Playlist Fathers Day June 21 st 2015

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1 Playlist Fathers Day June 21 st

2 2 OPEN/9AM Today we will honor the FATHER by playing only Beatles and solo Beatles songs pertaining to MEN, BOYS, Songs with Men s names or titles such as King or Mister and of course songs about Dad s and being a Father and if we have time maybe some songs about SUMMER as this is June 21st the 1 st day of SUMMER 2015 but let s start with the MEN or in this case the boy. The Beatles - This Boy Meet The Beatles US EP Four By The Beatles /Past Masters I flip of I Want To Hold You Hand in UK The Beatles Mean Mr. Mustard - Abbey Road Recorded July 24 th. Written in India as we heard on the White LP demos from Esher. When the band is playing it during the Let It Be sessions Pam was then a Shirley. Lennon 1.00

3 The Beatles - Baby, You re A Rich Man - Non-LP track (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John The Beatles fifteenth single release for EMI s Parlophone label. The Beatles were contractually obligated to deliver four new songs for inclusion in the Yellow Submarine animated film project. Baby, You re A Rich Man was the first song 3

4 4 recorded especially for that project. Earlier in the year, George Harrison s initial offering for the Sgt. Pepper album, Only A Northern Song, had been rejected for that album and was now being earmarked for use in the Yellow Submarine animated film. But with the rush-release of All You Need Is Love as a single following the Our World world television transmission on June 25, 1967, a B-side was needed. George Martin chose Baby, You re A Rich Man, effectively removing it from consideration for the Yellow Submarine feature film. Baby, You re A Rich Man was, in fact, two separate songs (John s One Of The Beautiful People and Paul s Baby, You re A Rich Man ) that the composers combined to make into one song. Recording took place at Olympic Studios on May 11, 1967, and the song was completed in 12 takes. It is the first Beatles song to be recorded and mixed for record outside of Abbey Road. Surprisingly, the All You Need is Love / Baby, You re A Rich Man single is the first instance of George Martin being given credit on the record label as producer on a Parlophone Beatles single. Mick Jagger attended the session and may have participated in the backing vocals at the end of the song. Issued July 7, 1967 in the UK and July 17, 1967 in the U.S. On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP The Beatles - Nowhere Man - Rubber Soul (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John Under pressure to deliver new material while the Rubber Soul album was being recorded, John Lennon spent five hours one morning at home trying to come up with a new song. John: I'd actually stopped trying to think of something. Nothing would come. I was cheesed off and went for a lie down, having given up. Then I thought of myself as Nowhere Man - sitting in his nowhere land. Paul: We were always forcing [the Abbey Road staff] into things they didn't want to do. Nowhere Man was one. I remember we wanted very treble-y guitars, which they are, they're among the most treble-y guitars I've ever heard on record. Nowhere Man was performed throughout The Beatles 1966 world tour. Issued as a single (b/w What Goes On ) by Capitol Records in America. Recorded on October 22, On U.S. album: Yesterday and Today - Capitol LP Quick BREAK Today we will honor the FATHER by playing only Beatles and solo Beatles songs pertaining to MEN, BOYS, in this case it s Teddy boy.

5 5 Paul McCartney Teddy Boy McCartney 70 Having debuted during the Let it Be sessions, it was re-recorded at home with Linda on backing vocals. The Beatles - Mr. Moonlight - Beatles For Sale (Johnson) Lead vocal: John The Beatles first attempted to record this obscure B-side from early 1962 by Dr. Feelgood and the Interns, before leaving on their 1964 North American Tour, but didn t make much progress. The initial takes featured a George Harrison guitar solo. When the group returned from their tour they revisited the song on October 18, 1964, and laid down takes 5-8. At the October takes George s guitar solo was replaced by Paul on Hammond organ. Percussion was provided by George Harrison thumping on an old African drum and Ringo playing what Paul described as a horned-shaped sort of conga drum. On U.S. album: Beatles 65 - Capitol LP Wings Junior s Farm Inspired by Dylan s Maggie s Farm, it is one of Paul s best flat out rockers. It reached #16 in the UK charts, this was also the last apple release for Paul and Wings. Written about Claude Curly Putman, Jr. a father & Family man

