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Tracklists ArchiveWeekend of November 21-22, 2009The continuing "alphaBeatical" series Beatle & solo-Beatles
hits in alphabetical order by title:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Sally G (single)
PAUL McCARTNEY/Say Say Say (single) BEATLES/She Loves You (single) BEATLES/She's A Woman (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Silly Love Songs (single) BEATLES/Slow Down (US single) BEATLES/Something (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Spies Like Us (single) JOHN LENNON/Stand By Me (single) BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Take It Away (single) BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (single) BEATLES/Twist and Shout (1986 US single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (US single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Venus And Mars/Rock Show (single) 
The series on the American LPs continues this week with
"Yesterday" ... And Today, the unique June 1966 album made up of
orphaned single sides and cuts from the British Help! and Rubber
Soul LPs, along with some tracks from the yet-to-be-released British
version of Revolver:
BEATLES/Drive My Car
BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping John Lennon: writing "Nowhere Man" BEATLES/Nowhere Man BEATLES/Dr. Robert Paul McCartney: "Yesterday" BEATLES/Yesterday BEATLES/Act Naturally BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing BEATLES/If I Needed Someone John Lennon & Paul McCartney: "We Can Work It Out" BEATLES/We Can Work It Out BEATLES/What Goes On? BEATLES/Day Tripper Your compiled e-mail requests and comments form a set of listener's
favorites from Paul McCartney's new CD/DVD set Good Evening New
York:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Got To Get You Into My Life (live)
PAUL McCARTNEY/I've Got A Feeling (live) PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On The Run (live) PAUL McCARTNEY/Helter Skelter (live) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Simon
Goodson, who always felt a little different than most of his
Beatles-fan friends because his favorite song was "Blackbird" not a usual
choice. But one night in 1995, his Beatles Moment came when an episode of
the TV show "ER" featured one of the show's charcters singing "Blackbird" while
having a baby.
Excerpt from "ER"
BEATLES/Blackbird
Weekend of November 14-15, 2009The next album in our US LP series .... Something
New. It's made up of 8 cuts from the British "A Hard Day's
Night" LP, two British EP cuts and a German single.
BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (long US version)
BEATLES/Things We Said Today BEATLES/Any Time At All The Beverly Hillbillies: the Beatles BEATLES/When I Get Home (US version) BEATLES/Slow Down BEATLES/Matchbox BEATLES/Tell Me Why BEATLES/And I Love Her (US version) Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You BEATLES/If I Fell BEATLES/Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand All but these next two songs from the United Artists A Hard
Day's Night soundtrack appeared on Something New ...
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (US "A Hard Day's Night"
version)
BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (US "A Hard Day's Night" version) Back to the "alphaBeatlical" series on the Beatles' and
solo-Beatles' hits:
JOHN LENNON/Nobody Told Me (single)
PAUL McCARTNEY/No More Lonely Nights (single) RINGO STARR/No No Song (single) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (US single) JOHN LENNON/Number 9 Dream (single) RINGO STARR/Oh My My (single) RINGO STARR/Only You (And You Alone) (single) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (single) BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ single) RINGO STARR/Photograph (single) BEATLES/Please Please Me (single) JOHN LENNON/Power To The People (single) BEATLES/Rain (single) BEATLES/Real Love (single) BEATLES/Revolution (single) 
Paul McCartney joins us for a preview of Good Evening New York
City, the new CD/DVD set of his performance which opened New York City's
new Citi Field, the baseball venue which replaced Shea Stadium.
Paul McCartney: today's technology makes touring much easier than in
the Beatles days
PAUL McCARTNEY/Let Me Roll It (live) Paul McCartney: coming up with the song list for the '09 summer tour PAUL McCARTNEY/Drive My Car (live) Paul McCartney: why touring is easier than the Beatles days, despite doing a three-hour show PAUL McCARTNEY/Sing The Changes (live) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from
Aaron Adderhold, whose high school music teacher 40 years ago
took every opportunity to criticize the Beatles, calling their music writing
and performances "worthless." At a band practice session in December
1969, however, the teacher announced he had changed his mind about the fab four
after hearing the "Abbey Road" album. He brought out a turntable and
played the class the medley that convinced him the Beatles had become musical
genuises:
BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The
End
Weekend of November 7-8, 2009Two sneak previews of new releases from Paul
McCartney:
PAUL McCARTNEY/(I Want To) Come Home (single; from the forthcoming film,
"Everybody's Fine")
Rusty Anderson: the Citi Field concert PAUL McCARTNEY/Drive My Car (live; from the forthcoming CD/DVD set "Good Evening, New York City") Continuing the series on Beatles and solo hits "alphaBeatically" by
title:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Listen To What The Man Said (single)
Paul McCartney: writing "Live And Let Die" PAUL McCARTNEY/Live And Let Die (single) BEATLES/Long And Winding Road (single) BEATLES/Love Me Do (UK single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Maybe I'm Amazed (live) (US single) JOHN LENNON/Mind Games (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Mull Of Kintyre (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/My Love (single) GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord (single) In the continuing series on the U.S. LPs, The Beatles Second
Album ... which was actually their third, if you count the VeeJay LP we
played last week, but it was Capitol's second album.
BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven
BEATLES/Thank You Girl George Harrison: they liked the Tamla-Motown music BEATLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart George Harrison: the Beatles' live repertoire included "Money" BEATLES/Money BEATLES/You Can't Do That BEATLES/Long Tall Sally BEATLES/I Call Your Name Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr: thanks for the mail BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman BEATLES/I'll Get You BEATLES/She Loves You BEATLES/Get Back (UK single)
Randy Blazak came up the concept of the "White Album Live," using
solo live performances
JOHN LENNON/Yer Blues (live)
PAUL McCARTNEY/Blackbird (live) GEORGE HARRISON/Piggies (live) Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr: "Don't Pass Me By" RINGO STARR/Don't Pass Me Me By (live) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Matthew
Bradley, who discovered Beatles music was a world language when
traveling in Europe in the '70s. His Beatles moment came on a train in
Spain, where he and some Russians sang a Beatles refrain the chorus to "All
You Need Is Love."
BEATLES/All You Need Is Love
Weekend of October 31-November 1, 2009In a continuing series on the U.S. LPs ... from February of 1964,
the second edition and most readily-available version of Vee Jay Records'
Introducing The Beatles LP.
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There
BEATLES/Misery BEATLES/Anna (Go To Him) BEATLES/Chains BEATLES/Boys BEATLES/Ask Me Why BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/Baby It's You BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret? BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey BEATLES/There's A Place BEATLES/Twist And Shout The continuing series on Beatles and solo Beatles hits played
"alphaBeatically" by title...
PAUL McCARTNEY/Jet (single)
PAUL McCARTNEYJunior's Farm (single) JOHN LENNON/(Just Like) Starting Over (single) BEATLES/Lady Madonna (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Let 'Em In (DJ single) BEATLES/Let It Be (single) The author of the new career-spanning McCartney biography, Peter
Ames Carlin joins us in the Beatles Basement. Paul McCartney: A
Life will be out Tuesday November 3rd.
Peter Ames Carlin: how the press twisted Paul's first solo press
release
PAUL McCARTNEY/Maybe I'm Amazed PAUL McCARTNEY/Another Day (US DJ single) Peter Ames Carlin: Paul was the Beatles' musical director BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows (mono remaster) BEATLES/When I'm 64 Peter Ames Carlin: the "Sgt. Pepper" film BEATLES/Getting Better (mono remaster) PAUL McCARTNEY/Hi Hi Hi (single) Peter Ames Carlin: earlier Paul McCartney bios spent more time with the Beatles than his solo years; the turnover in Wings. PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On The Run (DJ single) Peter Ames Carlin: John and Paul, post-Beatles Beatles Basement listener Jim Hugh contributes a creeeeepy
Halloween set called "Scary Characters"...
BEATLES/Mean Mr. Mustard
BEATLES/Run For Your Life BEATLES/Maxwell's Silver Hammer From Barbara Klein, a set of her favorite Beatles remasters from
the box set The Beatles In Mono.
BEATLES/Paperback Writer (mono remaster)
BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (mono remaster) BEATLES/Help! (mono remaster) The Beatles Moment Of The Week takes place on Halloween
night 1978. Bob Salsbury, Kevin Brown and Mike Carter are
"spooking themselves out" by walking some dark trails in the wooded park in
their neighborhood. Once in the park, they hear, in the distance, what
sounds like the drone of a generator ... and the Beatles playing "Dizzy Miss
Lizzy" to the screams of fans. It turned out they were not imagining this
haunting audio. A campsite in the park had a generator running. It
was powering a cassette tape of The Beatles At The Hollywood
Bowl.
BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live)
Weekend of October 24-25, 2009Back to the continuing series on the Beatles and solo Beatles hit
singles ... "AlphaBeatically" by title...
PAUL McCARTNEY/Hi Hi Hi (single)
BEATLES/I Am the Walrus (US single) BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (US single) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (UK single) Excerpt: "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/If I Fell (US single) BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US single) BEATLES/I'll Get You (single) JOHN LENNON/Imagine (US DJ single) BEATLES/I'm Down (single) JOHN LENNON/Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (single) BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single) Ringo Starr: writing "It Don't Come Easy" with George Harrison RINGO STARR/It Don't Come Easy (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/I've Had Enough (single) BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (single) From Beatles Basement listener Frank Pryce, here's a set called
"Beatle Ladies:"
BEATLES/Long Tall Sally (mono remaster)
BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (single) BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzie (mono remaster) BEATLES/Michelle (mono remaster) The chronological series on the American albums begins with a vinyl
mono copy of Capitol's first Beatles LP release from 1964 ... Meet The
Beatles. The first two cuts, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw
Her Standing There" were played earlier in the show.
BEATLES/This Boy
BEATLES/It Won't Be Long 1964 press conference: no singing BEATLES/All I've Got To Do BEATLES/All My Loving George Harrison: writing songs BEATLES/Don't Bother Me BEATLES/Little Child 1964 press conference: wearing wigs BEATLES/Till There Was You BEATLES/Hold Me Tight 1964 press conference: the effect of their music BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man BEATLES/Not A Second Time Listeners Karen Stoltz and Marc Fournier both submitted set ideas
with songs that involve money so here are their sets combined.
BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money (remaster)
BEATLES/Money (That's What I Want) (remaster) BEATLES/Baby You're A Rich Man (single) BEATLES/Lady Madonna (mono remaster) BEATLES/Ballad Of John & Yoko (US radio edit) BEATLES/Taxman (mono remaster) PAUL McCARTNEY/The Pound Is Sinking BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (single) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Raj Kashar, who first
became a Beatles fan in 1967 when the Sgt. Pepper album which
included a song called "Lovey Rita" was released. Raj's mom was named
Rita and, yes, she was a meter maid.
BEATLES/Lovely Rita (mono remaster)
Weekend of October 17-18, 2009Continuing the series on the Beatles and solo Beatles hit singles
... "alphaBeatically" by title:
TRAVELING WILBURYS/Handle With Care (single)
BEATLES/Hard Day's Night (single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Helen Wheels (single) BEATLES/Hello Goodbye (single) Radio commercial: "Help!" BEATLES/Help! (single) BEATLES/Hey Jude (single) A 40th anniversary celebration of the Abbey Road album: 
George Harrison: "You Never Give Me Your Money"
BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money George Martin: Paul embraced the operatic approach and John wanted to rock on "Abbey Road" Beatles: "Come Together" outtake excerpt BEATLES/Come Together Paul McCartney: the Beatles were ending when they recorded "Abbey Road" BEATLES/I Want You (She's So Heavy) (alternate mix) Alan Parsons: cutting off the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" George Harrison: "Something" becoming an A-Side BEATLES/Something Paul McCartney: "Something" is his favorite George song George Harrison: it was vaguely apparent "Abbey Road" would be their last album BEATLES/Oh! Darling George Martin: making "Abbey Road" was fun George Harrison: his favorite "Abbey Road" song is "Because" BEATLES/Because George Harrison: recording "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" BEATLES/Maxwell's Silver Hammer Paul McCartney: bits of unfunished songs made up the "Abbey Road" medleys BEATLES/Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In through The Bathroom Window (alternate mix/edit) George Harrison: Ringo's contribution to "Abbey Road" BEATLES/Octopus's Garden Paul McCartney: writing "Golden Slumbers" BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (alternate mix/edit) "Paul McCartney Tweets" from listener Ramona Flora:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Bluebird
BEATLES/Blackbird From Carl Wilkes, a set of his favorite cuts from the remastered
mono Sgt. Pepper album:
BEATLES/Fixing A Hole (mono remaster)
BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (mono remaster) BEATLES/She's Leaving Home (mono remaster) BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono remaster) Paul McCartney's personal photographer Bill Bernstein has
many Beatle moments, but for the Beatles Moment Of The Week he
tells us his biggest thrill came in 2003 in Moscow, when Paul McCartney met
long-time secret Beatles fan and former Communist Party leader Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Bill Bernstein: witnessing the meeting of McCartney and
Gorbachev
PAUL McCARTNEY/Two Of Us (live in Moscow)
Weekend of October 10-11, 2009EMI found themselves without a Beatles LP for Christmas of 1966, so
they put together a greatest hits album called A Collection Of Beatles
Oldies ... But Goldies. Here it is, from the original
vinyl:
BEATLES/She Loves You
BEATLES/From Me To You BEATLES/We Can Work It Out BEATLES/Help! BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/Yesterday BEATLES/I Feel Fine BEATLES/Yellow Submarine BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love BEATLES/Bad Boy BEATLES/Day Tripper BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/Ticket To Ride BEATLES/Paperback Writer BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby BEATLES/ Want To Hold Your Hand Though we did our birthday tribute to John Lennon last week, we
have some more tributes to John from listeners. Carla Jenkins put together
a set of her favorite Lennon tunes:
John Lennon: the other half of the sky
JOHN LENNON/Woman BEATLES/In My Life BEATLES/All You Need Is Love ("Our World" satellite broadcast) The "alphaBeatical" playback of Beatles and solo Beatles hits in
the Beatles Basement continues with E, F and G songs (with the exceptions of
"Eleanor Rigby" and "From Me To You," which were featured earlier on the
show):
PAUL McCARTNEY & STEVIE WONDER/Ebony And Ivory
(single)
BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (US single) BEATLES/End Of The Line (single) BEATLES/Free As A Bird (single) BEATLES/Get Back (UK single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Girls' School (US DJ single) GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (single) JOHN LENNON/Give Peace A Chance (US DJ single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Goodnight Tonight (US DJ single) GEORGE HARRISON/Got My Mind Set On You (single) Paul McCartney: the "Memphis sound" BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life (US DJ single) "John Singing The Rock Songs That Influenced Him" ... a tribute
from listener Alan Scott:
BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzie
BEATLES/Twist And Shout BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Noriko
Sanjo, who, growing up in Japan after the Beatles broke up, never
thought she'd get a chance to see her favorite, George Harrison, live. But
in December of 1991, her father took her on a surprise trip to Tokyo to see
George Harrison from third-row seats.
GEORGE HARRISON/If I Needed Someone (live)
Weekend of October 3-4, 2009A tribute to John Lennon, who would have turned 69 this coming
Friday:
John Lennon: quoting his Aunt Mimi
QUARRY MEN/That'll Be The Day (excerpt) John Lennon: meeting Paul BEATLES/Money (That's What I Want) (demo) John Lennon: becoming a musician BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better John Lennon: writing songs  BEATLES/Help! (unsweetened version)George Harrison & John Lennon: a reading from "In His Own Write" BEATLES/Nowhere Man (US single) John Lennon: it dawned on him that love was the answer in the "Rubber Soul" era BEATLES/The Word (alternate mix) BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows (alternate mix) John introduces "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono mix) BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (U.S. single) John Lennon: adding the radio to "I Am The Walrus" BEATLES/Revolution (single) Mick Jagger & John Lennon: introducing "the Dirty Mac" JOHN LENNON, ERIC CLAPTON, KEITH RICHARDS, MITCH MITCHELL/Yer Blues (live) John Lennon: "Yuck & Yono" BEATLES/Ballad Of John & Yoko (alternate mix) John Lennon: protesting for peace peacefully PLASTIC ONO BAND/Give Peace A Chance (live) John Lennon: the people have power JOHN LENNON/Power To The People (long version) John Lennon: using humor to protest JOHN LENNON/Give Me Some Truth (long version) JOHN LENNON/Imagine (alternate version) John Lennon: chant for an empty baby carriage JOHN LENNON/New York City John Lennon: Paul & Yoko JOHN LENNON/Mind Games John Lennon: "Walls And Bridges" JOHN LENNON/#9 Dream ELTON JOHN AND JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (live) JOHN LENNON/(Just Like) Starting Over (long version) NYPD Detective James Sullivan: announcing John's death to the press John Lennon: not afraid of dying JOHN LENNON/Grow Old With Me (with George Martin score) Back to our "alphaBeatlical" series of the Beatles' hits and solo
hits:
BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love
JOHN LENNON/Cold Turkey BEATLES/Come Together PAUL McCARTNEY/Coming Up (Live At Glasgow) BEATLES/Day Tripper BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret? The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Marie
Andreotti, who's mother hated the Beatles ... until 1968. She got
her mom to admit she'd softened up to the Beatles when she caught her cheerfully
humming "Cry Baby Cry" while doing the laundry.
BEATLES/Cry Baby Cry
Weekend of September 26-27, 2009It appears that the Beatles' only legitimate live release is not
going to be remastered, so let's open with the complete, rare At
The Hollywood Bowl album from a high-fidelity reel-to-reel tape copy of the
U.S. submaster, which was sent to a radio station for a preview of the LP back in
1977: 
BEATLES/Twist And Shout (live)
BEATLES/She's A Woman (live) BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live) John Lennon fan outside Hollywood Bowl BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (live) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (live) BEATLES/Things We Said Today (live) BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven (live) Ringo Starr fan outside Hollywood Bowl BEATLES/Boys (live) BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (live) BEATLES/Help! (live) John Lennon & Paul McCartneywith Jack Wagner on "Hollywood On A Silver Platter," 1964 BEATLES/All My Loving (live) BEATLES/She Loves You (live) BEATLES/Long Tall Sally (live) Now that the mono mixes have been remastered, we're getting lots of
requests for those versions of songs that Beatle fans in various parts of the
world enjoyed while they were growing up:
Geoff Emerick: the Beatles were only present for the mono
mixes.
BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life (mono remaster) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (mono remaster) John Lennon: the weather BEATLES/Rain (mono remaster) BEATLES/Lady Madonna (mono remaster) BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (mono remaster) Over several shows, we're going to run through all the group and
solo hit 45s from the UK and the US in "alphaBeatical order"...
