Sunnday, February 10, 2008

GRAMMY NOMINATIONS: The Beatles' Grammy for ''A Hard Day's Night''

JORDY'S BEATLES THROUGH TIME SET — Jordy's a nine-year-old who's been into the Beatles since he was six ... and a fan of the Grateful Dead as long as he can remember! He's a Logan School student who stops by to talk Beatles and introduce his set, which highlights the evolution of the Beatles music over time: Archer flanked by Fables THE FABLES STOP BY — Joe, Pat, Greg, Clark and Robyn are playing Conor O'Neill's in Boulder on Valentine's night and stop by to share some originals along with the fab: AN AUDIO VALENTINE — with songs about love, suggested by Becky Talbert: TRAVELING WILBURYS SPARE PARTS & SERVICE:

Sunday, February 3, 2008

CLASSIC MYSTERY TOUR — a snappy opener celebrating last night's concert with the Boulder Phil:

MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN BEATLES: BEATLES ON FILM: FAB PETTY — A set of songs connecting Tom Petty to the Beatles, celebrating Tom's appearance at today's Super Bowl halftime:

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Click here! ANIMAL SONGS! — It's become a tradition to do this on the day of the Dumb Friends League's Pledges For Pets Telethon. Sit ... stay ... and watch from noon to 5PM today on Fox 31 (channel 13 on Comcast); 99.5 The Mountain's Mike Casey will co-host the 3PM hour and Archer will co-host the 4PM hour. Please tune in and pledge!

WHAT'S UP...

Dana Cain tells us about an event taking place in Denver on John Lennon's birthday, October 9th. The Imagine Peace Paint-In, which has received Yoko Ono's blessing, will gather all kinds of artists in Civic Center Park. Click here for a clip from the interview.

Jim Owen, who portrays John Lennon in Classical Mystery Tour, tells us what we can expect at this Saturday night's performance with the Boulder Philharmonic at Macky Auditorium. For a clip of the interview, click here. Listen to Mornings On The Mountain this week for a chance to snag free tickets.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

THE SINGLES OF '90 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1990 singles:

PAUL McCARTNEY: LIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY — Suggested by Peter Davidson, some live performances from Paul's various concerts and secret gigs from recent years. Thanks to Darin Toohey and A&E; Networks for digging up several of these cuts for us: ALTERNATE VERSIONS — Catching up on your requests for Beatles rarities: FULFILLING REQUESTS FOR NEWER STUFF:

Sunday, January 13, 2008

THE SINGLES OF '89 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1989 singles:

REDCOAT TAILS — Rock & roll dentist Dr. George Krieger joins us for a look at the bands that rode the Beatles' coat tails to the US charts in 1964: RUTLE COMPARISONS — Luke Wagener suggested a set comparing the Rutles' spoofs with the Beatles' originals: ALBUM PREVIEW: LIVERPOOL 8:  Ringo Starr gives us an exclusive look at Liverpool 8, which will be released Tuesday via CD, downloads and a USB wristband: OUR MOST-REQUESTED BEATLES TRACK IN 2007 COMES FROM THE LOVE ALBUM — 5,190 REQUESTS!

Sunday, January 6, 2008

THE SINGLES OF '88 — Interestingly, the three 1988 45s were George Harrison releases:

DEMO PARTY! — fulfilling a ton of requests for Beatles and solo-Beatles demos and unfinished recordings:

NEWER STUFF: ROCKABILLY ORIGINALS — Steve Hoyt requested these rockabilly tracks that the Beatles covered: SOME LOVE:

Sunday, December 30st, 2007

George Martin and the Beatles THE GEORGE MARTIN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL:

Producer Sir George Martin turns 82 this Thursday, and Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates with a three-hour retrospective of Martin's career from his first "production" — a self-recorded piano performance from 1943 — through his post-retirement work on the last Beatles album, LOVE.

If anyone ever deserved the nickname "fifth Beatle" it was Martin, who, as head of EMI's novelty label, Parlophone, signed the Beatles to their first record deal in 1962.

Sir George had more in common with the Beatles than most realized. He'd taught himself to play piano as a child and came from a working class background. His "proper" Londonian accent developed during officer training in the British Fleet Air Force, in which he rose to lieutenant in the mid-'40s.

Following his service stint, he studied classical orchestration and composing at Guildhall School of Music, then took a job coordinating orchestras and making arrangements for BBC radio in 1950. Later that year, he became the assistant to the head of Parlophone Records. He was named to the top job when his boss retired in 1955.

In addition to the Beatles, Martin has worked with artists as diverse as Peter Sellers, Judy Garland, Jeff Beck, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Gerry & The Pacemakers, America, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Peter Ustinov, Johnny Dankworth, Edwards-Hand, American Flyer, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cleo Laine, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Carly Simon, Stan Getz and Elton John.

He has an unmatched thirty UK number one songs to his credit.

Monday, December 24 - Tuesday, December 25, 2007

CHRISTMAS WITH THE BEATLES: It's 24-hours of commercial-free Beatles music ... a holiday tradition at 99.5 The Mountain!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

FAB HOLIDAY — Part 4

2007 IN OUR EARS — Some memorable moments from Breakfast With The Beatles over the past year: DOC KRIEGER UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLIDAYS — Dr. George Krieger shares some of his massive collection of Beatlish holiday records:

Sunday, December 16, 2007

FAB HOLIDAY — Part 3

THE MONO YESTERDAY ... AND TODAY LP — The mono & stereo versions Y&T; are Breakfast With The Beatles' the most-requested U.S. LPs, as each version is packed with unique mixes. The mono version features superior mixes of "Drive My Car," "Nowhere Man," "Yesterday," "Act Naturally," "If I Needed Someone," "We Can Work It Out," "What Goes On" and "Day Tripper." The mono version includes unique mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping," "Doctor Robert" and "And Your Bird Can Sing," which appeared on this US release two months before England got them on the British version of Revolver. RINGO SINGLES — Some of our most-requested Ringo A-sides ... plus "Liverpool 8," the first single from his forthcoming CD, Liverpool 8: HATS OFF TO LARRY — Five Larry Williams covers, requested by Randall Scott of Arvada: THE FABLES STOP BY — Pat Casey, Joe Rotondo and Joe's daughters, Natalie & Victoria drop by: STILL NOT ON CD — Patrick Chance put together this set of tracks which remain unavailable on legit audio CD releases:

Sunday, December 9, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '86 & '87 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1986 & 1987 singles:

FAB HOLIDAY — PART 2 BEATLES FOR THE BIRDS — Amy Scheffner flies this set past us: REQUESTED NEWER STUFF: LENNON LIVES — Jake Tucker suggested this set of "Lennon anthems." We lost John 27 years ago yesterday.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '85 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1985 singles:

THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE — These highlights were picked out by Mountain listener Aimee Lyons; the tribute took place 5 years ago this past Thursday: A FAB HOLIDAY — PART 1 ALBUM ANNIVERSARIES — The US Magical Mystery Tour LP was released 40 years ago this past week and The Beatles — aka "The White Album" — was released 39 years ago. Here are highlights from the mono vinyl versions, as requested by Will Kempler: NEWER STUFF: The 3eatles THE 3EATLES STOP BY TO PLAY BEATLES' MOVIE THEMES — Jeff, Billy, Mike, Ryan & John will be at Sammy's in Evergreen this Friday night.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

BREAKFAST WITH A RUTLE — Three hours with singer-songwriter-pianist-comedian Neil Innes, co-founder of the Bonzo Dog Band and creator of the Rutles' music.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

THE MONO BRITISH RUBBER SOUL LP — Up until 1969, George Martin and the Beatles spent their time on mono mixes and relegated the stereo mixing to others, so the mono LPs represented the sound and mixes they were trying to achieve. The stereo version of Rubber Soul split the vocals and intrumentation into two stereo channels, leaving the song mixes quite weak, especially on radio.

IN MEMORY OF PAUL KAYE — Mountain listener Paul Bonnell II requested these two Beatles songs that were favorites of his father, who recently passed away. Paul Bonnell was a DJ who worked under the name Paul Kaye at KRAI in Craig. Coincidentally, Archer heard him years ago on KTIX in Pendleton, Oregon, where he worked under the name Captain Cook. Paul Bonnell was also known as "The Clock Watcher" on Armed Forces Radio in Turkey while serving in the U.S. Air Force. THE SINGLES OF '83 & '84 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1983 and 1984 singles: THE R&B; ORIGINALS — Stacy Kraft put together this set of original versions of some of the R&B; songs the Beatles and solo have covered: PAUL McCARTNEY TAKES US ON A DVD TOUR OF THE McCARTNEY YEARS:

Sunday, November 11, 2007

HELP! IS ON THE WAY — A special DVD tour of the Beatles second film with Monty Python's Michael Palin, produced for EMI by Kevin Howlett:

ROCKIN' OUT MS — Firefall Acoustic's CD release party this Friday night at the Soiled Dove Underground is a benefit for the National MS Society and CASE for MS. Organizer Linda Storey, who will perform with her daughter Jessica, joins us for a preview. Click here for tickets to Rockin' Out MS: THE SINGLES OF '82 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1982 singles: CONTEMPORARY ART ICON PETER MAX JOINS US — He'll be at the AFNA gallery at 2721 East 3rd in Denver on Saturday the 17th from 6 to 9 PM and Sunday the 18th from noon to 3 PM. If you bring a copy of The Art Of Peter Max, he'll autograph it for you at these events. Click here to enter to win a personally-autographed Peter Max poster. NEW STUFF — catching up on a bevy requests for recent releases:

Sunday, November 4, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '80 AND '81 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1980 and 1981 singles:

HOT MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN CUTS — We're receiving massive amounts of request's for Firefall Acoustic's Colorado To Liverpool album and Les Fradkin's new Guitar Revolution CD. Here are the most-requested cuts from each:

PAUL McCARTNEY'S BIG MEDLEY:

MOVIE TUNES — Ariel Kraemer of Denver put together these soundtrack songs from the Beatles' movies: PAUL SINGS FATS — The brainchild of Mountain listener Kerry Thompson, this set collects Paul's Fats Domino covers, including a new version of "I Want To Walk You Home" from the all-star Fats tribute CD, Goin' Home, which benefits the Tipitina's Foundation in New Orleans. JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO LIVE! — Rick Gillespie assembled this "fantasy concert" from specific solo live performances:

Sunday, October 28, 2007

HELP! MUSIC — Issued to selected radio stations, this 7-song CD of the Help! soundtrack songs marks the release of the digitally-remasterd DVD of the movie on November 6th (delayed from October 30th). Listen to Mornings On The Mountain from 5 to 9 AM this week for information on how to snag the Help! DVD, which bears a 5.1 soundtrack, plus a copy of the promo-only CD!

RINGO STARR LIVE AT SOUNDSTAGE — an album tour of Ringo & The Roundheads' live release, with a little help from Ringo himself. The recording for PBS's Soundstage took place in 2005 at Waukeegan, Illinois' Genesee Theater. After a few delays, the CD was released this past Tuesday. THE SINGLES OF '79 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1979 singles: DR. KEVIN FITZGERALD STOPS BY TO PLAY HIS FAVORITE BEATLES TUNES — Kevin, one of Animal Planet's Emergency Vets and a former security guy for the Rolling Stones, appears tonight at Comedy works. LIVE LENNON — Arturo Tanaka put together this collection of live performances by John:

Sunday, October 21, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '78 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1978 singles:

MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN BEATLES: ALBUM TOUR: ABBEY ROAD — Clips from Paul, George, George Martin and Alan Parsons take us behind the scenes of the Beatles' last LP: THE BEATLES DO LITTLE RICHARD — courtesy of Allen Walker of Littleton.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

SINGLES OF '77 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1977 singles:

BEATLES COVERS AT THE MOVIES — Dr. George Krieger, rock/pop writer and perhaps the world's premier collector of Beatles covers, stops by for a listen to Lennon/Mccartney and Harrison songs that have appeared in motion pictures over the past 43 years. NEW & FUTURE RELEASES:

Sunday, October 7, 2007

The Imagine Peace Light Tower in Iceland THE JOHN LENNON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Updated and remastered for HD Radio quality; plus a report from Yoko Ono on the Imagine Peace Tower being dedicated this coming Tuesday in Iceland.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

LES FRADKIN STOPS IN FOR THE WORLD RADIO DEBUT OF GUITAR REVOLUTION — Les walks us through the instrumental follow-up to Pepper Front To Back. the new CD mixes Beatles and solo-Beatles material and incorporates a new guitar synthesis breakthrough, the Ztar.

THE SINGLES OF '76 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1976 singles: GENESIS SALUTES THE BEATLES! Mountain listener Carl A. Jameson came up with this set in anticipation of Genesis' appearance at the Pepsi Center this coming Saturday. Thanks to Dr. George Krieger for digging up "Revolution" from the out-of-print Rude Awakening soundtrack. NEWER STUFF — catching up on requests for recent and new releases: JOCK BARTLEY AND STEVEN WEINMEISTER OF FIREFALL ACOUSTIC CALL IN — the Firefall Acoustic Trio will perform and hold a CD release party for COLORADO TO LIVERPOOL this Thursday night at Nissi's in Lafayette!

Sunday, September 23, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '75 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1975 singles:

DR. GEORGE KRIEGER JOINS US FOR AN ALBUM TOUR OF THE ACROSS THE UNIVERSE SOUNDTRACK: THE BEATLES' LOVE SONGS — In 1977, Capitol Records compiled this rather exquisitely-packaged two-LP set. The original pressing came with a textured leather-like cover bearing a goldleaf Love Songs logo and a full-sized booklet containing all the lyrics. Care was also taken to remix most of the cuts, although "Yes It Is," "This Boy" and "P.S. I Love You" are in fake stereo.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

MORE MONOMANIA! — Fulfilling more requests for the rarer, unique mono mixes of Beatles songs:

RECENT RELEASES — Catching up on listener requests for recent releases: THE BEATLES LIVE IN MELBOURNE, JUNE 15, 1964: THE SINGLES OF '74 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1974 singles:

Sunday, September 9, 2007

photo by Bill Bernstein AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PAUL McCARTNEY'S GUITARIST RUSTY ANDERSON — CU Boulder prof Darin Toohey is a childhhod friend of Rusty's and snagged this interview for Breakfast With The Beatles after a hometown gig on Rusty's tour. Rusty talks about his solo music and his work with Paul — and reveals that there are more live Macca performances on the horizon!  Included songs:

JUST CAN'T LET IT BE — Due to endless requests, we go deep into the archives for a collection of performances from the Get Back/Let It Be recordings: THE SINGLES OF '73 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1973 singles:

Sunday, September 2, 2007

RINGO STARR HOSTS AN ALBUM TOUR OF PHOTOGRAPH: THE VERY BEST OF RINGO STARR — The first career-spanning Ringo Starr collection was released this past Tuesday and marked the return of Ringo to Capitol Records. The collection is available as an audio CD and a collectors set which adds a DVD.

NEW & RECENT HOMEGROWN RELEASES: A DOLL'S HOUSE — A collection of rough mixes and alternate versions of tracks from the "White Album." SINGLES OF '72 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1972 singles:

Sunday, August 26, 2007






THE BEATLES INVADE COLORADO — This special edition of Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates the band's August 26th, 1964 visit to Colorado with archival audio, reminiscences from the people involved and music from the original 1963 and 1964 American vinyl pressings.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL — Breakfast With The Beatles debuted on August 18th, 2002.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Les Fradkin LES FRADKIN STOPS BY — Les stops by to debut his 12th solo album, 12. He'll be appearing at the Blue Note Lounge in the 1770 Sherman Street Event Complex this coming Saturday. Ticket info is at LesFradkin.com.

ALBUM TOUR: ROCK & ROLL MUSIC — With comments from Paul & George, we tour a pristine vinyl copy of this 1977 compilation. A majority of the mixes are unique to this double LP, which remains unreleased on CD: SINGLES OF '71 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1971 singles:

Sunday, August 5, 2007

BEATLES IN JEOPARDY! — With thanks to King World Productions, Jeopardy! answers are followed by the song in question:

SINGLES OF '70 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1970 singles: HOMEGROWN HARRISON — We've had several requests for a set of George Harrison songs performed by Mountain Homegrown artists: ALL-BEATLES — Chris Lopez came up with this set of Beatles songs with titles that start with the word "all:" FROM MEMORY ALMOST FULL: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH — A look back at the first rock superstar benefit concert, recorded during afternoon and evening performances at New York's Madison Square Garden, August 1st, 1971.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

SINGLES OF '69 — The original vinyl versions of selected A & B sides of the 1969 singles:

Mike McCartney PAUL'S BRO — This set was assembled by Rebekah Levin of Parker. In addition to his photography, Mike McGear (aka Mike McCartney) is well-known in England for his long stint with the comedy-rock group the Scaffold and two early '70s solo albums. LOVE TRACKS — catching up on requests for tracks from LOVE: ERIC & THE BEATLES — Saul Allard put together this set of Beatles & solo-Beatles cuts with Eric Clapton sitting in: SUN SONGS — John Kelso requested this set: NEW STUFF:

Sunday, July 22, 2007

SONGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON — from suggestions by Kiri Walsh and Bob Reynolds:

MONOMANIA — from requests, a dozen original mono mixes that outshine their stereo counterparts: NEW & RECENT RELEASES — from your requests EXTREME RARITIES — catching up on requests for some of the rarest of the rare:

Sunday, July 15, 2007

NEW STUFF — catching up on requests for recent releases:

SOUNDTRACK SONGS — Beatles and solo-Beatle songs that have enhanced the soundtracks to nearly two dozen movies and shorts.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

THE STROLLING SCONES STOP BY — The Strolling Scones have come strolling over the mountains for a solid week of appearances on the Front Range. As the story goes ... while on tour in the late '60s, this British invasion band's microbus plunged off an icy road in the Rockies and submerged into a lake, freezing the band. Exploratory drillers discovered the frozen band 35 years later. They were rushed to the Prestone Cryogenic Labs in Boulder, where they were thawed out so they could resume their tour. T. Malcolm Oxford, Screamin' Mimi Manchester, Yardley London and Chelsea Morning stop by the Mountain Cabin to perform a semi-acoustic set:

THE RINGO STARR BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Ringo turned 67 yesterday.

Sunday, July 1, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '68 — Our singles series continues with the original vinyl versions of the A & B sides of the 1968 45s:

TRACKS FROM INSTANT KARMA: SAVE DARFUR: IT'S BEEN A HISTORIC BEATLE WEEK: ''Colorado To Liverpool'' WORLD PREMIERE: COLORADO TO LIVERPOOL — A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES BY FIREFALL ACOUSTIC — Jock Bartley and Steven Weinmeister of Firefall drop by as we play 8 of the 11 cuts on the forthcoming Firefall Acoustic album. You can preorder the CD through Firefall.com. Catch the full band Tuesday night at 7:30 at Hudson Gardens for Firefall and Fireworks. ALL-AMERICAN BEATLES — As this is the Independence Day weekend ... or one of them ... here are John, Paul, George & Ringo covering songs from the USA, as suggested by Tanker Whitman of Boulder.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

MONO '67 — Following the Sgt. Pepper special on June 3rd, over 400 listeners requested that Breakfast With The Beatles play the entire mono version of the LP — so we're doing that and throwing in the mono U.S. Magical Mystery Tour LP, too. These two LPs contain all the Beatles' 1967 releases.

TOP REQUESTS FROM INSTANT KARMA: THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO SAVE DARFUR: HIGHLIGHTS from THE TRAVELING WILBURYS COLLECTION CD & DVD set:

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Click here! The Fables stop by to discuss the Fables & Friends Fab Fest, benefiting the Arbor Day Foundation, this Friday night at the Blue Note Lounge in the 1770 Sherman St. Event Complex, and share some McCartney tunes:

THE PAUL McCARTNEY BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — HIS EVER PRESENT PAST: Special thanks to Paul Freundlich, Jill Weindorf, Jorie Gracen, Geoff Baker, Capitol, Apple, Concord Music Group, MPL Communications, Broadway Video, Sony Entertainment, Bill Bernstein, Rusty Anderson, Laurence Juber, Elizabeth Freund, Pat Clarke, Warner Home Video, Gracie Films, Rocky Allen, the BBC, King World Productions, ABC Television and, of course, Sir Paul.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

THE ROCKABILLY SESSION — Highlights from Carl Perkins' 1985 celebration with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Dave Edmunds, Lee Rocker, Roseanne Cash, Earl Slick, son Greg Perkins and others. Several listeners have pointed out that the 2006 Blue Suede Shoes CD version is poorly mixed, so we've taken the audio from an analog sampler album released to radio stations in 1986:

''Colorado To Liverpool'' NEW, RECENT, AND FORTHCOMING RELEASES — plus, Jorie Gracen of MaccaReport.com joins us for a Paul McCartney update. Click here for an MP3 of Archer with Jorie Gracen. THE 3EATLES STOP BY TO PERFORM A FEW SONGS — they'll be at Raven's July 7th, the Conifer Mountain Music Festival on August 4th and at the Big Chili Cookoff in Evergreen on September 9th: The ''Hollywood Bowl'' LP THE BEATLES AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL is the only non-compilation #1 Beatles album not to be issued on CD. It was the only authorized live Beatles album, released in 1977. It combines 1964 and 1965 performances, recorded on a crude 3-track machine. The Beatles' performances were somewhat impaired by the fact that they couldn't hear themselves. The "bowl" acoustics that projected their sound to the audience also amplified the screaming that came back to them, but the LP captures Beatlemania — the fab four and their over-excited audiences — in fairly decent stereo sound. The Ottawa Beatles Site has posted an online petition urging an official release of The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl on CD. Click here to sign the petition.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Click for Paul's notes on ''Memory Almost Full'' MOUNTAIN LISTENERS CHECK IN ON PAUL'S MEMORY ALMOST FULL — From the hundreds and hundreds of e-mails Breakfast received after last week's preview of Paul's new CD, here are our listeners' top five tracks from the album, with descriptions of each from Paul himself. The album comes out Tuesday:


Sgt. Pepper's 40th Anniversary
Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates the 40th anniversary of the release of Pepper with a little help from our friends:

Sunday, May 27, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '67 — the original vinyl mixes of the A & B sides of the US single releases in 1967:

JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE & RINGO AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN — music writer and "Rock & Roll Dentist" George Krieger joins us with some interesting facts regarding the solo Beatles performances at New York's most famous venue. the stereo U.K. ''A Hard Day's Night'' THE STEREO VERSION OF THE U.K. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT LP — among our most-requested stereo LPs as it remains unreleased on CD. This is from a pristine vinyl LP: RECENT HOMEGROWN COVERS — from requests: Click for Paul's notes on ''Memory Almost Full'' SPECIAL PREVIEW: PAUL McCARTNEY'S NEW ALBUM, MEMORY ALMOST FULL, WHICH WILL BE RELEASED ON JUNE 5TH:

Sunday, May 20, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '66 — the original vinyl mixes of the A & B sides of the US single releases in 1966:

THE RUTLES! - Mack Jervais put together a set from the prefab four: Ringo RINGO'S ROCK ROOTS — Stella Migliori of Lakewood came up with this set of Ringo singing early rock tunes: VERY SPECIAL GUESTS — a set of songs on which Beatles make guest appearances, courtesy of Leslie Hanover: SHORT CUTS — This set of very short songs was suggested by PepperHead. MORE MOUNTAINOUS REQUESTS FOR RECENT MATERIAL:

Sunday, May 13, 2007

THE SINGLES OF '65 — the original vinyl mixes of the A & B sides of the US single releases in 1965:

HOMEGROWN HARRISON — a collection of Mountain Homegrown artists' interpretations of George Harrison songs, from various suggestions: ''Hey Jude'' LP THE HEY JUDE LP — This American-contrived 1970 LP was made up of stereo versions of single A- & B-sides that had not yet been on Capitol albums. ("From Me To You," "A Hard Day's Night," "The Inner Light" and "I'm Down," however, were not included in the final version.) It was the first release to include stereo versions of "Rain," "Lady Madonna," "Revolution" and "Hey Jude" — and the first American release to bear true stereo versions of "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better." Updated stereo mixes of the last eight cuts turned up on Past Masters Volume 2, but the Mountain plays the original mixes from a super-clean version of Hey Jude which comes from a direct dub of the master made for a radio station. MORE MOUNTAINOUS REQUESTS FOR NEW AND RECENT MATERIAL: FOR MOTHERS' DAY — suggested by Paul Kraemer:

Sunday, May 6, 2007

BEATLE GEORGE — Jim Keller suggested this chronicle of George Harrison songs released by the Beatles:

Doc Krieger SONGS THE BEATLES GAVE AWAY ... BUT NOT THE EXPECTED VERSIONS — Dr. George Krieger, the rock & roll dentist, music article writer and premier Beatles cover collector, stops by to play some Lennon-McCartney songs that were not released by the Beatles during the life of the band: JOHN LENNON DIGITAL REMIXES — Bernie Gee put together this set of digital remixes of John Lennon songs "that differ from their original versions in sound clarity, length and/or mixing:" MOUNTAINOUS REQUEST ITEMS — wading through our hundreds of e-mail requests for new and recent material:

Sunday, April 29, 2007

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT — Once again, 99.5 The Mountain welcomes 1964 - The Tribute to Red Rocks for the 4th annual benefit for Colorado Public Television KBDI-12. This year's concert takes place Saturday, August 25th. Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Saturday, May 5th at 10 AM. Don't put it off - the last three shows sold out!

