Do you know these obscure gems?
Can you tell them apart?
122: George Harrison, ‘You Know What to Do’ b/w Buddy Holly, ‘You’re the One’
Beatles
128: The Isley Brothers/Beatles, ‘Twist and Shout’
Before The Beatles came The Isley Brothers. They’re the guys who really Twisted and Shouted.
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Mehldau plays The Beatles. What the heck does that have to do with paranormality??
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251: The Maysles Brothers, “The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit”
“We got a call one day from Granada television in England. They said The Beatles were arriving in two hours in New York at Idlewild Airport. Would we like to make a film of them? I put my hand over the phone and asked my brother ‘Who are The Beatles? Are they any good?'”
Continue reading...252: The Beatles, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
‘Strawberry Fields’ was born of Lennon’s genius. But it was engendered by the miraculous, unique, liberating status of The Beatles.
Continue reading...237: Wilbert Harrison, ‘Kansas City’
“C’mon, Wilbert, pick up them feet, you shiftless shuffler you! The lady’s a-waiting!”
“Hey, I ain’t sweating or fretting or agitating for no woman.”
229: The Beatles: ‘I’ve Just Seen a Face’ (“Rubber Soul”)
Just picture it – half a million children of the Woodstock generation on half a million little desert islands, each one clutching to his/her breast his own personal, worn, beloved copy of “Rubber Soul”.
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