6 6 Putman also spoke of the six-week period when, in 1974, Paul McCartney and his band, Wings (which included his wife, Linda McCartney), stayed at Putman s family farm in Wilson County. The Beatles - Taxman - Revolver (Harrison) Lead vocal: George Completed in 11 takes on April 21, Written by George when he started realizing the majority of his money was going to the British government in the form of taxes. George went to John Lennon for some help with the lyrics, and Lennon was especially

7 7 pleased with his line Now my advice for those who die: declare the pennies on your eyes. Featuring a nice lead guitar solo by Paul on his Epiphone Casino. The pennies lyrical reference derives from Greek mythology it is the payment to Charon (the ferryman of the underworld) to ferry the deceased to their destination in the underworld. To pay the ferryman, the deceased person's relatives place a coin on each eye of the deceased. The Mr. Wilson and Mr. Heath mentioned in the song were real people. Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister Married 2 kids and Edward Heath not married was head of the opposition party at the time the song was recorded. It is the first time a George Harrison composition opens a British Beatles album. On U.S. album: Revolver - Capitol LP The Beatles - Bad Boy - A Collection Of Oldies (Williams) Lead vocal: John Recorded specifically for the American market at the urgent request of Capitol Records executives, who needed two songs to fill out their upcoming Beatles VI album. Of course, Capitol had four songs in its possession it could have included ( From Me To You, Misery, There s A Place and the German-language version of She Loves You, had all yet to appear on an LP in America), but they went to the Beatles and asked for something new ASAP. With no new material ready to go the band pulled two Larry Williams songs from their pre-fame club repertoire, Bad Boy and Dizzy Miss Lizzy, that could be recorded in one day and then the tapes would be air-freighted to Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Bad Boy would go unreleased in the UK for another year and a half until it turned up on the hits compilation A Collection of Beatles Oldies in December Recorded on May 10, On U.S. album: Beatles VI - Capitol LP On UK album: A Collection of Beatles Oldies - Parlophone LP (1966) QUIZ KLOS When we come back I m gonna play a Paul McCartney SOLO song was inspired by an expression he learned from his father which song might that be? KLOS 9.27 BREAK

8 8 Winner here A Father / son Beatles related set on this Father s Day morning 2015 Paul McCartney Put It There Flowers In The Dirt From Father to his son John Lennon Beautiful Boy Double Fantasy From Father John to son Sean George s son Dhani Harrison w/ Fistful of Mercy My Fathers Son I Call You Down

9 9 Ringo Boys All Stars Live 1995 featuring Ringo s son Zak The Beatles Hey Jude Single `68 From Paul about John s son s Julian 9.56 BREAK It s Fathers Day.and as we know not many Beatles Fathers Day songs per say but we ll try to remain as male orientated as we can The Beatles - Please Mister Postman With The Beatles (Dobbins-Garrett-Brianbert) Lead vocal: John Beatlemania was not only a boon for record shops and merchants selling any number of licensed Beatles products (Beatle wigs, Beatles boots, paperback books, magazines, board games, buttons and other novelties), it also gave a significant financial boost to songwriters and music publishers of the non-original songs the group covered on its early albums. No label benefited more from their talent roster s hit records being covered by The Beatles than Detroit-based Motown Records. Three of Motown s hits were included on The Beatles second album: Please Mr. Postman, You ve Really Got