THE SINGLES OF '64 — a set of the original vinyl mixes of the U.S. singles which flooded the airwaves in 1964, suggested by Alisha Kroft.

PAUL IN THE 21ST CENTURY — thanks to Jason Patton for the idea: THE BEATLES LIVE IN MELBOURNE, 1964: OLD WAVE HIGHLIGHTS — Jerry Frink chose his favorite cuts from Ringo's critically-acclaimed but hard-to-find 1983 album, which prominently featured Joe Walsh and Gary Brooker: Paul McCartney at the Cavern in 1999. PAUL AT THE CAVERN CLUB, DECEMBER 14, 1999 — Paul accompanies himself on bass, David Gilmour and Mick Green are on guitars, Pete Wingfield's on keyboards, Ian Paice plays drums and Chris Hall is on accordion.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

PAUL McCARTNEY PREVIEW:

CHUCK BERRY RECORDINGS COVERED BY BEATLES OR SOLO BEATLES — Thanks to Milton Miers for this set idea: EARTH DAY — Amy Pelletier came up with this set for Earth Day '07: 12-INCH BEATLES — Barry Lever submitted this collection of versions issued on 12" vinyl singles & EPs: RECENT & FUTURE RELEASES:

Sunday, April 15, 2007

'CUZ TAXES ARE DUE TUESDAY — Here's a "Financial Matters" set submitted by William Karn:

99.5 THE MOUNTAIN WELCOMES SEAN LENNON TO THE BLUEBIRD THEATER THIS COMING SATURDAY. THE U.K. MONO WHITE ALBUM — The Beatles is our most-requested mono LP because of its rarity (it was only issued to radio in mono form in the U.S.) and because of the many differences from the stereo version:

Sunday, April 8, 2007

FUN WITH THE YELLOW SUBMARINE SOUNDTRACK:

RECENT MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN COVERS — recently-performed Beatles interpretations by Colorado musicians: THE BILLBOARD TOP FIVE SINGLES, APRIL 6, 1964:
  1. Can't Buy Me Love/Beatles
  2. Twist And Shout/Beatles
  3. She Loves You/Beatles
  4. I Want To Hold Your Hand/Beatles
  5. Please Please Me/Beatles
THE BEATLES COVER WOMEN — Wendy from Boulder put together these Beatles versions of songs that had been previously released by female singers: HOT POSSE STOPS BY — Corey Hesser, Rod Gerrard, Randy Kropp, Paul Thomas and Dave Webb perform some Beatles songs in the Mountain cabin. You can catch them regularly at the Hoffbrau Colorado at 88th and Wadsworth. Visit HotPosseBand.com for more information. FUN WITH THE HELP! SOUNDTRACK:

Sunday, April 1, 2007

APRIL FOOL!!!!!!!

"GIVE SOLO A CHANCE" — Aaron Venneman created this set of solo releases of songs that had been written for, but not released by, the Beatles: EDIBLE BEATLES — Nancy Kronin put together this tasty set: LES FRADKIN JOINS US FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF HIS NEW CD, PEPPER FRONT TO BACK — The album celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the 30th anniversary of the Broadway debut of Beatlemania! featuring Les as George Harrison. The long-awaited follow-up to Les' acclaimed instrumental project While My Guitar Only Plays, Pepper applies high-tech sound bending to the classic '60s guitar sounds, with Les playing every instrument on the album — from drums to horns and from strings to woodwinds — through his guitar! ''Pepper Front To Back'' R&B; SONGS THE BEATLES COVERED — from various suggestions:

Sunday, March 25, 2007

THE AMERICAN RARITIES ALBUM — Released in 1980, the Capitol version of Rarities featured some contrived cuts, versions previously not released on Capitol LPs and a handful of true rarities. Rarities has never been issued on CD.

The 3eatles THE 3EATLES STOP BY — Jeff, Billy, Mike, Ryan & John stop by to perform some early Beatles songs. The 3eatles will be appearing at the Little Bear in Evergreen Thursday night and at Raven's in Conifer on Saturday night. THE BEATLES' LOVE SONGS — In 1977, Capitol Records compiled this rather exquisitely-packaged two-LP set. The original pressing came with a textured leather-like cover bearing a goldleaf Love Songs logo and a full-sized booklet containing all the lyrics. Care was also taken to remix most of the cuts, although "Yes It Is," "This Boy" and "P.S. I Love You" are in fake stereo. ROCKIN' BEATLES — David Tell put together this set of his favorite Beatles rockers:

Sunday, March 18, 2007

RECENT, NEW & FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

The ''Oldies ... but Goldies'' LP THE MONO EDITION OF A COLLECTION OF BEATLES OLDIES ... BUT GOLDIES — This was the first U.K. greatest hits LP, released in time for Christmas 1966. As an enticement, the album contained "Bad Boy," which had not been released in England. The mono version of the album had many unique mixes, including "She Loves You," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Yesterday" and "From Me To You" with less sound-level compression, making them the cleanest, most dynamic versions ever available on British vinyl. PENNIMAN-PENNED — This set of Beatles covering Little Richard came from Jack Klein of Broomfield: GEORGE HARRISON LIVE — Highlights from George's 1991 Tokyo and Osaka concerts, chosen by Holly Cameron of Aurora:

Sunday, March 11, 2007

PREVIEW — three cuts from Ringo's forthcoming Soundstage CD, due out in early May:

U.S.-ONLY SINGLE SIDES — Greg Landis put together this set of single tracks that were unique to America: A BIT MORE BEATLES' LOVE: Lisa Lauren LISA LAUREN joins us for a listen to her CD of unique interpretations called Lisa Lauren Loves The Beatles: GEORGE HARRISON GUEST APPEARANCES — Roger Altman of Denver assembled these tracks on which George guested: PAUL FOR KAMPUCHEA — performances from Concerts For The People Of Kampuchea, the 1981 Music For UNICEF release which remains out of print:

Sunday, March 4, 2007

ANOTHER HEFTY HUNK O' LOVE

STARR TRACKS — Emily is 12 and considers herself Ringo's biggest fan. She put together six of her favorite cuts and Breakfast With The Beatles added a seventh from the forthcoming live CD, Soundstage: PAUL ON THE LAST RESORT - Paul's performance on the British TV show in November 1987: E.C. WAS HERE — With the Mountain welcoming Eric Clapton to the Pepsi Center this Wednesday, Gary Tymboli suggested this set of songs with a Beatle-Clapton connection: The Beatles in Cleveland LIVE BEATLES! — Dave Schwensen, author of the forthcoming book The Beatles In Cleveland, joins us for some live Beatles recordings and gives Mountain Listeners the chance to buy an autographed copy of the book before its April release date through BeatlesInCleveland.com.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

THE GEORGE HARRISON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Updated and remastered for HD Radio quality.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN COVERS — As Breakfast plays some of the Mountain's most-requested Beatles interpretations by local artists, Danny Colfax Mallon, whose George CD generates a lot of requests, stops by with a preview of his forthcoming project, John. You can catch Danny on Saturday evenings at Riley's at West Colfax & Garland.

BEATLES FOR CHARITY — Bill Rennert suggested this set of live performances from benefit concerts: THE LONG LOVE CUTS — the two longer tracks from the Audio DVD version of the Beatles' LOVE

Sunday, February 11, 2007

THE BEATLES INVADE AMERICA — A chronicle of the Beatles' first visit to the U.S. in February 1964:

Sunday, February 4, 2007

A HEAPIN HUNK O' BEATLES LOVE:

BEATLESOAP.COM — Guest Eric Howell portrays all four Beatles in a serialized radio dramatization of the Beatles' biography at BeatleSoap.com BEATLE GEORGE — Amanda Klein of Aurora put together this set of George Harrison Beatle songs: THE FABLES STOP BY — Joe Rotondo, Pat Casey, Bob Cannistraro and Greg Engel stop by to perform some Beatles songs. They'll be at BB's on Pearl in Denver on Saturday the 10th and at Conor O'Neill's in Boulder February 14th. By the way, the Fables are looking for a guitarist & keyboard player; contact them through this link. Linda, Sean, Dhani, Mike, Yoko, Julian IMMEDIATE FAMILY — Suzie Chester came up with this set of goodies from Beatle family members: PAUL PLAYS THE SUPER BOWL — Paul's stellar performance in Jacksonville in 2005:

Sunday, January 28, 2007

BEATLEY BY DESIGN — Alan Farmer and Michelle Sandbury came up these recordings in which the artists are trying to sound like the Beatles:

A LITTLE MORE LOVE: BEATLES COVERING BEATLES — Rock & roll dentist George "Doc" Krieger joins us for a listen to John, Paul, George & Ringo covering songs from their Beatles days, suggested by Marvin Kraemer and Buck Holt: Click here! ANIMAL SONGS — Commemorating the Dumb Friends League's annual Pledges For Pets Telethon today on Fox 31 (channel 13 on Comcast); Archer will co-host the 4-to-5-PM hour ... please tune in and pledge!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Beatles in 1967 MONO '67 — Kurt Renner made up this setlist of mono versions of the songs the Beatles recorded in 1967. Kurt says 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of what he thinks is the Beatles' most creative year:

INSTRUMENTALS ''Introducing The Beatles'' INTRODUCING THE BEATLES — The Beatles' first U.S. LP, on the Vee-Jay label, was ignored until Beatlemania broke out in late December 1963. Its track lineup was revamped by Vee-Jay in January of 1964, making the original July 1963 version a much-sought collectible. This is a pristine vinyl stereo version of the first edition of the LP: SUNNY SONGS - Reggie Walsh put together this solar set:

Sunday, January 14, 2007

The British ''Help!'' LP THE MONO BRITISH HELP! LP — Unlike the American mono "Help!" album, the British version had unique mono mixes of the soundtrack songs ... plus 7 other non-film Beatles songs:

DVD TRACKS — fulfilling requests for some goodies available only on DVD: FOREIGN ALTERNATES — Different versions of tracks from elsewhere on the globe. Mock-up cover for the ''Get Back'' LP THE GET BACK LP — This is first of several prototypes of Let It Be. This version made it to a handful of radio stations in late 1969.

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

George Martin and the Beatles THE GEORGE MARTIN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

6PM Sunday, December 24th, 2006 — 6PM Monday, December 25th, 2006

A COMMERCIAL-FREE CHRISTMAS WITH THE BEATLES:

24 hours of Beatles music from 6PM Christmas Eve to 6PM Christmas Day, including the updated and remastered Beatles Chronicles from 9AM to 6PM Christmas Day.

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

A Far Out Christmas with Archer & Valerie — 3 hours of vinyl holiday goodies — replaces Breakfast With The Beatles from 9AM - noon. Christmas With The Beatles begins at 6PM.

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Laurence Juber & Archer IN THE MOUNTAIN CABIN IN 2006 — songs performed on Breakfast With The Beatles and Mornings On The Mountain in the past year:

INTERVIEWS FROM 2006 — excerpts from some of the guest appearances on Breakfast With The Beatles in 2006:

Paul's photographer, BILL BERNSTEIN, checked in on the eve of the Each One Believing opening at the Walnut Steet Gallery in Ft. Collins this past September.

MICKY DOLENZ of Monkees fame joined us with some Beatles trivia from his Buzz Time Trivia Series gamebook, Micky Dolenz' Rock 'n Rollin' Trivia. The Mountain welcomed Who's Incognito with special guest JOEY MOLLAND of Badfinger to the Oriental Theater this past summer. Special guest MAY PANG was John & Yoko's assistant and lived with John during his 1ฝ-year separation from Yoko in the mid-70s. She has designed a line of Feng Shui jewelry which is available at MayPang.com. An interview with Paul's guitarist RUSTY ANDERSON was recorded at CU Boulder during a student Q&A; with Rusty & his band the afternoon before his Earth Day performance at the Boulder Theater. Beatles Chief Engineer GEOFF EMERICK's 2006 book was Here, There And Everywhere: My Life Recording The Music Of The Beatles and he joined Archer to share some insights into the Beatles sessions: 2006 Beatles releases BEATLES RELEASES IN 2006: A FAB HOLIDAY — Part 4 of 4:

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

A FAB HOLIDAY — Part 3 of 4:

MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN '06 — some recordings and performances by Colorado musicians from 2006: Archer flanked by some Strolling Scones BILL HARRY founded the legendary Mersey Beat music-scene paper in Liverpool in 1961. Issues of Mersey Beat became the historical documentation of the Beatles' rise to fame and even boasted John Lennon's writings. Bill later went on to become publisist for the Hollies, Kinks, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Kim Wilde, Suzi Quatro and many others. Reissues of Mersey Beat, along with photographic art prints and T-shirts, are now being made available through RockAndPopShop.com. As December 2006 marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of Mersey Beat and the Cavern Club turns 50 in January, Breakfast With The Beatles caught up with Bill Harry for some stories from the early Liverpool scene. 2006 RELEASES — a sampling of this year's releases from John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and sons: Archer and Rodd Rodriguez with the Lennon drawing Graphics artist Rodd Rodriguez of Apple 1 Art Studios stopped by on Friday, the anniversary of John's death. He adorned the Breakfast With The Beatles office with his chalk-on-blackboard drawing of John Lennon, which he drew 26 years ago yesterday as a way of dealing with the shock and grief of John's murder. Archer & Rodd are pictured with the heavy chalkboard, which will get a proper website premiere once we've found a way to safely mount it. 2006 RELEASES CONTINUED: HUMORIST JOEY GREEN: on his book, Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings, a collection of quotes from Groucho Marx and John Lennon. It features a foreword by Yoko Ono and an introduction from Arthur Marx.

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

A FAB HOLIDAY — Part 2 of 4:

The Beatles at the BBC ONLY ON THE BEEB — songs the Beatles recorded exclusively for the BBC: REMEMBERING JOHN & GEORGE — Anthony Pomes of the John Lennon Center for Music & Technology at Five Towns College in Long Island, NY joins us to kick off a tribute to John, who was murdered December 8th, 1980 and George, who died of cancer November 29th, 2001. Anthony and John Tabacco, who are members of Mostly Moptop, perform an acoustic version of "Cold Turkey" to kick off the segment. Mostly Moptop is headlining a John Lennon Tribute Ceremony & Concert at the college on Friday the 8th. PRE-LOVE MASH-UPS — Recordings from 1964 to 2006 that manipulate Beatles and solo-Beatles audio ... along with a couple cuts from LOVE: THE 3EATLES STOP BY — The 3eatles' electric lineup — Jeff Scarborough, Billy Byrd, Mike Hughes, Ryan Ebel and John Barry — stop by to perform. They'll be at the Little Bear in Evergreen Thursday night at 8:30.

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

A FAB HOLIDAY: PART 1 OF 4 — Les Fradkin joins us for the first of four segments on Beatles' holiday recordings. Les' new album, Spirit Of Christmas, includes jangly covers of George's "Ding Dong Ding Dong" and John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." Les Fradkin's ''Spirit Of Christmas''

THE MONO BRITISH RUBBER SOUL LP — Up until 1969, George Martin and the Beatles spent their time on mono mixes and relegated the stereo mixing to others, so the mono LPs more fully represented the sound and mixes they were trying to achieve. The stereo version of Rubber Soul split the vocals and intrumentation into two stereo channels, leaving the song mixes quite weak, especially on radio. In America, Capitol removed four songs which were later released on "Yesterday ... And Today" — and added two tracks from the British "Help!" LP. Amnesty International MUSIC WITH A MESSAGE — Milena Nichols, president of the Amnesty International chapter at Littleton High, joins us for a taste of Amnesty International's Music With A Message CD which compiles modern interpretations of John Lennon songs: WHAT'S NEW — a collection of newer releases for Beatles fans:

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

RARE MONO MIXES — We get a never-ending stream of requests for these alternately-mixed mono cuts, among many others:

The ''LOVE'' album ALBUM PREVIEW: LOVE — Ringo, Paul and the father-son production team of George & Giles Martin comment during a preview of the Beatles' LOVE album which is being released Tuesday in a CD/Audio DVD set. Jock Bartley & Steven Weinmeister ACOUSTIC FIREFALL — Jock Bartley and Steven Weinmeister stop by the Mountain Cabin to perform some Beatles songs. Jock will be signing Beatles Art this afternoon at 3:00 at the new Borders in Stapleton; at 4:00, he'll perform Firefall & Beatles songs on the Borders coffee shop stage. (The store is at 8320 East 49th near Uinta.)

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

ALBUM TOUR: ROCK & ROLL MUSIC — With comments from Paul & George, we tour a pristine vinyl copy of this 1977 compilation. A majority of the mixes are unique to this double LP, which remains unreleased on CD:

THE FAB 4 — some tunes from Colorado's premiere Beatlistic band: MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN ARTISTS INFLUENCED BY THE BEATLES — A collection of Beatle-influenced homegrown music, including a live appearance from The Strolling Scones, who play the Little Bear in Evergreen this coming Tuesday and Wednesday. THE STROLLING SCONES — While on tour in late 1969, this British invasion band's microbus plunged off an icy road in the Rockies and submerged into a lake, freezing the band. Exploratory drillers discovered the frozen band 35 years later. They were rushed to the Prestone Cryogenic Labs in Boulder, where they were thawed out so they could resume their tour. T. Malcolm Oxford, Screamin' Mimi Manchester, Yardley London and Chelsea Morning stop by the Mountain Cabin to perform a semi-acoustic set: SOME MORE "LOVE" — The new Beatles album will be issued on November 21st. DHANI HARRISON'S BAND — A sample of thenewno2, led by Dhani Harrison and Oliver Hecks, with Scott Seiver on keyboards, Holland Greco on vocals, Josh Lopez on guitar and Jawnee Burkes on bass.

ฉ2002 Oops Publishing, Ltd. Sunday, November 5th, 2006

With this being the first Breakfast With The Beatles to land on Guy Fawkes Day...

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE:
NEW RELEASES:

''Butchering The Beatles: A Headbashing Tribute'' BUTCHERING THE BEATLES — Subtitled "A Headbashing Tribute," this album of heavy metal covers includes performances from Alice Cooper, Steve Vai, Billy Gibbons, Lemmy Kilmister, Yngwie Malsteem, Kip Winger, Jack Blades, John Bush, Ripper Owens, Billy Idol, Geoff Tate and other headbanger icons. Guitarist and album co-producer Bob Kulick joins us for a sampling:

PAUL'S THE SPACE WITHIN US DVD — The chronicle of Paul's US Tour will be released on Tuesday. Archer with Amber Gomez of Venus In Blue Jeans NEW MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN RELEASES — Les Fradkin, the original George from Beatlemania!, stops by with Amber Gomez. She and Tara Coker-Lewis are Venus In Blue Jeans and the Mountain presents the world radio premiere of the duo's version of "Across The Universe" from the album Like An Angel, available at download sites like iTunes. Plus, Les introduces us to "Norwegian Wood" by the Dirt Surfers. Both albums are on Les' Colorado-based RRO Entertainment label and available at all the popular download sites. MORE NEW AND RECENT RELEASES:

Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Underwritten in part by THE 3EATLES, who play the Little Bear tonight at 7.

Traveling Wilburys THE TRAVELING WILBURYS — George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne

BEATLES SINGLES SIDES — fulfilling some requests for Beatles' single cuts that differ from their LP counterparts: John in 1980 JOHN LENNON IN 1980 — a collection of audio from John's last year among us:

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

THE ANTHOLOGY EPs — Here are the two 4-track EPs and three DJ samplers issued to promote the Anthology series in the mid-'90s. Tracks marked (*) are versions unique to EP.

PAUL McCARTNEY B-SIDES - Paul's B-sides have often been the quality of A-sides and we've had numerous requests to play these non-album goodies:

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Yellow Submarine SUBMARINE TRACKS — selected tracks from "The Yellow Submarine Songtrack" and the film:

BEATLE BUDDIES — John Witherspoon came up with this set of Beatles turning up on their friends' releases: LET IT BE — a set of tracks from the "Get Back" sessions which evolved into the movie Let It Be. Although filmmaker Bob Smeaton told Breakfast With The Beatles in August of 2004 that a restored Let It Be would be issued on DVD, there is still no release date set. PLAYING PERKINS — a fab tribute to Carl Perkins, put together by Bryan White of Littleton:

John Lennon Sunday, October 8th, 2006

THE JOHN LENNON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL:

John would have been 66 tomorrow.

This Mountain-exclusive special presents a chronology of rare versions of John's Beatles and solo music along with interview clips.

Listen for some bonus material on the premiere of Breakfast With The Beatles - The Weekday Edition in the 7 o'clock hour of Mornings On The Mountain.

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

THE 1975 FANTASY BEATLES REUNION CONCERT — Jacob Hansen put together this example of what a 1975 Beatles reunion concert might have sounded like, using solo cuts from Live In New York City, Live Peace In Toronto 1969, Wings Over America and The Concert For Bangladesh.

THE BEATLES' HOTTEST HITS — This super-rare 1965 compilation LP was released only in Denmark. A collection of 1962-1965 non-album tracks, Hottest Hits is considered by many to be the highest-fidelity pressing of any vinyl Beatles compilation — the high frequencies and bass notes are remarkably clear — and Breakfast With The Beatles brings you a pristine mono copy, making this broadcast is a special treat for those with HD Radio. The cover art for Hottest Hits helps make it a valuable collectible, too — it bears a unique picture of the fab four dressed in winter garb. Click on the album cover to see a detailed view. New Releases NEW RELEASES — Paul McCartney comments on his new classical album, Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart), to kick off a segment on new releases. ALBUM TOUR: ABBEY ROAD

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

WOMEN SING THE BEATLES — from suggestions by Jodie Brandon of Glendale and Eric St. Michael of Morrison:

COME TOGETHER: THE ARTWORK OF JOHN LENNON, an exhibit of over 100 pieces, concludes today (11 AM - 6 PM) at the Number Nine Gallery at 9th and Pearl in Boulder. The exhibit's Rudy Siegel checks in with an update.