BEATLES/Ain't She Sweet (US single)
GEORGE HARRISON/All Those Years Ago (single) BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (single) BEATLES/And I Love Her (US siingle) PAUL McCARTNEYAnother Day (US mono DJ single) RINGO STARR/Back Off Boogaloo (single) BEATLES/Ballad Of John & Yoko (US DJ edit tape) PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On The Run (US mono DJ single) BEATLES/Beatles' Movie Medley (single) GEORGE HARRISON/Blow Away (single) One of the special features on the recent Mono box set of
remasters, is that it also contains the original 1965 stereo mixes of the
"Help!" and "Rubber Soul" LPs that have been out of circulation since George
Martin remixed those two albums in 1986. In separete e-mails, Lewis
Jenkins and Maria Vasquez submitted sets of their favorite tracks from the
original versions of Rubber Soul and Help! and we've combined
them:
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (original 1965
mix)
BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl (original 1965 mix) BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You (original 1965 mix) BEATLES/It's Only Love (original 1965 mix) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from
Marvin Klein and Bill Hadley. In 1973, they were standing
in a Manhattan record store debating how many times the instrumental music
repeated before the ending cut off on "I Want You (She's So Heavy)."
Marvin insisted it was twelve times and Bill Hadley insisted it was
thirteen. A customer on his way out the door overheard the debate and
chimed in loudly, "It was thirteen times!" Marvin and Bill immediately
recognized the voice and were astonished to turn around and see John Lennon
leaving the store.
BEATLES/I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Weekend of September 19-20, 2009
More from Paul's guitarist, Rusty Anderson, who's releasing his
second solo album, "Born On Earth" ...
Rusty Anderson: the big venues on the '09 summer tour, Fenway Park.
PAUL McCARTNEY/Get Back (live) Rusty Anderson: songwriting, the meaning of "Timed Exposure" RUSTY ANDERSON/Timed Exposure Rusty Anderson: he records using digital and analog methods. PAUL McCARTNEY/ I'll Get You (live) A set submitted by Nancy Kelso ... "#1 Solo Hits"
JOHN LENNON/(Just Like) Starting Over
PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On The Run Ringo: hello RINGO STARR/Photograph GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) Beatles Basement's most-requested tracks from the 09.09.09
remasters:
BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono remaster) BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (1965 stereo remaster) BEATLES/Day Tripper (mono remaster) BEATLES/All My Loving (remaster) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (mono remaster) BEATLES/Thank You Girl (remaster) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (remaster) 
The unique U.S. mono single sides on Capitol:
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single)
BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (US single) BEATLES/And I Love Her (US single) trailer: "A Hard Day's Night"
BEATLES/If I Fell (US single) BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US single) BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (US single) BEATLES/Slow Down (US single) BEATLES/Matchbox (US single) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (US single) BEATLES/She's A Woman (US single) BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (US single) BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (US single) BEATLES/Yesterday (US single) BEATLES/Act Naturally (US single) BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ single) BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (US single) The Beatles Moment Of The Week belongs to Jude
Struthers, who was born this month in 1969 and found out at the age of
6, after proclaiming his love for the Beatles, that his first name, Jude, came
from the Beatles' biggest hit.
BEATLES/Hey Jude
Weekend of September 12-13, 2009
Joining us in the Beatles Basement is singer/songwriter/guitarist
Rusty Anderson, who's just coming off a North American summer tour with Paul
McCartney ... and is releasing his second solo album, "Born On Earth."
We'll hear more from Rusty next week, too.
Rusty Anderson: the tour, Cowboys Stadium
PAUL McCARTNEY/Drive My Car (live) Rusty Anderson: coming ashore from "Undressing Underwater" to "Born On Earth;" creating and recording his own music at home RUSTY ANDERSON/Private Moon Flower PAUL McCARTNEY/I've Got A Feeling From listeners Bobby and Erica Kingston, here's a set
inspired by last week's Labor Day weekend in America, called "Songs About
Labor"...
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night
BEATLES/Good Morning Good Morning BEATLES/Paperback Writer BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money Paul & John: John's occupations BEATLES/Doctor Robert BEATLES/Act Naturally At the suggestion of several Beatles Basement listeners, a track or
two from each of the remastered Beatles albums and mix in some clips from the
mini-documentaries that are included on the new CDs ...
John Lennon: The "Please Please Me" album
BEATLES/Please Please Me (remaster) BEATLES/It Won't Be Long (remaster) Paul McCartney: "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/Tell Me Why (mono remaster) BEATLES/I'll Be Back (remaster) BEATLES/Every Little Thing (remaster) Paul McCartney: "Help!" BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl (remaster) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (remaster) George Harrison: "Revolver" BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine (remaster) worldwide telecast excerpt BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (remaster) Paul McCartney: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (remaster) BEATLES/Hello Goodbye (remaster) Ringo: the "White Album" BEATLES/Glass Onion (remaster) BEATLES/I Will (mono remaster) Paul McCartney: "Abbey Road" BEATLES/Come Together (remaster) BEATLES/Oh! Darling (remaster) Paul McCartney: "Let It Be" BEATLES/Two Of Us (remaster) BEATLES/Thank You Girl (remaster) 
The conclusion of our continuing series on the British EPs presents
the original 1967 mono version of "Magical Mystery Tour," from the original vinyl:
BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour
BEATLES/Your Mother Should Know John Lennon: mixing "I Am The Walrus" BEATLES/I Am The Walrus "Magical Mystery Tour" clip: Victor Spinetti BEATLES/Fool On The Hill BEATLESFlying "Magical Mystery Tour" clip: Aunt Jessie's dream BEATLES/Blue Jay Way Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Enright
Carlisle, who loved New Orleans rhythm and blues music back in 1964 and
had no interest in the British rock scene that the Beatles had begun until, in
1965, he heard the Beatles' version of one of his favorite local New Orleans
hits Larry Williams' "Bad Boy."
BEATLES/Bad Boy (mono remaster)
Weekend of September 5-6, 2009: The Remasters Special
The series on the British EPs continues with the original
"Yesterday" and "Nowhere Man" EPs from 1966:
BEATLES/Yesterday
BEATLES/Act Naturally BEATLES/You Like Me Too Much BEATLES/It's Only Love BEATLES/Nowhere Man BEATLES/Drive My Car BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/You Won't See Me In addition to the launch of the Beatles Rock Band video game,
Wednesday 09-09-09 will usher in a completely remastered Beatles library.
Project chief engineer Paul Hicks and Paul McCartney
comment during our preview of the remasters.
Paul Hicks: the Beatles library has been remastered, not
remixed.
BEATLES/Twist And Shout (stereo remaster) BEATLES/All My Loving (stereo remaster) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (stereo remaster) BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (stereo remaster)  Paul Hicks: trying out various reel tape machines BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (stereo remaster) BEATLES/In My Life (mono remaster) BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life (stereo remaster) Paul Hicks: audio leveling BEATLES/Getting Better (mono remaster) Paul McCartney: clean recordings BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (mono remaster) BEATLES/Birthday (mono remaster) Paul McCartney: preserving the Beatles' masters BEATLES/Helter Skelter (mono remaster) BEATLES/Something (stereo remaster) BEATLES/Dig It/Let It Be (stereo remaster) BEATLES/Across The Universe (previously unreleased mono master) BEATLES/Hey Bulldog (previously unreleased mono master) BEATLES/All Together Now (previously unreleased mono master) Paul Hicks: the effect of the remasters and "Rock Band: The Beatles" BEATLES/Help! (mono remaster) BEATLES/If I Needed Someone (mono remaster) BEATLES/Good Morning Good Morning/Sgt. Pepper (Reprise)/A Day In The Life (mono remaster) BEATLES/Day Tripper (mono remaster) BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (mono remaster) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (mono remaster) BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (mono remaster) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Pat
Reardon. His moment came when he attended his local premiere of
"Yellow Submarine" at the age of 6. Not only did the film inspire him to
become an animator later in life, but it contained the first song that ever made
him interested in music:
BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono
remaster)
Weekend of August 29-30, 2009From an MP3 voice request from listener Gregory Abramov:
"Incomplete Beatles" a set of songs in which fewer than 4 Beatles perform
under the "Beatles" credit.
BEATLES/I Me Mine (George, Paul & Ringo) BEATLES/Ballad Of John And Yoko (John & Paul) BEATLES/Blackbird (Paul) 
From Michelle Gerber and Martin Dandeno, a set of their "Favorite
Songs From The 'White Album'" ...
BEATLES/Back In The USSR
BEATLES/Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey BEATLES/I Will George Harrison: the "White Album" BEATLES/Glass Onion BEATLES/Martha My Dear BEATLES/Dear Prudence From listener Mark Wright, here's a set called "G, It's The
Beatles" ... in which the song titles start with the letter G:
BEATLES/Girl
BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life BEATLES/Golden Slumbers BEATLES/Get Back From Julie Farr, here's a set called "I, I, I" songs with titles
that start with the first-person singular "I"...
BEATLES/I Need You
BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better BEATLES/I Am The Walrus 
Another entry in the British series of 45 RPM Beatles extended play
records, from the original vinyl: from late 1965, here's the mini-compilation
called "The Beatles' Million Sellers."
BEATLES/She Loves You
BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love BEATLES/I Feel Fine Here are some highlights from the mono version of the "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP ... these mixes will become available for
the first time on CD in one of the Beatles' box sets being released on
09/09/09.
John Lennon: "Pepper" intro
BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (mono) BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends (mono) BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono) BEATLES/Getting Better (mono) BEATLES/She's Leaving Home (mono) George Martin: Paul & John were the prime movers in the "Pepper" sessions. BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (mono) BEATLES/Within You Without You (mono) BEATLES/Lovely Rita (mono) BEATLES/Good Morning Good Morning (mono) BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (mono) BEATLES/A Day In The Life (mono) Our Beatles moment of the week comes from Jack McDonald, who grew
up with the Beatles but didn't appreciate them as a kid. It was this solo
track that caught his attention in 1980 and turned him into what he calls, "a
retro Beatle-freak."
PAUL McCARTNEY/Coming Up (live)
Weekend of August 22-23, 2009Let's start with a snappy set submitted by Stan Sampson,
spotlighting his favorite "Beatles Rockers"
BEATLES/I'm Down
George Harrison: the Beatles' rock and roll BEATLES/Bad Boy BEATLES/Lady Madonna George Martin: John was a rocker BEATLES/Come Together BEATLES/Twist And Shout From Millie Tallman, here's a set in which George Harrison sings
songs he didn't write:
Eric Idle: George Harrison sings...
BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven George Harrison: singing for John, Paul & Ringo BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret Eric Idle: George Harrison sings... BEATLES/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart The Beatles Basement has had a bunch of requests for these three
original vinyl mono mixes of Beatles songs:
BEATLES/Day Tripper (single)
BEATLES/ Penny Lane (US DJ single) BEATLES/Get Back (UK single) Larry Silversteen compiled this set of solo singles that originally
weren't included on albums "Single-Only Solo Songs"...
PAUL McCARTNEY/Another Day (single)
JOHN LENNON/Instant Karma (single)  PAUL McCARTNEY/Coming Up (live) (US single) RINGO STARR/It Don't Come Easy (single) The series on the extended-play British 45s continues with two EPs
from mid-1965, from the original vinyl. From April 1965, the "Beatles For
Sale" EP...
BEATLES/No Reply
BEATLES/I'm A Loser BEATLES/Rock & Roll Music BEATLES/Eight Days A Week ...and from August 1965, the "Beatles For Sale No. 2"
EP:
BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun
BEATLES/Baby's In Black BEATLES/Words Of Love BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party Here are highlights from the original "Help!" LP released in August
of 1965. These original mixes will become available for the first time
since the '80s on one of the Beatles' box sets being released on
09/09/09:
BEATLES/Help!
BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/I Need You "Help!" commercial BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl BEATLES/Ticket To Ride BEATLES/It's Only Love BEATLES/You Like Me Too Much BEATLES/Tell Me What You See BEATLES/I've Just Seen A Face BEATLES/Yesterday BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy The Beatles Moment of the Week takes us back 45 years to the
Beatles' performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado in August of
1964. The youthful local photographer for the Beatles' sole appearance at
Red Rocks was Nicolas DeScioce, whose Beatles Moment was taking the famous photo
of the fab four in front of the American flag.
Nicolas DeSioce: photographing the Beatles at Red Rocks in
1964
BEATLES/All My Loving (live)
Weekend of August 15-16, 2009This program originally aired in February 2009. Archer returns from vacation next week.A composite of three submissions from listeners Mike D'Aiuto,
Campbell Fuller and Peggie Simon: "The Beatles Singing In Foreign Tongues"
...
BEATLES/Sie Liebt Dich
BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand BEATLES/Paperback Writer Listener Karen Johansson put together "Songs Of The
World:"
BEATLES/Across The Universe
BEATLES/Revolution Paul McCartney; the lyrics in "Because" BEATLES/Because RINGO STARR/Weight Of The World "American Rubber Soul Anomolies," from listener Peter
Tilbury, is a set of four tracks found on the American Rubber Soul LP
that made it different than the version released in England and other
countries...
BEATLES/The Word (U.S. version)
BEATLES/It's Only Love George Martin: "Rubber Soul" marked the start of the Beatles as an album group BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You (U.S. version) BEATLES/I've Just Seen A Face From Malcolm Rich, "Beatles On The Beaten Path," featuring road and
street songs:
BEATLES/Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road BEATLES/Blue Jay Way BEATLES/Penny Lane GEORGE HARRISON/Any Road Highlights from the Singles Of '75:
JOHN LENNON/Ain't That A Shame (DJ-only single)
John Lennon and Ringo Starr: "Goodnight Vienna" radio ad RINGO STARR/Good Night Vienna GEORGE HARRISON/You PAUL McCARTNEY/Listen To What The Man Said JOHN LENNON/Stand By Me Ringo Starr: yes, yes, yes... RINGO STARR/The No No Song Submitted by listener Stanton Pastorelli
"Honey"...
BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey
BEATLES/Honey Don't Paul McCartney: "Honey" BEATLES/Honey Pie "The Beatles In Transit," courtesy of listener Bianca
Serrone....
BEATLES/Drive My Car
BEATLES/Back In the USSR The Beatles: "The One After 909" BEATLES/One After 909 BEATLES/Ticket To Tide JOHN LENNON/You Can't Catch Me BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Gary Schoefield, whose mom use to love to sing along quite loudly whenever he and his twin sister Carrie played their Beatles and Rolling Stones records. Usually, their mom got the lyrics right, but on one particular song, Gary and his sister broke down into the longest bout of laughter they'd experience in their lives when they discovered that their mom had misinterpreted the British accent on one of the songs on the Beatles VI album. Imagine this track with the lyrics, "I don't want to soil the potty." BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Weekend of August 8-9, 2009
On American Independence Day weekend, we did a whole hour on the
Beatles covering American songs. That started a flood of requests for some
the songs we couldn't squeeze in, so here are "More All-American
Beatles"
JOHN LENNON/Blue Suede Shoes (live)
BEATLES/Money GEORGE HARRISON/If Not For You BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman Ringo Starr: plagiarizing the old songs RINGO STARR/You're Sixteen BEATLES/Chains BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music PAUL McCARTNEY & ROCKESTRA/Lucille (live) Let's journey back 41 years this month to the release of the
Beatles' biggest-selling single ever, "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" their first
single on Apple Records from the original vinyl...
BEATLES/Hey Jude (single)
1968 commercial: the Beatles' first Apple releases BEATLES/Revolution (single) Here's a set from listener Terry Lynn Zentz called "Reflections of
Liverpool"
BEATLES/Penny Lane
Ringo Starr and John Lennon: music kept Ringo out of gangs PAUL McCARTNEY/Teddy Boy Beatles in 1964: Liverpool still loves them BEATLES/In My Life John Lennon: writing "Stawberry Fields Forever" and "In My Life" BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever RINGO STARR/Liverpool 8 (DJ single) 
Back to our series on the Extended Play 45s released in England
with the last two EPs released in 1964, Extracts From The Film 'A Hard Day's
Night' and Extracts From The Album 'A Hard Day's
Night'...
BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (UK EP version)
BEATLES/If I Fell (UK EP version) BEATLES/Tell Me Why (UK EP version) BEATLES/And I Love Her (UK EP version) BEATLES/Any Time At All (UK EP version) BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (UK EP version) BEATLES/Things We Said Today (UK EP version) BEATLES/When I Get Home (UK EP version) "Scary Beatles," put together by listener Timothy
Hendricks...
BEATLES/Maxwell's Silver Hammer
BEATLES/Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill BEATLES/Run For Your Life BEATLES/Rocky Raccoon From Susan Chenworth, a set of "People Songs"...
RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/People Got To Be Free
PAUL McCARTNEY/Too Many People John Lennon: people and power JOHN LENNON/Power To The People BEATLES/Baby You're A Rich Man The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from James Shallit,
who became a "full-fledged Beatlefreak" at age 6 in 1980. That's when he
became fascinated with his dad's vinyl LP of the American Rarities
album, which contained the mono version of his all-time favorite Beatles song,
"Help!"
BEATLES/Help! (single)
Weekend of August 1-2, 2009
This week, it's our first birthday party with memorable moments
from the first year, starting with an excerpt from the Get Back/Let It Be
sessions feature we did with then Alan Parsons, who, after completing school,
walked down the street to Abbey Road and got a job as an engineering
assistant.
Alan Parsons: trying to record eveything BEATLES/Two Of Us BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down Alan Parsons: the sessions were distracted by the filming BEATLES/Let It Be BEATLES/Get Back (excerpt)
Beatles: an exchange with Alan Parsons Alan Parsons: the movie; the rooftop session; Phil Spector's treatment of the album BEATLES/Long And Winding Road At Thanksgiving time in November '08, we caught up with May
Pang...
May Pang: Elton & John's bet; John and Yoko did not get back
together until long after the concert.
ELTON JOHN & JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (live) May Pang: she's the one who invited Yoko to the Thanksgiving concert; whispering John's name in "#9 Dream" JOHN LENNON/#9 Dream May Pang: Her book, "Instamatic Karma;" John was very social during her time with him JOHN LENNON/Stand By Me We've had many requests to repeat our Sgt. Pepper tribute
from June of '09 so here are some highlights:
Paul McCartney: off the road and into the studio
George Martin: "Strawberry Fields Forever" marked the start of the "Pepper era" BEATLES/When I'm 64 (alternate mix) John Lennon: "When I'm 64" was an old song David Crosby: he was the first outsider to hear "A Day In The Life" BEATLES/A Day In The Life (early version) BEATLES/A Day In The Life (orchestral piece) Paul McCartney: the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album lit the Beatles' creative fuse John Lennon: Sgt. Pepper intro Geoff Emerick: intro on a "Sgt. Pepper" sound effects tape BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (early version) BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends Micky Dolenz: being invited to the "Pepper" sessions BEATLES/Good Morning Good Morning Beatle Basement's first episode in August 2008 included a segment on Ringo coming off his summer tour... Ringo Starr: how the All-Starr Band began
RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/It Don't Come Easy (live) Ringo Starr: playing live RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/Never Without You (live) Ringo Starr: his encore policy RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/Boys (live) Highlights from our segment with Olivia Harrison on the release of
Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison
Olivia Harrison: whittling down "Let It Roll: Songs By George
Harrison"
GEORGE HARRISON/Got My Mind Set On You (remastered) Olivia Harrison: keeper of the archives GEORGE HARRISON/What Is Life (remastered) Jim Keltner is a drummer of many distinctions, one of which is, at
one time or another, playing with all four Beatles ...