10 10 A Hold On Me, and Money (That s What I Want). Please Mr. Postman was the debut single by The Marvelettes, and the first single issued by a Motown label (in this case, Tamla) to hit number one on the Billboard pop charts. The songwriting credits for the song have changed throughout the years. The liner notes and record label for With The Beatles credits only Holland (Brian Holland) as the songwriter. The original Tamla and Fontana (UK) 45s list the writers as Dobbins-Garrett-Brianbert. Decades later the credit has expanded to include an additional writer brought in to finish the song (Freddie Gorman, another songwriting partner of Brian Holland), and separated the writing partnership of Brian Holland and Robert Bateman (previously combined as Brianbert). The credit should now read: Dobbins-Garrett-Holland-Bateman-Gorman. Parlophone also spells out Mister where the title appears, but the Marvelettes version has it abbreviated as Mr. Recorded July 30, On U.S. album: The Beatles Second Album - Capitol LP The Beatles - Doctor Robert - Revolver (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John John s song about a doctor that dispenses pills and other comfort to his clients was rumored to be about Dr. Robert Freymann of New York, who ran a discreet clinic on Manhattan's East 78th Street. The good doctor had a reputation for giving vitamin B-12 injections containing large doses of amphetamines, mainly to well-heeled New Yorkers. But both John and Paul have denied that is the source of the lyrics. Paul: The song was a joke about this fellow who cured everyone of everything with all these pills and tranquilizers. He just kept New York high. John: Doctor Robert was another of mine. Mainly about drugs and pills. It was about myself: I was the one that carried all the pills on tour and always have done. Well, in the early days. Later on the roadies did it, and we just kept them in our pockets loose, in case of trouble. Originally clocking in at nearly three minutes, the song was cut to 2:13 for its official release. The backing track was recorded in seven takes on April 17, Overdubs included Paul on piano, John on harmonium, and George on maracas. Doctor Robert was one of three songs issued in America six weeks prior to their official release in the UK. American and Canadian Beatles fans heard I m Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing, and Doctor Robert first on Capitol Records Yesterday And Today album, issued June 20, The rest of the world had to wait until the first week of August for them to appear on the Revolver LP. On U.S. album: Yesterday And Today - Capitol LP RINGO - Vertical Man Ringo - Lead vocals, drums, Mellotron, synthesizer strings, and percussion Ozzy Osbourne - Backing vocals Mark Hudson - Bass, electric guitar, piano, Mellotron, synthesizer

11 11 strings, string arrangement and backing vocals The Beatles - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill - The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John Started and completed with no additional overdubs to follow in a marathon 16-hour session, along with John s I m So Tired, on October 8, Like Dear Prudence before it, the song was about a Transcendental Meditation student who was with the Beatles in India earlier in the year. Lennon says he wrote the song about an American guy in Maharishi s meditation camp who took a short break to go shoot a few poor tigers and then came back to commune with God. The basic track was completed in three takes. Yoko Ono sings a line (solo: Not when he looked so fierce and with John:

12 12 If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him ) and becomes the first female to sing a lead vocal line on a Beatles recording. The last words spoken, which segue into George s brilliant While My Guitar Gently Weeps, are John (presumably) saying Oh yeah and the tape piece was placed backwards on purpose (backwards masking) so it sounds like he says Ale or Eh Oh. The Beatles - Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! - Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John Recorded February 17, The lyric of Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! was derived almost entirely from a vintage poster purchased by John Lennon at an antique store in Sevenoaks, Kent, on January 31, 1967, while the Beatles were there filming the promotional clip for Strawberry Fields Forever. The poster advertised the February 14, 1843 performance of Pablo Fanque s Circus Royal at Town-Meadows, Rochdale,

13 13 Lancashire, and was hung proudly on the living room wall of Lennon s Weybridge house. Paul: We pretty much took it down word for word and then just made up some little bits and pieces to glue it together. The backing track consisted of John on guide vocal, Paul on bass, Ringo on drums, George Harrison on tambourine, and George Martin on harmonium. Because the harmonium is powered by pumping feet, the producer was exhausted after the rehearsals and seven takes. Features Paul on lead guitar. QUIZ w/ DAD To WIN WRECKING CREW DVD Name 3 Beatles that contain the word FATHER somewhere in the lyrics? BREAK ER/ Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt SLH/ Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown

14 14 YB/My father was of the earth The Beatles - She s Leaving Home - Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocals: Paul and John Recorded March 17, 1967 in six takes. Written primarily by Paul with lyrical assistance from John, the song is based on a story appearing in the February 27, 1967, edition of the Daily Mail about seventeen-year-old runaway Melanie Coe. Paul begins the story about the girl leaving a note for her parents before slipping out of the house, John provides the parents anguished point of view. When Paul called George Martin to ask if he d create a string arrangement for the song he was told that Martin had already committed to a Cilla Black session and Paul would have to wait. Paul then contacted Mike Leander to score the song. Paul had met Leander at the October 11, 1965, Decca Studios session for Marianne Faithfull s cover of Yesterday. The score called for four violins, two violas, two cellos, a double-bass and a harp. The harp is played by Sheila Bromberg, who became the first woman to play on a Beatles recording. As was the case with Eleanor Rigby eleven months earlier, no Beatles played an instrument on She s Leaving Home. Martin made only slight adjustments to Leander s arrangement when it was recorded on March 17. An interesting side note Melanie was a dancer on the