ALBUM PREVIEW: THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON: — The soundtrack CD comes out Tuesday and the film premieres at the Mayan Theatre in Denver on Friday.

DUETS — Suggested by Ray Sartorius of Littleton: ALBUM PREVIEW: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD: Gary Wright, Klaus Voorman and Jim Keltner recall working on the album, which comes out on a remastered CD and a deluxe CD/DVD set this Tuesday. Click here to read Kevin Howlett's article on the album.

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

AMERICAN MYSTERY TOUR — The mono U.S. version of Magical Mystery Tour has become one of our most-requested albums. Side one is comprised of the mono mixes from the British EP and side two collects A- and B-side mono single mixes. This version comes from a dub of the Capitol mono master provided to a West Coast radio station in 1967. SONGS THE BEATLES COVERED — Combining sets submitted by John Harlan, Cathy Levesque and Jim Barbera, here are the versions of songs that inspired the Beatles or solo Beatles to cover them: DEMO DERBY — Mountain listener Johnny Redmond came up with a set of Beatles' demo recordings for other artists:

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Gear! GEAR! THE SINGLES! Part 3 — Colorado's Rock & Roll Dentist, Dr. George Krieger, stops by with Beatles covers to expand Scott Johnson's Gear! concept to the original British singles. In our final installment:

Capitol Compact 33s CAPITOL COMPACT 33S — Capitol's first three Beatles albums made it to this promotional 7" 33-1/3 RPM vinyl format which featured three songs per side. As Compact 33s were designed for specially-equipped stereo Seeburg jukeboxes, audio compression and a less-discrete stereo mix were used to make the tracks appear louder in restaurants and bars. As a result, they sound better on radio, too. Also note that the portion of of the stereo version of "If I Fell" where Paul's voice cracks has been fixed.

MEET THE BEATLES Compact 33:

BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM Compact 33:

SOMETHING NEW Compact 33:

Bill Bernstein Paul's photographer, BILL BERNSTEIN, checks in on the eve of the Each One Believing opening at the Walnut Steet Gallery in Ft. Collins. During the exhibit, patrons will be able to order prints signed by Bill Bernstein and Paul McCartney. Bill will appear at the gallery Saturday from 11 AM to 2 PM. Click here for directions from Denver. THE BEATLES EP — This 1981 vinyl British EP, used as a bonus disc in the EP box, features four unique stereo mixes, including the first analog stereo version of "The Inner Light" and a version of "She's A Woman" with a count-in. The later CD version of the EP contained the Past Masters versions of all but "She's A Woman."

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

SOUNDTRACK SONGS — Three hours of Beatles and solo-Beatle songs that have enhanced the soundtracks to over 20 movies.

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

1964 - THE TRIBUTE — some opening tunes from the band that brought Beatles music to Red Rocks last night on the 42nd anniversary of the Beatles' appearance. Click here for photos.

THE STEREO YESTERDAY ... AND TODAY LP — The mono & stereo versions Y&T; are Breakfast With The Beatles' the most-requested U.S. LPs, as each version is packed with unique mixes. The stereo version features alternate mixes of tracks from the UK Help!, Rubber Soul and yet-to-be-released Revolver albums, plus the best stereo mixes of "We Can Work It Out" and "Day Tripper." "And Your Bird Can Sing," however, is in fake stereo. Gear! GEAR! THE SINGLES! Part 2 — Colorado's Rock & Roll Dentist, Dr. George Krieger, stops by with Beatles covers to expand Scott Johnson's Gear! concept to the British singles: YOU SAY YOU WANT SOME EVOLUTION — Over the past few years at least two dozen listeners have suggested playing earlier versions of Beatles songs followed by the finished release. Here are the first featured songs in the series:

Sunday, August 20, 2006 the Beatles at Red Rocks

THE BEATLES INVADE COLORADO — A three-hour special commemorating the Beatles' sole visit to Colorado in August of 1964, with archival audio and comments from archivist Mike Stelk, DJ Steve Scott with three Pueblo high schoolers who had press access to the Beatles, Brown Palace waiter Tom Baines, traveling journalist Larry Kane, 1964 - The Tribute member Mark Benson, Denver Folklore Center founder Harry Tuft, photographer Nicholas DeSciose, fan Linda Sue Shirkey plus Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr. The Mountain welcomes 1964 - The Tribute to Red Rocks this Saturday night.

Click here for the program tracklist.

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

SONGS ABOUT PAUL:

THE LONG JOHN SET — Long versions of John Lennon songs, requested by Alley Katz of Littleton: PAUL McCARTNEY ROCKS — This compilation CD was put together in 1990 by Capitol and MPL Communications especially for rock radio stations. The rock world seemed to be abandoning Paul because of his mega-pop-hit image of the eighties, so Paul thought a rock compilation would help promote his edgy Flowers In The Dirt album. The CD contains two cuts from Flowers In The Dirt, one track from the Russian album, seven single sides and the title cut from Band On The Run, all digitally remixed for this sampler. Paul McCartney Rocks was never released to the public. Beatles Art JOCK BARTLEY OF FIREFALL DROPS BY — A new book called Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork Of The Fab Four includes the artwork of Gear! illustrator Scott Johnson, as well as two entries and a foreword by Jock Bartley. JOHN & YOKO ON THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW — Highlights from the week in February 1972 that John & Yoko co-hosted the daily talk show. Mike Douglas passed away Friday ... on his 81st birthday.

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

BEATLES LIVE — three songs from a 1965 concert in Paris:

Gear! GEAR! THE SINGLES! Part 1 — Colorado's Rock & Roll Dentist, Dr. George Krieger, stops by to discuss his article on Beatles covers in the current edition of Goldmine and expands Scott Johnson's Gear! concept to the British singles! Click here. MICKY DOLENZ of Monkees fame joins us with some Beatles trivia from his new Buzz Time Trivia Series gamebook, Micky Dolenz' Rock 'n Rollin' Trivia. THE BEATLES' LOVE SONGS — In 1977, Capitol Records compiled this rather exquisitely-packaged two-LP set. The original pressing came with a textured leather-like cover bearing a goldleaf Love Songs logo and a full-sized booklet containing all the lyrics. Care was also taken to remix most of the cuts, although "Yes It Is," "This Boy" and "P.S. I Love You" are in fake stereo. May Pang & Cynthia Lennon SPECIAL GUEST MAY PANG — May was John & Yoko's assistant and lived with John during his 1ฝ-year separation from Yoko in the mid-70s. She has designed a line of Feng Shui jewelry which is available at MayPang.com

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

LIVE IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 1964:

the ''Revolver'' albumALBUM TOUR: REVOLVER — the BWTB Album Tour is an occassional series spotlighting a particular Beatles or solo Beatles album with alternate versions and interview clips. THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH — The anniversary will be marked this coming Tuesday in New York City as Olivia Harrison unveils a permanent plaque on Madison Square Garden's Walk Of Fame. Olivia and Badfinger's Joey Molland share their thoughts as we present highlights from the concert:

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

THE SWEDISH RADIO CONCERT — Because of the politeness of the audience, the Beatles' October 1963 performance for Sveriges Radio in Stockholm is considered one of their best live recordings. Five of the seven songs turned up on the Anthology 1 CD, but they were out of sequence and some dialogue was edited out. Here's the complete performance:

TOP 10 MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN COVERS — According to our latest e-mail tally, here are our 10 most-requested Mountain Homegrown Beatles covers, starting with Who's Incognito's version of "Handle With Care" at #10. Who's Incognito do four shows this coming weekend at Red & Jerry's, at 8:30 & 10:30 Friday (7/28) & Saturday (7/29). ''If Your Memory Serves You Well''
THE DYLAN CONNECTION — BWTB contantly gets requests for Beatle tracks that relate to — or include — Bob Dylan, so we've compiled those requests along with the radio debut of a track from If Your Memory Serves You Well, a new Dylan covers CD from former Beatlemania! star Les Fradkin.
  • Les Fradkin: on his new CD
  • This Wheel's On Fire/Les Fradkin
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues/Harry Nilsson & John
  • I Don't Want To Do It/George
  • If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then)/Ringo & Bob Dylan
  • Inside Out/Traveling Wilburys
  • Stuck Inside Of A Lexicon/John
  • If Not For You/Bob Dylan and George
SUPERPAUL — We've had dozens of requests to repeat Paul's 2005 halftime performance at the Super Bowl; thanks to MPL Communications.
  • Drive My Car
  • Get Back
  • Live & Let Die
  • Hey Jude
RINGO STARR & THE ROUNDHEADS — Highlights from Ringo's "Soundstage" concert at the Genessee Theater in Waukegan, Illinois; recorded June 24th, 2005.
  • Octopus' Garden
  • Choose Love
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • Photograph
  • Back Off Boogaloo
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Act Naturally
ROCKABILLY SESSION — Carl Perkins celebrated his 30 years in rock & roll in 1985 with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Lee Rocker, Roseanne Cash, Earl Slick, son Greg Perkins and others at a live "session" in England. These cuts come from a sampler album released to radio stations when the TV special was issued on video tape a year later.
  • Honey Don't
  • Matchbox
  • Mean Woman Blues
  • Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby
  • Glad All Over
  • Whole Lotta Shakin'
  • Gone Gone Gone
  • Blue Suede Shoes

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

raised photo on the ''Rarities'' cover
THE AMERICAN RARITIES ALBUM — Released in 1980, the Capitol version of Rarities featured some contrived cuts, versions previously not released on Capitol LPs and a handful of true rarities. Rarities has never been issued on CD. Thanks to Steve Kramer of Aurora for the suggestion.
  • Love Me Do (original UK single version with Ringo on drums, now on Past Masters Volume 1)
  • Misery (first stereo release on Capitol)
  • There's A Place (first stereo release on Capitol)
  • Sie Liebt Dich (stereo version)
  • And I Love Her (stereo version with longer ending from the German Something New LP)
  • Help! (mono single version with alternate vocals)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (UK stereo version)
  • I Am The Walrus (longer-intro European stereo version with extra-bar middle from US single edited in)
  • Penny Lane (European stereo version with U.S. DJ horn tag edited on)
  • Helter Skelter (mono mix from U.K. White Album)
  • Don't Pass Me By (mono mix from U.K. White Album)
  • The Inner Light (flip of "Lady Madonna," original mono mix)
  • Across The Universe (World Wildlife Fund version, now on Past Masters Volume 2)
  • You Know My Name (flip of "Let It Be," now on Past Masters Volume 2)
  • Inner Groove (this bit of lock-groove gibberish had been left off the American Sgt. Pepper LP)
ALTERNATES — Catching up on requests for alternate versions, mixes and edits:
  • Glass Onion
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • I'm Only Sleeping
  • Rocky Raccoon
  • It's All Too Much
  • Revolution
  • Hello Goodbye
  • Lady Madonna
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy)
  • This Boy
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Day Tripper
  • Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • And Your Bird Can Sing
  • Across The Universe
  • I'm Down
  • Help!
  • Dr. Robert
  • Get Back
  • I'll Cry Instead
  • Devil In Her Heart
  • Run For Your Life
Beatles In Jeopardy!
BEATLES IN JEOPARDY! — With thanks to King World Productions, here are some Jeopardy! answers followed by the song in question:
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Paperback Writer
  • Back In The USSR
  • She Loves You
  • Nowhere Man
  • A Hard Day's Night

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

THE RINGO STARR BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Ringo turned 66 on Friday and BWTB celebrates with a three-hour chronology of his music and audio clips. Click here for the tracklist.

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

ALL-AMERICAN BEATLES — Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates Independence Day a couple days early by bringing the Colonies and Crown together: American music done by Britain's most successful export. The Beatles loved American music, from country (Buck Owens) to rhythm & blues (Chuck Berry) to rockabilly (Carl Perkins) to rock (Gene Vincent) to pop (Elvis). It's exemplified by the amount of covers they did as a group and as individuals — too many to fit into three hours! Special thanks to Tanker Whitman of Boulder for the original suggestion.

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

The ''Red'' album THE U.S. VINYL "RED" ALBUM — The vinyl versions of The Beatles/1962-1966 differed between the UK and US; although the lineups were the same, it was decided the American version would contain U.S. mixes of several tracks. The CD version more resembles the UK version, is generally compiled from digital remixes and does not contain stereo versions of "Please Please Me" and "From Me To You." Also of note are the mono US versions of "I Feel Fine" and "Ticket To Ride," plus the less-reverberated U.S. stereo versions of "Yesterday," "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out." Several of the tracks have their stereo channels reversed, too.

WHEN LEGENDS MEET — Bob Reese of Denver came up with these performances in which solo Beatles collaborate with other legendary artists:
  • Lift Me Up/Jeff Lynne with George
  • Honey Don't/Carl Perkins and friends with Ringo
  • That Day Is Done/Paul with Elvis Costello
  • Yer Blues/John with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell
  • Homeward Bound/Paul Simon with George
  • Get It/Paul with Carl Perkins
  • Solid Gold/Keith Moon with Ringo
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night/John with Elton John
  • My Dark Hour/Steve Miller with Paul
  • Act Naturally/Buck Owens with Ringo
  • Cold Turkey/John with George, Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, Klaus Voorman and Keith Moon
  • What's That You're Doing (Twin Freaks version)/Paul with Stevie Wonder
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Carl Perkins and friends with George, Ringo and Eric Clapton
  • Don't Hang Up/Ringo with Chrissie Hynde
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy/John with Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Alan White
  • My Back Pages/Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and George
The new ''Beatlemaniacs!!!'' compilation BEATLEMANIACS!!! — This new novelty compilation includes 24 songs about the Beatles. Colorado's "Rock & Roll Dentist," Dr. George Krieger, wrote the review of the CD for Gold Mine Magazine and stops by the Mountain cabin to share what he feels are the five most-interesting cuts on the CD:
  • We Love You Beatles/Carefrees
  • Stamp Out The Beatles/Hi-Riders
  • Only Seventeen/Beattle-Ettes
  • I Dreamed I Was A Beatle/Murray Kellam
  • The Ballad Of Paul/Mystery Tour
    Plus, Doc Krieger brings in one of his favorite Beatles novelty songs which was not included on Beatlemaniacs!!!...
  • Ringo For President/Rolf Harris

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

PAUL McCARTNEY: WHEN I'M SIXTY FOUR — This year's Paul McCartney birthday chronology spans 44 years of his music — mostly rare versions — and exclusive or archival interview clips. Click here for the track list.

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

The ''Real Love'' EP BEST OF THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY — A collection of most-requested cuts from the Anthology albums, EPs and DVD set:

BEATLES OFFSPRING — Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates Father's Day a week early (next week, it's our annual Paul McCartney birthday special). Carl Jameson of Broomfield and Kristi Petrocelli of Denver came up with some songs to celebrate the Beatles & their kids:
  • Too Late For Goodbyes/Julian Lennon
  • Dear Prudence/Sean Ono Lennon
  • Dig It (excerpt)/Beatles with Paul's daughter Heather
  • Paul with Archer in '84: are his children musically inclined?
  • Heaven On A Sunday/Paul with James on lead guitar
  • Horse To The Water/George & Dhani with Jools Holland
  • Ringo: on Zak
  • Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go/Ringo's All-Starrs with Zak Starkey
  • Ya Ya/John with Julian on drums
Billy Preston BILLY PRESTON, 1946-2006 — A special retrospective of the singer-songwriter-keyboardist who was truly — if briefly — a fifth Beatle.
  • Billy: meeting the Beatles in '62
  • Eight Days A Week/Billy Preston
  • A Hard Day's Night/Billy Preston
  • Billy: being invited to the Beatles' sessions
  • Let It Be/Beatles
  • Hey Brother/Billy Preston
  • Get Back/Beatles with Billy Preston
  • Billy: getting credit on the "Get Back/Don't Let Me Down" single
  • Don't Let Me Down/Beatles with Billy Preston
  • That's The Way God Planned It (demo)/Billy Preston with the Beatles
  • For You Blue/Beatles
  • Billy: playing on the "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road" albums
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy) (alternate mix)/Beatles
  • She Belongs To Me/Billy Preston
  • Sing One For The Lord/Billy Preston
  • Outa-Space/Billy Preston
  • Billy: writing "Will It Go 'Round In Circles?"
  • Will It Go 'Round In Circles?/Billy Preston
  • I've Got A Feeling/Billy Preston
  • Space Race/Billy Preston
  • My Sweet Lord (single mix)/Billy Preston
  • Billy: writing "Nothing From Nothing"
  • Nothing From Nothing/Billy Preston
  • Isn't It A Pity/Eric Clapton & Billy Preston
  • All Things Must Pass/Billy Preston

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

LIVE PAUL — BWTB catches up on some requests for live performances from Paul McCartney:

BEATLE PEOPLE — Independently, listeners Gary Scott and Linda Kaiser came up with sets of Beatles songs about people, so Breakfast With The Beatles combined them:
  • Taxman
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Please Mr. Postman
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
  • Carol
  • Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
  • Lady Madonna
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • Dr. Robert
  • Lucille
  • Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
  • Julia
  • Lovely Rita
  • Michelle
  • Johnny B. Goode
  • Maggie May
  • In My Life
THE 3EATLES — Billy Byrd, Mike Hughes and Jeff Scarborough performed some Beatles songs at the recent Mountain Summit at the Warwick Hotel. Here are some highlights:
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl
  • Nowhere Man
  • You Can't Do That
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (Jeff on solo guitar)
RINGO SINGS ROCK ROOTS — as put together by Stella Migliori of Lakewood:
  • I Keep Forgettin'
  • You're Sixteen
  • Drift Away (with Tom Petty, Alanis Morissette & Steven Tyler)
  • Hey Baby
  • Only You
  • She's About A Mover
  • Don't Be Cruel
Joey Molland JOEY MOLLAND OF BADFINGER — The Mountain welcomes Who's Incognito with special guest Joey Molland this Saturday night to the Oriental Theater. The Who's Incognito lineup includes Larry Sims (Loggins & Messina, Chris Hillman Band, Sunshine Company, Spencer Davis Group), Tom Murray (Litter, Castaways), Don Coenen (Steppenwolf), Bob Harris (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Warren Zevon), Chris Lasegue (Jag Panzer) and Jon Romero (Amanceer).
  • Bill Winter on the National Guard Association of Colorado benefiting from a signed guitar auction
  • Joey Molland: on the passing of Badfinger's of Mike Gibbins
  • Baby Blue/Badfinger
  • Flying/Badfinger
  • Joey Molland: his This Way Up album
  • Happy/Joey Molland
  • No Matter What/Badfinger
  • Joey: on returning to Denver, working with Who's Incognito and the Gibson guitar giveaway
  • Here Comes The Sun/Who's Incognito
  • Suitcase/Badfinger
  • Come And Get It/Beatles (demo)

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

ฉApple Corps Ltd REMEMBERING GEORGE & JOHN — An assortment of songs and sound clips, plus BWTB's most requested George & John rarities:

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

THE VINYL SINGLES PART 2 — Choice sides from the Beatles' American and British vinyl 45s, in order of release. Continued from last week:

DR. KEVIN FITZGERALD STOPS BY: He'll be opening for Who's Incognito with special guest Joey Molland of Badfinger on June 10th at the Oriental Theater. Plus, here's a set of "Animal Songs From Each Beatle" put together by Carrie Lindstrom of Littleton:
  • Hey Bulldog
  • Blackbird
  • Octopus' Garden
  • Piggies

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

THE VINYL SINGLES PART 1 — Choice sides from the Beatles' American and British vinyl 45s, in order of release:

WHO'S INCOGNITO STOP BY — Larry Sims (Loggins & Messina, Chris Hillman Band, Sunshine Company, Spencer Davis Group), Tom Murray (Litter, Castaways), Don Coenen (Steppenwolf), Bob Harris (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Warren Zevon), Chris Lasegue (Jag Panzer) and Jon Romero (Amanceer) drop by the Mountain cabin to announce an autographed Gibson guitar giveaway in association with their appearance with Badfinger's Joey Molland at the Oriental Theater on June 10th. Who's Incognito's performance of "If I Needed Someone" kicks off a set of "Homegrown Harrison," submitted by Chris Gillette of Golden: BEATLES '71 — The first in a series that collects the post-Beatles output in a specific year. Based on suggestions by Gregory Abramov, Lance Chesney and Maria Pacquette:
  • Deep Blue/George
  • Gimme Some Truth/John
  • Cousin Brucie Morrow in 1971: don't ask for a Beatles reunion
  • It Don't Come Easy/Ringo
  • Power To The People/John
  • Paul McCartney in 1971: the Beatles breakup
  • Too Many People (DJ mono mix)/Paul & Linda
  • What Is Life (single mix)/George
  • Another Day (single mix)/Paul
  • How Do You Sleep?/John
  • John in 1971: the Beatles breakup
  • Bangladesh/George
  • God Save Us/Bill Elliot & Elastic Oz Band
  • Early 1970/Ringo
  • Paul in 1971: the Beatles' legal fights
  • Monkberry Moon Delight (DJ mono mix)/Paul & Linda
  • Imagine (single mix)/John Lennon

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

THE "REAL LOVE" MAXI CD SINGLE — Breakfast With The Beatles gets lots of requests for this 4-song CD, which features three cuts not included on the "Anthology" series:

Live At The BBCALBUM TOUR: LIVE AT THE BBC — From 1962 to 1965, the Beatles were featured performers in 52 BBC radio programs. In the BBC sessions, they performed 88 different songs — 36 of which were never issued until this 2-CD set was released in 1994. Breakfast With The Beatles brings you highlights from the compilation plus lots of bonus material*:
  • *BBC producer Peter Pilbeam: the Beatles' first radio appearance
  • *Dream Baby (excerpt)
  • From Us To You
  • I Got A Woman
  • Too Much Monkey Business
  • Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
  • I'll Be On My Way
  • *Pop Goes The Beatles producer Terry Henebery
  • *Pop Go The Beatles Theme
  • Young Blood
  • A Shot Of Rhythm & Blues
  • Sure To Fall
  • Some Other Guy
  • Thank You Girl
  • *Pop Goes The Beatles engineer Keith Bateson
  • Baby It's You
  • That's All Right Mama
  • Carol
  • *Soldier Of Love (long version)
  • *Terry Henebery: the Beatles were unruly
  • *George Harrison: Terry Henebery hated the Beatles
  • Clarabella
  • *Pop Chat with Bill Tate
  • Long Tall Sally
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • The Honeymoon Song
  • *Happy Birthday, Dear Saturday Club
  • *I'll Get You
  • *Brian Matthew: the popularity of Saturday Club
  • Johnny B. Goode
  • Memphis, Tennessee
  • *Saturday Club and Top Gear producer Bernie Andrews: socializing with the Beatles
  • *Bernie Andrews' mynah bird, circa 1964
  • Lucille
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • Till There Was You
  • *From Us To You presenter Alan Freeman: the recordings
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • All My Loving
  • Things We Said Today
  • *Bernie Andrews: the recording process
  • She's A Woman
  • Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
  • Nothin' Shakin'
  • I Just Don't Understand
  • *The Beatles on A Public Ear
  • I Feel Fine
  • I'm A Loser
  • *George Harrison: getting to the BBC in the early days
  • Ticket To Ride
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey!
  • Matchbox
  • *George Harrison: the songs they covered
  • I Forgot To Remember To Forget
  • I Got To Find My Baby
  • Ooh! My Soul
  • Honey Don't
  • Love Me Do
  • *A request from a detractor
  • *Chains
  • *I'll Follow The Sun

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

THE MONO BRITISH HELP! LP — We've had over 60 requests for this LP since the Capitol Albums Vol. 2 box was released. Unlike the American mono "Help!" album, the British version had unique mono mixes of the soundtrack songs, plus 7 other non-film cuts:

1964 - The Tribute at Red Rocks SPECIAL CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT: "1964 - The Tribute" will return to Red Rocks on August 26th, 2006 — the 42nd anniversary of the night the Beatles played there! The concert, which sells out each year, will once again benefit Public TV station KBDI-12. Archer will emcee. Members of the Mountain Community can buy tickets with a reduced service fee through a special pre-sale today through Friday, May 5th. To celebrate, here's a set called "Tribute '64," suggested by James Selland, which follows a performance by "1964 - The Tribute" with some songs from 1964 about the Beatles:
  • I Should Have Known Better/1964 - The Tribute
  • A Beatle I Want To Be/Sonny Curtis
  • Ringo, I Love You/Bonnie Jo Mason (aka Cher)
  • The Invasion/Buchanan & Greenfield
  • We Love You Beatles/Carefrees
NICKY HOPKINS — Nicky was the most in-demand keyboard session-player in rock history and played with dozens of artists ranging from the Rolling Stones to the Jerry Garcia Band. Dan Province of Arvada put together this set of Nicky playing with the Beatles and solo Beatles, proving why Nicky gets Dan's vote as a genuine fifth Beatle.
  • Revolution/Beatles with Nicky Hopkins
  • Crippled Inside/John with Nicky Hopkins
  • Sue Me, Sue You Blues/George with Nicky Hopkins
  • Photograph/Ringo with Nicky Hopkins
  • Edward (The Mad Shirt Grinder)/Nicky Hopkins with George
  • Old Dirt Road/John with Nicky Hopkins
  • That Day Is Done/Paul with Nicky Hopkins
The U.S. ''I'll Cry Instead'' 45 U.S.-ONLY SINGLES — The eight vinyl 45 A-sides that were unique to America, suggested by Diane Pastori of Denver:
  • Twist & Shout
  • I'll Cry Instead
  • And I Love Her
  • Slow Down
  • Eight Days A Week
  • Yesterday
  • Nowhere Man
  • Long And Winding Road (US DJ mono mix)
MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN BEATLES COVERS — With the word that Badfinger's Joey Molland will be appearing with Who's Incognito at the Oriental Theater on June 10th, we kick off a set of various homegrown covers with Who's Incognito's version of "Here Comes The Sun."
  • Here Comes The Sun/Who's Incognito (performing on Breakfast With The Beatles) — Who's Incognito with special guest Joey Molland of Badfinger play the Oriental Theater on June 10th.
  • Inner Light/Michael Krow
  • I'll Be Back/Acoustic Firefall (performing on Breakfast With The Beatles)
  • She Said She Said/Runaway Express' Scott Bennett, Ernie Martinez & Chris Stongle — Scott Bennett and the Rejuveniles appear at the Celtic Crossing in Castle Pines on June 3rd.
  • Let Me Roll It/Tim Dwyer (Big Woody, MindWalk) with his daughter, Kelly
  • Eight Days A Week/Tim Hanauer
  • Dear Prudence/Borscht Brothers
  • Something/Off The Rail Unplugged (performing on Breakfast With The Beatles) — Jeff Scarborough's new group, 3EATLES, appear at the Ranch Grill in Morrison on May 5th.
RARE WILBURYS — These rare Traveling Wilburys tracks were requested by Alan Jackson of Evergreen, Peter Taft of Boulder and Regina Quinn of Aurora:
  • Runaway (U.K. B-side)
  • New Blue Moon (instrumental B-side)
  • Maxine (demo)
  • Nobody's Child (charity single)
  • Handle With Care (12" version)

Sunday, April 23th, 2006

ALL-KNOWING BEATLES — Jim Schaeffer of Westminster came up with this set of titles which incorprate the word "know."