Jim Keltner: "Give Me Love"
GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) Jim Kelter: working with George and John JOHN LENNON/Jealous Guy Jim Keltner: drumming with Ringo on "Photograph" RINGO STARR/Photograph Some highlights from our 83rd birthday salute to Beatles producer
George Martin from January of '09...
George Martin: music critic William
Mann
BEATLES/Yesterday George Martin: the backwards voice in "Rain" BEATLES/Rain Mark Eagle of 1XX, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand reports on what is probably the best-selling song about the Beatles released while they
were still together, Shane's version of "St. Paul," which topped the NZ charts
for six weeks. Shane: the references in "Saint Paul"
SHANE/St. Paul Thanks for a fab first year to Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono, George & Giles Martin, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Mark Benson of "1964 - The Tribute," May Pang, Firefall, Joey Molland, Laurence Juber, Dr. George Krieger, Alan Parsons, Jim Keltner, Bill Harry, Neil Innes, Scott Belmo Belmer, Les Fradkin, Jackie Lomax, Lon Van Eaton, Darin Toohey, Mark Eagle, Shane, Aaron Anderson, Anthony Pomes, David Crosby, Angelo Scrobe, Smokey Robinson, Martin Lewis, Al Brodax, Eric Idle, Tom Petty, Robert Cray, Ivan Neville, Mark Samansky, Micky Dolenz, Al Reinoso, Albert Maysles, Roger Ruskin Spear, Tony Barrow, Dave Schwensen and Chuck Stenberg. BEATLES/Birthday
Weekend of July 25-26, 2009The Beatles' side of the original Yellow Submarine
soundtrack album, from the original vinyl... 
Clip: "Yellow Submarine"
BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Only A Northern Song Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/All Together Now Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Hey Bulldog Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/It's All Too Much Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/All You Need Is Love "Alphabeaticals" is a term coined by Beatles Basement listener Mary
Wentz, who put together a set of her favorite Beatles songs with titles that
start with "B" ... in "Alphabeatlical" order:
BEATLES/Baby's In Black
BEATLES/Back In The USSR BEATLES/Bad Boy BEATLES/Ballad Of John And Yoko (1969 Capitol edit) BEATLES/Because BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite BEATLES/Birthday BEATLES/Blackbird BEATLES/Blue Jay Way BEATLES/Boys The series on British EPs continues with "All My Loving" and "Long
Tall Sally" 
BEATLES/All My Loving BEATLES/Ask Me Why BEATLES/Money BEATLES/P.S. I Love You BEATLES/Long Tall Sally BEATLES/I Call Your Name BEATLES/Slow Down BEATLES/Matchbox Beatles Basement listener Stan Dickinson came up with "John Lennon
Solo Anthems"...
JOHN LENNON/Give Peace A Chance
JOHN LENNON/Imagine JOHN LENNON/Instant Karma! JOHN LENNON/Power To The People Suggested by Marie Fletcher, her favorite George Harrison songs
from the Beatles years:
BEATLES/If I Needed Someone
BEATLES/You Like Me Too Much BEATLES/Something BEATLES/I Need You BEATLES/Don't Bother Me BEATLES/I Me Mine Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Andrea Russert,
who had an off-duty police officer assist her when she gave birth to her first
child in a disabled car on the New Jersey Turnpike in April of 2002.
Because the officer, who's first name was Michael, missed a Paul McCartney
concert at the Meadowlands to attend to her, Andrea named her baby girl
"Michelle..."
BEATLES/Michelle
Weekend of July 18-19, 2009A set about "The Economy," created by listener Owen
Chalmers:
BEATLES/Baby You're A Rich Man
BEATLES/Money (That's What I Want) BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love 
Bridget Wright, Tom Stang, Barbara Chandler and Derrek Stone
suggested a set of live Paul McCartney songs to commemorate his summer tour in
North America:
Paul McCartney: planning a tour's song list
PAUL McCARTNEY/Live And Let Die (live) Paul McCartney: tour promo PAUL McCARTNEY/Drive My Car (live) Paul McCartney: comparing today's tours to the Beatles' era PAUL McCARTNEY/Coming Up/Peter Gunn (live) Paul McCartney: Keith Richards' song suggestion PAUL McCARTNEY/Please Please Me (live) Katrina Holt, Amber Foray and Jonathan Raymonds are among the
listeners who have requested we play the unedited audio-DVD versions of
"Revolution" and "Back In the U.S.S.R." from LOVE...
BEATLES/Revolution (full "LOVE" version)
BEATLES/Back In The USSR (full "LOVE" version) Stanton Frakes and Marygail Clyde collaborated on "Beatles Songs
About Occupations"
BEATLES/Taxman
BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman BEATLES/Lovely Rita Paul McCartney & John Lennon: occupations BEATLES/Dr. Robert BEATLES/Paperback Writer BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite BEATLES/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 
The Beatles Basement series on the British 45 RPM Extended Play
records continues with the EP release from September 1963, The Beatles'
Hits...
BEATLES/From Me To You
BEATLES/Thank You Girl BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/Love Me Do ... and November's 1963's British EP titled No. 1
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There
BEATLES/Misery BEATLES/Anna (Go To Him) BEATLES/Chains Gerry Brockett came up with "The Beatles Weather
Report."
BEATLES/Sun King
John Lennon: weather BEATLES/Rain John Lennon: weather BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine Rick Kramer, Paula Steadman and Jim Beavers contributed to this set
of "Beatles B-Sides," from the original vinyl:
BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down (UK version)
BEATLES/Yes It Is BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (US version) BEATLES/I'll Get You BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from blues-rocker Robert Cray,
who tells us how the debut of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on American radio, when
he was 11, changed the direction of his young life.
Robert Cray: the Beatles' influence
BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (single)
Weekend of July 11-12, 2009The original vinyl United Artists A Hard Day's Night
soundtrack LP, which was riding the top of the charts and millions of
turntables 45 years ago this summer:
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night
Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/Tell Me Why BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" GEORGE MARTIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA/I Should Have Known Better BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" GEORGE MARTIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA/And I Love Her BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/If I Fell BEATLES/And I Love Her Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" GEORGE MARTIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA/Ringo's Theme This Boy BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love Excerpt from "A Hard Day's Night" GEORGE MARTIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA/A Hard Day's Night From listener Michael Bellamy, here's a set called
"Mister"
BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
BEATLES/Mr. Moonlight The Beatles: messers BEATLES/Mean Mr. Mustard BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman Rebecca Stout came up with some "Songs For Girls"
BEATLES/Another Girl
BEATLES/Thank You Girl BEATLES/Girl BEATLES/I Lost My Little Girl (excerpt) Craig Fuller calls this set "The Bird Is The Word"
...
BEATLES/Blackbird
BEATLES/Free As A Bird BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) "A Word Set" set from Amy Cahn:
BEATLES/The Word
BEATLES/P.S. I Love You BEATLES/Words Of Love "End Songs" suggested by Trent Weir:
BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End BEATLES/I Me Mine 
Bridget Packer and Mark Holstrom asked for these cuts from The
Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl:
BEATLES/She's A Woman (live)
BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzie (live) BEATLES/Boys (live) The series on the Beatles EPs continues with the first Parolophone
EP released in Britain, Twist And Shout issued in July of
1963...
BEATLES/Twist And Shout
BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret? BEATLES/There's A Place Our Beatles Moment Of The Week takes us back to 1969 when
"Beatles Basement" listener Alan Farnsworth was returning home from a tour of
duty in Viet Nam. The first thing he and his brothers was head downstairs
to the rec room to listen to the newly-released Abbey Road album.
Alan says the opening cut always reminds him of coming home from the war.
BEATLES/Come Together
Weekend of July 4-5, 2009Commemorating Ringo Starr's birthday which comes 'round every July
7th... 
Ringo Starr: his interest in drums began during TB therapy
BEATLES/Boys Ringo Starr: joining the Beatles BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man Beatles: doing films BEATLES/Act Naturally Ringo Starr: American miniskirts BEATLES/What Goes On Ringo Starr: "Yellow Submarine" becoming a single BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Ringo Starr: touring was terrible BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends George Harrison: "Octopus' Garden" BEATLES/Octopus' Garden Ringo Starr: 1970 anti-heroin public service announcement RINGO STARR/Early 1970 Ringo Starr: writing songs with George RINGO STARR/It Don't Come Easy RINGO STARR/You're Sixteen John Lennon & Ringo Starr: radio ad for the "Goodnight Vienna" album RINGO STARR/Back Off Boogaloo Ringo Starr: introducing "No No Song" RINGO STARR/No No Song Ringo Starr: the first All-Starr tour RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/Will It Go 'Round In Circles? (live) RINGO STARR/Weight Of The World Ringo Starr: "The Concert For George" RINGO STARR/Photograph (live) To mark American Independence Day, here are some all-American
Beatles ... Beatles and solo Beatles covering some of their favorite American
songs:
Paul McCartney: Buddy Holly's influence
BEATLES/That'll Be The Day BEATLES/Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey John Lennon: "Be-Bop-A-Lula" JOHN LENNON/Be-Bop-A-Lula BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart George Harrison: reworking "Got My Mind Set On You" GEORGE HARRISON/Got My Mind Set On You BEATLES/Twist & Shout George Harrison: the Detroit music Smokey Robinson: the Beatles recording his song BEATLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me Paul McCartney: prefers the songs by his heroes to Beatles songs BEATLES/Long Tall Sally BEATLES/Bad Boy George Harrison: the Beatles' influences BEATLES/Words Of Love John Lennon: "Ain't That A Shame" JOHN LENNON/Ain't That A Shame John Lennon: American music BEATLES/Honey Don't Paul McCartney: the early Elvis records PAUL McCARTNEY/That's All Right, Mama BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzie Paul McCartney: Chuck Berry BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven George Harrison: doing American songs that weren't popular BEATLES/Slow Down Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Cheri Dufour,
who wrote: "In 1967, I was a hipster who was into jazz, straight folk and
counterculture, but thought the Beatles were nothing more than 'teenybopper
music.' One weekend, I happened to watch 'American Bandstand' with my
younger sister as we witnessed the premiere of the film for 'Strawberry Fields
Forever.' I instantly became a Beatles freak."
BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever
Weekend of June 27-28, 2009An original vinyl copy of America's "Yesterday" ... And
Today album still unavailable on CD, it contains several unique
mixes: 
BEATLES/Drive My Car
BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping BEATLES/Nowhere Man BEATLES/Dr. Robert BEATLES/Yesterday BEATLES/Act Naturally BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing BEATLES/If I Needed Someone BEATLES/We Can Work It Out BEATLES/What Goes On? BEATLES/Day Tripper From Michael Dandeneaux, "My, My, My"
GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord (2009 remix)
PAUL McCARTNEY/My Love RINGO STARR/Oh My My From listener Mary Strait, "The White L.P. Menagerie"
BEATLES/Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My
Monkey BEATLES/Blackbird BEATLES/Piggies 
The American 45 RPM EP releases, Souvenir Of Their Visit
To America, Four By The Beatles and 4 By 4
...
BEATLES/Misery
BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey BEATLES/Ask Me Why BEATLES/Anna BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven BEATLES/All My Loving BEATLES/This Boy BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman BEATLES/Honey Don't BEATLES/I'm A Loser BEATLES/Mr. Moonlight BEATLES/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby From Troy Chapman, Susan Plante and Jack Merrick, some "Monomania"
mono versions of songs that most fans feel are far superior to their stereo
counterparts...
BEATLES/Help! (mono mix)
BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US mono mix) BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono mix) BEATLES/Get Back (UK mono mix) BEATLES/Revolution (mono mix) Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from listener
Jeff Worth, who's earliest memory of his mom is singing this song with her when
he was three years old ...
BEATLES/Hello Goodbye
Weekend of June 20-21, 2009The UK Beatles Singles of the '70s from the original
vinyl...
BEATLES/Yesterday (UK single)
BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (UK single) BEATLES/Back In the USSR (UK single) BEATLES/Twist And Shout (UK single) BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends (UK single) BEATLES/A Day In The Life (UK single) From Beatles Basement listener Barbara Weiss, "Dos and Don'ts"
...
BEATLES/How Do You Do It?
BEATLES/Don't Bother Me A birthday celebration Paul McCartney turned 67
Thursday: 
Paul McCartney: his nervousness recording "Love Me
Do"
BEATLES/Love Me Do/Beatles (1st UK single version) Paul McCartney: the Beatles' reception in the US Ed Sullivan introduces the Beatles BEATLES/All My Loving (live) Paul McCartney: the Beatles weren't trying to start a trend BEATLES/And I Love Her (US single version) BEATLES/Another Girl (mono) Paul McCartney: performing "Yesterday" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" The Ed Sullivan Show: "Yesterday" excerpt Paul McCartney: "Eleanor Rigby" BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby Paul McCartney & John Lennon on "Hollywood On A Silver Platter" BEATLES/Getting Better Paul McCartney: writing and recording "Birthday" BEATLES/Birthday Paul McCartney: the meaning of "Mother Mary" BEATLES/Let It Be ("Get Back" LP version) Paul McCartney: the break-up of the Beatles PAUL McCARTNEY/Another Day (US DJ version) Paul McCartney: moving back to the country PAUL McCARTNEY/Heart Of The Country Paul McCartney: forming Wings PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On The Run (mono DJ version) Paul McCartney: his pot bust in Japan PAUL McCARTNEY/Coming Up (live at Glasgow) NYPD Detective James Sullivan: John Lennon's murder Paul McCartney: his reaction to John's death to the media PAUL McCARTNEY/Here Today Saturday Night Live: Chris Farley & Paul McCartney PAUL McCARTNEY/Hey Jude (live) Paul McCartney: the "Threetles" were all veggies in the 1994 "Anthology" sessions PAUL McCARTNEY/The World Tonight Paul McCartney: dedicating his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction to Linda Paul McCartney: the death of George Harrison PAUL McCARTNEY/Something (live) Paul McCartney: "Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard" PAUL McCARTNEY/Fine Line Paul McCartney: beaming a live greeting to the International Space Station PAUL McCARTNEY/Good Day Sunshine (live) Jeopardy!: "When I'm 64" Paul McCartney: he doesn't believe his age PAUL McCARTNEY/That Was Me Paul McCartney: his separation from Heather PAUL McCARTNEY/Ever Present Past Paul McCartney: he's not jaded PAUL McCARTNEY/Dance Tonight Our Beatles Moment of the Week concerns Dhani Harrison finding out
his dad, George, was a Beatle.
George Harrison: Dhani and "Yellow Submarine"
BEATLES/Hey Bulldog
Weekend of June 13-14, 2009From listener Esther Tacada ... a set called "Beatle
Boys"
BEATLES/Boys
BEATLES/This Boy BEATLES/Bad Boy BEATLES/Carry That Weight 
Les Fradkin stops by with his EP of "White Album" tunes, "The White
Single" and his new "Baroque Rocks!" album
LES FRADKIN/Birthday
LES FRADKIN/Winter "Female Lead Characters," as assembled by listener Tammy
Guy:
BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby
BEATLES/Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds BEATLES/Dear Prudence The British 45 RPM series continues with the original vinyl Singles
of '69...
BEATLES/Get Back [single]
BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down [single] BEATLES/The Ballad Of John And Yoko [single] Paul McCartney and John Lennon: "Old Brown Shoe" BEATLES/Old Brown Shoe [single] BEATLES/Something [single] BEATLES/Come Together [single] We're honored to take a tour of the long-awaited compilation "Let
It Roll: Songs By George Harrison" with Olivia Harrison:
Olivia Harrison: whittling down "Let It Roll: Songs By George
Harrison"
GEORGE HARRISON/Got My Mind Set On You (remastered) GEORGE HARRISON/I Don't Want To Do It (remastered) Olivia Harrison: keeper of the arcvhives  GEORGE HARRISON/What Is Life? (remastered)GEORGE HARRISON/All Those Years Ago (remastered) Olivia Harrison: Dhani's recent activities GEORGE HARRISON/Any Road (remastered) Olivia Harrison: Giles Martin and Paul Hicks' work on "Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison" GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord (remastered) GEORGE HARRISON/The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) (remastered) Olivia Harrison: the George Harrison garden in London GEORGE HARRISON/Isn't It A Pity (remastered) GEORGE HARRISON/Here Comes The Sun (live) (remastered) Olivia Harrison: remastering performances from "The Concert For Bangladesh" GEORGE HARRISON/When We Was Fab (remastered) GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (remastered) [Olivia Harrison audio clips.] The Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Peter Randall,
who's dad loved only American country music and thought the Beatles were a
joke. But when his dad heard this song on the radio at Christmas time in
1964, he became as big a Beatles fan as Peter:
BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Weekend of June 6-7, 2009A tribute to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band:
Paul McCartney: off the road and into the studio
George Martin: "Strawberry Fields Forever" marked the start of the "Pepper era" BEATLES/When I'm 64 (alternate mix) John Lennon: "When I'm 64" was an old song David Crosby: he was the first outsider to hear "A Day In The Life" BEATLES/A Day In The Life (early version) George Martin: the "4,000 holes" lyrics BEATLES/A Day In The Life (Orchestral Piece) Paul McCartney: the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album lit the Beatles' creative fuse George Martin: The Beatles saw Sgt. Pepper's Band as a separate entity Geoff Emerick: intro on a "Sgt. Pepper" sound effects tape BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (early version) BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends Micky Dolenz: being invited to the "Pepper" sessions BEATLES/Only A Northern Song (1967 version) George Harrison: the time spent on "Sgt. Pepper" BEATLES/Within You Without You John Lennon: "picture yourself on an old-fashioned elephant" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (alternate mix) BEATLES/She's Leaving Home Geoff Emerick: the mono mix of "Pepper" BEATLES/Fixing A Hole (mono mix) George Martin: John & Paul were the "prime movers"on "Pepper" Al Kooper: his preview of "Pepper" BEATLES/Lovely Rita (alternate mix) Paul McCartney: writing "Getting Better" with John BEATLES/Getting Better Paul McCartney: the "Pepper" album cover BEATLES/Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (mono mix) BEATLES/Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (mono mix) George Martin: the inner groove BEATLES/Inner Groove BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (alternate mix) In this set, Dwight Cooley is "Running Back-Up On The
Beatles"
BEATLES/Back In The USSR
RINGO STARR/Back Off Boogaloo BEATLES/I'll Be Back Mary Clyde calls this set "Gettin' Down With The Beatles"
...