15 15 Ready Steady Go! TV show and met the Fabs Oct when she won a mime contest and was awarded prizes by the Beatles! The Beatles - Yer Blues - The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John At John s request, Yer Blues was recorded in a small storage room next to the control room of Abbey Road s Studio Two. According to author Bruce Spizer, Lennon got the idea to record there when engineer Ken Scott jokingly complained to John about all the unconventional things the group was doing in the studio. Scott remarked, Bloody hell, the way you lot are carrying on you ll be wanting to record everything in the room next door! John thought it was a great idea and had the studio crew set up the band s amplifiers, microphones and instruments in the control room s tiny annex. Fourteen takes of the basic track were completed on August 13, On August 14, John recorded his lead vocal, Paul added his backing vocal line girl you know the reason why, and Ringo double-tracked his snare drum during the guitar solo. The vocal bleeding through in the final mix is John s guide vocal that was recorded on August 13, which he decided to leave as is. Ringo s count-in ( two, three ) was an edit piece recorded on August 20. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby - Revolver (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul The Beatles thirteenth single release for EMI s Parlophone label.

16 16 Essentially a Paul McCartney solo composition, he had some help with the song s storyline from John, George, Ringo and John s childhood friend Pete Shotton at Kenwood, John s estate in Weybridge. This marks the first time a finished Beatles recording had no Beatle playing an instrument. The backing track, a haunting George Martin score, featured a double string quartet (four violins, two violas and two cellos) and was finished in 14 takes on April 28, 1966 with John and Paul sitting in the control room. The title character had initially been called Daisy Hawkins, but later evolved into Eleanor Rigby. Paul says the name was based on Help! actress Eleanor Bron and the name of a local business, Rigby & Evans Ltd., Wine & Spirit Shippers. QUICK BREAK 3 songs containing then word of the day FATHER on this Father s Day Sunday Back to songs that make reference to possible DAD s now I know Magneto had children but not sure about Titanium Man!

17 17 Wings Magneto and Titanium Man Venus and Mars 75 Inspired by reading Marvel Comic Books while in Jamaica, Paul commissioned Stan Lee to draw the three villains; Magneto, Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo so that would be projected for the audience during live performances. The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko - Non-LP track (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John The Beatles twentieth single release for EMI, and third on the Apple Records label. The first Beatles single issued in stereo in the UK, it is also the very first stereo single issued by EMI. The Get Back single had been released in stereo in America by Capitol. Recorded on April 14, 1969, by just John and Paul, the song was completed that day. George was on vacation and Ringo was still filming the Peter Sellers comedy The Magic Christian. Producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, who had distanced themselves from the group because of the constant bickering amongst the group members, were back on board behind the recording console. The single was a complete surprise to Beatles fans. They had waited a long seven months for the group to follow- up Hey Jude with Get Back and now just over a month came another new Beatles record. The rhythm track was perfected in 11 takes (four complete) with Paul playing drums while John played acoustic guitar and sang the lead vocal. The duo was in good spirits during the day- long session. Prior to take four John said to drummer Paul Go a bit faster, Ringo! and Paul replied OK, George! Overdubs featured Paul on bass guitar, piano, backing vocal and maracas, and John on two lead guitar parts and percussive thumping on the back of an acoustic guitar. The song recounts the chaos surrounding John and Yoko s getting married. Lennon had encountered visa problems because of his November 1968 drug conviction which made his movement from one country to another very difficult. As an example, he was not allowed to enter the United States at this time so the couple s second Bed- In was staged in Montreal, about an hour north of the U.S. border in Canada. George Harrison Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) - All Things Must Pass 70 This was a tribute to the former owner of George s Henley-On-Thames estate. If you listen closely, you can hear George intoning, Oh, Sir Frankie Crisp, underneath the instrumental breaks between the verses. Married no children

18 BREAK The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocals: John, Paul, George, Ringo The Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven With The Beatles (Berry) Lead vocal: George Chuck Berry s rock and roll standard was released as a single in May 1956 on Chess Records. It peaking at #29. A staple of The Beatles live show from the earliest days, Beatles fans will be surprised to learn that John Lennon was the lead singer of the song in those very early club days. In 1961 George Harrison took over lead vocals. Roll Over Beethoven was the opening song at The Beatles first concert in America, February 11, 1964 in Washington D.C., and opens Capitol s The Beatles Second Album, released on April 10, On U.S. album: The Beatles Second Album - Capitol LP