Rusty Anderson and band SPECIAL GUEST RUSTY ANDERSON — Recorded at CU Boulder during a student Q&A; with Rusty & his band the afternoon before Friday night's performance at the Boulder Theater.
  • Rusty: becoming Paul McCartney's lead guitarist
  • Lonely Road/Paul with Rusty (from Driving Rain)
  • Rusty: tour comradery
  • Helter Skelter/Paul with Rusty (at St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • Rusty: Paul playing on "Hurt Myself"
  • Hurt Myself (from Undressing Underwater)
  • Rusty: "Ishmael"
  • Ishmael (from Undressing Underwater)
  • Rusty: Stewart Copeland on "Catbox Beach"
  • Catbox Beach (from Undressing Underwater)
  • Rusty: the meaning behind "Electric Trains"
  • Electric Trains (from Undressing Underwater)
  • Rusty: creating "Everybody Deserves An A In This Country"
  • Everybody Deserves An A In This Country (from Undressing Underwater)
SOLO TREATMENTS — Alan Jefferson of Denver picked out unique covers of each solo Beatle:
  • Arrow Through Me/Laurence Juber
  • Back Off Boogaloo/Sandy Nelson
  • Piggies/Theodore Bikel
  • Imagine/David Peel with Les Fradkin
MORE RARITIES REQUESTS:
  • Penny Lane/Beatles (US DJ version)
  • Cage/Paul
  • You Can't Do That/Beatles (live in Melbourne)
  • Deep Blue/GeorgeGeorge's ''Deep Blue'' B-side
  • Badfinger Boogie/Beatles
  • I Am The Walrus (US single)
  • (Just Like) Starting Over/John (long version)
  • I'm Looking Through You/Beatles (basic version)
  • Caveman/Ringo
  • Help!/Beatles (acoustic mix)
  • B-Side To Seaside/Linda & Wings
  • I'm So Tired/Beatles ("distant guitar" version)
  • I'll Get You (BBC version)
  • I Call Your Name (unreleased stereo mix)
  • Waterspout/Paul
  • Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues/Beatles (original track)
  • We Can Work It Out/Beatles (alternate stereo mix)
  • Summer Of '59/Paul
  • Sexy Sadie/Beatles (long version)
  • Hottest Gong In Town/George

Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2006

George Harrison & Bob Dylan GEORGE & BOB — Kent Manning of Denver assembled this set of Harrison-Dylan collaborations:

ALBUM TOUR: THE "WHITE ALBUM" — An exclusive look at the double-disc The Beatles LP featuring vinyl versions of the tracks and comments from John, Paul, George and Ringo ... plus a bonus cut from the mixdown sessions.
  • Ringo: walking out of the sessions
  • Back In The USSR
  • Dear Prudence
  • George: the album could have been edited down to a single disc
  • Glass Onion
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  • Wild Honey Pie
  • The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
  • George: the inspiration for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Happiness Is A Warm Gun
  • Paul: the White Album sessions were the Beatles' most tense
  • Martha My Dear
  • I'm So Tired
  • Blackbird
  • John & Kenny Everett: "Cottonfields" and India
  • Piggies
  • Rocky Racoon
  • John & Kenny Everett: Ringo's song
  • Don't Pass Me By
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
  • I Will
  • Julia
  • Paul: recording "Birthday"
  • Birthday
  • Yer Blues
  • Mother Nature's Son
  • John & Kenny Everett: working on the album
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
  • John: ladies and gentlephones
  • Sexy Sadie
  • Paul: how the Who inspired "Helter Skelter"
  • Helter Skelter
  • Long, Long, Long
  • John & Kenny Everett: recording "Revolution 1"
  • Revolution 1
  • Honey Pie
  • Savoy Truffle
  • Paul: band intimacy
  • Cry Baby Cry
  • Revolution 9 (excerpt)
  • John: putting together "Revolution 9"
  • Good Night
  • Paul: why George was angry with him during the White Album sessions
  • Bonus track: Not Guilty
PROFESSOR DARIN TOOHEY on CU Boulder's Earth Day Weekend event this coming Friday in Boulder. Paul McCartney's lead guitarist, Rusty Anderson, will do a Q&A; with students at CU Boulder from 1 to 3 PM this Friday and headline a free Earth Day Concert at the Boulder Theater that evening at 6:30. Archer will emcee.

Rusty Anderson's ''Undressing Underwater'' COLLABORATING WITH PAUL — courtesy of John Kendricks of Littleton:

  • Hurt Myself/Rusty Anderson with Paul (from Undressing Underwater)
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/U2 with Paul (from Live 8)
  • Black Gypsy/Les Fradkin with Paul & Linda (B-side)
  • Have You Got Problems?/Mike McGear with Paul and Linda (from McGear)
  • Get It/Paul and Carl Perkins (from Tug Of War)
  • What's That You're Doing?/Paul with Stevie Wonder and Freelance Hellraiser (from Twin Freaks)
  • My Dark Hour/Steve Miller & Paul McCartney (from Brave New World)
BEATLES BY GEORGE — A set of "Harrisongs" from Aaron Sumner of Evergreen, starting with a reminder that taxes are due tomorrow:
  • Taxman (Anthology version)
  • Don't Bother Me
  • I Need You
  • The Inner Light

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

THE ROCKIN' ROOTS OF PAUL McCARTNEY — Over a dozen listners have suggested sets of Paul McCartney performing the songs he grew up with:

TEENAGERS' TURN — Zane Lalani discusses his book, A Teenager's Guide To The Beatles, as we play a set of requests from the new generation of Beatles fans:
  • Zane Lalani: the new generation of Beatles fans [MP3]
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (Maggie, 16)
  • Tell Me What You See (Nathaniel, 17)
  • Hey Bulldog (Kristi, 13; Jake, 15; James, 14)
  • For No One (Kevin, 15)
  • There's A Place (Jack, 17; Stephanie, 14)
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Gretchen, 16)
  • Got To Get You Into My Life (Pat, 12; Riley, 18)
UNDER THE COVERS WITH GEORGE "DOC" KRIEGER — The Rock & Roll Dentist stops by to share more of his massive cover-song collection. This time, it's covers of solo Beatle songs:
  • Instant Karma/Paul Weller
  • Wah Wah/Ocean Colour Scene
  • It Don't Come Easy/Smithereens
  • Beware Of Darkness/Concrete Blonde
  • Let 'Em In/Billy Paul
  • Try Some, Buy Some/David Bowie
  • I'm Losing You/Cheap Trick
  • Gimme Some Truth/Generation X
  • Oh My My/Maggie Bell
  • Cold Turkey/Godfathers
ENGLAND'S FULLER'S ALES JOINS THE BREAKFAST — Brewmaster John Keeling of London stops by as Fuller's Ale becomes an underwriter of Breakfast With The Beatles. Stay tuned for information on a trip for two to England, courtesy of Fuller's Ale and the Mountain.

ANOTHER PREVIEW OF THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 2 — The box, which comes out on Tuesday, contains stereo and mono versions of the US LPs The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! and Rubber Soul. See the news page about a defect in the initial pressing.Capitol Albums Vol. 2

  • Bruce Spizer: The Early Beatles
  • Love Me Do (mono/The Early Beatles)
  • Baby It's You (stereo/The Early Beatles)
  • Paul: American influence
  • Twist & Shout (mono/The Early Beatles)
  • You Like Me Too Much (mono/Beatles VI)
  • John, Paul, George & Ringo: the American albums
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (stereo/Beatles VI)
  • Eight Days A Week (mono/Beatles VI)
  • John, Paul, George & Ringo: promoting Help!
  • The Night Before (stereo/Help!)
  • Another Hard Day's Night/Ken Thorne (stereo/Help!)
  • Commercial: Help!
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (stereo/Help!)
  • You Won't See Me (mono/Rubber Soul)
  • Brian Wilson & Don Henley: Rubber Soul's influence
  • Norwegian Wood (mono/Rubber Soul)
  • Wait (stereo/Rubber Soul)
  • John Lennon: the American albums
  • George Martin: Rubber Soul
  • Think For Yourself (stereo/Rubber Soul)
  • I'm Looking Through You (mono/Rubber Soul)
  • It's Only Love (mono/Rubber Soul)

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

The ''Oldies ... but Goldies'' LP THE MONO EDITION OF A COLLECTION OF BEATLES OLDIES ... BUT GOLDIES — This was the first U.K. greatest hits LP, released in time for Christmas 1966. As an enticement, the album contained "Bad Boy," which had not been released in England. The mono version of the album had many unique mixes, including "She Loves You," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Yesterday" and "From Me To You" with less sound-level compression, making them the cleanest, most dynamic versions ever available on British vinyl.

PREVIEW OF THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 2 — The box, which comes out on April 11th, contains stereo and mono versions of the US LPs The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! and Rubber Soul.
  • What You're Doing (stereo/Beatles VI)
  • Help! (mono/Help!)
  • Kansas City (stereo/Beatles VI)
  • I've Just Seen A Face (mono/Rubber Soul)
  • Please Please Me (stereo/The Early Beatles)
  • I'm Looking Through You (stereo/Rubber Soul)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (mono/Beatles VI)
  • The Bitter End/Ken Thorne (stereo/Help!)
  • In My Life (mono/Rubber Soul)
  • Twist And Shout (stereo/The Early Beatles)
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl (mono/Help!)
  • The Word (stereo/Rubber Soul)
  • Every Little Thing (stereo/Beatles VI)
Geoff Emerick's ''Here, There & Everywhere'' book BEATLES CHIEF ENGINEER GEOFF EMERICK gave us a preview of his book Here, There And Everywhere: My Life Recording The Music Of The Beatles ... and he shared some insights into the Beatles recording sessions:
  • Geoff Emerick: hired by EMI at age 15; becoming chief engineer; getting the 4-track recorder moved into the control room for Revolver
  • Tomorrow Never Knows (mono mix)
  • Got To Get You Into My Life (mono mix)
  • Geoff Emerick: recording together; the single with too much bass; extreme use of the compression effect on "Paperback Writer"
  • Paperback Writer (single mix)
  • She Said She Said (mono mix)
  • Geoff Emerick: mono versus stereo mixes [MP3]
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono mix)
  • I'm So Tired (unused mono mix)
  • Geoff Emerick: walking out during the White Album; getting album cover credit on Abbey Road
  • Come Together (early take)
  • Geoff Emerick: the Beatles' personalities
  • Here Comes The Sun (unused mono mix)
THE FIRST EDITION OF MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR — The original U.S. stereo pressing of Mystery Tour contained duophonic versions of "Penny Lane," "Baby You're A Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love," plus stereo mixes of the other cuts that differ from those on today's CD version. This comes from a reel-to-reel dub of the U.S. master made for an L.A. radio station in October 1967.
    Side 1
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • The Fool On The Hill
  • Flying
  • Blue Jay Way
  • Your Mother Should Know
  • I Am The Walrus

    Side 2

  • Hello Goodbye
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Penny Lane
  • Baby You're A Rich Man
  • All You Need Is Love

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

IN MEMORY OF BUCK OWENS (1929-2006): Act Naturally/Buck Owens & Ringo Starr

''Hey Jude'' LP THE HEY JUDE LP — This American-contrived 1970 LP was made up of stereo versions of single A- & B-sides that had not yet been on Capitol albums. ("From Me To You," "A Hard Day's Night," "The Inner Light" and "I'm Down," however, were not included in the final version.) It was the first release to include stereo versions of "Rain," "Lady Madonna," "Revolution" and "Hey Jude" — and the first American release to bear true stereo versions of "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better." This super-clean version comes from a direct dub of the master made for an L.A. radio station.

JEFF LYNNE & THE BEATLES — Connor McLaughlin came up with this set of Jeff Lynne collaborating with ex-Beatles:
  • Handle With Care/Traveling Wilburys (12" version)
  • A Long Time Gone/ELO with George Harrison
  • After All These Years/Ringo with Jeff Lynne
  • The World Tonight/Paul with Jeff Lynne
  • George: on "When We Was Fab"
  • When We Was Fab/George with Jeff Lynne
  • Looking For You/Paul McCartney, Jeff Lynne & Ringo Starr
  • End Of The Line/Traveling Wilburys (12" version)
BEATLES' ROCK ROOTS — Jerry Santos of Littleton put together this set of some of the early rockers that the Beatles covered:
  • George: influences
  • Long Tall Sally/Little Richard
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy/Larry Williams
  • Matchbox/Carl Perkins
  • Twist And Shout/Isley Brothers
  • John: influences
  • Words Of Love/Buddy Holly
  • Money/Barrett Strong
  • Roll Over Beethoven/Chuck Berry
  • Mr. Moonlight/Dr. Feelgood & The Interns
UNUSUAL COMBOS — Linda Coleman of Denver picked out some songs with unusual songwriting co-credits:
  • In Spite Of All The Danger/Quarry Men (McCartney-Harrison)
  • Photograph/Ringo (Starkey-Harrison)
  • Really Love You/Paul (McCartney-Starkey)
  • Paul: on "Cry For A Shadow"
  • Cry For A Shadow/Beatles (Harrison-Lennon)
  • What Goes On/Beatles (Lennon-McCartney-Starkey)
  • Flying/Beatles (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey)
JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE & RINGO LIVE — Aaron Kraemer of Boulder asked BWTB to put together what he calls a "fantasy Beatles concert," using solo live performances:
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • I've Just Seen A Face
  • Taxman
  • Helter Skelter
  • Come Together
  • Two Of Us
  • Octopus' Garden
  • We Can Work It Out
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Twenty Flight Rock
  • Yer Blues

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

ASIAN PEPPER: Alternate mixes & edits exclusive to the Hong Kong/Asian version of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, which was censored to exclude three songs that Chinese officials thought refered to drugs: "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "A Day In the Life."

JOHN LENNON: THE ROCK 'N' ROLL SESSIONS — Outtakes, alternate versions and alternate mixes from the Phil Spector-John Lennon sessions for the Rock 'N' Roll LP:
  • To Know Her Is To Love Her
  • Peggy Sue
  • Move Over Ms. L
  • Bony Maronie
  • Ain't She Sweet
  • Angel Baby
  • Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
  • Ain't That A Shame
  • Do You Wanna Dance?
  • Be-Bop-A-Lula
  • You Can't Catch Me
  • Slippin' & Slidin'
  • Stand By Me
  • Be My Baby
  • Just Because
MOUNTAIN PERFORMANCES — Beatle songs performed live on 99.5 The Mountain, suggested by Mary Beech and Jim Kastner:
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party/Acoustic Firefall
  • Here Comes The Sun/Opie Gone Bad & Hazel Miller
  • Tell Me Why/Who's Incognito
  • Something/Off The Rail Unplugged
  • Jet/Laurence Juber
  • Come Together/Acoustic Firefall
  • Handle With Care/Who's Incognito
  • A Day In The Life/Jeff Scarborough
''Yesterday ... And Today'' with ''butcher cover'' THE MONO YESTERDAY ... AND TODAY LP — This is one of our most-requested U.S. LPs. The mono version features exclusive mixes of "Drive My Car," "I'm Only Sleeping," "Dr. Robert," "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "If I Needed Someone," plus the superior mono mixes of the remaining tracks. Capitol compiled the LP from the Help!, Rubber Soul and yet-to-be-released Revolver. This version comes from a freshly-opened Butcher Cover release which was transfered to a reel tape in 1966 and restored especially for today's broadcast.
    Side 1
  • Drive My Car
  • I'm Only Sleeping
  • Nowhere Man
  • Dr. Robert
  • Yesterday
  • Act Naturally

    Side 2

  • And Your Bird Can Sing
  • If I Needed Someone
  • We Can Work It Out
  • What Goes On
  • Day Tripper
THE THREETLES — Jared Light wanted to hear these Paul-George-Ringo performances from the Beatles Anthology project:
  • Baby What You Want Me To Do?
  • Free As A Bird (full version)
  • Raunchy
  • Thinking Of Linking
  • Real Love
  • Blue Moon Of Kentucky
  • Ain't She Sweet

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Ringo Starr RINGO & HIS ALL-STARR BAND — With Ringo announcing his 2006 lineup this week, we've received several requests for an All-Starr Band set featuring performances from his last eight tours:

THE APPLE STABLE — A review of some of the artists who released singles on the Beatles' Apple label, with a little help from the people who were there: Les Fradkin, Lon Van Eaton of Lon & Derrek, Billy Preston, Jackie Lomax, Joey Molland of Badfinger and Alan Parsons.
  • Revolution (single version)/Beatles
  • Archer: "First Four" Apple radio ad, 1968
  • Those Were The Days (single vesion)/Mary Hopkin
  • Les Fradkin: the solo single he worked on for Apple
  • Black Gypsy/Les Fradkin
  • Hey Jude (single version)/Beatles
  • God Save Us (mono DJ version)/Bill Elliot & the Elastic Oz Band
  • Jackie Lomax: recording for Apple
  • Sour Milk Sea (single version)/Jackie Lomax
  • Carolina In My Mind (single version)/James Taylor
  • Les Fradkin: introducing himself to Apple; "having a go" with Trash
  • Golden Slumbers (single)/Trash
  • Thingumybob (single)/John Foster & Sons Ltd Black Dyke Mills Band
  • Billy Preston: hooking up with the Beatles
  • Don't Let Me Down (UK single version)/Beatles with Billy Preston
  • That's The Way God Planned It (single version)/Billy Preston
  • Hari Krishna Mantra (single version)/Radha Krishna Temple of London
  • Daddy's A Millionaire (single)/Iveys
  • Joey Molland: joining Badfinger
  • No Matter What (mono DJ single)/Badfinger
  • Ain't That Cute (single version)/Doris Troy
  • Alan Parsons: Magic Alex's Apple studio scam
  • Get Back (UK single version)/Beatles with Billy Preston
  • Les Fradkin: playing on "Temma Harbour"
  • Temma Harbour (single version)/Mary Hopkin
  • Power Boogie (mono single version)/Elephant's Memory
  • Lon Van Eaton: Lon and Derrek being signed to Apple
  • Ringo Starr: commercial for Lon & Derrek's "Brother" LP
  • Sweet Music (US single version)/Lon & Derrek Van Eaton
  • Do The Oz (mono single version)/Elastic Oz Band with John & Yoko
  • For You Blue (mono DJ single)/Beatles
  • John & Ringo: commercial for "Goodnight Vienna"
  • Goodnight Vienna (single version)/Ringo Starr
The Beatles in Paris THE BEATLES LIVE IN PARIS — One of the cleanest live recordings of the fab four was taken directly from the public address system of the Sports Palace in June of 1965. Here are seven songs from that performance, courtesy of the tape's owner, collector Andre Oulette:
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • I'm A Loser
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Baby's In Black
  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
  • Ticket To Ride

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

MORE GEORGE HARRISON MEMORIES — Maggy in Aurora and Jim Carter of Denver had both submitted sets for George Harrison's birthday; we combine some of the elements of their sets that weren't used in the George Harrison Birthday Special for today's show:

Les Fradkin's ''Jangleholic'' LES FRADKIN: JANGLEHOLIC — Les introduces the title cut of his new CD, Jangleholic, which contains six originals and five super-jangly interpretations of songs like "You Were On My Mind" and "I Want You." THE 1977 ROCK & ROLL MUSIC COMPILATION — still not available on CD, this often-requested double LP comes from a pristine vinyl copy:
    Side 1
  • Twist & Shout
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • You Can't Do That
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • I Call Your Name
  • Boys
  • Long Tall Sally

    Side 2

  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Slow Down
  • Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!Rock & Roll Music
  • Money (That's What I Want)
  • Bad Boy
  • Matchbox
  • Roll Over Beethoven

    Side 3

  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Anytime At All
  • Drive My Car
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
  • The Night Before
  • I'm Down
  • Revolution

    Side 4

  • Back In The USSR
  • Helter Skelter
  • Taxman
  • Got To Get You Into My Life
  • Hey Bulldog
  • Birthday
  • Get Back
MARK R. ELSIS has created a network of websites dedicated to peace, peacemakers, solving world hunger and other philosophies that line up with John Lennon's:
  • Mark Elsis: watching the June 25th, 1967 telecast of "All You Need Is Love"
  • All You Need Is Love (worldwide telecast)
  • Mark Elsis: why he dedicated his life to Lennon's philosophies upon John's assassination
  • Instant Karma/John (long version)
  • Mark Elsis: his websites, the petition to establish a John Lennon Day, his forthcoming Strawberry Fields film.
  • Strawberry Fields Forever/Beatles (original version)

    Among Mark's websites:

Laurence Juber & ArcherLAURENCE JUBER IN THE MOUNTAIN CABIN — The former Wings guitarist joined us on the Mountain morning show on Friday. His latest solo acoustic guitar album, One Wing, is available through this link. KQMT replayed Laurence's breathtaking performance of "Little Wing" on Second Hand News; Breakfast With The Beatles replays the Beatles-related portion of his visit:
  • Cobalt Blue/Laurence Juber (live in the Mountain cabin)
  • Rockestra Theme/Wings
  • Jet/Laurence Juber (live in the Mountain cabin)
  • Coming Up/Wings (live version)

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

THE GEORGE HARRISON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — George would have turned 63 this past week, so Breakfast With The Beatles updates the annual chronicle of George's music and words. Click here for a tracklist.

