beatles – Lovely Rita - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Recorded Feb. 23 1967
Paul heard that in America, parking – meter woman where called “meter maids” and thus….the tune.
Lead vocal Paul
McCartney 1.00
Paul on piano
Break
The Beatles – Octopus’s Garden (Starkey) - Abbey Road sessions
Recorded April 26 1969
Only the second and last Starkey penned tune to be found on a Beatle LP. Ringo and George can be seen messing about on the tune during the Let It Be film filmed in January of 1969.
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. Its 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
Paul McCartney – Monkberry Moon Delight - RAM
Paul on piano
John Lennon – Remember – Plastic Ono Band
John piano
The Pink Floyd – Paintbox- 1967
Rick Wright 65
2nd Single…BEATLE engineer now Floyd PRODUCER
“Paint Box”
Single by Pink Floyd
A-side "Apples and Oranges"
Released November 18, 1967
Recorded October 1967
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 3:33
Label Columbia (EMI) (UK)
Writer(s) Rick Wright
Producer Norman Smith
Next Sunday Edgar Winter in studio!