BEATLES/Slow Down
BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down BEATLES/I'm Down "A Dancing Set" from listener Cary Garland:
BEATLES/Little Child
BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You BEATLES/Your Mother Should Know BEATLES/Twist And Shout BEATLES/Birthday The Beatles Basement's series on the British 45 RPM
releases continues with the Singles of '68, from the original
vinyl...
BEATLES/Lady Madonna (single)
BEATLES/The Inner Light (single) 1968 commercial: Apple's first four BEATLES/Hey Jude (single) BEATLES/Revolution (single) Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Tom Petty, who,
like 73 million others, saw the entire world of youth change in February of
1964, when the Beatles made their debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Tom Petty: the Beatles' debut on "The Ed Sullivan
Show"
BEATLES/All My Loving (live)
Weekend of May 30-31, 2009The series on the British 45s continues with the Singles of
'67...
BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever (single)
George Martin: "Strawberry Fields" vs. "Penny Lane" BEATLES/Penny Lane (single) BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (single) BEATLES/Baby, You're A Rich Man (single) BEATLES/Hello Goodbye (single) Paul McCartney: John Lennon's occupations BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (single) From Henderson Powell ... "Roll it!"
PAUL McCARTNEY/Let Me Roll It
BEATLES/Rock 'N' Roll Music BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven Mary Gleason put together folk-influenced Beatle songs in this set
called "Fab Folk" ...
BEATLES/It's Only Love
BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun BEATLES/I'm A Loser BEATLES/Blackbird (mono mix) BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/Rocky Raccoon (early mix) Paul McCartney: folk music BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun A special look at "Rubber Soul" featuring archival comments about
the LP and an original British vinyl mono copy of the album.
George Harrison: Paul played the slide guitar on "Drive My
Car"
BEATLES/Drive My Car George Harrison: the sitar BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) BEATLES/You Won't See Me John Lennon: writing "Nowhere Man" BEATLES/Nowhere Man Beatles session: "Think For Yourself" BEATLES/Think For Yourself BEATLES/The Word Paul McCartney: "Michelle" BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/What Goes On John Lennon & George Harrison: kinds of girls they like BEATLES/Girl BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You George Martin: "Rubber Soul" was the first serious Beatles album BEATLES/In My Life BEATLES/Wait BEATLES/If I Needed Someone BEATLES/Run For Your Life From Lindsay Jay, here's a set called "You & Me" songs with
titles that contain both 'You' and 'Me'"...
BEATLES/You Like Me Too Much
BEATLES/From Me To You BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money BEATLES/Can You Take Me Back? Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Richard Levitz,
whose childhood sheepdog was named after Paul McCartney's. Richard's
parents brought the dog home in 1968, just two weeks before the white
Album came out bearing Paul's tribute to ... Martha.
BEATLES/Martha My Dear
Weekend of May 23-24, 2009The original vinyl version of the first British Beatles LP,
Please Please Me...
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There
BEATLES/Misery George Martin: the "Please Please Me" album was recorded quickly BEATLES/Anna (Go To Him) BEATLES/Chains Ringo: hello BEATLES/Boys BEATLES/Ask Me Why BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/Love Me Do BEATLES/P.S. I Love You BEATLES/Baby It's You BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret? Paul McCartney: a blast from the past BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey BEATLES/There's A Place BEATLES/Twist And Shout "Number One Solo Beatles Songs," suggested by Jason
Trent:
RINGO STARR/Photograph
PAUL McCARTNEY/Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord Commercial: Ringo Starr for "Walls & Bridges" JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night Our continuing series on the UK 45 RPM releases brings us to The
British Singles Of 1966:
BEATLES/Paperback Writer (single)
BEATLES/Rain (single) BEATLES/Yellow Submarine (single) BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (single) Gray Ardmore's favorite four cuts from the Rock 'N' Roll
Music compilation:
BEATLES/I'm Down (Rock 'N' Roll Music mix)
BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man (Rock 'N' Roll Music mix) BEATLES/Birthday (Rock 'N' Roll Music mix) BEATLES/Bad Boy (Rock 'N' Roll Music mix) 
Combining suggestions from Karen Westover, Lisa Gee, Tim Thomason,
Carlos Rodriguez and Sheila Darton "Beatle George" Beatle songs on which
George Harrison sings lead:
BEATLES/Something
BEATLES/You Like Me Too Much BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps BEATLES/I Need You BEATLES/Piggies BEATLES/For You Blue BEATLES/If I Needed Someone BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun BEATLES/Taxman Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from John Resnevic,
who, while in tenth grade in 1965, was having trouble coming up with a homework
assignment: an essay on "a piece of art which represents two people with
opposing views trying to resolve their differences." In an age long before
the internet, John spent several unsuccessful hours in the library trying to
find an art piece that represented that topic. The night before his essay
was due, he heard a new Beatles song debut on the radio. Problem
solved:
BEATLES/We Can Work It Out
Weekend of May 16-17, 2009From listener Murray Gold, "Trains And Boats And Planes"
BEATLES/One After 909
BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds "Jeopardy!" "Back In The USSR" (courtesy of Merv Griffin Entertainment) BEATLES/Back In The USSR From Barbara Ayotte, here's a set of Beatles songs called "Fab
Food" ...
BEATLES/Savoy Truffle
BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey George Harrison: another clue BEATLES/Glass Onion The Beatles Basement gets hundreds of requests for live
performances from the Beatles, so let's go around the world for some
greatmoments from their concerts...
Ringo Starr fan outside the Hollywood Bowl
BEATLES/Boys (live in Los Angeles) BEATLES/I'm A Loser (live in Paris) BEATLES/You Can't Do That (live in Melbourne) BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven (live in Stockholm) BEATLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me (live in Stockholm) John Lennon fan outside the Hollywood Bowl BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live in Los Angeles) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (live in Paris) BEATLES/Till There Was You (live in New York City) BEATLES/She Loves You (live in Los Angeles) BEATLES/This Boy (live in Miami) BEATLES/Money (That's What I Want) (live in Stockholm) John Lennon: cheaper seats BEATLES/Twist And Shout (live in London) 
Our vinyl U.K. 45 RPM series continues with highlights from "The
British Singles Of '65," all from the original vinyl...
BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (single)
BEATLES/Yes It Is (single) Radio commercial for "Help!" BEATLES/Help! (single) BEATLES/I'm Down (single) BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (single) BEATLES/Day Tripper (single) A listener who goes by the name Lucy N. DeSky submitted this
set "George Sings About Guitars"
BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps
GEORGE HARRISON/Wah Wah GEORGE HARRISON/This Guitar Can't Keep From Crying Eric Leverinsen came up with "The Beatles Rock Their Roots"
...
BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music
PAUL McCARTNEY/She Said Yeah George Harrison: the Beatles' musical infuences BEATLES/Words Of Love Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr: memories of Elvis Presley RINGO STARR/Don't Be Cruel Paul McCartney: Little Richard BEATLES/Lucille BEATLES/Bad Boy BEATLES/Matchbox Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Andrea Skerritt,
who, in 1980, wrote a letter to a New York City radio station to tell them that
she thought the B-side of Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" single, a live
version, was much better than the A side. The program director of
the radio station agreed and convinced Columbia Records to reissue the live
version as the A-side. A few months later, Andrea received a package
from the radio station: their gold record award for Paul McCartney's "Coming Up
(Live At Glasgow)" 45.
PAUL McCARTNEY/Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)
Weekend of May 9-10, 2009(Archer is recuperating from surgery and returns next week. This program was originally broadcast November 22-23, 2008.)
"The Great Outdoors," an idea from Richard Delaney which, as he
puts it, "takes us to fields of grass, strawberries and
sunshine."
BEATLES/Mother Nature's Son
BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun "#1 Solo Songs" suggested by Tabatha Kraemer:
PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY/Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (DJ single)
RINGO STARR/You're Sixteen (single) John Lennon: "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (DJ single) GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (single) Listeners Ron Haney, Jeannie Crenshaw and Peter Blair separately came up
with this set idea: "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"...
BEATLES/Yesterday (single)
BEATLES/Things We Said Today John Lennon & Paul McCartney: their changing music BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows (mono) "Future TV Themes" original Beatles versions of songs that would
later be adapted as television themes for "Wonder Years," "Grace Under Fire" and
"Life Goes On," courtesy of listener Hank Partridge...
BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends
BEATLES/Lady Madonna (single) BEATLES/Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 
Eric Hoolihan came up with a set of his favorite cuts from the
American LP "Yesterday ... And Today"
BEATLES/Drive My Car (mono Yesterday... and Today
version)
BEATLES/Dr. Robert (mono Yesterday... and Today version) BEATLES/If I Needed Someone (mono Yesterday... and Today version) BEATLES/Day Tripper (mono Yesterday... and Today version) Jukebox Beatles Part 2: the Capitol Compact 33 version of The
Beatles' Second Album, the jukebox record that played 6 cuts from the album for
a quarter...
BEATLES/Thank You Girl
BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart BEATLES/Money BEATLES/Long Tall Sally BEATLES/I Call Your Name BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman "Anthology Goodies" from Mary Chandler, featuring Beatles
recordings that weren't released during the life of the group:
BEATLES/Leave My Kitten Alone
George Martin: "How Do You Do It?" BEATLES/How Do You Do It? BEATLES/Come And Get It "The US Singles Of '64" Part 1
Brian Epstein: the timing the U.S. number hits
BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand BEATLES/She Loves You BEATLES/Please Please Me George Harrison: their U.S. chart songs TONY SHERIDAN & THE BEATLES/My Bonnie BEATLES/Twist And Shout George Martin: his suggestion on "Can't Buy Me Love" BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret BEATLES/Ain't She Sweet BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/And I Love Her Beatles Moment of the Week:
Our Beatles moment of the week is shared by listeners Michelle Franz, Michelle Gooden, Michelle Wickes and Michelle Denny, who, as you've probably guessed, were all named after a Beatles song... BEATLES/Michelle (mono)
Weekend of May 2-3, 2009(Archer is recuperating from surgery. This program was originally broadcast September 13-14, 2008.)
The eight Beatles songs from the vinyl American "A Hard Day's
Night" soundtrack album:
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (US soundtrack mix)
BEATLES/Tell Me Why (US soundtrack mix) "A Hard Day's Night" video promo clip BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US soundtrack mix) BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (US soundtrack mix) "A Hard Day's Night" radio commercial BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (US soundtrack mix) BEATLES/If I Fell (US soundtrack mix) "A Hard Day's Night" movie trailer BEATLES/And I Love Her (US soundtrack mix) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (US soundtrack mix) Legendary drummer Jim Keltner helps us with a set from listener
Larry Heidelberg, "#1 Fab Hits Of The '70s:"
BEATLES/Let It Be (single version)
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Band On The Run (mono DJ single) Jim Keltner: "Give Me Love" GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) Jim Kelter: working with George and John JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road Jim Keltner: drumming alongside Ringo RINGO STARR/Photograph GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord "Sgt. Pepper" rarities:
BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (acetate of early
version)
BEATLES/She's Leaving Home (mono mix) George Martin: "Mr. Kite" BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (alternate mix) BEATLES/Getting Better (mono mix) "Folk Rock Beatles," a set suggested by Cyndy
Cadbury:
BEATLES/I'm A Loser (mono mix)
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (mono mix) Paul McCartney & John Lennon: folk rock BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/If I Needed Someone (mono mix) 
Former Wings guitarist and solo-acoustic virtuoso Laurence Juber
stops by to perform:
WINGS/Coming Up (live)
Laurence Juber: Paul suggested he record his "One Wing" album LAURENCE JUBER/Jet (live in-studio) Laurence Juber: recording "Rockestra" with Wings WINGS/Rockestra "White Album Critters," a set submitted by Ruben
Sanchez:
BEATLES/Blackbird
BEATLES/Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey BEATLES/Rocky Racoon BEATLES/Piggies Beatles Mash-Up of the Week:
BEATLES/Revolution/Back In The USSR (audio DVD
version)
Weekend of April 25-26, 2009(Archer is recuperating from surgery. This program was originally broadcast October 18-19, 2008.)
"Unique To The U.S." from Gordon
Templer:
BEATLES/She's A Woman (US single)
George Harrison: another clue BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (US single) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (US single) BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ single) "Abbey Road Favorites" from Lana
Strait:
George Harrison: the harmonies on
"Because"
BEATLES/Because BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/The End George Martin: Paul's medleys versus John's rockers BEATLES/Come Together 
"Hit B-Sides" from Skip Ingals:
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single)
BEATLES/Thank You Girl (US single) BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (US single) BEATLES/Rain (single) BEATLES/Baby, You're A Rich Man (single) "Ringo Rocks" from Aimee Lindsay:
BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man
Clip: "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/Boys (live) BEATLES/What Goes On "Beatles R&B" from Jennifer
Pellegrino:
BEATLES/Money (US version)
BEATLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me John Lennon: American music BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart (US version) BEATLES/Twist & Shout (US promo single) "Beatle Characters" from Emma
Gearhardt:
BEATLES/The Fool On The Hill (mono)
BEATLES/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window BEATLES/Dr. Robert (US version)
"Movie Themes By Paul" from Sarah
Stone:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Vanilla Sky
Paul McCartney: being tapped for "Live And Let Die" PAUL McCARTNEY/Live And Let Die "Glub Glub" favorites from the Yellow Submarine
Songtrack from Tom Andreotti:
Clip: "Yellow Submarine"
BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Hey Bulldog Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/All Together Now (end title) Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends This week's Beatles Moment comes from listener Ricky
Fernandes:
"My Dad Hated The Beatles. From the moment they arrived
in the US in 1964, he dismissed them and the groups that followed them as
nothing more than noise. Our light-hearted arguments about my being a
Beatles fan were legendary in my family. In 1971, he got a
rapidly-progressing terminal cancer and I flew back to see him in the hospital
when he was approaching the end. He'd been listening to a radio station
that played the old standard ballads he loved, and though it pained him to talk,
he took me aside to tell me that he'd heard a song that touched him deeply, only
to find out it was written and performed by ... the Beatles. Obviously, to
this day, I cannot hear that song without thinking of my dad, Manuel Fernandes,
being touched by the band he thought he hated ... and the song, 'In My
Life.'"
BEATLES/In My Life (mono)
Weekend of April 18-19, 2009Our vinyl U.K. 45 RPM series continues with highlights from "The
Singles Of '64"...
Paul McCartney: origin of the Harrison-Lennon song "Cry For A
Shadow"
BEATLES/Cry For A Shadow (UK single version) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (single version) BEATLES/You Can't Do That (single version) BEATLES/Ain't She Sweet (UK single version) Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr: "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (single version) BEATLES/Things We Said Today (single version) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (UK single version) Paul McCartney: his vocal on "She's A Woman" BEATLES/She's A Woman (UK single version) Listener Paul Sweeney put together a set of "Sitar
Songs"
BEATLES/Love You To
George Harrison: the sitar is not a "new" instrument BEATLES/Norwegian Wood BEATLES/Within You Without You Mary Ellen Compton came up with a set she calls "Crybaby
Beatles"...
BEATLES/Cry, Baby, Cry
BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps BEATLES/Tell Me Why BEATLES/I Am The Walrus BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead 
The Concerts for the People of Kampuchea LP remains out of
print and we've had tons of requests for Paul McCartney and Rockestra's
performances:
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Got To Get You Into My
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Every Night (live) PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Coming Up (live) ROCKESTRA/Lucille (live) ROCKESTRA/Let It Be (live) ROCKESTRA/Rockestra Theme (live) "Hellos And Goodbyes," from listener Norris Kenton:
BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine
Ringo Starr: "hello" BEATLES/Hello Goodbye BEATLES/Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey From James Busby, here's a set of tunes about "Going
Back"...
BEATLES/Get Back
BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight BEATLES/Back In the USSR BEATLES/Can You Take Me Back? BEATLES/I'll Be Back BEATLES/Honey Pie Our Beatles Moment of the Week is from Cheryl Larroquette,
who discovered the Beatles as a young child in the '80s. When she was
10, in 1992, she wrote a letter to Yoko Ono to tell her how she'd grown up
listening to the Beatles and how one of John's songs was her absolute favorite
because of its poetic lyrics. A month later, she received a brief
handwritten reply from Yoko, which said, "Cheryl, that's my favorite Beatle
song, too. Love, Yoko."
BEATLES/Across The Universe
Weekend of April 11-12, 2009The original U.S. vinyl version of "the blue album," officially
titled The Beatles/1967-1970.
BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever
George Martin: "Strawberry Fields Forever" versus "Penny Lane" BEATLES/Penny Lane BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends Kenny Everett: "the origin of "Lucy" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds BEATLES/A Day In The Life BEATLES/All You Need Is Love BEATLES/I Am The Walrus John Lennon: using the "King Lear" audio in "I Am The Walrus" BEATLES/Hello Goodbye BEATLES/The Fool On The Hill Tony Barrow: "Magical Mystery Tour" BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour BEATLES/Lady Madonna Paul McCartney: John's comment on "Hey Jude" lyrics BEATLES/Hey Jude BEATLES/Revolution BEATLES/Back In The USSR BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps BEATLES/Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Alistair Taylor: the rooftop concert BEATLES/Get Back BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down John Lennon: Yuck and Yono BEATLES/The Ballad Of John & Yoko BEATLES/Old Brown Shoe George Harrison: writing "Here Comes The Sun" BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun BEATLES/Come Together BEATLES/Something Alan Parsons: the effects used in "Octopus's Garden" BEATLES/Octopus's Garden BEATLES/Let It Be BEATLES/Across The Universe Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Doris Skellern,
who swears that she may have inspired the last cut on the Blue Album.
Doris tells us that in 1968 she waited on Paul McCartney and the Bonzo Dog
Band's Vivian Stanshall at a club in London. Being "gobsmacked" by Paul's
presence, she decided to slip him her address, joking that they could have privacy because she lived at the end of
a long and winding road. Doris says Paul joked back, saying, "'A long and
winding road to your door' would make a great song, wouldn't it?"
BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road
Weekend of April 4-5, 2009Released 45 years ago this month: "The Beatles Second
Album"
BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven
BEATLES/Thank You Girl Murray The K: WINS Beatles promo BEATLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart George Harrison: "Money" BEATLES/Money BEATLES/You Can't Do That BEATLES/Long Tall Sally BEATLES/I Call Your Name Fans chanting BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman BEATLES/I'll Get You Fans: singing "She Loves You" BEATLES/She Loves You Beatles Basement listeners Randy Blazak and Joanne Fields
independently came up with "Beatles Reunions," solo songs which feature two or
more Beatles on them:
JOHN LENNON/Give Me Some Truth
GEORGE HARRISON/All Those Years Ago Archer & Paul: playing with Ringo PAUL McCARTNEY/Beautiful Night BEATLES/Free As A Bird Renee Adamski came up with "Countrified Beatles"...
BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
BEATLES/I've Just Seen A Face 
We start a weekly series on the original vinyl 45 RPM releases in
England with highlights from the Singles Of '62 and '63:
BEATLES/Love Me Do
BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/From Me To You Paul McCartney: "I Want To Hold Your Hand" BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand BEATLES/This Boy Jack Baxter submitted this set called "Nice Work If You Can Get
It," featuring Beatles songs about occupations...
BEATLES/Paperback Writer
BEATLES/Taxman George Harrison: the slide guitar on "Drive My Car" BEATLES/Drive My Car BEATLES/Dr. Robert Listeners Bernice Fancy and James Cutler came up with sets called
"Day And Night," so we combined them:
BEATLES/Day Tripper
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/Eight Days A Week BEATLES/The Night Before PAUL McCARTNEY/Daytime Nighttime Suffering Paul McCartney: "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night BEATLES/A Day In The Life Our Beatles Moment Of the Week comes from Langley Sanford,
who spent his whole youth misinterpreting the title to a Beatles hit, but he
didn't know it until his wife was expecting their first child in 1975. His
wife, Carrie, set him straight when he suggested that if they had a girl, they
name it after the Beatles' song "Pam Elaine." By the way, they did have a girl
and named her "Penny."
BEATLES/Penny Lane
Weekend of March 28-29, 2009A set of Beatles "Animal Songs," suggested by listener Dean
Rhodes. It starts with "Martha My Dear," which Dean points out is about
Paul McCartney's sheepdog:
BEATLES/Martha My Dear
BEATLES/I Am The Walrus BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing BEATLES/Rocky Raccoon BEATLES/Hey Bulldog BEATLES/Piggies BEATLES/Free As A Bird A special look back at the Abbey Road
album:
George Harrison: "You Never Give Me Your Money"
BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money George Martin: Paul embraced the classical approach and John wanted to rock on "Abbey Road" BEATLES/Come Together Paul McCartney: the Beatles were ending when they recorded "Abbey Road" BEATLES/I Want You (She's So Heavy) (alternate mix) Alan Parsons: cutting off the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" George Harrison: "Something" becoming an A-Side BEATLES/Something Paul McCartney: "Something" is his favorite George song BEATLES/Oh! Darling George Harrison: his favorite "Abbey Road" song is "Because" BEATLES/Because George Harrison: recording "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" BEATLES/Maxwell's Silver Hammer BEATLES/Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In through The Bathroom Window George Harrison: Ringo's contribution to "Abbey Road" BEATLES/Octopus's Garden Paul McCartney: writing "Golden Slumbers" BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End Our series on the US 45 RPM releases continues with highlights from
the Singles Of '78:
BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My
Friends
RINGO STARR/Heart On My Sleeve WINGS/With A Little Luck (45 version) From Beatles Basement listener Skip Ingals, who submitted a set of
"Beatles Hit B-sides" a while back, here's a follow-up called "More Hit
B-Sides."
BEATLES/Matchbox
BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby BEATLES/Im Down Our Beatles moment of the week comes from legendary artist Peter
Max, who recalls a special late-'60s incident in New York City ...
Peter Max: meeting George Harrison
BEATLES/Love You To
Weekend of March 21-22, 2009Candy Stouffer's three Beatles Traveling Songs ... songs she loves
to crank up in the car:
BEATLES/Drive My Car
BEATLES/Day Tripper BEATLES/Twist & Shout Jason Vertaine put together three Lennon-McCartney songs with
women's names in the titles.
BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
BEATLES/Julia BEATLES/Lovely Rita Karla Sheffield suggested this set of number 1 solo songs from Paul
McCartney from her college years, 1974, 1975 and 1976...
PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On The Run
PAUL McCARTNEY/Listen To What The Man Said PAUL McCARTNEY/Silly Love Songs March 1982's Reel Music album compiled 14 Beatles
soundtrack songs from A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour,
Yellow Submarine and Let It Be. Here's an original gold
vinyl DJ copy:
Paul McCartney: "A Hard Day's Night"
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better "A Hard Day's Night" trailer BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love BEATLES/And I Love Her "Help!" adult movie commercial BEATLES/Help! BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away "Help!" commercial BEATLES/Ticket To Ride "Magical Mystery Tour:" Victor Spinetti BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour "Magical Mystery Tour:" Aunt Jessie's dream BEATLES/I Am The Walrus BEATLES/Yellow Submarine "Yellow Submarine:" Old Fred BEATLES/All You Need Is Love BEATLES/Let It Be BEATLES/Get Back "Let It Be:" recording in exotic places BEATLES/The Long & Winding Road Our continuing series on the US 45 RPM releases continues with
highlights from the Singles of '77...
WINGS/Maybe I'm Amazed (live)
GEORGE HARRISON/Crackerbox Palace PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Girls' School (DJ 45) A set from Dimitri Asimov, called "Sun Songs"...
BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun
BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine BEATLESSun King Joining us for our Beatles Moment of the Week is Mark Benson, who
plays John in 1964 - The Tribute.
Mark Benson: his two Beatles Moments are "1964 - The Tribute" playing the
Cavern in Liverpool and Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1964 - THE TRIBUTE/I Should Have Known Better
Weekend of March 14-15, 2009The original vinyl U.S. version of the "Red Album" Beatles
1962-1966:
BEATLES/Love Me Do
BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/From Me To You BEATLES/She Loves You BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand BEATLES/All My Loving BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/And I Love Her BEATLES/Eight Days A Week BEATLES/I Feel Fine BEATLES/Ticket To Ride BEATLES/Help! BEATLES/Yesterday BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/We Can Work It Out BEATLES/Day Tripper BEATLES/Drive My Car BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) BEATLES/Nowhere Man BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/In My Life BEATLES/Girl BEATLES/Paperback Writer BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby BEATLES/Yellow Submarine "Backwards Beatles" a pair of Beatles songs incorporating tracks
played backwards, suggested by Christian Bell:
BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping
George Martin: the backwards vocal on "Rain" BEATLES/Rain Ronald Gore's favorite cuts from the vinyl-only The Beatles At The
Hollywood Bowl...
BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live)
BEATLES/Things We Said Today (live) BEATLES/Long Tall Sally (live) "Creepy Beatles Songs" from Lindsay Adair:
BEATLES/Run For Your Life
BEATLES/Maxwell's Silver Hammer Johnny Cervantes suggested "The Voices Of Paul," with songs
using his Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard inspired
vocals:
BEATLES/Lady Madonna
PAUL McCARTNEY/That's All Right Paul McCartney: his vocal styles BEATLES/I'm Down 
This week's Beatles Moment comes from Mary Gerber, who found
herself "thoroughly depressed" during a 1990 vacation in Yosemite National Park
because it rained heavily every day, until her last day there:
"At the moment the sun finally began to show itself, the music background
on the cabin's cable TV started playing 'Here Comes The Sun' and the rays
revealed the lush forest and mountainous landscape with a breathtaking
illumination that made the wait worth it."
BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun
Weekend of March 7-8, 2009Susan Tanglewood's set of songs she considers "Beatles'
Masterpieces"...
BEATLES/Yesterday
BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows BEATLES/A Day In The Life BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End As suggested by listener Greg Patterson, "George Harrison's
contributions to the White Album:"
BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps
BEATLES/Long Long Long BEATLES/Piggies BEATLES/Savoy Truffle Yellow Submarine producer Al Brodax joins us for a look
back at the animated classic...
Al Brodax: the Beatles initially wanted nothing to do with "Yellow
Submarine"
BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Al Brodax: the Beatles checked in on the progress after returning from India BEATLES/Only A Northern Song Al Brodax: his anti-Disney proclamation BEATLES/All Together Now Al Brodax: his favorite sequence BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Al Brodax: making the film fast and inexpensively BEATLES/Hey Bulldog Beatles: live-action scene from "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/It's All Too Much (movie version) "Wake-Up Songs," put together by listener Jim Feist:
George Martin: backwards effects
BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping BEATLES/Good Morning Good Morning BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine From over two dozen suggestions through the Beatles Basement pages
on the station website, here's a set of Beatles flip sides:
BEATLES/Yes It Is
BEATLES/Thank You Girl BEATLES/I'm Down Kenny Everett & John Lennon: "I Am The Walrus" BEATLES/I Am the Walrus (US single) BEATLES/You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) Paul McCartney: "You Know My Name"
In our continuing series of the US 45 RPM releases, we get into the
Singles Of '76 ...
BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life (mono DJ single)
PAUL McCARTNEY/Silly Love Songs (DJ single) GEORGE HARRISON/This Song (single) BEATLES/Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (mono DJ single) PAUL McCARTNEY/Let 'Em In (DJ single) RINGO STARR/A Dose Of Rock & Roll (single) The Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Barbara
Stockton, who tells us that she rebelled against her parents' farorite music,
the Beach Boys and Beatles, until she was given a class assignment in the 8th
grade interview her parents and write a paper on the origin of her name.
It was then that her parents divulged that her her first name, Barbara, was
inspired by the Beach Boys' version of "Barbara Ann" and her middle name,
Eleanor, was inspired by the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby." When she put on the
Beatles' Revolver LP to listen to "Eleanor Rigby," she fell in love
with the group and has been as big a Beatles fan as her parents ever
since.
BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby
Weekend of February 28-March 1, 2009A composite of three submissions from listeners Mike D'Aiuto,
Campbell Fuller and Peggie Simon: "The Beatles Singing In Foreign Tongues"
...
BEATLES/Sie Liebt Dich
BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand BEATLES/Paperback Writer Listener Karen Johansson put together "Songs Of The
World:"
BEATLES/Across The Universe
BEATLES/Revolution Paul McCartney; the lyrics in "Because" BEATLES/Because RINGO STARR/Weight Of The World "American Rubber Soul Anomolies," from listener Peter
Tilbury, is a set of four tracks found on the American Rubber Soul LP
that made it different than the version released in England and other
countries...
BEATLES/The Word (U.S. version)
BEATLES/It's Only Love George Martin: "Rubber Soul" marked the start of the Beatles as an album group BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You (U.S. version) BEATLES/I've Just Seen A Face From Malcolm Rich, "Beatles On The Beaten Path," featuring road and
street songs:
BEATLES/Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road BEATLES/Blue Jay Way BEATLES/Penny Lane GEORGE HARRISON/Any Road Highlights from the Singles Of '75:
JOHN LENNON/Ain't That A Shame (DJ-only single)
John Lennon and Ringo Starr: "Goodnight Vienna" radio ad RINGO STARR/Good Night Vienna GEORGE HARRISON/You PAUL McCARTNEY/Listen To What The Man Said JOHN LENNON/Stand By Me Ringo Starr: yes, yes, yes... RINGO STARR/The No No Song Submitted by listener Stanton Pastorelli
"Honey"...
BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey
BEATLES/Honey Don't Paul McCartney: "Honey" BEATLES/Honey Pie "The Beatles In Transit," courtesy of listener Bianca
Serrone....
BEATLES/Drive My Car
BEATLES/Back In the USSR The Beatles: "The One After 909" BEATLES/One After 909 BEATLES/Ticket To Tide JOHN LENNON/You Can't Catch Me BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Gary Schoefield, whose mom use to love to sing along quite loudly whenever he and his twin sister Carrie played their Beatles and Rolling Stones records. Usually, their mom got the lyrics right, but on one particular song, Gary and his sister broke down into the longest bout of laughter they'd experience in their lives when they discovered that their mom had misinterpreted the British accent on one of the songs on the Beatles VI album. Imagine this track with the lyrics, "I don't want to soil the potty." BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Weekend of February 21-22, 2009Remembering George: George Harrison would have turned 66 on
the 24th or 25th of February, depending on the source you use for his birthdate
celebrate them both!
George: the so-called Liverpool Sound
BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven George Harrison: songwriting BEATLES/Don't Bother Me George Harrison: the Beatles lost their private lives BEATLES/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby excerpt: Help! commercial BEATLES/I Need You BEATLES/You Like Me Too Much Beatles: "Think For Yourself" session BEATLES/Think For Yourself BEATLES/If I Needed Someone BEATLES/Taxman (early version) George Harrison: interest in the sitar BEATLES/Love You To BEATLES/Only A Northern Song George Harrison: writing "Whle My Guitar Gently Weeps" BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps BEATLES/Piggies BEATLES/Savoy Truffle (alternate mix) George Harrison: the Apple business BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun George Harrison: his role in the Beatles BEATLES/I, Me, Mine George Harrison: the "My Sweet Lord" plagiarism suit GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord Eric Clapton: falling in love with Pattie Harrison GEORGE HARRISON/What Is Life GEORGE HARRISON/Blow Away Press conference: John's Lennon's murder GEORGE HARRISON/All Those Years Ago GEORGE HARRISON/Got My Mind Set On You (early version) Paul McCartney: George's passing PAUL McCARTNEY & ERIC CLAPTON/Something (live) Highlights from the U.S. 45 RPM releases continues with the Singles
Of '74:
JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (mono DJ version)
PAUL McCARTNEY/Jet PAUL McCARTNEY/Band On the Run (mono DJ version) RINGO STARR/Oh My My May Pang: whispering "Archer" JOHN LENNON/#9 Dream PAUL McCARTNEY/Junior's Farm PAUL McCARTNEY/Sally G Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Jude Albright,
whose dad died in the Viet Nam War in 1969. The last mail Jude received
from his dad was a copy of the Beatles' single bearing his name, which his dad
bought while on leave in Asia, as a Christmas present, in 1968.
BEATLES/Hey Jude
Weekend of February 14-15, 2009The out-of-print 1977 Love Songs compilation double-LP:
BEATLES/Yesterday
BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun BEATLES/I Need You  BEATLES/GirlBEATLES/In My Life Paul McCartney: Buddy Holly's "Words Of Love" BEATLES/Words Of Love BEATLES/Here, There And Everywhere BEATLES/Something BEATLES/And I Love Her BEATLES/If I Fell BEATLES/I'll Be Back BEATLES/Tell Me What You See George Harrison: "Yes It Is" BEATLES/Yes It Is BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/It's Only Love BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl BEATLES/Every Little Thing Paul McCartney: "For No One" BEATLES/For No One BEATLES/She's Leaving Home BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road BEATLES/This Boy BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/I Will Paul McCartney & John Lennon: "P.S. I Love You" BEATLES/P.S. I Love You Listener Sarah Alderman puts together some "Solo Songs Of
Love"...
JOHN LENNON/Love
GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) PAUL McCARTNEY/Silly Love Songs RINGO STARR/Cookin' In The Kitchen Of Love "Songs Which Should Have Been On The 'Love Songs' Album ... But
Weren't," from listener Maria Addriso:
BEATLES/She Loves You
BEATLES/Oh! Darling BEATLES/Love Me Do BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better Paul McCartney: the Beatles' lasting message BEATLES/All You Need Is Love Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Roger and
Elizabeth Hagen. Neither were big Beatles fans, but both got single
tickets for the Cirque du Soleil LOVE show in Vegas and sat next to each
other. During the course of the show, Roger and Elizabeth fell in love
with the Beatles ... and each other. After eight months of acquiring
and exploring the music of the Beatles and solo Beatles together, they were
married and had this recording played over the church sound system as their
wedding processional...
BEATLES/When I'm 64
Weekend of February 7-8, 2009The Beatles Invade The U.S., February 1964:
BEATLES/Please Please Me
BEATLES/From Me To You Bill Harry: Capitol's initial rejection of the Beatles BEATLES/She Loves You BEATLES/I'll Get You Sid Bernstein: discovering Britain's Beatlemania and booking the band for Carnegie Hall Ringo Starr: the Carnegie Hall booking  BEATLES/Twist And ShoutBEATLES/Hold Me Tight Jock Bartley: first seeing the Beatles on Jack Paar's late-night show BEATLES/Love Me Do (UK single) BEATLES/Chains BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven (live) Bill Harry: events leading to the Beatles' US debut Ed Sullivan: booking the Beatles after seeing their return to London from Sweden in October '63 CAREFREES/We Love You Beatles (UK single) BEATLES/All I've Got To Do BEATLES/Don't Bother Me Bill Harry: Capitol Records finally releases a Beatles record BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand Paul McCartney: hearing that "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit number one in the U.S. Brian Epstein: the timing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" topping the charts George Harrison: the Beatles' US hits BEATLES WITH TONY SHERIDAN/My Bonnie BEATLES/P.S. I Love You BEATLES/There's A Place U.S. fan: what she'd do if she met a Beatle BEATLES/Not A Second Time Paul McCartney: hearing about the airport crowd waiting for them in New York BEATLES/Thank You Girl BEATLES/This Boy Ringo Starr: landing in New York BEATLES/Little Child BEATLES/Misery Bill Harry: Phil Spector accompanied the Beatles on the flight to New York Murray The K: meeting the Beatles Press conference: the Beatles face the New York press BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey BEATLES/Boys Albert Maysles: being recruited to document the Beatles first visit on film The Beatles and Murray the K: pre-Sullivan interview Intro: The Ed Sullivan Show Paul McCartney: being told how many people were watching BEATLES/All My Loving (live) BEATLES/Tll There Was You (live) George Harrison: the New York crime rate during "Sullivan" Robert Cray: got a guitar because of the Beatles Jock Bartley: he was old enough to appreciate the significance of the "Sullivan" debut Tom Petty: the Beatles changed everything  BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (live)BEATLES/It Won't Be Long George Harrison: celebrity events in New York Ringo: cocktail party at the British embassy Carroll James and the Beatles: tea, languages, Donna Lynn's single DONNA LYNN/My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret Carroll James and the Beatles: George's previous visit to the U.S., haircuts, careers BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man (live) Fan: doesn't have tickets for Carnegie Hall BEATLES/Till There Was You (excerpt, live at Carnegie Hall) Sid Bernstein: giving up his seat for the governor's daughter Paul McCartney: Miami BEATLES/This Boy (live) Bill Harry: the Liverpudlian that accompanied the Beatles on their first U.S. visit BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (live) Beatles: goodbye message to the U.S. BEATLES/When I Get Home [Visit Bill Harry's new Mersey Beat website at MerseyBeat.co.uk]
Weekend of January 31-February 1, 2009An original vinyl copy of the second pressing of Vee-Jay Records'
Introducing The Beatles...