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

NIGHT & DAY — Sherry Linegar came up with this set of Beatles and solo Beatles songs about night and day:

HIGHLIGHTS FROM JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE & RINGO — Choice tracks from each of your favorite solo-Beatle albums, as determined from e-mail requests:

• JOHN: Mind Games

  • Mind Games
  • Tight A$
  • Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)
  • Intuition
  • Out The Blue
  • Only People
  • John: empty carriage chant
  • Meat City
• PAUL: Band On The Run
  • Band On The Run
  • Helen Wheels
  • Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)
  • Paul: releasing "Jet" as a single
  • Jet
  • Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
• GEORGE: George Harrison
  • Love Comes To Everyone
  • Not Guilty
  • Here Comes The Moon
  • Soft-Hearted Hana
  • George: his love for Formula One auto racing
  • Faster
  • Blow Away
• RINGO: Goodnight Vienna
  • Goodnight Vienna
  • Oo-Wee
  • Snookeroo
  • No No Song
  • John & Ringo: commercial for Goodnight Vienna
  • Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)
BEATLES ODDITIES - From various e-mail requests, here's a set of some rare versions and odd mixes:
  • One After 909 (1963 version with the train-whistle-like guitar licks)
  • The Word (with John's lead vocal doubled)
  • Shout! (unedited "Around The Beatles" track)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (alternate edit/mix)
  • Leave My Kitten Alone (with false start and alternate guitar licks)
  • I'm Looking Through You (with false start and alternate guitar mix)
  • When I Get Home (alternate stereo mix)
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (long alternate mix)
  • I'm So Tired (with "distant guitar" and extra Paul harmony)
  • I'm Down (alternate stereo mix)
  • Savoy Truffle (alternate vocal and guitar mix)

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

BEATLES ON TV — To commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance last Tuesday plus Paul's appearance on the Grammy Awards last Wednesday, here's a set of some of their TV performances:

A Valentine to Fellow Beatles Fans A VALENTINE TO FELLOW BEATLE FANS — This huge set, submitted by Ron Lenz of Lakewood, is all about love.
  • The Word/Beatles
  • Love/John
  • Words Of Love/Beatles
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)/George
  • And I Love Her/Beatles
  • I'm In Love Again/Paul
  • Soldier Of Love/Beatles
  • All You Need Is Love/Beatles
  • Going Down On Love/John
  • To Know Her Is To Love Her/Beatles
  • Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin'/John
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/Beatles
  • Love Comes To Everyone/George
  • Really Love You/Paul
  • I Really Love You/George
  • Love You To/Beatles
  • My Love/Paul
  • Love Me Do/Beatles
  • Cookin' In The Kitchen Of Love/Ringo
  • Can't Buy Me Love/Beatles
  • Oh My Love/John
  • I Dig Love/George
  • She Loves You/Beatles
  • A Love For You/Paul
THE MONO MIX OF SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND — George Martin and the Beatles spent days and days mixing the mono version of "Sgt. Pepper," yet the stereo version was passed off to underlings. There are many subtle differences between the two, making the mono LP a sought-after item, but the album's sound was a bit muddy on vinyl. Breakfast With The Beatles brings you the mono version directly from a dub of Capitol's master tape, which was prepared for a Pacific Northwest radio station in 1967 — but never broadcast. It's the highest-fidelity version of the mono "Pepper" you may ever hear, and 99.5 The Mountain plays the album in its entirety.
    Side 1
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (less reverb on brass, prominent lead guitar during the link to the next song)
  • With A Little Help From My Friends (differently-mixed background vocals, more phasing effect on the lead vocal)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (extra background vocals and phase effects)
  • Getting Better (extra background vocals)
  • Fixing A Hole (different guitar tracks and a longer fadeout)
  • She's Leaving Home (different orchestral and vocal tracks)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (different effects and vocal mix)

    Side 2

  • Within You Without You (different orchestral portions and tabla tracks)
  • When I'm Sixty Four (different background vocals, tubular bell tracks and clarinet parts)
  • Lovely Rita (different vocal portions and echo effects)
  • Good Morning Good Morning (different sound effects, more phasing effects on the vocals and lead guitar)
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (diffrent sound effects and count-in, Paul's screaming ad lib is moved to the front of the mix)
  • A Day In The Life (different orchestral mixes and vocal echo effects)

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

''The Beatles DisCovered'' by Belmo BELMO'S NEW BEATLES BOOK: The Beatles DisCovered — Belmo joins Archer for a discussion of his new book, which features an in-depth examination of covers, parodies, send-ups and even a comprehensive list of songs that name-drop the Beatles, along with hundreds of pictures of 45 sleeves and album covers. Belmo's offering autographed copies for $10 off ($5 off the book and a waived $5 shipping fee, plus a bonus CD containing 23 unique Beatles cover/tribute songs) to Mountain listeners in the USA. Send $25 check or money order to:

Belmo
P.O. Box 17163
Ft. Mitchell, KY 41017
  • She Loves You/Peter Sellers
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/William Shatner
  • She Said She Said/Scott Bennett & Runaway Express (this is one of two Runaway Express tracks included on the Beatles DisCovered CD)
  • I'll Be Back/Curtis Selgado
THE GRAMMY GOES TO... — As we get ready for Paul's performance on the Grammy Awards this coming Wednesday, here's a set of some of the Beatles & solo songs that snagged Grammy Awards over the past 42 years, put together by Erin Staples of Boulder:
  • A Hard Day's Night/Beatles (Best Performance By A Vocal Group, 1964)
  • Eleanor Rigby/Beatles (Best Male Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, 1966)
  • Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends/Beatles (from the Album Of The Year, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
  • Let It Be/Beatles (from the Best Original Score, Let It Be, 1970)
  • Bangla Desh/George (from the Album Of The Year, The Concert For Bangla Desh, 1972)
  • Rockestra Theme/Wings (Best Instrumental Recording, 1979)
  • End Of The Line/Traveling Wilburys (from the Best Rock Vocal Album, Traveling Wilburys Volume One, 1989)
  • Free As A Bird/Beatles (Best Pop Performance, 1996)
  • Marwa Blues/George (Best Pop Instrumental, 2004)
  • Something/Paul & Eric Clapton (from the Best Long-Form Video/DVD, The Concert For George, 2005)
Paul McCartney in Jacksonville A YEAR AGO AT THE BIG GAME — Paul McCartney's Super Bowl set from last year in Jacksonville, courtesy of MPL Communications Ltd:
  • Drive My Car
  • Get Back
  • Live & Let Die
  • Hey Jude
THE BEATLES & MOTOWN — Although the Beatles covered only two Motown songs on record, they often acknowledged that they were highly influenced by the music coming out of Hitsville, USA — and in turn, some Motown artists found themselves being influenced by the Beatles. Thanks to Dutch Hosterman for the suggestion:
  • George: buying Motown records in the Cavern days
  • Money (That's What I Want)/Barrett Strong
  • We Can Work It Out/Stevie Wonder
  • Smokey Robinson: the Beatles covering "You Really Got A Hold On me"
  • You Really Got A Hold On Me/Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  • Eleanor Rigby/Four Tops
  • George: his tribute to Smokey Robinson
  • Pure Smokey/George
  • What's That You're Doing?/Stevie Wonder & Paul
MANIPULATING THE BEATLES — From an idea by Jeff Crone of Lakewood, a set of recordings which use actual audio from Beatles' songs:
  • Let's Do It (excerpt from the bootleg disco medley that used actual Beatles recordings — the boot inspired "Stars On 45")
  • The Invasion/Buchanan & Greenfield (the DJ copy contained actual clips from "She Loves You," but the label was forced to replace the yeah-yeah-yeahs with Beatles impersonators in its public release)
  • Free Now/Paul McCartney & Super Furry Animals (with a rhythm track created from the "Think For Yourself" vocal session)
  • The Beatles' Movie Medley (EMI's lame attempt to promote Reel Music with a Stars On 45-style medley)
  • Tomorrow Revolves/Mark Samansky
  • Maybe I'm Amazed/Paul McCartney & Freelance Hellraiser (from Twin Freaks)
LIVE BEATLES — A combinaton of live-recording sets suggested by Steve Rodgers of Denver and Chuck Williams of Boulder.
  • Some Other Guy (London)
  • You Can't Do That (Melbourne)
  • She's A Woman (Paris)
  • Long Tall Sally (Hollywood)
  • She Loves You (Stockholm)
  • I'm A Loser (Paris)
  • Till There Was You (London)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Hollywood)
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand (London)
  • A Hard Day's Night (Paris)
  • Roll Over Beethoven (Stockholm)
  • Baby's In Black (Hollywood)
  • Thank You Girl (London)
  • Twist & Shout (London)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

STUDIO REMAKES: Ellen Kramer of Littleton came up with this set of solo Beatles doing studio remakes of Beatles songs:

''Live Peace In Toronto 1969'' LP LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO 1969, SIDE 1: Jim Brooks requested side one of this live Plastic Ono Band album. Joining John & Yoko at this concert were Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Alan White.
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • Money (That's What I Want)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Yer Blues
  • Cold Turkey
  • Give Peace A Chance
RECENT COVERS: Click here! ANIMAL SONGS — Celebrating the Dumb Friends League's annual Pledges For Pets telethon today on UPN 20.
  • Living In A Pet Shop/Ringo
  • Rocky Racoon/Beatles
  • Leave My Kitten Alone/Beatles
  • Hound Dog/John
  • Scouse The Mouse/Ringo
  • Blackbird/Beatles
  • Ode To A Koala Bear/Paul
  • Piggies/Beatles
  • Hey Bulldog/Beatles
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland with George & Dhani
  • All You Horse Riders/Paul
  • Octopus' Garden/Beatles
  • Three Cool Cats/Beatles
  • Three Legs/Paul & Linda
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey/Beatles
  • The Frog Song (demo for "We All Stand Together")/Paul
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (long version)/Beatles
  • Bye Bye Blackbird/Ringo
  • Ram On/Paul & Linda
  • Too Much Monkey Business/Beatles
  • Single Pigeon/Paul
  • Dark Horse (demo)/George
  • Paul introduces "Wildlife"
  • Wildlife/Paul (remix)
  • I Am The Walrus (early version)/Beatles
  • Bluebird/Paul

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

THE U.K. MONO WHITE ALBUM — The Beatles is our most-requested mono LP because of its rarity (it was only issued to radio in mono form in the U.S.) and because of the many differences from the stereo version: The mono 'White Album'

OFF THE RAIL: Kristin Kay, Jeff Scarborough and Doug Klingbeil of Off The Rail stop by the Mountain Cabin for an acoustic session. They'll be appearing at Paco's in Idaho Springs February 4th and 5th.
  • Oh! Darling
  • Something
  • What Comes Around
  • A Day In The Life
the stereo U.K. ''A Hard Day's Night'' THE STEREO VERSION OF THE U.K. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT LP: This is now our most-requested stereo LP as it remains unreleased on CD:
    Side 1
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • I Should Have Known Better
  • If I Fell
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
  • And I Love Her
  • Tell Me Why
  • Can't Buy Me Love

    Side 2

  • Any Time At All
  • I'll Cry Instead
  • Things We Said Today
  • When I Get Home
  • You Can't Do That
  • I'll Be Back

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

B-SIDES — Josh Carter put together this set of Beatles & solo B-sides:

''Goin' Back''Love You 2'' LES FRADKIN — Joining us on his birthday, Les introduces us to his two new CDs, Love You 2 and Goin' Back:
  • Les on recording "You Know What To Do"
  • You Know What To Do (from Love You 2)
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (from Love You 2)
  • Les on his Goin' Back CD
  • When You Walk In The Room (from Goin' Back)
  • Les on recording "I Don't Want To Do It"
  • I Don't Want To Do It (from Goin' Back)
THE ORIGINALS — The Mountain's Jake Schroeder came up with this idea: the original versions of the Beatles songs that were covered on the Mountain Homegrown Vol. 4 CD — in the same order as they appear on the CD:
  • Eight Days A Week
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • Oh! Darling
  • I Am The Walrus
  • Getting Better
  • Get Back
  • You Won't See Me
  • In My Life
  • Octopus' Garden
  • Come Together
  • Dear Prudence
  • Let It Be
HUMORIST JOEY GREEN: on his book Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings. It's a collection of quotes from Groucho Marx and John Lennon; it features a foreword by Yoko Ono and an introduction from Arthur Marx.

ACOUSTIC BEATLES — This set was suggested by Mary Enid of Boulder:

  • Jenny Wren/Paul
  • Mean Mr. Mustard (demo)/Beatles
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Beatles
  • Girl/Beatles
  • And I Love Her/Beatles
  • Working Class Hero/John
  • Blackbird/Beatles
  • Norwegian Wood/Beatles
  • I Don't Care Any More/George
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/Beatles
FAVORITE HARRISONGS — This set compiles some of our most-requested solo recordings by George:
  • Any Road
  • Crackerbox Palace
  • Apple Scruffs
  • Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
  • Blow Away
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

THE GEORGE MARTIN 80th BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

BONUS SET: The Beatles live in Australia, 1964:
  • You Can't Do That
  • All My Loving
  • She Loves You
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • Twist & Shout

Saturday & Sunday, December 24 & 25, 2005

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

2005 IN REVIEW, PART 2 Mountain Homegrown Volume 4

CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE AGAIN, VOL. 3 — the second of a three-part series of holiday sets:
  • 1967 Beatles Fan Club message
  • Little Drummer Boy/Ringo
  • 1968 Beatles Fan Club message
  • Happy Christmas/John & Yoko with the Harlem Community Children's Choir
  • 1969 Beatles Fan Club message, side two
  • Christmastime Is Here Again (1995 radio promo mix)

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

The mono ''Beatles VI'' LP BEATLES VI IN MONO — Released in June 1965, this was an American concoction of six tracks from the U.K.'s Beatles For Sale album, three cuts from the yet-to-be released British Help! LP, the B-side of "Ticket To Ride" plus a Larry Williams cover, "Bad Boy," intended for the American market. Except for the Help! cuts, the mixes are unique to this LP, although "Bad Boy" later turned up in England on the mono version of A Collection Beatles Oldies.

2005 IN REVIEW, PART 1 — A retrospective of some of the 2005 releases, remixes, reissues and performances — to be continued next week:
    Performed on 99.5 The Mountain:
  • Come Together/Acoustic Firefall (from the Mountain Homegrown Relief radiothon)
  • A Day In The Life/Jeff Scarborough (from Breakfast With The Beatles at the Mountain Rock Art Show)
  • Tell Me Why/Who's Incognito (from the Mountain morning show)
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party/Acoustic Firefall (from Breakfast With The Beatles)
  • Here Comes The Sun/Opie Gone Bad with Hazel Miller (from the Mountain Homegrown Relief radiothon)

    John, Paul, George & Ringo:

  • I'm Losing You/John (from Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon)
  • English Tea/Paul (from Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/George & Eric Clapton (from The Concert For Bangladesh)
  • I'm The Greatest/Ringo (from PBS Television's Soundstage)
  • Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out (alternate version)/John (bonus track from Walls And Bridges)
  • Long Haired Lady (Reprise)/Paul & Freelance Hellraiser (from Twin Freaks)
  • Give Me Back The Beat/Ringo (from Choose Love)
  • John Sinclair/John (from Some Time In New York City)
  • Two Of Us/Paul (from the Paul McCartney In Red Square DVD)

    2005 Covers:

  • From Me To You/James Shepard (from From Me To You)
  • I've Got A Feeling/Whippin' Dogs
  • I'll Be Back/Shawn Colvin (bonus track from Polaroids)
  • Get Back/Zeut (from Mountain Homegrown Volume 4)
  • You Know My Name/Deafaids
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Les Fradkin (from While My Guitar Only Plays)
SUNSHINE — Amy Lorber put together this set of sunshine songs:
  • Good Day Sunshine/Beatles
  • Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away, Raymond)/Ringo with George
  • Back In The Sunshine Again/Paul
  • The Word/Beatles
CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE AGAIN, VOL. 2 — the second of a three-part series of holiday sets:
  • 1965 Beatles Fan Club message
  • Ding Dong, Ding Dong/George
  • 1966 Beatles Fan Club message
  • Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae/Paul
  • All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle/Doreen Bryan
  • Got To Get You Into My Life/Beatles (from the Revolver LP, the most-requested Christmas gift, according to Look magazine, at Christmas, 1966)

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

PAUL ENDS HIS NORTH AMERICA TOUR — Paul wrapped his "Us" tour in L.A. this past week and photographer Jorie Gracen of the Macca Report fills us in: [MP3]

SINGLE TRACKS FROM PAUL — Fulfilling many requests:

George Harrison & John Lennon REMEMBERING JOHN & GEORGE — As this week's Breakfast With The Beatles falls between the dates we lost George Harrison & John Lennon, here's a tribute set submitted by Harry Coons of Boulder:
  • Living In The Material World/George
  • Give Me Some Truth/John with George
  • When We Was Fab/George
  • Watching The Wheels/John
  • NYPD Detective James Sullivan: announcing John's death
  • All Those Years Ago/George
  • Hold On/John
  • Cry For A Shadow/Beatles
  • Paul: George's death
  • Never Without You/Ringo
COUNTRY & BLUEGRASS BEATLES: WALLS & BRIDGES — Highlights from the newly-remastered version of John's 1974 solo album:
  • Going Down On Love
  • excerpt from interview bonus track
  • Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
  • What You Got
  • Scared
  • excerpt from interview bonus track
  • Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
  • #9 Dream
  • Steel And Glass
CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE AGAIN, VOL. 1 — the first of a three-part series of holiday sets:
  • 1963 Beatles Fan Club message
  • Wonderful Christmastime/Paul
  • 1964 Beatles Fan Club message
  • The Christmas Dance/Ringo
  • I Feel Fine (US single)/Beatles — their hit at Christmas, 1964

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Jackie Lomax INTERVIEW WITH JACKIE LOMAX — Originally from one of Liverpool's most popular live acts, the Undertakers, Jackie was one of the first artists signed to the Beatles' Apple Records. Although he never gained the mega-fame of Apple labelmates like Badfinger and James Taylor, he's got a huge worldwide fan base and continues to create his unique blend of American R&B; and British rock from his adopted home in Southern California. His album, "Liverpool Slim," is available online from 7th Street Songs.

''The Early Beatles'' THE EARLY BEATLES — After Capitol defeated Vee Jay Records in court, they compiled this album from the two versions of Vee Jay's Introducing The Beatles, minus "I Saw Her Standing There," "Misery" and "There's A Place." Breakfast With The Beatles brings you a pristine stereo copy of the album containing the now-rare alternate mix of "Please Please Me."
    Side 1
  • Love Me Do (in fake stereo)
  • Twist & Shout
  • Anna (Go To Him)
  • Chains
  • Boys
  • Ask Me Why

    Side 2

  • Please Please Me
  • P.S. I Love You (in fake stereo)
  • Baby It's You
  • A Taste Of Honey
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Joey Molland INTERVIEW WITH JOEY MOLLAND — Badfinger was Apple Records' second-most successful group (next to the Beatles, of course) and Joey talks to Breakfast With The Beatles about that era. Joey has recently been working with the all-star IRS Band and will occassionally appear with Denver's Who's Incognito.
  • Joey: Pre-Badfinger work with the Merseys
  • Sorrow/The Merseys (single)
  • Joey: George Harrison refering to "Sorrow" in "It's All Too Much"
  • Daddy's A Millionaire/Iveys (single)
  • Joey: joining Badfinger [MP3]
  • Come & Get It/Badfinger (from Magic Christian Music)
  • Crimson Ship/Badfinger (from Magic Christian Music)
  • Joey: Pete Ham's songwriting
  • No Matter What/Badfinger (from No Dice)
  • Joey: no leader in the band
  • Midnight Caller/Badfinger (from No Dice)
  • Joey: George Harrison as producer
  • Day After Day/Badfinger (from Straight Up)
  • Money/Flying/Badfinger (from Straight Up)
  • Joey: changes to "Suitcase"
  • Suitcase/Badfinger (from Straight Up)
  • I'd Die, Babe/Badfinger (from Straight Up)
  • Joey: Sweet Tuesday Morning
  • Sweet Tuesday Morning/Badfinger (from Straight Up)
  • Joey: the Concert For Bangladesh
  • Mr. Tambourine Man/Bob Dylan (from The Concert For Bangladesh)
  • Here Comes The Sun/George Harrison & Badfinger (from The Concert For Bangladesh)
  • Joey: working with Todd Rundgren
  • Baby Blue (from Straight Up)
  • Perfection (from Straight Up)
  • Joey: becoming a musician in Liverpool [MP3]
  • Icicles (from Ass)
  • Apple Of My Eye (from Ass)

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Revolver THE MONO REVOLVER ALBUM — Responding to tons of requests, here's a pristine mono copy of the U.K. version of Revolver. In addition to being a stronger mix all-around, it boasts many alternate mixes: different backwards guitar effects in "I'm Only Sleeping," the "life of ease" phrase on "Yellow Submarine," extra drums at the end of "Good Day Sunshine," extra guitar licks in "Dr. Robert," alternate vocals during the end of "Got To Get You Into My Life" and the absence of feedback when the last verse begins in "Tomorrow Never Knows."

"PAUL IS ECHOING IN MY HEAD" — Maria Stark put together her favorite songs from among those that Paul performed at the Pepsi Center:
  • Magical Mystery Tour (live)
  • Flaming Pie (live)
  • Maybe I'm Amazed (live)
  • I've Got A Feeling (live)
  • Back In The USSR (live)
  • Get Back (live)
  • Helter Skelter (live)
FABEDELIC — This set of mindbenders was put together by Aaron Clark of Boulder:
  • I Am The Walrus/Beatles
  • Only A Northern Song/Beatles
  • Morse Moose & The Grey Goose/Paul
  • Glass Onion (Anthology version)/Beatles
  • Drilling A Home/George
  • Strawberry Fields Forever/Beatles
  • It's All Too Much/Beatles
Mountain Homegrown Volume 4 RECENT & NEW RELEASES:
  • Dear Prudence/Opie Gone Bad with John Common (from Mountain Homegrown Volume 4)
  • Love Minus Zero - No Limit/Bob Dylan with George, Ringo & Leon Russell (from The Concert For Bangladesh)
  • Friends To Go/Paul (from Chaos & Creation In The Back Yard)
  • Awaiting On You All/Les Fradkin (from Something For George)
  • I'm Losing You/John (from Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon)
  • Octopus' Garden/Railbenders (from Mountain Homegrown Volume 4)
  • Here Comes The Sun/George with Badfinger (from The Concert For Bangladesh)
  • Jet/Laurence Juber (from One Wing)
THE SWEDISH RADIO CONCERT — Because of the politeness of the audience, the Beatles' October 1963 performance for Sveriges Radio in Stockholm is considered one of their best live recordings. Five of the seven songs turned up on the Anthology 1 CD, but they were out of sequence and some dialogue was edited. Here's the complete performance:
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • From Me To You
  • Money (That's What I Want)
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • You've Really Got A Hold On Me
  • She Loves You
  • Twist & Shout

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

THE BEATLES INVADE COLORADO - encore presentation of the August 2004 special.