19 19 Paul & Linda McCartney Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Ram 71 Released as a single in the United States, it reached #1 in the US in September 1971, making it the first McCartney solo #1 single. Paul also won a Grammy for Best Arrangement for this song. The Beatles - I Wanna Be Your Man With The Beatles (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Ringo When Ringo Starr rejected Little Child, the song John and Paul had written for him to sing on the band s second album, they created a similar song, but one that would be easier for Ringo to sing and more in his vocal range. I Wanna Be Your Man would be Ringo s vocal contribution to the With The Beatles LP, and was often performed at Beatles concerts. The day before the song was to be recorded John and Paul were walking along Charing Cross Road in London when passing in a taxi were Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Paul McCartney: They shouted from the taxi and we yelled, Hey, hey, give us a lift, give us a lift, and we bummed a lift off them. So there were the four of us sitting in a taxi and I think Mick said, Hey we re recording. Got any songs? And we said, Aaaah, yes, sure, we got one. How about Ringo s song? You could do it as a

20 20 single. John and Paul were invited to the Rolling Stones rehearsal to audition their new, but still unfinished song. There Lennon told them, If you guys really like the main part of the song, we ll finish it for you right now, and within minutes, they returned with the song finished on the spot. The Rolling Stones recorded the song and it became their first big British hit, peaking at number 12. The Beatles recorded their version of I Wanna Be Your Man the next day, September 11, The Hammond organ heard faintly in the mix is played by George Martin. On U.S. album: Meet The Beatles! - Capitol LP The Beatles - The Sheik Of Araby Decca Tapes, Jan. 1, 62 - from the stage musical Make it Snappy and the 1940 film Tin Pan Alley, but it was it was the Rock n roll version from Joe Brown that inspired the The Fab s to cover this one. Paul McCartney & Wings Picasso s Last Words (Drink to Me) Band on the Run 73 There is a great recount of the song s genesis from actor, Dustin Hoffman, who was filming Papillion with Steve McQueen in Jamaica, where Paul was visiting on vacation. Dustin challenged Paul if he could write a song based on anything. Paul took the challenge, when Dustin offered the last words that Picasso spoke (as referenced in a Time Magazine article). As Dustin later said in an interview, It s right under childbirth in the terms of great events of my life!

21 21 The Beatles Sun King - Abbey Road Recorded w/ Mean Mr. Mustard as one song on July 24 th Lennon in Playboy interview of 1980 That s a piece of garbage I had around. Many parts of Pink Floyd s Dark Side of the Moon sound very much inspired by that piece of garbage. Lennon 1.00 I ve dragged this out as long as I can running outta manly songs here Time for a quiz from my 87 year old FATHER on this FATHERS DAY. To WIN WRECKING CREW DVD Name 2 Beatles songs that contain the word "SUMMER" in the lyrics KLOS BREAK WINNER HERE PL/ In summer, meanwhile back WHEN 64/ Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight Have winner pick >

22 The Beatles - Penny Lane - Non-LP track (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul The Beatles fourteenth single release for EMI s Parlophone label. Following the disastrous 1966 world tour the individual Beatles took control of their hectic schedule. They were no longer in a rush to do anything. In September 1966, Brian Epstein informed EMI and Capitol that there would be no new Beatles album, and quite possibly no single, ready in time for the 1966 Christmas season. EMI quickly assembled a 16-track greatest hits album ( A Collection Of Beatles Oldies ). In the U.S., Capitol did not release a hits compilation and instead waited impatiently for a new single. The band reconvened in late November to begin work on their next LP. With no deadlines, they simply brought in new songs as they dreamt them up. 22

23 23 /JOEY ID Attached It s Joey s Birthday He s the only Badfinger left Ivey s Ron Griffiths BREAK Badfinger Sweet Tuesday Morning (Molland) Straight Up (Apple) Todd BREAK Paul McCartney Summer of 59 This B-side was added to the vinyl version of the Jenny Wren single. Paul plays: Hofner Bass, Martin J18 Acoustic Guitar, Epiphone Casino Electric Guitar.

24 24 BREAK Paul McCartney Summertime - Choba B CCCP 91 A recasting of the George Gershwin classic, it was not included on the initial pressings in Guys.. from Motors Blockheads, Mick Green Kooky band BREAK

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