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There
BEATLES/Misery BEATLES/Anna (Go To Him) Beatles: greetings BEATLES/Chains BEATLES/Boys BEATLES/Ask Me Why BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/Baby It's You Murray the K and George Harrison: meeting girls BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret? BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey BEATLES/There's A Place BEATLES/Twist And Shout "A Beatles Weather Forceast" assembled by Jimi
Gaudio:
BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine
Ringo Starr & John Lennon: the weather BEATLES/Rain (single) BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun Ryan Christie came up with a set of favorite songs from the
original Let It Be album:
Paul: the "Let It Be" sessions
BEATLES/One After 909 BEATLES/Two Of Us BEATLES/Across The Universe In our continuing series on the US 45 RPM releases, the Singles Of
'72 and '73 from the original vinyl:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Hi Hi Hi
Ringo Starr: writing "Back Off Booglaoo" RINGO STARR/Back Off Boogaloo PAUL McCARTNEY/My Love JOHN LENNON/Mind Games PAUL McCARTNEY/Live And Let Die RINGO STARR/Photograph GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) PAUL McCARTNEY/Helen Wheels "Acoustic Beatles" from Graham Hyde:
BEATLES/I've Just Seen A Face
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) BEATLES/Till There Was You BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/Blackbird BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps (LOVE version) Our Beatles Moment Of The Week comes from Patricia Feist,
who, like many Beatle-freak children of the early '60s, had a dad who hated
anything remotely resembling rock and roll. But one day, in 1965, he
ducked into Patricia's room and handed her a single of a song he'd heard on the
radio and said, "Now THIS is good music!" It was a copy of
"Yesterday."
BEATLES/Yesterday (single)
Weekend of January 24-25, 2009
In our continuing series on the US 45s, the Singles Of
1971:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Another Day
GEORGE HARRISON/What Is Life? JOHN LENNON/Power To The People Ringo Starr: writing songs with George Harrison RINGO STARR/It Don't Come Easy GEORGE HARRISON/Bangla Desh PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY/Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey JOHN LENNON/Imagine Lynne Dreyer submitted this set of "Traveling
Beatles"...
BEATLES/Back In The USSR
BEATLES/Ticket To Ride BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun Barry Klieg's favorite tracks from George Harrison's All Things
Must Pass album:
GEORGE HARRISON/If Not For You
George Harrison: the "All Things Must Pass" album GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord George Harrison: "Isn't It A Pity" GEORGE HARRISON/Isn't It A Pity From Peter Kraczowski, "Mounds Of Pounds" as in
money:
BEATLES/Money (That's What I Want)
BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love George Harrison: "You Never Give Me Your Money" BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money Harold Jefferson came up with this set of "Beatles Singin' The
Blues"...
PAUL McCARTNEY/Singin' The Blues (live)
BEATLES/For You Blue BEATLES/Yer Blues "Live Paul," suggested by Christie Werner:
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Coming Up (live in Glasgow)
PAUL McCARTNEY/Drive My Car (live at the Super Bowl) PAUL McCARTNEY/I Saw Her Standing There (live at Amoeba Records in L.A.) "Berry Good Beatles," put together by listener Jim
Elliott:
BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music
John Lennon: Chuck Berry JOHN LENNON/You Can't Catch Me ("Roots" version) BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven Tracks from Double Fantasy that helped Beatles Basement
listener Sheri Vasquez cope with the death of John Lennon when she returned to
her college dorm after the Christmas break in January of 1981:
JOHN LENNON/(Just Like) Starting Over
John Lennon: "Woman" JOHN LENNON/Woman Our Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Bryan Andreotti,
who as a young child in the early '70s, simply didn't speak. His parents
took him to doctors and specialists and no one not even Bryan himself could
figure out why he couldn't utter a sound, even when he cried. At age
4, he developed a taste for his older brother's Beatles records. In June
of 1974, his mom and dad took him to see a Saturday matinee screening of
Yellow Submarine he was mesmerized by the film. On the way
home, to the surprise of his parents and brother, Bryan began singing the
opening lines to "Nowhere Man." Bryan writes, "Thanks to Beatles music,
I'd found my voice, that control that made my vocal chords work, and by the time
I started first grade a couple of years later, I could speak as well as any
six-year-old."
BEATLES/Nowhere Man
Weekend of January 17-18, 2009
Astrid Puccini put together songs about "Coming
Home"...
BEATLES/Baby It's You
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight BEATLES/When I Get Home Louise Kerry's set idea finds the Beatles singing about
bands:
Paul McCartney: his father's band's influence on "Sgt.
Pepper"
BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music BEATLES/Only A Northern Song Beatles Basement listener Gabriel Bryant tells us that every member
of his immediate family was born in January, so that inspired him to put
together a set of Beatles and solo Beatles "January Hits" from the 60s, 70s, 80s
and '90s:
BEATLES/Please Please Me
PAUL McCARTNEY/Jet JOHN LENNON/Woman BEATLES/Free As A Bird "People, Places and Things," from Pascal Enright:
PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY/Too Many People (DJ single)
BEATLES/There's A Place BEATLES/Every Little Thing Beth Hellman came up with a set of songs about
"Crying"...
Paul McCartney: "Cry For A Shadow" BEATLES/Cry For A Shadow BEATLES/Cry, Baby, Cry BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
Stacy Coo calls this "A T.W. Double" ... the Traveling Wilburys' two
biggest hits:
George Harrison: creating "Handle With Care" and the
Wilburys
TRAVELING WILBURYS/Handle With Care TRAVELING WILBURYS/End Of The Line In our continuing series, highlights from the US Singles Of 1970:
BEATLES/Let It Be
JOHN LENNON/Instant Karma BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road BEATLES/For You Blue JOHN LENNON/Mother (US DJ single) GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord The Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Ainsley
Chandler, who lived in London in 1967. His mother lived in Communist East
Germany with his stepfather, a teacher. The only way they were able to
communicate was by long distance telephone, on the rare occassions than an
operator in East Germany would put the call through. Ainsley had become an
avid Beatles fan, but was never able to share the music with his mom, who never
received the records he had mailed to her. On June 25th, 1967, the Beatles
appeared on the first worldwide satellite TV broadcast, debuting the song "All
You Need Is Love." Ainsley's mother called from East Germany that night to
share her excitement over the Beatles because State television had shown the
performance. It was the last conversion he had with his mom on
July 6th, 1967, she was killed when a passenger train collided with a tanker
truck in Magdeburg, East Germany.
BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (live telecast)
Weekend of January 10-11, 2009Celebrating the 45th anniversary of the release of Meet The
Beatles...
BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There BEATLES/This Boy BEATLES/It Won't Be Long BEATLES/All I've Got To Do BEATLES/All My Loving Murray The K: January 1964 WINS Beatles promo BEATLES/Don't Bother Me BEATLES/Little Child BEATLES/Till There Was You BEATLES/Hold Me Tight BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man BEATLES/Not A Second Time Our 45 RPM series continues with highlights from the US singles of
'69:
BEATLES/Get Back (US single)
BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down (US single) John Lennon: Yuck and Yono BEATLES/The Ballad Of John & Yoko John Lennon: the bed-in message JOHN LENNON/Give Peace A Chance BEATLES/Something John Lennon: releasing "Cold Turkey" as a solo single JOHN LENNON/Cold Turkey A salute to Beatles producer George Martin, who celebrated his 83rd
birthday this month:
George Martin: giving the Beatles a tryout
BEATLES/Love Me Do (demo excerpt) George Martin: Pete Best, the Beatles' charisma, George's comment about his tie BEATLES/Love Me Do George Martin: "Please Please Me" BEATLES/Please Please Me George Martin: the Beatles' quick songwriting development BEATLES/She Loves You George Martin: critic William Mann BEATLES/Yesterday George Martin: the Beatles' thirst for new sounds BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows George Martin: the backwards voice in "Rain" BEATLES/Rain George Martin: studio experimentation peaked when the Beatles came off the road BEATLES/A Day In The Life George Martin: the "Let It Be"/"Abbey Road" era BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money George Martin: becoming impressed with George Harrison's songs in the "Abbey Road" sessions BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun (1999 remix) Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Martin, Giles Martin: creating the "LOVE" soundtrack BEATLES/Hey Jude/Sgt. Pepper Reprise (LOVE version) The Beatles Moment of the Week comes from Abe Stedman, who
was born in 1959 and didn't really pay attention to music until the new
Abbey Road album was given to him by his grandmother on his 10th
birthday. Whenever he hears the closing medley to Abbey Road, it
takes him back to a "musical awakening" that would eventually lead him into a
life as a used record store operator, trading vinyl Beatles goodies with his
customers for over three decades.
BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The
End
Weekend of January 3-4, 200917-year-old Beatle freak and listener Jack Renzoni suggested this
set of three Beatles singles which weren't produced by George
Martin.
BEATLES/Long And Winding Road
BEATLES/Ain't She Sweet BEATLES/Free As A Bird A set from Margie Fuller, simply called "Don't!"
BEATLES/Honey Don't
GEORGE HARRISON/Don't Let Me Wait Too Long BEATLES/Don't Bother Me RINGO STARR & CHRISSIE HYNDE/Don't Hang Up The original vinyl 45 RPM Long Tall Sally EP:
BEATLES/Long Tall Sally
BEATLES/I Call Your Name BEATLES/Slow Down BEATLES/Matchbox 
Nancy Hildago assembled a set called "Up On The Rooftop,"
songs the Beatles performed on the Apple roof in London in 40 years ago this
month.
Alan Parsons: the rooftop concert
BEATLES/One After 909 BEATLES/I've Got A Feeling BEATLES/Dig A Pony Alistair Taylor: the rooftop concert BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down BEATLES/Get Back It was 40 years ago the Yellow Submarine soundtack album was
released.
George Martin: doing the score for "Yellow Submarine"
BEATLES/Yellow Submarine BEATLES/Only A Northern Song Commercial: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/All Together Now BEATLES/Hey Bulldog Commercial: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/It's All Too Much BEATLES/All You Need Is Love Our continuing series on the Beatles 45 RPM releases with the
Singles of '68, from the original vinyl...
BEATLES/Lady Madonna
BEATLES/Hey Jude BEATLES/Revolution Submitted my Jim Krause, "Advice For The Lovelorn" Beatles songs
that make suggestions about relationships.
BEATLES/She Loves You
BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl BEATLES/For No One BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart Our Beatles Moment of the Week belongs to Jonathan
Palmieri, who, traveling Spain by backpack in 1978, took refuge during an
eight-day storm at a hostel. He was there with eight strangers from
a Balkan country he was never able to determine, because they couldn't speak
Spanish nor English. On the third or fourth day, he took out his portable
cassette player played a tape he'd made of various songs. The other eight
people were fascinated with the rock and folk music selections, but when the one
Beatles song on the tape came up, they lit up with joy and began singing along
using their best English mimickry. The song was, as his fellow travelers
pronounced it, "Pavorbeck Riker!"
BEATLES/Paperback Writer
Weekend of December 27-28, 2008YEAR END SPECIAL: a countdown of your top 30 individual song requests from
2008. 
Since Beatles Basement's debut in August 2008, we've received
over 11,000 theme set ideas, 2,990 general questions about the Beatles and solo
Beatles and 6,068 individual song requests. From those song
requests, we've compiled the top 30 for our year-end edition.
Paul McCartney: "Memory Almost Full" was recorded for his own
satisfaction
30. PAUL McCARTNEY/Ever Present Past 29. BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 28. BEATLES/Come Together 27. BEATLES/Get Back (UK single) 26. JOHN LENNON/Imagine 25. BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 24. BEATLES/I Want You (She's So Heavy) Jim Keltner: George's "Give Me Love" 23. GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) 22. BEATLES/Twist And Shout (single) 21. JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night 20. BEATLES/Here, There and Everywhere 19. BEATLES/I Me Mine 18. BEATLES/Help! (single) Paul McCartney: writing a James Bond theme 17. PAUL McCARTNEY/Live And Let Die 16. BEATLES/Day Tripper (single) 15. BEATLES/Nowhere Man (US single) 14. BEATLES/Taxman Kenny Everett: the story of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" 13. BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 12. GEORGE HARRISON/All Those Years Ago 11. BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (single) 10. BEATLES/Let It Be John Lennon: introducing "Sgt. Pepper" 09. BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends 08. BEATLES/Paperback Writer (single) 07. BEATLES/Revolution (single) 06. BEATLES/Something Mick Jagger & John Lennon: excerpt from "Rock And Roll Circus" 05. BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (single) 04. BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever 03. BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life 02. BEATLES/Hey Jude (single) 01. BEATLES/In My Life
Weekend of December 20-21, 2008The Beatles Basement Holiday Special:
GEORGE HARRISON/Ding Dong! Ding Dong!
Beatles: excerpt from the 1963 fan club Christmas record BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (single) BEATLES/This Boy (UK single) BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single) Beatles: excerpt from the 1964 fan club Christmas record BEATLES/I Feel Fine (UK single) BEATLES/She's A Woman (UK single) BEATLES/No Reply BEATLES/I'll Be Back Beatles: "Second Day of Christmas" BEATLES/I'm A Loser John Lennon & Yoko Ono: year one of peace JOHN LENNON, YOKO ONO AND THE HARLEM CHILDREN'S CHOIR/Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Beatles: excerpt from the 1965 fan club Christmas record BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (single) BEATLES/Day Tripper (single) BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/The Word (US version) Beatles: Capitol Records greeting issued to radio stations in 1965 BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You (US version) BEATLES/In My Life Beatles: excerpt from the 1966 fan club Christmas record RINGO STARR/Little Drummer Boy Beatles: excerpt from the 1967 fan club Christmas record BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour BEATLES/Fool On The Hill Beatles: carols versus standards BEATLES/Flying BEATLES/I Am The Walrus Beatles: excerpt from the 1968 fan club Christmas record BEATLES/Back In The USSR Beatles: "All I Want For Christmas Is A Bottle" BEATLES/Glass Onion PAUL McCARTNEY/Wonderful Christmastime BEATLES/I'll Be On My Way Beatles: Christmas medley BEATLES/Nothin' Shakin' BEATLES/Free As A Bird George Harrison: Christmas greeting BEATLES/Christmastime Is Here Again (promo version) BEATLES/Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing (LOVE versions) BEATLES/Lady Madonna (LOVE version) Beatles Moment of the Week:
Erik Forrester tells us his young Beatlefreak son Jason discovered the fab four through Ringo Starr, when, at age 4, Jason became fascinated with Ringo's Santa Claus tracking report for NORAD, which was streamed over the internet in 2004. Ringo Starr: reporting on Santa Claus' flight path for
NORAD
RINGO STARR/Winter Wonderland
Weekend of December 13-14, 2008The Beatles' Rock And Roll Music compilation double-album,
straight from vinyl:
BEATLES/Twist And Shout (Rock And Roll Music remix)
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/You Can't Do That (Rock And Roll Music remix) Ringo Starr: music kept him out of gangs BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/I Call Your Name (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Boys (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Long Tall Sally (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music BEATLES/Slow Down BEATLES/Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! George Harrison: the Beatles liked to perform obscure American R&B songs BEATLES/Money BEATLES/Bad Boy (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Matchbox Paul McCartney: Chuck Berry was a poet BEATLES/Roll Over Beethoven (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy BEATLES/Anytime At All BEATLES/Drive My Car (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby "Help!" commercial BEATLES/The Night Before (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/I'm Down (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Revolution BEATLES/Back In The USSR BEATLES/Helter Skelter BEATLES/Taxman BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life "Yellow Submarine" commercial BEATLES/Hey Bulldog (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Birthday (Rock And Roll Music remix) BEATLES/Get Back As suggested by listeners, we've been doing a series on the
original vinyl 45s released in the U.S. we continue with the singles of
'67:
BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ version)
BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever (single) BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (single) BEATLES/Hello Goodbye (single) BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (US single) Beatles Moment of the Week:
Our Beatles Moment of the Week involves the first words ever uttered by Julie Barnes, the daughter of listeners Rick and Veronica Barnes. Rick and Veronica say that despite numerous efforts to get Julie to talk when she was a baby, the first words she eventually emitted were sung, not spoken. Julie's first vocal expression was singing the chorus to this tune: BEATLES/All Together Now
Weekend of December 6-7, 2008Judy Levin created this set called "Girls And
Boys"...
BEATLES/Girl
BEATLES/Boys BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl BEATLES/This Boy (single) BEATLES/Thank You Girl (single) BEATLES/Bad Boy BEATLES/Another Girl BEATLES/Real Love 16-year-old listener Erin Klinger calls this set "Teenager's
Turn"...
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There
RINGO STARR/You're Sixteen BEATLES/Sweet Little Sixteen "Fab Fashion Statements" submitted by Jimmy Randall:
BEATLES/Baby's In Black
BEATLES/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window BEATLES/Only A Northern Song (mono mix) BEATLES/Yes It Is (single) US singles of '66...
BEATLES/Nowhere Man (US single)
BEATLES/Yellow Submarine (US single) BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (US single) From listener David Scott, a set called "Love from John, Paul,
George & Ringo"...
JOHN LENNON/Love
PAUL McCARTNEY/My Love GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love RINGO STARR/Love Me Do 
The Hey Jude album from 1970:
BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/Rain (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/Lady Madonna (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/Revolution (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/Hey Jude (Hey Jude LP mix) Paul McCartney & John Lennon: old brown shoe BEATLES/Old Brown Shoe (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down (Hey Jude LP mix) BEATLES/The Ballad Of John & Yoko (Hey Jude LP mix)
Beatles Moment of the Week:
Sherry Wilcox was born in Tukwila, Washington in 1965 and shared a special bond with her mom a love of all things Beatles. In Sherry's words, "My mom was on her deathbed in 1989 and not responding to conversation, when I suddenly remembered a song we used to sing together when I was three or four years old. So I began singing 'Ive Just Seen A Face' to her, and for a brief moment she smiled and said, 'The Beatles.' Those were the last words I heard my mom say before she passed." BEATLES/I've Just Seen A Face
Weekend of November 29-30, 2008Cameron Carnegie's two kids' favorite songs from the Yellow
Submarine soundtrack:
BEATLES/It's All Too Much (movie soundtrack version)
"Yellow Submarine" clip BEATLES/Nowhere Man The US 45s series continues with singles from '64 and
'65:
BEATLES/Sie Liebt Dich (US single)
John Lennon: rumors in the press BEATLES/I Feel Fine (US single) BEATLES/She's A Woman BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (US single) BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (US single) "Jeopardy!" clip: "Help!" BEATLES/Help! (US single) BEATLES/Yesterday (US single) BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (US single) 
Special guest May Pang, author of Instamatic Karma, talks
turkey:
May Pang: Elton & John's bet; John and Yoko did not get back
together until long after the concert.
ELTON JOHN & JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (live) May Pang: she's the one who invited Yoko to the Thanksgiving concert; whispering John's name in "#9 Dream" JOHN LENNON/#9 Dream May Pang: Her book, "Instamatic Karma;" John was very social during her time with him "Songs About Birds," put together by listener Sherry
Gilpin...