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

ฉ2005 Ken Murray THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS — Following the rebroadcast of the Mountain's exclusive Paul McCartney interview on Second Hand News, here's a retrospective of the Paul's visit to Denver this past week, including a set of some of the songs he performed at the Pepsi Center:

HARRISONGS — Les Fradkin's version of "This Is Love" from his new Something For George CD kicks off a set of George Harrison covers. Catch Les this coming Friday night at Nissi's in Lafayette:
  • Les Fradkin: recreating "This Is Love"
  • This Is Love/Les Fradkin
  • If I Needed Someone/Roger McGuinn
  • Piggies/Theordore Bikel
  • Love Comes To Everyone/Eric Clapton
  • I Me Mine/Marc Ford
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Keith Chagall
The 11/05 Lennon remasters THE LAST LENNON REMASTERS — The last two John Lennon solo albums to get digital remastering come out this month. Here's a preview:

  Out 11/22/05: SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY/John & Yoko:

  • Attica State
  • Cold Turkey (live with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Nicky Hopkins, etc.)
  • New York City
  • John Sinclair
  • Well (live with Frank Zappa & the Mothers)
  Out 11/8/05: WALLS & BRIDGES/John Lennon:
  • Yoko Ono: on Walls And Bridges
  • Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
  • Bless You
  • What You Got
  • Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
  • Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) (alternate version)
  • #9 Dream
Jake Schroeder & Wendy Woo SPECIAL GUEST JAKE SCHROEDER UNVEILS MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN VOL. 4 — The latest collection of Mountain Homegrown artists includes 12 unique interpretations of Beatles songs! Listen to 99.5 The Mountain for more previews and information about the Mountain Homegrown Vol. 4 CD release party ... and don't miss the Mountain Homegrown Show Monday nights at 10.
  1. Eight Days A Week/Tim Hanauer
  2. I'll Follow The Sun/Christopher Jak
  3. Oh! Darling/Melissa Ivey Band
  4. I Am The Walrus/Born In The Flood
  5. Getting Better/Wendy Woo And The Woo Crew
  6. Get Back/Zeut with Robert Eldridge
  7. You Won't See Me/Matthew Moon
  8. In My Life/Chris Daniels And The Kings
  9. Octopus's Garden/The Railbenders
  10. Come Together/Acoustic Firefall
  11. Dear Prudence/Opie Gone Bad with John Common
  12. Let It Be/Hazel Miller

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Paul McCartney YOUR FAVORITE PAUL McCARTNEY ALBUM CUTS — Compiled from over 8,000 individual e-mail requests that Breakfast With The Beatles has received since its debut in 2002, here are your favorite cuts from 32 of Paul's solo albums! 99.5 The Mountain welcomes Paul to the Pepsi Center Tuesday night.

Boo! TRICK OR TREAT! — Mountain Homegrown artists the Deafaids have put together a Halloween song called "Artificial Heart" that has at least NINE Beatles references in the lyrics. It kicks off a set of fab creepiness for Halloween!

(By the way, don't miss the Halloween edition of the Mountain morning show with special guest Elvira, tomorrow morning from 5 to 9 ... and A Far Out Halloween tomorrow night from 8 to 10!)

  • Artificial Heart/Deafaids (with references to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," Magic Alex's light box, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Bungalow Bill," "Real Love," "The End," "I Am The Walrus," "You Know My Name" and "With A Little Help From My Friends.")
  • Run Devil Run/Paul McCartney
  • I Want To Bite Your Hand/Gene "Dracula" Moss
  • Scared/John Lennon
  • Frankenstein Meets The Beatles/Jeckyll & Hyde
  • Devil's Radio/George Harrison
  • #9 Scream/Beatles (a sequence of screams from Beatles songs put together by Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works)

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

PAUL LIVE: a set put together by Jason Bradley, who can't wait to see Paul November 1st at the Pepsi Center:

Goldleaf logo from the orignal textured cover of the 'Love Songs' double LP. THE BEATLES' LOVE SONGS — In 1977, Capitol Records compiled this rather exquisitely-packaged two-LP set. The original pressing came with a textured leather-like cover bearing a goldleaf Love Songs logo and a full-sized booklet containing all the lyrics. Care was also taken to remix most of the cuts, although "Yes It Is," "This Boy" and "P.S. I Love You" are in fake stereo.

    Side 1

  • Yesterday
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • I Need You
  • Girl
  • In My Life
  • Words Of Love
  • Here, There & Everywhere

    Side 2

  • Something
  • And I Love Her
  • If I Fell
  • I'll Be Back
  • Tell Me What You See
  • Yes It Is

    Side 3

  • Michelle
  • It's Only Love
  • You're Going To Lose That Girl
  • Every Little Thing
  • For No One
  • She's Leaving Home

    Side 4

  • The Long & Winding Road
  • This Boy
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Will
  • P.S. I Love You
Les Fradkin HOMEGROWN BEATLE COVERS: Les Fradkin joins us to preview two cuts from his new George Harrison cover collection, Something For George, as part of a set of covers from Mountain Homegrown artists. Les will appear at Nissi's in Lafayette on Friday, November 11th, with a retrospective of his long and prolific career in pop music. PREVIEW: THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH — This landmark concert will be reissued on CD and DVD this Tuesday. The DVD version adds 72 minutes of bonus material to the 99-minute film.
  • Ringo Starr: on jamming with Dhani and some of the Concert For Bangladesh musicians at a preview party in Burbank last Wednesday night.
  • It Don't Come Easy/Ringo Starr
  • Here Comes The Sun/George with Badfinger
  • Olivia Harrison: on viewing the restored version of the film.
  • Just Like A Woman/Bob Dylan
  • Jumpin' Jack Flash/Youngblood/Leon Russell with Eric Clapton
  • Olivia: George's performance
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/George with Eric Clapton
  • That's The Way God Planned It/Billy Preston

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

NEW, RECENT & FUTURE RELEASES:

MORE RARITY REQUESTS — Breakfast With The Beatles catches up on some of our e-mail requests for Beatles rarities:
  • Savoy Truffle (alternate mix)
  • Memphis, Tennessee (Decca audition)
  • Every Little Thing (alternate mix)
  • Leave My Kitten Alone (with false start)
  • You Can't Do That (live in Melbourne)
  • All My Loving (with hi-hat intro)
  • Shout! (unedited)
  • And I Love Her (long stereo version)
  • I'm So Tired (alternate mix)
Magical Mystery Tour JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD: the famous poster artist stopped by the Mountain Cabin Friday before an appearance at Tower Records and discussed designing the Magical Mystery Tour cover.

TITLE TRACKS: Jim Kipling put together this set of Beatles' album title tracks:

  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
  • Please Please Me
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Help!
  • Let It Be
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Hey Jude
  • Rock And Roll Music
GARY MAYES OF POPCULTURETODAY.COM — a preview of PopCultureToday.com's first TV show which showcases Beatles memorabilia.

PAUL McCARTNEY ON THE LAST RESORT — By popular demand, the three songs Paul performed on the British TV series in 1987:

  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  • I Saw Her Standing There
GUEST APPEARANCES — as suggested by Lee Wilson of Aurora:
  • That Kind Of Woman/Gary Moore with George Harrison
  • One Day At A Time/Elton John with John Lennon
  • Have You Got Problems?/Mike McGear with Paul and Linda McCartney
  • Solid Gold/Keith Moon with Ringo Starr
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland with George & Dhani Harrison
  • Well/Frank Zappa and the Mothers with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
  • So Bad/Lindsay Pogano with Paul McCartney
  • Matchbox/Carl Perkins with Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton
Pop Hates The Beatles SEND-UPS — Marie Stottlemeir of Littleton assembled this set of "pokes at the Beatles:"
  • Give Booze A Chance/Bonzo Dog Band
  • A Beatle I Want To Be/Sonny Curtis
  • The Invasion/Buchanan & Greenfield
  • Magical Misery Tour/National Lampoon
  • Letter From The Beatles/Four Preps
  • Nevertheless/Rutles
  • Pop Hates The Beatles/Allan Sherman
  • Give Peace A Chance/Elton John

John Lennon Sunday, October 9th, 2005

THE JOHN LENNON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

John would have been 65 today.

This Mountain-exclusive special, produced by Archer, presents a chronology of rare versions of John's Beatles and solo music along with interview clips.

Interviewers include David Wiggs, Dennis Elsas, George Harrison, Archer, Mike Douglas, Dave Sholin, Bill Meeks, Lisa Robinson, Andy Peebles and Bradley Pratt.

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

A setlist from one of George's Japan concerts. GEORGE HARRISON LIVE IN JAPAN: George — with Eric Clapton, Steve Ferrone, Ray Cooper, Greg Phillinganes, Chuck Leavel, Nathan East, Andy Fairweather-Low, Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon — recorded in Tokyo and Osaka in 1991:

SHORT CUTS — a set of very short Beatles tracks, submitted by PepperHead:
  • Can You Take Me Back?
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
  • Wild Honey Pie
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Maggie May
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
  • The Walk
  • Pop Go The Beatles
  • Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove
  • Her Majesty
  • Side By Side (with Karl Denver)
Paul McCartney Rocks PAUL McCARTNEY ROCKS — This compilation CD was put together in 1990 by Capitol and MPL Communications especially for rock radio stations. The rock world seemed to be abandoning Paul because of his mega-pop-hit image of the eighties, so Paul thought a rock compilation would help promote his edgy Flowers In The Dirt album. The CD contains two cuts from Flowers In The Dirt, one track from the Russian album, seven single sides and the title cut from Band On The Run, all digitally remixed for this sampler. Paul McCartney Rocks was never released to the public.
  • Figure Of Eight (7" version)
  • We Got Married
  • Rough Ride
  • Band On The Run
  • Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (7" version)
  • Live And Let Die
  • Party Party
  • I Wanna Cry
  • Junior's Farm
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

LIVE FROM THE MOUNTAIN ROCK ART SHOW AT DENVER PAVILIONS:

photo ฉ Mike McGear MORE CHAOS — Paul McCartney introduces some more cuts from the Chaos & Creation In The Back Yard sessions, including the bonus track and the "Fine Line" single B-side:

JEFF SCARBOROUGH OF OFF THE RAIL STOPS BY FOR A LIVE PERFORMANCE ON SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR:
  • A Day In The Life
ANIMAL SONGS — A "Beatles fawna feature" put together by Jamie Schecter of Boulder:
  • Blackbird
  • I Am The Walrus
  • Rocky Raccoon
  • Leave My Kitten Alone
  • Octopus' Garden
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
  • Hey, Bulldog
SCOTT SEGELBAUM OF THE MOUNTAIN ROCK ART SHOW: Paul McCartney concert preview (he saw Paul in Philadelphia Thursday night); Ringo's artwork.

''Working Class Hero'' CD PREVIEW: WORKING CLASS HERO: THE DEFINITIVE LENNON — A 2-disc compilation of Lennon singles, album tracks and alternate takes will be released October 4th to commemorate what would have been John's 65th birthday on the 9th.

  • Watching The Wheels
  • Working Class Hero
  • Power To The People
  • I'm Losing You
  • Gimme Some Truth
LAURA EVELEIGH OF WALNUT STREET GALLERY, LTD.: Pieces in the Mountain Rock Art Show and their upcoming Grateful Dead event in Ft. Collins.

HOMEGROWN HARRISON — A set of George Harrison songs by local artists, beginning with a newly-recorded version of "If I Needed Someone" by Who's Incognito, who'll be performing a Hurricane Relief Concert at the Chili Pepper on the afternoon of Saturday, October 1st. Visit WhosIncognito.com for details.

THE BEATLES CARTOON SHOW AND YELLOW SUBMARINE ANIMATOR RON CAMPBELL KICKS OFF A SET OF "ANIMATION SONGS" — put together by Jerry Walsh of Denver:
  • Interview with Ron Campbell
  • And Your Bird Can Sing/Beatles (The Beatles cartoon show theme)
  • Tropic Island Hum/Paul McCartney & Marion Montgomery (Tropic Island Hum)
  • Yellow Submarine radio commercial
  • It's All Too Much (soundtrack version from Yellow Submarine)
  • Introducing The Beatles (segment theme from The Beatles cartoon show)
JOCK BARTLEY OF FIREFALL STOPS BY TO DISCUSS HIS ARTWORK:
  • Norwegian Wood/Jock Bartley
''Never Without You'' FELLOW BEATLES — a set of solo Beatles singing about other Beatles, assembled by Sharon Amos of Evergreen:
  • Stephanie Krauss from the Mountain Rock Art Show: the "Never Without You" photo
  • Never Without You/Ringo Starr
  • How Do You Sleep?/John Lennon
  • Here Today/Paul McCartney
  • All Those Years Ago/George Harrison
  • Early 1970/Ringo Starr

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

BEATLE RELIEF:

The stereo U.S. ''Rubber Soul'' LP THE STEREO AMERICAN RUBBER SOUL LP — The US LP was made up of 10 Rubber Soul cuts and two leftovers from the British Help! album. All cuts were alternate stereo mixes, including two false starts on "I'm Looking Through You," a doubled lead vocal on "The Word" and doubled Paul vocals on "Wait."
    Side 1
  • I've Just Seen A Face
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You Won't See Me
  • Think For Yourself
  • The Word
  • Michelle

    Side 2

  • It's Only Love
  • Girl
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • In My Life
  • Wait
  • Run For Your Life
PAUL'S ON TOUR — Some of the songs Paul performed at his tour opener in Miami on Friday night, along with clips of his concert preview from Friday's Mountain morning show:
  • Paul: putting together his "Us Tour" set list
  • Too Many People
  • In Spite Of All The Danger
  • Paul: picking Beatles' songs he hasn't performed live
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • I've Got A Feeling
  • Paul: other songs he wants to play
  • English Tea
  • Jenny Wren
BEATLE-INSPIRED: The stereo U.S. ''Yesterday ... And Today'' LP THE STEREO YESTERDAY ... AND TODAY LP — One of our most-requested U.S. LPs featured alternate mixes of tracks from the UK Help!, Rubber Soul and yet-to-be-released Revolver albums, plus the best stereo mixes of "We Can Work It Out" and "Day Tripper." "And Your Bird Can Sing," however, was in fake stereo.
    Side 1
  • Drive My Car
  • I'm Only Sleeping
  • Nowhere Man
  • Dr. Robert
  • Yesterday
  • Act Naturally

    Side 2

  • And Your Bird Can Sing
  • If I Needed Someone
  • We Can Work It Out
  • What Goes On
  • Day Tripper
BEATLE GEORGE — Buckminster Smith of Denver put together this set of his favorite Harrison-written Beatles tunes:
  • I Need You
  • George: starting to write songs
  • Don't Bother Me
  • Savoy Truffle
  • For You Blue
  • Within You Without You
  • George: anyone can write songs
  • Taxman
  • Long, Long, Long
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • George: finishing what he starts
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Abbey Road ALBUM TOUR: ABBEY ROAD:
  • George Martin: going back to Abbey Road after the "Get Back" sessions
  • Come Together (alternate mix)
  • Paul: likes "Come Together" & "Something"
  • Something
  • George: using synth on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
  • Maxwell's Silver Hammer (mono mix with intro)
  • Oh! Darling
  • Alan Parsons: the bubbling effect on "Octopus' Garden"
  • Octopus' Garden
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy) (alternate mix)
  • Alan Parsons: cutting off the end of "I Want You"
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • Paul: the lyrics in "Because"
  • Because (a capella mix)
  • You Never Give Me Your Money
  • Sun King
  • Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (alternate mix/edit)
  • George Martin: thinking symphonically
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (alternate mix)

BEST OF THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY — A collection of our most-requested cuts from the Anthology albums, singles and DVD set:

  • I Am The Walrus
  • Baby What You Want Me To Do?
  • Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
  • How Do You Do It
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • One After 909 (1963 version)
  • Yellow Submarine
  • And I Love Her
  • Get Back
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • Something
  • Good Morning Good Morning
  • You Can't Do That
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • I'll Be Back
  • Hello Goodbye
  • Blue Moon Of Kentucky
  • Glass Onion
WHO'S INCOGNITO?:
  • Who's Incognito's Rod Gerrard, Larry Sims and Don Coenen stop by to talk about the Hurricane Relief concert in Highlands Ranch at the Civic Green Amphitheater this coming Friday night.
  • No More Lonely Nights/Who's Incognito
  • Who's Incognito: Rod's return; Larry's appearance at Aspen with Loggins & Messina; hurricane relief
  • I Need You/Sunshine Company (with Larry Sims)
ฉMike McCartney EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: CHAOS & CREATION IN THE BACKYARD — Highlights from the new album from Paul McCartney, which comes out Tuesday:
  • How Kind Of You
  • Paul: teaming with producer Nigel Godrich [MP3 AUDIO]
  • Too Much Rain
  • Paul: the album's title
  • Promise To You Girl
  • Paul: playing most of the instruments
  • Jenny Wren
  • Paul: songwriting
  • Follow Me
  • English Tea
  • Paul: "Friends To Go"
  • Friends To Go
  • Paul: his career highlight
  • Fine Line

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

SOUNDTRACK SONGS — Three hours of Beatles and solo-Beatle songs from films, along with sound clips and movie ads.

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Archer introduces ''1964'' at Red Rocks, 8/26/05 1964 - THE TRIBUTE — A set of songs by the world's #1 Beatles tribute band follows their sold-out performance at Red Rocks on Friday night. (Photo: Archer introduces "1964" to the capacity crowd)

THE MONO BRITISH "HELP!" LP — Except for DJ copies, the American mono "Help!" album contained the stereo versions mixed into mono. But in England, the mono mixes were different than their stereo counterparts — and, of course, the album had 14 Beatles songs instead of 7.
    Side 1
  • Help!
  • The Night Before
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Need You
  • Another Girl
  • You're Going To Lose That Girl
  • Ticket To Ride

    Side 2

  • Act Naturally
  • It's Only Love
  • You Like Me Too Much
  • Tell Me What You See
  • I've Just Seen A Face
  • Yesterday
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
FAB PETTY — To help the Mountain welcome Tom Petty's upcoming concerts at Red Rocks this week, Gina Landers put together this set of Petty performances with fab connections:
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison & Prince
  • Last Night/Traveling Wilburys
  • I Call Your Name/Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh & Jim Keltner
  • Drift Away/Ringo Starr, Tom Petty and Alanis Morissette
  • I Won't Back Down/Tom Petty with George Harrison
  • I Need You/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • The Devil's Been Busy/Traveling Wilburys
PAUL ON PIANO — This set idea from Jeff Craig of Aurora highlights Paul's keyboard self-accompaniments:
  • Flaming Pie
  • Maybe I'm Amazed
  • A Fine Line
  • Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
  • Hey Jude (live)
  • Suicide
  • Lady Madonna
RINGO & THE ROUNDHEADS ON SOUNDSTAGE — Highlights from Ringo's Soundstage telecast, from a sampler provided by PBS:
  • Octopus' Garden
  • Choose Love
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • Back Off Boogaloo
  • Act Naturally
ORIGINAL UK MONO "YELLOW SUBMARINE" SIDE 1 — The Beatles' side of the original soundtrack LP from the UK mono issue. Only the first pressing had true mono mixes; subsequent and European releases had the stereo versions converted to mono.
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Only A Northern Song
  • All Together Now
  • Hey Bulldog
  • It's All Too Much
  • All You Need Is Love

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

THE BEATLES SINGLES — PART 2: Sides from the Beatles' UK and US singles, from the original vinyl or CD singles:

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

THE BEATLES SINGLES — PART 1: Sides from the Beatles' UK and US singles, from the original vinyl:

THE BEATLES FAMILY — An interview with Scott Wheeler, author of Charlie Lennon: Uncle To A Beatle, kicks off this set of songs by Beatles family members. Click here to hear the interview with Scott, which includes excerpts from Charlie Lennon's "The Ships Of The Mersey." The "Beatles Family Set" was put together by Adrian Jackson of Boulder:
  • Ruby Tuesday/Julian Lennon
  • I'm Movin' On/Yoko Ono
  • It's Alright/Sean Ono Lennon
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison & Prince
  • Back In The Sunshine Again/Paul with James McCartney
  • Seaside Woman/Linda McCartney
  • Norton/Mike McGear
  • Will It Go Round In Circles?/Ringo with Billy Preston & Zak Starkey

Sunday, August 7, 2005

The ''Hollywood Bowl'' LP THE BEATLES AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL is the only non-compilation #1 Beatles album not to be issued on CD. It was the only authorized live Beatles album, released in 1977. It combines 1964 and 1965 performances, recorded on a crude 3-track machine. The Beatles' performances were somewhat impaired by the fact that they couldn't hear themselves. The "bowl" acoustics that projected their sound to the audience also amplified the screaming that came back to them, but the LP captures Beatlemania — the fab four and their over-excited audiences — in fairly decent stereo sound. The Ottawa Beatles Site has posted an online petition urging an official release of The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl on CD. Click here to sign the petition.

RECENT & FORTHCOMING RELEASES:
  • Don't Hang Up/Ringo Starr with Chrissie Hynde (from "Choose Love")
  • Really Love You/Twin Freaks (Paul McCartney & Freelance Hellraiser)
  • One Of These People/Neil Innes (from "Works In Progress")
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/Paul McCartney & U2 (from Live 8)
  • Jet/Laurence Juber (from "One Wing")
  • Can't Buy Me Love/Paul (from the "Paul McCartney In Red Square" DVD)
  • I'm Looking Through You/Lisa Lauren (from "It Is What It Is")
  • Fine Line (the forthcoming single from the "Chaos & Creation In the Back Yard" CD)
the ''Sessions'' prototypes SESSIONS — There were two protypes for this failed 1984 Capitol release of alternate versions and outtakes. The first put the 13 cuts in chronological order, the other rearranged the cuts for variety. Paul McCartney nixed both projects and most of the mixes done for Sessions didn't get released until the Anthology CDs were issued. Breakfast With The Beatles plays the chronological "Prototype #1" from a reel-to-reel dub that circulated among radio-types. Tracks that differ from the mixes/edits used on the Anthology CDs are marked (*).
    Side 1
  • Besame Mucho
  • How Do You Do It?
  • One After 909*
  • Leave My Kitten Alone
  • That Means A Lot
  • If You've Got Trouble*
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • Christmas Time Is Here Again (differs from the 1995 single)

    Side 2

  • What's The New Mary Jane?
  • Not Guilty
  • Come And Get It
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps*
  • Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
HEAVILY-REQUESTED COVERS BY HOMEGROWN ARTISTS:
  • The Inner Light/Michael Krow
  • All Those Years Ago/Danny Colfax Mallon
  • Come Together/Steven Weinmeister & Jock Bartley of Firefall
  • You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)/Deafaids
  • She Said She Said/Runaway Express
  • Here Comes The Sun/Who's Incognito (Larry Sims, Tom Murray, Jimmy Waddell, Don Coenen, Bob Harris, David Scott)
  • I Can See Pepper/Mark Samansky
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Les Fradkin
BERRY BEATLES — This set of Chuck Berry covers was assembled by Kerry Satford of Denver:
  • Memphis/Beatles
  • Brown-Eyed Handsome Man/Paul
  • Rock & Roll Music/Beatles
  • Sweet Little Sixteen/John
  • I Gotta Find My Baby/Beatles
  • Roll Over Beethoven/Beatles

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONCERT FROM BANGLADESH: Barry Copley of Lakewood put together these tracks from George's 1971 all-star benefit for UNICEF:

NICHOLAS DeSCIOSE of DeSciose Productions, who took the Beatles' photos at Red Rocks, talks about last year's 40th anniversary concert with "1964 — The Tribute." Click here for tickets to this year's show at a very special price.

Capitol Compact 33s CAPITOL COMPACT 33S — Capitol's first three Beatles albums made it to this promotional 7" 33-1/3 RPM vinyl format which featured three songs per side. As Compact 33s were designed for specially-equipped stereo Seeburg jukeboxes, audio compression and a less-discrete stereo mix were used to make the tracks appear louder in restaurants and bars. As a result, they sound better on radio, too.

MEET THE BEATLES:

    Side 1
  • It Won't Be Long
  • This Boy
  • All My Loving

    Side 2

  • Don't Bother Me
  • All I've Got To Do
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM:

    Side 1
  • Thank You Girl
  • Devil In Her Heart
  • Money

    Side 2

  • Long Tall Sally
  • I Call Your Name
  • Please Mr. Postman
SOMETHING NEW:

    Side 1
  • I'll Cry Instead
  • And I Love Her
  • Slow Down

    Side 2

  • If I Fell
  • Tell Me Why
  • Matchbox
AMERICAN MYSTERY TOUR — We get lots of requests for the mono U.S. version of Magical Mystery Tour. Side one is comprised of the alternate mono mixes from the British EP and side two collects A- and B-side mono single mixes from 1967. This version comes from a 15-IPS full-track mono dub of the master provided to an L.A. radio station — it doesn't have the fidelity of a CD, but it actually sounds better than any vinyl pressing.
    Side 1
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • The Fool On The Hill
  • Flying
  • Blue Jay Way
  • Your Mother Should Know
  • I Am The Walrus

    Side 2

  • Hello Goodbye''Fine Line'' single
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Penny Lane
  • Baby You're A Rich Man
  • All You Need Is Love
McCARTNEY SINGLES — Starting with "Fine Line" from his forthcoming album Chaos & Creation In The Back Yard, here's a collection rare Macca singles, culled from various requests:
  • Fine Line (release date: August 30th)
  • Jet (mono 45 edit)
  • Arrow Through Me (mono 45)
  • Vo!ce (Heather Mills & Paul McCartney)
  • Band On The Run (mono DJ 45 edit)

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Let It Be ... NakedALBUM TOUR: LET IT BE ... NAKED:  Paul & Ringo are your guides through the 2003 digital remix of the Let It Be album, with some highlights from the Fly On The Wall bonus disc:

George, Jeff, Paul & Ringo THE LAST OF THE FIFTH BEATLES — This tribute to Jeff Lynne comes from Mountain listener Scot Livingston; all cuts are produced by Jeff and feature at least one Beatle:
  • Free As A Bird/"Beatles"
  • When We Was Fab/George
  • After All These Years/Ringo
  • Moment In Paradise/ELO with Ringo Starr
  • Flaming Pie/Paul
  • Cloud Nine/George
  • Real Love/"Beatles"
  • Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go/Ringo
  • The World Tonight/Paul
  • A Long Time Gone/ELO with George Harrison
  • The Trembler/Duane Eddy with George Harrison & Jeff Lynne
PAUL PLAYS THE SUPER BOWL — Fulfilling dozens of requests for Paul's stellar performance last February in Jacksonville:
  • Drive My Car
  • Get Back
  • Live & Let Die
  • Hey Jude
Louise Harrison & Mark Benson GEORGE'S SISTER, LOUISE HARRISON, AND MARK BENSON:  As the Mountain welcomes "1964 — The Tribute" to Red Rocks on August 26th, 1964's longtime friend, Louise Harrison, and 1964's John Lennon character, Mark Benson, joined the Mountain's morning show this past week. Some highlights were featured earlier this morning on Second Hand News, and here are some more:
  • Louise: why George was such a nice guy; the "Quiet One" myth
  • George: commenting on his sore throat from the green room at The Ed Sullivan Show
  • Cockamamie Business/George
  • Louise: George's appearance at an Illinois VFW post in 1963; being George's big sister
  • Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby/George with Carl Perkins
  • Louise: Dhani's family resemblance; misquotes from the press
  • Devil's Radio/George
  • Louise: managing "Liverpool Legends;" her long relationship in "1964 — The Tribute."
  • Mark Benson:
  • I Should Have Known Better/1964 — The Tribute
TWIN FREAKS REVISITED: Some more highlights from Paul McCartney & Roy Kerr's U.K. limited-edition vinyl LP of Macca remixes:
  • Long Haired Lady (Reprise)
  • Temporary Secretary
  • Oh Woman, Oh Why
  • Coming Up

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Twin Freaks TWIN FREAKS — Paul McCartney and Freelance Hellraiser (aka Roy Kerr) have remixed twelve McCartney songs and released them under the Twin Freaks name on a limited-edition vinyl double LP in England. Thanks to Scott Hexum for letting us be the first to drop a needle on his vinyl for these highlights:

ALL THINGS MUST PASS — Craig Stanley requested this set of eight songs from the original mix of George's All Things Must Pass LP:
  • What Is Life
  • Hear Me Lord
  • Apple Scruffs
  • If Not For You
  • I Dig Love
  • Awaiting On You All
  • All Things Must Pass
  • Isn't It A Pity (Version Two)
BEATLES CHICAGO-STYLE — This set of Chicago artists covering Beatles tunes came from Ryan Kosecki of Aurora:
  • Day Tripper/Cheap Trick
  • I'll Be Back/Buckinghams
  • I Am The Walrus/Styx
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl/Cryan Shames
  • The Word/Lisa Lauren with David Sanborn
  • Magical Mystery Tour/Cheap Trick
Beatles VI BEATLES VI IN STEREO — Released in June 1965, this was an American concoction of six tracks from the U.K.'s Beatles For Sale album, three cuts from the yet-to-be released British Help! LP, a B-side plus a Larry Williams cover intended for the American market:
    Side 1
  • Kansas City
  • Eight Days A Week
  • You Like Me Too Much
  • Bad Boy
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
  • Words Of Love

    Side 2

  • What You're Doing
  • Yes It Is (fake stereo)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie
  • Tell Me What You See
  • Every Little Thing
Laurence Juber's One Wing Special guest LAURENCE JUBER joins us as Breakfast With The Beatles features cuts from his new CD of McCartney solo interpretations, One Wing:
  • Laurence: his history through his stint with Wings
  • Band On The Run/Laurence Juber
  • Coming Up/Laurence Juber
  • Laurence: his solo career; LJ Plays The Beatles; Paul suggesting an album of Wings songs
  • Jet/Laurence Juber
  • Laurence: how to get the album; "Arrow Through Me"
  • Arrow Through Me/Laurence Juber
  • Rockestra Theme/Wings
ELTON JOHN WITH JOHN LENNON — Breakfast gets a steady stream of requests for Elton & John's performance together at Madison Square Garden on Thanksgiving night in 1974. John showed up as a payoff for Elton's bet that "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" would hit #1 on the charts. This evening also signaled the end of John's so-called Lost Weekend when he was reunited with Yoko Ono backstage.
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
  • I Saw Her Standing There

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

THE BOYS FROM BEATLEMANIA stop by to talk about this coming Friday night's performance of PEPPER FRONT TO BACK — all the songs from Sgt. Pepper and most from Magical Mystery Tour performed live — at the Boulder Theatre. Call 303-786-7030 or click here for tickets.

THE RINGO STARR BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Ringo turned 65 on Thursday and Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates with three hours of music and interview clips, spanning his Beatles and solo careers.

Plus ...

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

AN ALL-AMERICAN BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES — for the Independence Day weekend, "Breakfast" brings the Colonies and Crown together: American music done by Britain's most successful export. The Beatles loved American music, from country (Buck Owens) to rhythm & blues (Chuck Berry) to rockabilly (Carl Perkins) to rock (Gene Vincent) to pop (Elvis). It's exemplified by the amount of covers they did as a group and as individuals — too many to fit into three hours! Special thanks to Tanker Whitman of Boulder for the original suggestion.

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Rubber Soul THE MONO BRITISH "RUBBER SOUL" LP — Up until 1969, George Martin and the Beatles spent their time on mono mixes and relegated the stereo mixing to others, so the mono LPs more fully represented the sound and mixes they were trying to achieve.

UNDER THE COVERS WITH DOC KRIEGER — The "Rock & Roll Dentist" stops in and shares some of his massive collection of Beatles covers with us...
  • Little Child/Inmates
  • And Your Bird Can Sing/Kennedys
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/Bedrocks
  • Birthday/Underground Sunshine
  • Please Please Me/Link Wray
  • I'll Cry Instead/Lee Rocker
  • Rain/Fairport Convention
  • I'm Looking Through You/Geoff Richardson & Jim Laverto
  • Paperback Writer/Sweet
  • I'll Be Back/Johnny Rivers
SHOULDA BEEN — A set of John Lennon songs that Kim Parker of Boulder thinks should have been released as singles:
  • Isolation
  • What You Got (this was actually the b-side of "#9 Dream")
  • Oh My Love
  • Intuition
  • Give Me Some Truth
  • Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
  • Cleanup Time
BeatlemaniaStory.com THE BOYS FROM BEATLEMANIA STOP BY — Fresh off their Fortune Valley debut of Pepper Front To Back, original Broadway cast members Les Fradkin (George) and Bobby Taylor (Ringo), plus Joe Stefanelli (John) and Pat Casey (Paul) pop in to play some acoustic versions of the songs from their show as part of a "1967" set put together by listener Jim Crane of Denver. Pepper Front To Back has its Front Range debut on July 15th at the Boulder Theater. Call 303-786-7030 for tickets; for more information, visit BeatlemaniaStory.com.
  • With A Little Help From My Friends/acoustic version by the Boys from Beatlemania
  • I Am The Walrus (UK single version)
  • Penny Lane (US DJ version)
  • Blue Jay Way (alternate stereo mix)
  • Getting Better (mono mix)
  • Baby You're A Rich Man (1999 remix)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (US single mix)
  • All You Need Is Love/acoustic version by the Boys from Beatlemania
RINGO STARR's CHOOSE LOVE: more highlights:
  • Give Me Back The Beat
  • Ringo: "Choose Love"
  • Choose Love
  • Ringo: enlisting Chrissie Hynde
  • Don't Hang Up

Sunday, June 19th, 2005Chris Farley & Paul McCartney

INTERVIEW WITH MEET THE BEATLES AUTHOR STEVEN D. STARK — The Glued To The Set author takes a fresh, detailed look at the Beatles' cultural effect on the world in his new book, "Meet The Beatles."

PAUL TURNED 63 YESTERDAY — Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates with our annual Paul McCartney Birthday Special featuring the words and music of Paul, spanning his Beatles and solo careers. Lots of rarities with archival and exclusive interview clips are featured. 99.5 The Mountrain welcomes Paul McCartney to the Pepsi Center on November 1st.

June 12th, 2005

The ''Red'' album THE U.S. VINYL "RED" ALBUM — The vinyl versions of the "1962-1966" album differed between the UK and US; although the lineups were the same, it was decided the American version would contain U.S. mixes of several tracks. The CD version more resembles the UK version, and is generally compiled of digital remixes — plus it doesn't contain stereo versions of "Please Please Me" and "From Me To You." Also of note are the mono US versions of "I Feel Fine" and "Ticket To Ride," plus the less-reverberated U.S. stereo versions of "Day Tripper," "We Can Work It Out" and Rubber Soul cuts.

Ringo's new album CHOOSE LOVE — Highlights from the new Ringo Starr album:
  • Fading In Fading Out
  • Ringo: "peace and love" is the theme on all his albums
  • Don't Hang Up (duet with Chrissie Hynde)
  • Free Drinks
BEATLES ART — Cherie Goodsend put together a set of songs she considers to be "art." To kick off the set we talk to Jeff Webb of Boxigami Books about that publisher's "Call For Beatles Art" for a book being published next year. Click here for more information on the call for art.
  • Jeff Webb: Boxigami Books' call for Beatles art
  • Strawberry Fields Forever/Beatles
  • Free Now/Paul, the Beatles & Super Furry Animals
  • Skiing; Gat Kirwani/George
  • Flying (mono EP version)/Beatles
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite/Beatles
LONG VERSIONS — Catching up on requests for the longer versions of some Beatles & solo Beatles cuts:
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night/John
  • Sexy Sadie/Beatles
  • Got My Mind Set On You/George Harrison
  • It's All Too Much/Beatles
  • Instant Karma/John
  • You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)/Beatles
Steven & Jock SPECIAL GUESTS JOCK BARTLEY AND STEVEN WEINMEISTER OF FIREFALL: Last year's performances from Jock & Steven on Breakfast With The Beatles are among our most requested covers, so we have 'em back for another session! Don't miss Firefall's full-band performance tonight at 6:30 at Hudson Gardens.
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
  • Come Together
  • I'll Be Back

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

"PEPPER" TURNS 38 — The album that changed rock music forever, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," was released 38 years ago this past week, so Breakfast celebrates with a set of alternate versions and interview clips:

BeatlemaniaStory.com THE BOYS FROM BEATLEMANIA! — Les Fradkin drops in with the details on the Colorado premiere performances of "Pepper Front To Back" — landmark live performances of the entire "Sgt. Pepper" album plus some other songs from 1967. Included are two recordings from the "Beatlemania!" original cast LP (which included Les):
  • Les Fradkin: setting up a live performance of "Sgt. Pepper"
  • All You Need Is Love/Beatlemania! Original Broadway Cast
  • Les Fradklin: [MP3 Audio] Colorado dates for "Pepper Front To Back"
  • Strawberry Fields Forever/Beatlemania! Original Broadway Cast
LIVE GEORGE — This set of George Harrison concert performances was put together by Jake Tetrault of Boulder:
  • Devil's Radio ("Live In Japan")
  • My Sweet Lord ("Concert For Bangladesh")
  • Absolutely Sweet Marie ("30th Anniversary Concert For Bob Dylan")
  • For You Blue ("Songs By George Harrison" bonus disc)
LIVE JOHN — These live Lennon performances were requested by Mary Anne Kelley of Denver:
  • Yer Blues (with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell for the Rolling Stones' "Rock 'N' Roll Circus")
  • Come Together (One To One Concert, Madison Square Garden)
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night (with Elton John at Madison Square Garden)
  • Cold Turkey (Lyceum, London)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Toronto)
ALBUM TOUR: "PLEASE PLEASE ME" IN STEREO — Boulder-area author Ken Westover joins us in a tour of the stereo version of the Beatles' first British LP. Ken's book, Songs Of The Beatles' "Please Please Me" Period, is available exclusively at Twist & Shout in Denver.
  • Ken Westover on his book; the bass line in "I Saw Her Standing There"
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • Misery
  • Ken Westover: coincidental titles''Please Please Me'' LP
  • Anna
  • Chains
  • Boys
  • Ken Westover: album cut sequencing
  • Ask Me Why
  • Please Please Me
  • Ken Westover: "Love Me Do"
  • Love Me Do (fake stereo)
  • P.S. I Love You (fake stereo)
  • Ken Westover: George Martin plays keyboard
  • Baby It's You
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret?
  • A Taste Of Honey
  • There's A Place
  • Ken Westover: the popular myth concerning "Twist And Shout"
  • Twist And Shout
  • Bonus Cut: Please Please Me (early take)

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

THE BEATLES INVADE AMERICA! - Archer hosts & produces a three-hour documentation of their first U.S. visit, featuring — in order of appearance — "Beatles & The British Invasion" author Bill Harry, promoter Sid Bernstein, Ringo Starr, Firefall's Jock Bartley, TV host Ed Sullivan, Paul McCartney, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, filmmaker Albert Maysles, BBC reporter Malcolm Davis, WINS DJ Murray The K, John Lennon, George Harrison, BBC presenter Brian Matthew, Robert Cray, Tom Petty and WWDC DJ Carrol James. Click here for a tracklist.

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 16 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums. In our final installment, it's "Past Masters Volume 2."

DUETS — Suggested by Ray Sartorius of Littleton:
  • Get It/Paul McCartney & Carl Perkins
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night/John Lennon & Elton John
  • Here Comes The Sun/George Harrison & Paul Simon
  • Act Naturally/Ringo Starr & Buck Owens
  • You Want Her, Too/Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues/John Lennon & Nilsson
  • Roll It Over/George Harrison & Eric Clapton
  • Write One For Me/Ringo Starr & Willie Nelson
  • What's That You're Doing?/Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
The U.S. ''Help!'' LP THE U.S. STEREO "HELP!" LP — This is one of our biggest whole-album requests because of the instrumentals by Ken Thorne that are unique to the American LP. It was Thorne's use of the sitar and other Middle-East instruments that got George interested in the music and culture of India. This scratchless, high-quality version of the U.S. "Help!" LP comes from a stereo reel-to-reel dub of the U.S. master, made for an L.A. movie theater by Capitol Records — and has much better fidelity than any vinyl pressings!
    Side 1
  • Help! (with U.S.-only intro)
  • The Night Before
  • From Me To You Fantasy (instrumental)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Need You
  • In The Tyrol (instrumental)

    Side 2

  • Another Girl
  • Another Hard Day's Night (instrumental)
  • Ticket To Ride (fake stereo)
  • The Bitter End/You Can't Do That (instrumental)
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl
  • The Chase (instrumental)
THE BEATLES COVERED BY WOMEN — This set was put together by Jodie Brandon of Glendale:
  • I'll Be Back/Shawn Covin
  • Happiness Is A Warm Gun/Breeders
  • Blackbird/Wendy Woo
  • Hey Bulldog/Fanny
  • Eleanor Rigby/Joan Baez
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party/Roseanne Cash
  • The Word/Lisa Lauren
  • Run For Your Life/Nancy Sinatra
  • Mother Nature's Son/Sheryl Crow
  • I Wanna Be Your Man/Suzi Quatro
  • I've Just Seen A Face/Holly Cole

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

Mountain Homegrown Artists MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN BEATLES COVER BLOWOUT! — An interview and in-studio performance with the new lineup of Who's Incognito opens a massive round-up of Beatles and solo Beatles covers from Colorado musicians: BEATLES' MOVIE MUSIC — Songs for this soundtrack set were chosen by Jim Carron of Denver:
  • Tell Me Why (A Hard Day's Night)
  • "A Hard Day's Night" commercial
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (A Hard Day's Night)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Help!)
  • "Help!" commercial
  • Another Girl (Help!)
  • Magical Mystery Tour (Magical Mystery Tour)
  • I Am The Walrus (Magical Mystery Tour)
  • Eleanor Rigby (Yellow Submarine)
  • Clip from "Yellow Submarine"
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Yellow Submarine)
  • Dig It (Let It Be)
  • Let It Be (Let It Be)

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 15 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums, plus the versions of songs that inspired the Beatles' covers of them — for part fifteen, it's "Past Masters Volume 1."

Photographer Bill Bernstein BILL BERNSTEIN, PAUL McCARTNEY'S PHOTOGRAPHER — Breakfast With The Beatles chats with the man who took thousands of pictures as Paul toured the planet from 2002 to 2004 — and will be taking them again on Paul's "Us" tour. Hundreds of Bill's photos are included in the book Each One Believing: On Stage, Off Stage and Backstage, varying from intimate backstage and hotel scenes to spectacular shots of Paul's record-breaking audiences in Rome and Russia. Selected collectors' prints are currently available at PaulMcCartneyShop.com
  • [MP3 AUDIO] Paul: preparing to tour
  • Hello Goodbye/Paul (live)
  • Jet/Paul (live)
  • Bill Bernstein: using modern photograph technology
  • Can't Buy Me Love/Paul (live)
  • Live & Let Die/Paul (live)
  • Paul: entertaining his 8 millionth fan
  • Bill Bernstein: the Colosseum; fans at indoor venues
  • Hey Jude/Paul (live)
  • Bill Bernstein: Paul & Brian Wilson
  • Brian Wilson: recording with Paul
  • A Friend Like You/Brian Wilson with Paul McCartney
  • Band On The Run/Paul (live)
  • Bill Bernstein: venues in Japan and Red Square; meeting Mikhail Gorbachev; [MP3 AUDIO] Vladimir Putin growing up with the Beatles
  • Back In The USSR/Paul (live)
Lon Van EatonBEATLE BUDDIES IN THE 21st CENTURY — Lon Van Eaton joins us to kick off a set of new-millenium recordings by Beatles buddies, giving us an exclusive preview of his forthcoming musical "The Dance Of Life." Check ImagineABetterWorld.com for updates on the progress of the play.
  • Castle Pines/Melinda Dickson, Greg Mogab and George Schwarz, with Lon Van Eaton, Leonard Barrett Jr., Cecelia Grinwald, Kendra Jacobs, Sadie Marquardt, Katherine Munn, John Rael, Julie Elizabeth Sherwood and Melissa Willits (from The Dance Of Life)
  • You Won't See Me/Laurence Juber (from "L.J. PLays The Beatles")
  • One Of These People/Neil Innes (from Works In Progress)
  • The Blues Made Me Do It/Jackie Lomax (from Liverpool Slim)
  • Isn't It A Pity/Eric Clapton & Billy Preston (from "The Concert For George")
  • Joy Of Man's Desiring/Les Fradkin (from "A Day At The Beach")
ABBEY ROAD ON THE RIVER — Breakfast With The Beatles gets the scoop on the nation's biggest Beatle fan event from its promoter, Gary Jacob. This year's fest takes place Memorial Day weekend in Louisville, Kentucky and features the Smithereens, Louise Harrison, Bruce Spizer, Bill Bernstein and Paul Saltzman, along with dozens of tribute artists. For more information, visit AbbeyRoadOnTheRiver.com or call 216-378-1980.

SITAR SONGS — Beatles songs which incorporate the sitar, put together by Myron Penneck of Aurora:

  • The Inner Light
  • Within You Without You
  • Tomorrow Never Knows
  • Norwegian Wood ("Anthology 2" version)
  • Love You To ("Yellow Submarine Songtrack" mix)

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

THE "REAL LOVE" MAXI CD SINGLE — Breakfast With The Beatles gets lots of requests for this 4-song CD, which features the single mix of "Real Love" and three cuts not included on the "Anthology" series:

Live At The BBCALBUM TOUR: LIVE AT THE BBC — From 1962 to 1965, the Beatles were featured performers in 52 BBC radio programs. In the BBC sessions, they performed 88 different songs — 36 of which were never issued until this 2-CD set was released in 1994. Breakfast With The Beatles brings you highlights from the compilation plus (*) bonus material:
  • From Us To You
  • I Got A Woman
  • Too Much Monkey Business
  • Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
  • I'll Be On My Way
  • *Pop Go The Beatles Theme
  • Young Blood
  • A Shot Of Rhythm & Blues
  • Sure To Fall
  • Some Other Guy
  • Thank You Girl
  • Baby It's You
  • That's All Right Mama
  • Carol
  • *Soldier Of Love (long version)
  • Clarabella
  • Long Tall Sally
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • The Honeymoon Song
  • *Happy Birthday, Dear Saturday Club
  • Johnny B. Goode
  • Memphis, Tennessee
  • Lucille
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • Till There Was You
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • All My Loving
  • Things We Said Today
  • She's A Woman
  • Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
  • Nothin' Shakin'
  • I Just Don't Understand
  • *The Beatles on A Public Ear
  • I Feel Fine
  • Ticket To Ride
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey!
  • Matchbox
  • I Forgot To Remember To Forget
  • I Got To Find My Baby
  • Ooh! My Soul
  • Honey Don't
  • Love Me Do
  • *I'll Follow The Sun

Sunday, April 24, 2005

PAUL LIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY — To commemorate Paul McCartney "Us Tour" tickets going on sale tomorrow morning, Rita P. of Denver put together these recordings from live performances from 2001-2005.