BEATLES/Free As A Bird
BEATLES/Blackbird BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing Jukebox Beatles, Part 3 the third and final Beatles Compact 33
produced for jukeboxes by Capitol, 1964's Something New:
BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead
BEATLES/And I Love Her BEATLES/Slow Down BEATLES/If I Fell BEATLES/Tell Me Why BEATLES/Matchbox A set called "Hey!" ... suggested by Franco Alzar:
BEATLES/Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
BEATLES/Hey Jude BEATLES/Hey Bulldog From Justin Cusak, "John, Paul, George and Ringo's Rubber Soul" ...
four cuts from the Rubber Soul album featuring a different Beatle on each lead
vocal:
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
BEATLES/Drive My Car BEATLES/If I Needed Someone BEATLES/What Goes On Cindy Carter suggested these songs about "Day and
Night"...
Ringo Starr: the title "A Hard Day's Night"
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/The Night Before BEATLES/Day Tripper The Beatles Moment of the Week....
Ivan Neville is the son of Aaron Neville and like his dad and uncles, the Neville Brothers, he's an accomplished musician himself, playing solo or for bands ranging from the Rolling Stones to Spin Doctors to his own Dumpstaphunk. Despite all the potential influences from his musical family, Ivan tells us that hearing "Come Together" was his Beatles moment. BEATLES/Come Together
Weekend of November 22-23, 2008"The Great Outdoors," an idea from Richard Delaney which, as he
puts it, "takes us to fields of grass, strawberries and
sunshine."
BEATLES/Mother Nature's Son
BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun "#1 Solo Songs" suggested by Tabatha Kraemer:
PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY/Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (DJ single)
RINGO STARR/You're Sixteen (single) John Lennon: "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (DJ single) GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (single) Listeners Ron Haney, Jeannie Crenshaw and Peter Blair separately came up
with this set idea: "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"...
BEATLES/Yesterday (single)
BEATLES/Things We Said Today John Lennon & Paul McCartney: their changing music BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows (mono) "Future TV Themes" original Beatles versions of songs that would
later be adapted as television themes for "Wonder Years," "Grace Under Fire" and
"Life Goes On," courtesy of listener Hank Partridge...
BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends
BEATLES/Lady Madonna (single) BEATLES/Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Eric Hoolihan came up with a set of his favorite cuts from the
American LP "Yesterday ... And Today"
BEATLES/Drive My Car (mono Yesterday... and Today
version)
BEATLES/Dr. Robert (mono Yesterday... and Today version) BEATLES/If I Needed Someone (mono Yesterday... and Today version) BEATLES/Day Tripper (mono Yesterday... and Today version) Jukebox Beatles Part 2: the Capitol Compact 33 version of The
Beatles' Second Album, the jukebox record that played 6 cuts from the album for
a quarter...
BEATLES/Thank You Girl
BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart BEATLES/Money BEATLES/Long Tall Sally BEATLES/I Call Your Name BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman "Anthology Goodies" from Mary Chandler, featuring Beatles
recordings that weren't released during the life of the group:
BEATLES/Leave My Kitten Alone
George Martin: "How Do You Do It?" BEATLES/How Do You Do It? BEATLES/Come And Get It "The US Singles Of '64" Part 1
Brian Epstein: the timing the U.S. number hits
BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand BEATLES/She Loves You BEATLES/Please Please Me George Harrison: their U.S. chart songs TONY SHERIDAN & THE BEATLES/My Bonnie BEATLES/Twist And Shout George Martin: his suggestion on "Can't Buy Me Love" BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret BEATLES/Ain't She Sweet BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/And I Love Her Beatles Moment of the Week:
Our Beatles moment of the week is shared by listeners Michelle Franz, Michelle Gooden, Michelle Wickes and Michelle Denny, who, as you've probably guessed, were all named after a Beatles song... BEATLES/Michelle (mono)
Weekend of November 15-16, 2008A set of "I, Me, Mine" songs put together by David
Albright...
BEATLES/I Call Your Name
BEATLES/From Me To You BEATLES/Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey BEATLES/I, Me, Mine This "Beatle Sweets" set comes from Kiwi Benson:
BEATLES/A Taste Of Honey
Paul McCartney: jelly babies BEATLES/Savoy Truffle PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY/Monkberry Moon Delight Ken Jay Renfrew's suggestion of two "Beatles' Animals"
songs:
BEATLES/Hey Bulldog
George Harrison: "Octopus' Garden" BEATLES/Octopus' Garden "Remembering George & John," suggested by Ed Klein, Anita
Gomez, Jon Cafarelli and Susan Chase:
RINGO STARR & ERIC CLAPTON/Never Without You
GEORGE HARRISON/All Those Years Ago Paul McCartney: writing "Here Today" PAUL McCARTNEY/Here Today "Summer Songs," submitted by Lenora Stetson, are the Beatles
releases that remind her of the summers of '65, '66, '67 and '68:
BEATLES/Yes It Is (single) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (single) BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (single) BEATLES/Revolution (single) 
"Juke Box Beatles, Part 1" Marylin Tranque, John Hodgson and Pete
Lapierre are among the listeners who wanted to hear Capitol Records' "Compact
33s," special EPs which were loaded into jukeboxes in the '60s. In part 1
of a series of 3, here's the "Meet The Beatles" Compact 33:
BEATLES/It Won't Be Long
BEATLES/This Boy BEATLES/All My Loving George Harrison: "Don't Bother Me" BEATLES/Don't Bother Me BEATLES/All I've Got To Do BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man "Ringo & Paul at the 'Concert For George'" submitted by Judy
Ellery...
Ringo Starr: the "Concert For George"
RINGO STARR/Photograph (live) Paul McCartney: remembering George Harrison PAUL McCARTNEY/For You Blue (live) "From Riches To Rags" "a set of 'man' songs which go from rich,
to taxes, to nowhere," from Geraldine Scott:
BEATLES/Baby You're A Rich Man (single)
BEATLES/Taxman (mono) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (single) Becky Fuller suggested "Lennon/McCartney Song
Giveaways"...
BILLY J. KRAMER & THE DAKOTAS/From A Window
John Lennon: Peter & Gordon PETER & GORDON/A World Without Love BEATLES/Bad To Me (acetate) "Positive Beatles," courtesy of Jim Pimental:
BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun
Paul McCartney: writing "Getting Better" with John BEATLES/Getting Better (mono) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (UK 45) The Beatles Moment of the Week:
Carmen Stringfield of Lockport, New York is still married to the man who
captured her heart by dedicating this song to her on a local radio request show
in the summer of 1976...
BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life
Weekend of November 8-9, 2008The "White Album" 40th Anniversary:Ringo Starr: walking out of the sessions
Beatles Moment of the Week:
BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine
Weekend of November 1-2, 2008The original vinyl U.S. version of the "Red Album" Beatles
1962-1966:
BEATLES/Love Me Do (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version)
BEATLES/Please Please Me (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/From Me To You (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/She Loves You (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/All My Loving (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/And I Love Her (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Help! (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Yesterday (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Day Tripper (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Drive My Car (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Michelle (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/In My Life (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Girl (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) BEATLES/Yellow Submarine (vinyl US Beatles 1962-1966 version) "Backwards Beatles" a pair of Beatles songs incorporating tracks
played backwards, suggested by Christian Bell:
BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping
George Martin: the backwards vocal on "Rain" BEATLES/Rain Ronald Gore's favorite cuts from the vinyl-only The Beatles At The
Hollywood Bowl...
BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live)
BEATLES/Things We Said Today (live) BEATLES/Long Tall Sally (live) "Creepy Beatles Songs" from Lindsay Adair:
BEATLES/Run For Your Life
BEATLES/Maxwell's Silver Hammer Johnny Cervantes suggested "The Voices Of Paul," with songs
using his Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard inspired
vocals:
BEATLES/Lady Madonna
PAUL McCARTNEY/That's All Right Paul McCartney: his vocal styles BEATLES/I'm Down
This week's Beatles Moment comes from Mary Gerber, who found
herself "thoroughly depressed" during a 1990 vacation in Yosemite National Park
because it rained heavily every day, until her last day there:
"At the moment the sun finally began to show itself, the music background
on the cabin's cable TV started playing 'Here Comes The Sun' and the rays
revealed the lush forest and mountainous landscape with a breathtaking
illumination that made the wait worth it."
BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun
Weekend of October 25-26, 2008"Beatles Songs With Children" from Andrew Randall ...
BEATLES/Cry, Baby, Cry (mono)
BEATLES/When I'm 64 BEATLES/Lady Madonna (single) BEATLES/Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 
Submitted by Katie Lester, "Giving Their All" her favorite three
Beatles songs have titles that start with the world "all" ...
BEATLES/All My Loving
BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (movie version) BEATLES/All I've Got To Do "Waking Up" is a set from Greg Holt, who has programmed these
songs into his musical alarm clock ...
BEATLES/Good Morning Good Morning (mono)
BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine (mono) A journey back to 1970's "All Things Must Pass" album with George
Harrison ...
GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord
George Harrison: the success of the album GEORGE HARRISON/What Is Life? George Harrison: using Phil Spector's "wall of sound" GEORGE HARRISON/If Not For You Songs which listener Miles DeKalb considers
"Dylanesque" ...
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood
BEATLES/Tell Me What You See (US mono) John Lennon: comment to Bob Dylan during a limo ride BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (UK mono) BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You (US version) "Hip-Shakin' Beatles" is a set of Beatles tunes that listener
Jojette Baako likes to dance to ...
BEATLES/Hold Me Tight
BEATLES/Get Back (US single) Clip: Revolution 9 BEATLES/Hippy Hippy Shake BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life (mono) BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You "The Singles Of '65" Jake Hellman thinks these four Beatles'
A-sides from 1965 demonstrate John Lennon and Paul McCartney "coming into their
own as legendary songwriters."
BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (US single)
BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (single) Clip: "Help!" commercial BEATLES/Help! (single) BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (single) With the release of "All Together Now," the DVD documentary on the
creation of the Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show, LOVE, here are some
tracks from the soundtrack and comments from those involved in its creation
...
George and Giles Martin, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr: deciding to make
"LOVE" in the mash-up style
BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun (LOVE version) BEATLES/Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing (LOVE versions) Paul McCartney: simple remastering of old songs wouldn't have been as interesting BEATLES/Hey Jude/Sgt. Pepper Reprise (LOVE versions) "Rockin' Paul" is a set from Amanda Garland, who says, "John is
often portrayed as the rocker and Paul as the balladeer, but these songs show
Paul's more raucous side."
BEATLES/Oh! Darling
BEATLES/I'm Down (single) Paul McCartney: Helter Skelter BEATLES/Helter Skelter 
This week's Beatles Moment belongs to Arlene Mailloux, who vividly
remembers falling in love with the Beatles in 1967 when they were airing in
cartoon form on US TV. The song that brings back that special memory for
Arlene is the track that was used as the show's opening theme that year
...
BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing (US mono)
Weekend of October 18-19, 2008"Unique To The U.S." from Gordon
Templer:
BEATLES/She's A Woman (US single)
George Harrison: another clue BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (US single) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (US single) BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ single) "Abbey Road Favorites" from Lana
Strait:
George Harrison: the harmonies on
"Because"
BEATLES/Because BEATLES/Golden Slumbers/The End George Martin: Paul's medleys versus John's rockers BEATLES/Come Together
"Hit B-Sides" from Skip Ingals:
BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single)
BEATLES/Thank You Girl (US single) BEATLES/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (US single) BEATLES/Rain (single) BEATLES/Baby, You're A Rich Man (single) "Ringo Rocks" from Aimee Lindsay:
BEATLES/I Wanna Be Your Man
Clip: "A Hard Day's Night" BEATLES/Boys (live) BEATLES/What Goes On "Beatles R&B" from Jennifer
Pellegrino:
BEATLES/Money (US version)
BEATLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me John Lennon: American music BEATLES/Devil In Her Heart (US version) BEATLES/Twist & Shout (US promo single) "Beatle Characters" from Emma
Gearhardt:
BEATLES/The Fool On The Hill (mono)
BEATLES/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window BEATLES/Dr. Robert (US version)
"Movie Themes By Paul" from Sarah
Stone:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Vanilla Sky
Paul McCartney: being tapped for "Live And Let Die" PAUL McCARTNEY/Live And Let Die "Glub Glub" favorites from the Yellow Submarine
Songtrack from Tom Andreotti:
Clip: "Yellow Submarine"
BEATLES/Yellow Submarine Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Hey Bulldog Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/All Together Now (end title) Clip: "Yellow Submarine" BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends This week's Beatles Moment comes from listener Ricky
Fernandes:
"My Dad Hated The Beatles. From the moment they arrived
in the US in 1964, he dismissed them and the groups that followed them as
nothing more than noise. Our light-hearted arguments about my being a
Beatles fan were legendary in my family. In 1971, he got a
rapidly-progressing terminal cancer and I flew back to see him in the hospital
when he was approaching the end. He'd been listening to a radio station
that played the old standard ballads he loved, and though it pained him to talk,
he took me aside to tell me that he'd heard a song that touched him deeply, only
to find out it was written and performed by ... the Beatles. Obviously, to
this day, I cannot hear that song without thinking of my dad, Manuel Fernandes,
being touched by the band he thought he hated ... and the song, 'In My
Life.'"
BEATLES/In My Life (mono)
Weekend of October 11-12, 2008As suggested by Larry Antoine, we play the songs on the Beatles 1
album ... except that we play the original vinyl single versions!
Beatles News:
George Martin on "LOVE"
Richard Courtney on the Fab Four Festival 2008 in Nashville Karl Heinz suggested "Good Old American Rock And Roll, Beatles
Style."
BEATLES/Bad Boy (mono)
BEATLES/Long Tall Sally (mono) BEATLES/Honey Don't John Lennon: the influence of Chuck Berry BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music (mono) BEATLES/Twist And Shout (US single) BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzy Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
BUCHANAN & GREENFIELD/The Invasion (original DJ
version)
Weekend of October 4-5, 2008
"Beatles Songs About Jobs" from Rachel Garrison:
BEATLES/Lovely Rita
BEATLES/Drive My Car (mono) Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr: thanks for the mail BEATLES/Please Mr. Postman BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite Paul McCartney & John Lennon: Ringo's acting career BEATLES/Act Naturally (mono) BEATLES/Taxman George Harrison: "In His Own Write" BEATLES/Paperback Writer (single) BEATLES/Dr. Robert (alternate mono) Paul McCartney: John's occupations BEATLES/Penny Lane (mono) Ghislaine Paquette submitted this "Beatles Play Harmonica"
set:
Delbert McClinton: he didn't teach John Lennon how to play
harmonica
BEATLES/Love Me Do (UK single) BEATLES/Fool On The Hill John Lennon: the mouth organ BEATLES/Little Child BEATLES/Rocky Raccoon BEATLES/From Me To You John Lennon: session comment BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better BEATLES/Thank You Girl (US version) John Lennon: "harmonica" versus "harp" BEATLES/I'm A Loser BEATLES/Please Please Me BEATLES/All Together Now 
Remembering John Lennon, who would have been 68 on October 9th,
with a chronology of his music interwoven with some of his trademark
quips:
John Lennon: quoting his Auntie
BEATLES/Ain't She Sweet (US single) John Lennon: flaming pie BEATLES/I Want To Hold Your Hand (single) John Lennon: cheaper seats BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (mono) John Lennon: writing "Strawberry Fields Forever" while filming "How I Won The War" BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever (single) John Lennon: introduces "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono) John Lennon: being a Beatle became a job BEATLES/I'm So Tired John Lennon: bickering with Paul BEATLES/Come Together John Lennon: the "establishment" intimidated peace protesters JOHN LENNON/Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) John Lennon: thoughts on dying JOHN LENNON/Hold On John Lennon: the people have power JOHN LENNON/Power To The People John Lennon: protesting with humor JOHN LENNON/Mind Games Elton John: introducing surprise guest John Lennon, November 1974 John Lennon: the Madison Square Garden appearance ELTON JOHN & JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (live) John Lennon: growing up and entering the '80s NYPD Detective James Sullivan: the shooting of John Lennon JOHN LENNON/(Just like) Starting Over (12" version) Beatles News:
With Anthony Pomes of the Moptops on the annual Lennon Birthday Concert on
Long Island, Dana Cain of the Imagine Peace Paint-In in Denver, Colorado and
Yoko Ono on the lighting of the Lennon Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland.
Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
AL REINOSO/Imagine Real Love (incorporating John Lennon's "Imagine," "Love"
and "Real Love")
Weekend Of September 27-28, 2008
Listener Cody Keller assembled this set of "Dancing
Beatles:"
BEATLES/Twist And Shout
JOHN LENNON/Do You Wanna Dance? BEATLES/Little Child BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single) Clip: Beach Blanket Bingo BEATLES/Rock And Roll Music PAUL McCARTNEY/Dance Tonight Clip: Monkey Business BEATLES/Birthday (mono mix) Remembering Billy Preston's keyboard contributions to tracks from
"Let It Be" and "Abbey Road:"
BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down (UK single)
Billy Preston: meeting the Beatles BEATLES/Let It Be (promo film version) Billy Preston: being asked to play in the "Let It Be' sessions BEATLES/Get Back (UK single) Billy Preston: getting credit on a Beatles single, playing on "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road" BEATLES/I Want You (She's So Heavy) (alternate mix) "George's Beatles B-Sides," a set submitted by Chip
Sennhoffer:
BEATLES/For You Blue (US)
BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (1982 mix) George Harrison: getting an A-side BEATLES/Something (US DJ single mix) BEATLES/Old Brown Shoe 
Highlights from "Rubber Soul:"
George Harrison: the sitar is not "new"
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (early version) BEATLES/In My Life (original vinyl mix) John Lennon: writing "Nowhere Man" BEATLES/Nowhere Man (original vinyl mix) BEATLES/Michelle (mono mix) George Martin: "Rubber Soul" BEATLES/I'm Looking Through You (US version) BEATLES/Run For Your Life (mono mix) George Harrison: the slide guitar on "Drive My Car" BEATLES/Drive My Car (original vinyl mix) John Lennon & George Harrison: the kind of girls they prefer BEATLES/Girl BEATLES/If I Needed Someone (mono mix)
"Lennon Love" songs of love from John, courtesy of Polythene Pam
Kramer:
BEATLES/It's Only Love JOHN LENNON/Love (UK single version) BEATLES/The Word (basic mix) JOHN LENNON/Oh My Love BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/Soldier Of Love BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (mono mix) Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
DJ RESET/Paperback Believer
Weekend Of September 20-21, 2008 "Beatles Songs That Take You Places," courtesy of listener Dakota
Berring:BEATLES/There's A Place
BEATLES/Back In The USSR BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ version) BEATLES/Octopus' Garden ("LOVE" version) BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever (mono mix) John Lennon: writing "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "In My Life" BEATLES/In My Life (mono mix) BEATLES/Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour BEATLES/Across The Universe ("Let It Be...Naked" version) BEATLES/Yellow Submarine (EP version) Requested rarities:
BEATLES/She's A Woman (EP mix)
BEATLES/From Me To You (alternate mix) BEATLES/Day Tripper (alternate mix) BEATLES/All My Loving (European mix) BEATLES/I Feel Fine (UK single mix) BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun (BBC version) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (alternate mix) BEATLES/Cry Baby Cry (acetate) Remembering "Band On The Run" with Paul McCartney & engineer
Geoff Emerick:
Paul McCartney: Wings members, recording after getting robbed in
Lagos
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Jet Paul McCartney: the "Band On The Run" concept came from the song PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Band On The Run Paul McCartney: convincing Geoff Emerick to travel to Nigeria to engineer the album Geoff Emerick: the record plant behind a studio door PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Bluebird Geoff Emerick: the poor state of the EMI studios in Lagos PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Helen Wheels (alternate mix) The U.K. true mono "Help!" songs, thanks to Wendy Kaiser, Jacob
Broadmoore, Dominic DelCastro and several other listeners:
BEATLES/Help! (UK mono)
BEATLES/The Night Before (UK mono) 1965 commercial: "Help!" BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (UK mono) BEATLES/I Need You (UK mono) 1965 commercial: "Help!" BEATLES/Another Girl (UK mono) BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl (UK mono) 1965 commercial: "Help!" BEATLES/Ticket To Ride (UK mono) Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
GEORGE HARRISON/When We Was Fab (Moptop Mix)
Weekend of September 13-14, 2008
The eight Beatles songs from the vinyl American "A Hard Day's
Night" soundtrack album:
BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (US soundtrack mix)
BEATLES/Tell Me Why (US soundtrack mix) "A Hard Day's Night" video promo clip BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US soundtrack mix) BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (US soundtrack mix) "A Hard Day's Night" radio commercial BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (US soundtrack mix) BEATLES/If I Fell (US soundtrack mix) "A Hard Day's Night" movie trailer BEATLES/And I Love Her (US soundtrack mix) BEATLES/Can't Buy Me Love (US soundtrack mix) Legendary drummer Jim Keltner helps us with a set from listener
Larry Heidelberg, "#1 Fab Hits Of The '70s:"
BEATLES/Let It Be (single version)
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS/Band On The Run (mono DJ single) Jim Keltner: "Give Me Love" GEORGE HARRISON/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) Jim Kelter: working with George and John JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night BEATLES/The Long And Winding Road Jim Keltner: drumming alongside Ringo RINGO STARR/Photograph GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord "Sgt. Pepper" rarities:
BEATLES/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (acetate of early
version)
BEATLES/She's Leaving Home (mono mix) George Martin: "Mr. Kite" BEATLES/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (alternate mix) BEATLES/Getting Better (mono mix) "Folk Rock Beatles," a set suggested by Cyndy
Cadbury:
BEATLES/I'm A Loser (mono mix)
BEATLES/Norwegian Wood (mono mix) Paul McCartney & John Lennon: folk rock BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away BEATLES/If I Needed Someone (mono mix)
Former Wings guitarist and solo-acoustic virtuoso Laurence Juber
stops by to perform:
WINGS/Coming Up (live)
Laurence Juber: Paul suggested he record his "One Wing" album LAURENCE JUBER/Jet (live in-studio) Laurence Juber: recording "Rockestra" with Wings WINGS/Rockestra "White Album Critters," a set submitted by Ruben
Sanchez:
BEATLES/Blackbird (mono mix)
BEATLES/Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (alternate mix) BEATLES/Rocky Racoon (alternate mix) BEATLES/Piggies (mono mix) Beatles Mash-Up of the Week:
BEATLES/Revolution/Back In The USSR (audio DVD
version)
Weekend of September 6-7, 2008
A set of U.S. single sides which weren't released as 45s in England
at the time, suggested by listener Roma Tomaris:
BEATLES/Yesterday (US single)
BEATLES/Twist And Shout (US DJ single) BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US single) BEATLES/And I Love Her (US single) Paul McCartney & John Lennon: extra single releases in the US BEATLES/Eight Days A Week (US single) BEATLES/Slow Down (US single) BEATLES/Sie Liebt Dich (US single) George Harrison: the Beatles on the US charts in February 1964 BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (US single) BEATLES/Nowhere Man (US single) "Beatle Women" a set of title characters, courtesy of listener
Sarah Latkin:
BEATLES/Julia (mono mix)
BEATLES/Lady Madonna (mono mix) Paul McCartney: naming "Eleanor Rigby" BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (mono mix) BEATLES/Dear Prudence BEATLES/Lovely Rita (mono mix) Paul McCartney: "Michelle" not released as a single BEATLES/Michelle BEATLES/Sexy Sadie Kenny Everett: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Eric Howell, the voice of all four Beatles and the main characters
at BeatleSoap.com:
Eric Howell: his "A Day In The Life" audio biography QUARRY MEN/That'll Be The Day Eric Howell: the Brian Epstein storyline BEATLES/My Bonnie 
A backstage look at the Revolver album:
Paul McCartney: why "Revolver" wasn't recorded in Memphis as originally
planned.
BEATLES/Got To Get You Into My Life (mono mix) BEATLES/Taxman (early version) George Harrison: the backwards guitar on "I'm Only Sleeping" BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping BEATLES/For No One (mono mix) Paul McCartney: the Beatles' musical progression BEATLES/Love You To (mono mix) BEATLES/Here There And Everywhere BEATLES/And Your Bird Can Sing (alternate mix) Ringo Starr: "Yellow Submarine" becoming a single BEATLES/Yellow Submarine (mono mix) George Harrison: album-to-album musical progression BEATLES/Dr. Robert (alternate mix) Paul McCartney: tape loops BEATLES/Tomorrow Never Knows (mono mix) BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine BEATLES/I Want To Tell You Excerpt: BEATLES/She Said She Said (demo) Paul McCartney: "She Said She Said" is one of his favorite Beatles songs BEATLES/She Said She Said Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
MP3J/I Should Have Known Better
Weekend of August 30-31, 2008A "Magical Mystery Tour" of the 1967 film & its #1 US album
soundtrack:
Paul McCartney: "Magical Mystery Tour" shouldn't have aired at
Christmastime
BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour (US stereo LP mix) Tony Barrow: the film project was Paul's way of dealing with the loss of Brian Epstein's leadership BEATLES/Fool On The Hill (US stereo LP mix) Kenny Everett: sneaking "Magical Mystery Tour" demos from Brian Epstein BEATLES/Ariel Tour Instrumental (early version of "Flying") Paul McCartney: the film was psychedelic, but not broadcast in color BEATLES/Blue Jay Way (US mono LP mix) Clip: Victor Spinneti in "Magical Mystery Tour"  BEATLES/Your Mother Should Know (1967 film
mix)Roger Ruskin Spear: the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band being recruited for the film BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND/Death Cab For Cutie (1967 film mix) Paul McCartney: the "Magical Mystery Tour" film gets better with time BEATLES/I Am The Walrus (US mono LP mix) John Lennon: mixing "King Lear" into "I Am The Walrus" Excerpt: "Hello Goodbye" early take BEATLES/Hello Goodbye (US mono version) BEATLES/Strawberry Fields Forever (US stereo mix) George Martin: "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" BEATLES/Penny Lane (US mono LP mix) BEATLES/Baby, You're A Rich Man (US mono LP mix) Paul McCartney: "All You Need Is Love" Excerpt: 1967 worldwide broadcast of "All You Need Is Love" BEATLES/All You Need Is Love (US mono LP mix) The Beatles sing Elvis suggested by listener Caroline
Steinberg:
BEATLES/I Forgot To Remember To Forget
PAUL McCARTNEY/All Shook Up JOHN LENNON/Hound Dog (live) PAUL McCARTNEY/Party Paul McCartney: the early Elvis Presley PAUL McCARTNEY/Just Because BEATLES/I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) PAUL McCARTNEY/That's All Right RINGO STARR/Don't Be Cruel PAUL McCARTNEY/I Got Stung The Beatles Doing Each Other this set of the Beatles singing each
other's songs was assembled by James Harper: PAUL McCARTNEY/Something (live)
JOHN LENNON/"Yesterday" Parody BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (stereo mix) Excerpt: George & Ringo in a commercial for "A Hard Day's Night" GEORGE HARRISON/Get Back (from the Doris Troy sessions) Ringo Starr: "Love Me Do" hitting the charts is his most joyous Beatles memory. RINGO STARR/Love Me Do PAUL McCARTNEY/For You Blue (live) BEATLES/With A Little Help From My Friends (radio mixout) JOHN LENNON and ELTON JOHN/I Saw Her Standing There (live) RINGO STARR, TOM PETTY, JOE WALSH and JIM KELTNER/I Call Your Name BEATLES/Do You Want To Know A Secret? (stereo mix) Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
TWIN FREAKS (PAUL McCARTNEY & ROY KERR)/Maybe I'm
Amazed
Weekend of August 23-24, 2008Listener Karen Olsen suggested this set of "Sunshine
Songs:"
John Sebastian: on "Daydream" inspiring "Good Day
Sunshine"
BEATLES/Good Day Sunshine (mono mix) BEATLES/Sun King PAUL McCARTNEY/See Your Sunshine PAUL McCARTNEY/Hot As Sun (long version) George Harrison: writing "Here Comes The Sun" BEATLES/Here Comes The Sun (alternate mix) RINGO STARR/Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond) BEATLES/I'll Follow The Sun Jenny Klein, Rose Cetera and Jim Boynton suggested a set of songs
by the Beatles' heroes that the Beatles eventually covered:
LARRY WILLIAMS/Bad Boy
George Harrison: their influences John Lennon: American influences BUDDY HOLLY/Words Of Love Paul McCartney: Little Richard LITTLE RICHARD/Long Tall Sally CARL PERKINS/Honey Don't Smokey Robinson: the Beatles covering "You Really Got A Hold On Me" MIRACLES/You Really Got A Hold On Me JAMES RAY/Set On You FATS DOMINO/Ain't That A Shame BEN E. KING/Stand By Me George Harrison: covering obscure American R&B BARRETT STRONG/Money (That's What I Want) John & Yoko with Mike Douglas: Chuck Berry CHUCK BERRY/Roll Over Beethoven CHUCK BERRY/Rock And Roll Music 
Beatles Around The World: live performances from the '60s tours with comments from a few places along the way:
BEATLES/From Me To You (live)
Dave Schwensen, author of "The Beatles In Cleveland": Cleveland audiences rushing the stage BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzie (live) BEATLES/You Can't Do That Chuck Stenberg, producer of the DVD "The Beatles In Portland": the Beatles meet the Beach Boys in Portland; Allen Ginsberg's poem BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (live) BEATLES/She's A Woman (live) Mark Benson of "1964 - The Tribute": the annual August concert at Red Rocks, Colorado 1964 THE TRIBUTE/I Should Have Known Better (live) BEATLES/Boys (live) Rock & pop music writer George Krieger joins Archer with the top 10 Beatles cover songs of all time on the US charts. RICHIE HAVENS/Here Comes The Sun
Excerpt: ROBIN GIBB/Oh! Darling STEVIE WONDER/We Can Work It Out (single mix) SILKIE/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away EARTH, WIND & FIRE/Got To Get You Into My Life Excerpt: ANNE MURRAY/You Won't See Me
Excerpt: TIFFANY/I Saw Him Standing There Excerpt: SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66/Fool On The Hill Excerpt: STARS ON 45/Stars On 45 Medley ELTON JOHN/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Beatles Mash-Up Of The Week:
PASSION/Let's Do It In The '80s (excerpt including:)
No Reply
I'll Be Back
Drive My Car
Do You Want To Know a Secret?
You're Going to Lose That Girl
Nowhere Man
Silly Love Songs
Weekend of August 16-17, 2008"Beatles Movie Songs & Clips" suggested by Karen
Schwarz:
Clip: A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/I Should Have Known Better (UK stereo version) Clip: Help! BEATLES/You're Going To Lose That Girl (UK stereo version) Clip: Magical Mystery Tour BEATLES/Fool On The Hill (US mono version) Clip: Yellow Submarine BEATLES/Only A Northern Song (Yellow Submarine Songtrack version) Clip: Let It Be BEATLES/One After 909 Clip: A Hard Day's Night BEATLES/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (UK stereo version) Clip: Help! BEATLES/You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Clip: Let It Be BEATLES/Two Of Us 
Beatle book writer Belmo joins us for a preview of The Beatles
Book: Everywhere It's Christmas, which he co-wrote with Garry Marsh.
Visit EverywhereItsChristmas.com
for more info.
Beatles: fan club Christmas flexi-disc excerpts
Belmo: on "The Beatles Christmas Book: Everywhere It's Christmas." Kenny Everett: assembling the greetings "Money Matters" a set suggested by William
Karn:
BEATLES/Taxman (mono mix)
BEATLES/Baby, You're A Rich Man (mono mix) PAUL McCARTNEY/The Pound Is Sinking George Harrison: "You Never Give Me Your Money" BEATLES/You Never Give Me Your Money GEORGE HARRISON/Sue Me, Sue You Blues (demo) BEATLES/Money (That's What I Want) (original mono mix) A look back at The Concert For Bangladesh, which took
place 37 years ago this month:
George Harrison: using "Beatle power" for charity
GEORGE HARRISON/My Sweet Lord (live) LEON RUSSELL, GEORGE HARRISON, ERIC CLAPTON & RINGO STARR/Come On In My Kitchen (rehearsal) Billy Preston: dancing during the night show BILLY PRESTON/That's The Way God Planned It (live) BOB DYLAN WITH GEORGE HARRISON/Love Minus Zero/No Limit (live) George Harrison: the artists at the Concert for Bangladesh GEORGE HARRISON & FRIENDS/Bangladesh (live) Catching up with Badfinger's Joey Molland during the Hippiefest
Tour:
Joey Molland: Hippiefest; "Badfinger Boogie;" he's moving south
BADFINGER/Sweet Tuesday Morning Amy Kibran put together a set of "tunes that started as Beatles
songs but came out as solo releases:"
PAUL McCARTNEY/Teddy Boy
GEORGE HARRISON/Not Guilty Excerpt: BEATLES/All Things Must Pass (demo) GEORGE HARRISON/All Things Must Pass Excerpt: JOHN LENNON/Child Of Nature (demo) JOHN LENNON/Jealous Guy GEORGE HARRISON/Circles Beatles mash-up of the week:
BEATLES/I Am The Walrus/I Want To Hold Your Hand (radio
mixout)
Weekend of August 9-10, 2008The Beatles In Jeopardy!
(courtesy of our friends at King World Productions and CBS Television Distribution) Clip: Jeopardy!
BEATLES/Eleanor Rigby (Yellow Submarine Songtrack version) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/Yellow Submarine (Yellow Submarine Songtrack version) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/Nowhere Man (mono mix) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/Back In The USSR (mono mix) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/I Saw Her Standing There (stereo mix) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/Across The Universe (Let It Be ... Naked version) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/She Loves You (stereo mash-mix) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/Help! (US LP version) Clip: Jeopardy! BEATLES/A Hard Day's Night (stereo mix) 
Neil Innes of the Rutles joins
us:
Excerpt: Rutland Weekend Television
Neil Innes: The Rutles were George Harrison's way of putting Beatlemania to bed. George Harrison: the Rutles Neil Innes: George's jukebox RUTLES/Doubleback Alley RUTLES/I Must Be In Love RUTLES/Good Times Roll Neil Innes: why Eric Idle didn't sing the Dirk McQuickly parts in All You Need Is Cash RUTLES/With A Girl Like You RUTLES/Let's Be Natural RUTLES/Ouch! RUTLES/Major Happy's Up And Coming Once Upon A Good Time Band Martin Lewis and Eric Idle: the 2008 Rutles reunion Neil Innes: a toast to the Beatles, Bonzos, Python and Rutles RUTLES/Cheese And Onions Listener Set "John Lennon Guest Appearances,"
courtesy of Katy Auger:
John Lennon: his body of work
DAVID BOWIE/Fame NILSSON/Subterranean Homesick Blues Mick Jagger & John Lennon from The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus DIRTY MAC (JOHN LENNON, ERIC CLAPTON, KEITH RICHARDS, MITCH MITCHELL)/Yer Blues (live) ELEPHANT'S MEMORY/Power Boogie (single version) ELTON JOHN WITH JOHN LENNON/Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (live) The Get Back/Let It Be Sessions:
After completing school, Alan Parsons walked down the
street to Abbey Road and got a job as an engineering assistant. He'd wind
up getting his chops as a "button pusher" for the Beatles.
Alan Parsons: trying to record eveything during the Get
Back/Let It Be sessions
BEATLES/Two Of Us BEATLES/Don't Let Me Down Alan Parsons: the sessions were distracted by the filming BEATLES/Suzy Parker BEATLES/For You Blue BEATLES/Blue Suede Shoes BEATLES/Let It Be Beatles: an exchange with Alan Parsons Alan Parsons: the movie; the rooftop session; Phil Spector's treatment of the album BEATLES/Long And Winding Road BEATLES/Get Back (live) Beatles mash-up of the week:
MARK SAMANSKY/Tomorrow Revolves (Tomorrow Never Knows, Taxman,
Yellow Submarine, She Said She Said)
Weekend of August 2-3, 2008Monomania:
BEATLES/I'll Cry Instead (US 45 version)
BEATLES/Help! (45 version) BEATLES/Paperback Writer (45 version) Geoff Emerick: the mono mixes BEATLES/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono mix) BEATLES/I'm Only Sleeping (US mono mix) BEATLES/Penny Lane (US DJ version) BEATLES/While My Guitar Gently Weeps (mono mix) Jock & Steven of Firefall stop by:
Jock Bartley & Steven Weinmeister: interpreting Beatles
songs
FIREFALL ACOUSTIC/Girl Jock Bartley & Steven Weinmeister: Sullivan, Pepper, raga guitar FIREFALL ACOUSTIC/Within You Without You Carlie Jaxxon suggests a set of Larry Williams
covers:
BEATLES/Slow Down
BEATLES/Bad Boy PAUL McCARTNEY/She Said Yeah BEATLES/Dizzy Miss Lizzie JOHN LENNON/Boney Marone August marks the 40th Anniversary of the release of "Hey
Jude"
Excerpt: BEATLES/Hey Jude (demo)
Paul McCartney: John's favorite lyric in "Hey Jude" BEATLES/Hey Jude (45 version) 1968 commercial: Apple's First Four BEATLES/Revolution (45 version)
Extreme Rarities:
BEATLES/We Can Work It Out (alternate mix) BEATLES/It's All Too Much (movie version) BEATLES/Magical Mystery Tour Reprise Catching up with Ringo as he wraps his All-Starr
tour:
Ringo Starr: how the All-Starr Band began
RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/It Don't Come Easy (live) Ringo Starr: playing live RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/Never Without You (live) Ringo Starr: his encore policy RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND/Boys (live)
Secret Gigs:
PAUL McCARTNEY/Dance Tonight (live) PAUL McCARTNEY/Jet (live) Beatles mash-up of the week:
BEATLES/The Beatles Movie Medley
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