Apple Records THE APPLE STABLE — A review of some of the artists who released singles on the Beatles' Apple label, with a little help from the people who were there: Les Fradkin, Lon Van Eaton of Lon & Derrek, Billy Preston, Jackie Lomax, Joey Molland of Badfinger and Alan Parsons. [Les Fradkin and his band from "While My Guitar Only Plays" will make an appearance at Borders at Arapahoe Crossing (Parker & Arapahoe) today at 2:00!]
  • Revolution/Beatles
  • Archer: "First Four" Apple radio ad, 1968
  • Those Were The Days/Mary Hopkin
  • Les Fradkin: announcing summer plans for the Boys from Beatlemania; today's appearance at Borders; the rare B-side of the solo single he worked on for Apple.
  • Black Gypsy/Les Fradkin
  • God Save Us/Bill Elliot & the Elastic Oz Band
  • Jackie Lomax: recording for Apple
  • Sour Milk Sea/Jackie Lomax
  • Carolina In My Mind/James Taylor
  • Les Fradkin: introducing himself to Apple; "having a go" with Trash
  • Golden Slumbers/Trash
  • Thingumybob/John Foster & Sons Ltd Black Dyke Mills Band
  • Billy Preston: hooking up with the Beatles
  • That's The Way God Planned It/Billy Preston
  • Hari Krishna Mantra/Radha Krishna Temple of London
  • Daddy's A Millionaire/Iveys
  • Joey Molland: joining Badfinger
  • No Matter What/Badfinger
  • Ain't That Cute/Doris Troy
  • Alan Parsons: Magic Alex's Apple studio scam
  • Get Back/Beatles
  • Les Fradkin: playing on other Apple projects
  • Temma Harbour/Mary Hopkin
  • Power Boogie/Elephant's Memory
  • Lon Van Eaton: his forthcoming production, The Dance Of Life, he and Derrek being signed to Apple
  • Ringo Starr: commercial for Lon & Derrek's "Brother" LP
  • Sweet Music/Lon & Derrek Van Eaton
  • Les Fradkin: recording "And Your Bird Can Sing"
  • And Your Bird Can Sing/Les Fradkin; from While My Guitar Only Plays
ALTERNATE A-SIDES — Jim Pheng of Boulder writes: "It's always fun to hear rare B-sides, but I'd to to request some rare A-sides ... Beatles' singles that are very differently mixed than the stereo versions on the albums."
  • Help!
  • Lady Madonna
  • We Can Work It Out
  • Paperback Writer
  • I Feel Fine (British version)
BEATLES' OWN FAVORITES — Chip from Golden writes that while he and his 9-year-old son Willy were listening to the "Rockin' Roots Of John & Paul" set on April 10th, his son wanted to know what songs the Beatles liked in later years. After checking a few dozen references, we start with the song Paul chose to take to a deserted island with him, if he could only take one song:
  • Beautiful Boy/John Lennon (Paul)
  • George: Bob Dylan
  • Every Grain Of Sand/Bob Dylan (George)
  • Going Somewhere/Colin Hay (Paul & Ringo)
  • Teasin'/King Curtis & Eric Clapton (John)
  • 20th Century Boy/T. Rex (Ringo)
  • Money/Flying Lizards (John)
  • John Sebastian: "Daydream"
  • Daydream/Lovin' Spoonful (Paul & John)
  • Mr. Richland's Favorite Song/Nilsson (Ringo, John & George)
PAUL'S SHORTEST & LONGEST — Kim Stark puts together Paul's shortest and longest recordings:
  • Her Majesty/Beatles
  • Medley: Hold Me Tight; Lazy Dynamite; Hands Of Love; Power Cut/Wings

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 14 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part fourteen, it's "Let It Be."

TRAVELING WILBURYS — Raul Diaz of Boulder assembled this set of his favorite TW cuts:
  • Handle With Care (12" version)
  • The Devil's Been Busy
  • Rattled
  • Runaway (B-side)
  • Margarita
  • Tom Petty: George's favorite Wilburys track
  • If You Belonged To Me
  • End Of The Line (12" version)
  • Wilbury Twist
Lindsay Pagano & Paul PAUL DUETS — As compiled by Jeff Trent of Englewood:
  • So Bad/with Lindsay Pagano
  • You Want Her, Too/with Elvis Costello
  • My Dark Hour/with Steve Miller
  • Get It/with Carl Perkins
  • Norton/with Mike McGear
  • A Friend Like You/with Brian Wilson
RINGO'S RARITIES — This set is the brainchild of George Krieger, who, when not practicing dentistry, can be found archiving Beatles covers and writing articles for Beatlefan and Gold Mine magazines.
  • Don't Be Cruel (1992 single)
  • Simple Life Leisure Suit TV commercial (Japan, 1977)
  • Honey Don't (with Carl Perkins, 1985)
  • You Know It Makes Sense ("It's A Live-In World" anti-heroin compilation, 1986)
  • Mr. Doubleitup (1998 promo EP)
  • Running Free (1977 "Scouse The Mouse" soundtrack)
  • Sun Country Wine Cooler radio commercial (1986)
  • Good News (1998 promo EP)
  • Get Off! (1970 anti-heroin PSA)
  • Act Naturally (with Buck Owens; 1989 single)
  • Century 21 TV commercial (2001)
  • Boys (BBC's "Side By Side," 1964)
  • OK Ray (2003 deluxe edition, "Ringo Rama")
LENNON COVERS — This set was put together by Mountain listener Jerry Breck:
  • Help!/U2
  • Cold Turkey/Cheap Trick
  • Gimme Some Truth/Sam Phillips
  • Grow Old With Me/Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Oh My Love/Wackers
  • Love/Diana Williamson
  • Norwegian Wood/Madooo
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/Eddie Vedder

Sunday, April 10, 2005

The mono 'White Album' ALBUM TOUR: THE MONO "WHITE ALBUM" — Until EMI began releasing albums exclusively in the stereo format around 1969, more care was taken on the mixes for the mono versions. The double-disc set "The Beatles" was the last of the Beatles albums to get an exclusive mono mix and nearly every cut was an alternate mix to its stereo counterpart. Many of the differences are subtle, such as changes in the balances between vocals and instrumentation, but there are many standout differences as well. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" has alternate lead guitar portions and George's "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah..." vocal is removed during the fadeout. The tuba and piano in "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" are more prominent and the mixing mistake where you hear the end of a vocal singing "down" is not present at the end of the guitar solo. "I'm So Tired" features a prominent harmony vocal from Paul in places. "Blackbird" and "Piggies" feature different sound effect tracks. "Don't Pass Me By" is sped up and features alternate fiddle tracks. The mono version of "Birthday" reveals extra vocal harmonies and guitar licks. "Helter Skelter" — although shortened when it doesn't come back after the fadeout — features alternate echoes and sound effects, plus a killer drum fill that was mixed out of its stereo version. "Savoy Truffle" has alternate guitar and vocal pieces and "Cry Baby Cry" features more harmonies on the chorus. The segues into and out of "Revolution 9" are also quite different. The mono White Album has become sought after by collectors because there are relatively fewer copies on the planet — the album was released in the US and many other countries in the stereo format only.

George Harrison & Bob Dylan GEORGE & BOB — Kent Manning of Denver assembled this set of Harrison-Dylan collaborations:
  • Nobody's Child/Traveling Wilburys
  • If Not For You/Bob Dylan with George
  • I Don't Want To Do It/George; written by Bob Dylan
  • Dirty World/Traveling Wilburys
  • My Back Pages/Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan & George Harrison
THE ROCKIN' ROOTS OF LENNON & McCARTNEY — Brian Ridgeway of Aurora put together this set:
  • Bony Maronie/John
  • I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday/Paul
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy/John
  • That's Alright Mama/Paul
  • Rip It Up/Ready Teddy/John
  • Party/Paul
  • Slippin' & Slidin'/John
  • Rave On/Denny, Paul & Linda
  • Blue Suede Shoes/John
  • I'm In Love Again/Paul

Sunday, April 3, 2005

The Beatles with Ed Sullivan THE BEATLES ON "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" — Mountain listener Ken Kramer put together this set of his favorite performances from the Beatles' four Sullivan show appearances:

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 13 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part thirteen, it's "Abbey Road."
  • Come Together/Ike & Tina Turner
  • Something/Jr. Walker & the All Stars
  • Maxwell's Silver Hammer/Bells
  • Oh! Darling/Bela Fleck & the Flecktones featuring John Cowan
  • Octopus's Garden/Anita Harris
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Alvin Lee
  • Here Comes The Sun/Richie Havens
  • Because/Donkey
  • You Never Give Me Your Money/George Benson
  • Sun King/Steven King
  • Mean Mr. Mustard/Receiver
  • Polythene Pam/Roy Wood
  • She Came In Through The Bathroom Window/Joe Cocker
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/Phil Collins
  • The End/Les Fradkin
  • Her Majesty/Steven King

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UP PERISCOPE YELLOW: AL BRODAX — The producer & co-writer of the animated classic documents the 11-month whirlwind of making the film in his book, Up Periscope Yellow. From a 2004 interview we've been asked by many to repeat, Al shares some behind-the-scenes stories with Breakfast With The Beatles:
  • Al Brodax: "Yellow Sub" was intended to fulfill a contractual obligation
  • Yellow Submarine
  • [MP3 AUDIO] Al Brodax: The Beatles became quite involved in creation of the film
  • All Together Now
  • Al Brodax: switching gears from the cheaply-made Beatles TV cartoons to a high-quality feature
  • It's All Too Much
  • Hey Bulldog
  • soundtrack: a capella "Think For Yourself"
  • Only A Northern Song
  • Al Brodax: doing the film in eleven months for one million dollars
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Al Brodax: his favorite segment
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
  • Nowhere Man

  • Note: Dr. Bob Hieronimus, the author of Inside The Yellow Submarine: The Making of the Beatles' Animated Classic, takes issue with a number of the facts in Brodax's book. To read his essay, click here.
ALTERNATE MONO VERSIONS — This set combines requests from Kim Stiller, Mary O'Hara, Rita Perez, Jim R., Bentley Gallahad and Peter Struck:
  • I Call Your Name (UK EP)
  • Sexy Sadie (long version, advance European DJ sampler)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (UK "Help!" LP)
  • Drive My Car (UK "Rubber Soul" LP)
  • Birthday (UK "White Album")
  • Taxman (long version, US "Revolver" DJ LP)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (US "Yesterday & Today" LP)
  • I'm Looking Through You (UK "Rubber Soul" LP)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (UK "White Album")
  • Penny Lane (US DJ 45)

Sunday, March 27, 2005

HOMEGROWN COVERS:

Rock & Roll Music THE 1977 "ROCK & ROLL MUSIC" COMPILATION:
    Side 1
  • Twist & Shout
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • You Can't Do That
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • I Call Your Name
  • Boys
  • Long Tall Sally

    Side 2

  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Slow Down
  • Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
  • Money (That's What I Want)
  • Bad Boy
  • Matchbox
  • Roll Over Beethoven

    Side 3

  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Anytime At All
  • Drive My Car
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
  • The Night Before
  • I'm Down
  • Revolution

    Side 4

  • Back In The USSR
  • Helter Skelter
  • Taxman
  • Got To Get You Into My Life
  • Hey Bulldog
  • Birthday
  • Get Back
JAMAICAN STYLE, MON — Sire from Reggae On The Mountain (Saturdays, 10pm to midnight on 99.5 The Mountain) joined us for some reggae, ska and dub Beatles covers:
  • Blackbird/Roslyn Sweet & the Paragons
  • Norwegian Wood/Ska Boys
  • Give Peace A Chance/Toots & the Maytals
  • Isn't It A Pity/Nicky Thomas
  • My Sweet Lord/Keith Lynn
  • Come Together/Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  • Don't Let Me Down/Harry J All Stars
  • And I Love Her/Bob Marley

Sunday, March 20, 2005

the ''Revolver'' albumALBUM TOUR: "REVOLVER" — The first in an occassional series spotlighting a particular Beatles or solo Beatles album with alternate versions and interview clips.

BILLY SINGS THE BEATLES — Jeff Carson suggested this set of covers by Billy Preston:
  • I've Got A Feeling
  • Isn't It A Pity
  • My Sweet Lord
  • Get Back
JOHN LENNON GUEST APPEARANCES — Compiled by Freddie Jay of Denver:
  • Well (with Frank Zappa & the Mothers)
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues (with Harry Nilsson)
  • Yer Blues (with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell for the Rolling Stones' "Rock & Roll Circus")
  • Power Boogie (with Elephant's Memory)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (with Elton John)
  • Do The Oz (with the Elastic Oz Band)
  • Fame (with David Bowie)
Les Fradkin SPECIAL GUEST: LES FRADKIN — Composer-lyricist-multi-instrumentalist-producer and the original "George" from "Beatlemania," Les Fradkin, has released a new album of guitar instrumental arrangements of Beatles songs, "While My Guitar Only Plays." Les stops by to share some stories — and a super-rare version of a recording he did with Paul & Linda McCartney. Les will be appearing the afternoon of Sunday, April 24th at Borders at Arapahoe Crossing.
  • Day Tripper/Beatlemania!
  • Les: recording with Paul McCartney, the "lost" Apple single #27 [MP3 AUDIO]
  • God Bless California/Les Fradkin with Paul & Linda McCartney
  • Les: Joining Beatlemania, the "Reality" album
  • Magic Attic (from "Reality — The Rock Opera")
  • Here Comes The Sun (from "While My Guitar Only Plays")
  • Paperback Writer (from "While My Guitar Only Plays")
  • Les: on reuniting Beatlemania!
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (from "While My Guitar Only Plays")
ALL MY BEATLES — Christine Palmer of Aurora put together this set of Beatles & solo Beatles songs, the titles of which start with the word "all."
  • All My Loving/Beatles
  • All My Trials/Paul
  • All Shook Up/Paul
  • All Things Must Pass/George
  • All Together Now/Beatles
  • All You Horse Riders/Paul
  • All You Need Is Love/Beatles

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Donna Lynn's ''Haircut'' single SPOOFS & TRIBUTES — Chuck Carter assembled this set of songs that are spoofs of, or tributes to, the Beatles:

B-SIDE BEATLES — Anna Licht of Boulder e-mailed: "I think most musicians in the '60s would have loved to have an A-side of the quality of most Beatles B-sides. No other band had as many single flip-sides become standards, so here's a set of some of my favorites." Breakfast With The Beatles digs out the original vinyl 45s for Anna's set:

  • You Can't Do That (flip side of "Can't Buy Me Love")
  • I Am The Walrus (flip side of "Hello Goodbye")
  • Yes It Is (flip side of "Ticket To Tide")
  • Don't Let Me Down (flip side of "Get Back")
  • I'll Get You (flip side of "She Loves You")
  • Come Together (flip side of "Something")
  • Eleanor Rigby (flip side of "Yellow Submarine")
  • Act Naturally (flip side of "Yesterday" in the U.S.)
  • The Inner Light (flip side of "Lady Madonna")
  • I'm Down (flip side of "Help!")
INSTRUMENTAL COVERS — Instrumental arrangements of Beatles & solo Beatles songs:

INTRODUCING THE BEATLES — The Beatles' first U.S. LP, on the Vee-Jay label, was ignored until Beatlemania broke out in late December 1963. Its track lineup was revamped by Vee-Jay in January of 1964, making the original July 1963 version a much-sought collectible. This is a pristine vinyl stereo version of the first edition of the LP:

    SIDE ONE
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • Misery
  • Anna (Go To Him)
  • Chains
  • Boys
  • Love Me Do

    SIDE TWO

  • P.S. I Love You
  • Baby It's You
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret?
  • A Taste Of Honey
  • There's A Place
  • Twist And Shout
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 12 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part twelve, it's the Beatles' side of the original "Yellow Submarine" LP.
  • Yellow Submarine/Derek Enright
  • Only A Northern Song/Sun Dial
  • All Together Now/The Muppets
  • Hey Bulldog/Fanny
  • It's All Too Much/Wayne Kramer
  • All You Need Is Love/The Freedom Sounds

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Sunday, March 6, 2005

A CAPITOL IDEA — Ginny Kline submitted this set of her favorite rarities from "The Capitol Albums — Vol. 1"

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 11 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part eleven, it's sides 3 & 4 of the "White Album."
  • Birthday/FSK
  • Yer Blues/Jeff Healey Band
  • Mother Nature's Son/John Denver
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey/Fats Domino
  • Sexy Sadie/Paul Weller
  • Helter Skelter/Oasis
  • Long, Long, Long/Tom Hooper
  • Revolution/Kenny Neal
  • Honey Pie/Nicky Scott
  • Savoy Truffle/They Might Be Giants
  • Cry Baby Cry/Barry Holdship
  • Revolution 9/Mark Samansky
  • Good Night/Night On Earth

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THE MONO "MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR" EP — Alternate mixes of the six soundtrack songs from the 1967 U.K. 2-EP set:
    Disc One
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • Your Mother Should Know
  • I Am The Walrus

    Disc Two

  • Fool On The Hill
  • Flying
  • Blue Jay Way
DEMO DERBY! — Alan Ramone of Denver requested this set of demos of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison songs that were given to other artists:
  • Bad To Me (given to Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas)
  • That Means A Lot (given to P.J. Proby)
  • Sour Milk Sea (given to Jackie Lomax)
  • God Save Us (given to the Bill Elliot & the Elastic Oz Band)
  • One And One Is Two (given to Mike Shannon & the Strangers)
  • Come And Get It (given to Badfinger)
  • I'm The Greatest (given to Ringo)
  • Goodbye (given to Mary Hopkin)
MIND TRACKS — Della Ramirez of Westminster assembled this set of her favorite tracks from John's "Mind Games" album:
  • Tight A$
  • Bring On The Lucy (Freda Peeple)
  • Intuition
  • Out The Blue
  • Only People
  • Meat City

Sunday, February 27, 2005

George Harrison GEORGE'S LAST RECORDINGS — A set of George's 2001 studio work, put together by Daniel Archambeault of Boulder:

PAUL & RINGO ... NAKED — Breakfast With The Beatles has had many requests to repeat our 2003 preview of the remastered "Let It Be ... Naked" album — this time here's an expanded version!
  • Paul's thrilled by the audio clarity of "Let It Be ... Naked."
  • DON'T LET ME DOWN
  • Paul: stripping down the recordings.
  • DIG A PONY
  • Ringo compares "Naked" to the Phil Spector version.
  • I ME MINE
  • A run-through of "Because I Know You Love Me So" (from the bonus disc).
  • LET IT BE
  • Paul on whether or not remixing "Let It Be" could be considered tampering.
  • ONE AFTER 909
  • Paul: the advantage of digital remixing.
  • GET BACK
  • The Beatles run through "Maggie Mae" and "Fancy Me Chances" (from the bonus disc).
  • ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
  • George likes recording without overdubs (from the bonus disc).
  • FOR YOU BLUE
  • Ringo enjoys the album's nakedness.
  • LONG AND WINDING ROAD
  • Paul says the great music outshines the bad memories from the sessions.
  • I'VE GOT A FEELING
  • Paul says goodnight (from the bonus disc).
  • TWO OF US
BACK TO THE PAST — Caroline Zimmer assembled this set of solo Beatles doing live versions of Beatles songs: THE MONO "RAM" LP — Paul & Linda McCartney's 1971 "Ram" album had a technical problem: it was mastered in stereo on a tape machine that wasn't tracking correctly. The result is obvious in all the stereo releases, even on CD — if you listen to the stereo tracks in mono, you can hear the tape mistracking. As most of America's music radio stations were still mono in 1971, it was decided to do a mono remix of the album for U.S. DJ copies only. The quickly-done remix has many differences from the stereo — especially among the vocal and guitar tracks.
  • Too Many People
  • 3 Legs
  • Ram On
  • Dear Boy
  • Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
  • Smile Away
  • Heart Of The Country
  • Monkberry Moon Delight
  • Eat At Home
  • Long-Haired Lady
  • Ram On
  • Back Seat Of My Car

Sunday, February 20, 2005

THE GEORGE HARRISON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — George would have turned 62 this week, so Breakfast With The Beatles updates the annual chronicle of George's music and words.

Sunday, February 13, 2005

LOVE SONGS — In 1977, Capitol Records cashed in on the current "mellow rock" trend with a rather exquisitely-packaged two-LP set of the Beatles "Love Songs." The original pressing came with a simulated leather cover bearing a goldleaf "Love Songs" logo and an oversized booklet containing all the lyrics. Care was also taken to remix most of the cuts, although "Yes It Is," "This Boy" and "P.S. I Love You" were in fake stereo. Although the brainchild of Capitol executives, the album was released worldwide.

Goldleaf logo from the orignal textured cover of the 'Love Songs' double LP.

    Side 1

  • Yesterday
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • I Need You
  • Girl
  • In My Life
  • Words Of Love
  • Here, There & Everywhere

    Side 2

  • Something
  • And I Love Her
  • If I Fell
  • I'll Be Back
  • Tell Me What You See
  • Yes It Is

    Side 3

  • Michelle
  • It's Only Love
  • You're Going To Lose That Girl
  • Every Little Thing
  • For No One
  • She's Leaving Home

    Side 4

  • The Long & Winding Road
  • This Boy
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Will
  • P.S. I Love You
ROCKABILLY SESSION — Carl Perkins celebrated his 30 years in rock & roll in 1985 with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Lee Rocker, Roseanne Cash, Earl Slick, son Greg Perkins and others at a live "session" in England. These cuts come from a "digitally mastered" audio CD released to radio stations when the TV special was issued on video tape a year or so later.
  • Honey Don't
  • Matchbox
  • Mean Woman Blues
  • Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby
  • Your True Love
  • Waiting For The Sunrise
  • Medley: That's Alright Mama/Blue Moon Of Kentucky/Night Train To Memphis/Amen
  • Glad All Over
  • Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
  • Gone Gone Gone
  • Blue Suede Shoes
Archer with Firefall's Jock Bartley and one of his Beatles paintings. BEATLE COVERS FROM HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE — Every other song in this set — put together by Mountain listener Jason Hancock of Aurora — comes from Mountain Homegrown artists.
  • Every Little Thing/Yes
  • She Said She Said/Runaway Express
  • If I Needed Someone/Madooo
  • The Inner Light/Michael Krow
  • I Am The Walrus/Styx
  • You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)/Deafaids
  • I'm Looking Through You/Wallflowers
  • No Reply/Steven Weinmeister & Jock Bartley of Firefall
  • I'll Be Back/Curtis Salgado
  • Here Comes The Sun/Incognito
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE — An all-star version of "Across The Universe" will be performed at the Grammy Awards tonight, and seen via satellite by millions around the planet. The very first live worldwide telecast took place in 1967, and Breakfast With The Beatles plays the British segment, in which the Beatles add the last layer to the multi-track tape of "All You Need Is Love" — an appropriate closer to our Valentine's Day Eve edition.
  • All You Need Is Love

The Beatles arrive in the U.S. Sunday, February 6, 2005

FEBRUARY, 1964 — A special montage of audio from the Beatles' first visit to the U.S, which began 41 years ago tomorrow.

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 10 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part ten, it's sides 1 & 2 of the "White Album."
  • Back In The USSR/Billy Joel
  • Dear Prudence/Sean Ono Lennon
  • Glass Onion/Orbit III
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/Heptones
  • Wild Honey Pie/Industrial Kleenex
  • The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill/Young Blood
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Todd Rundgren
  • Happiness Is A Warm Gun/World Party
  • Martha My Dear/Sticky Bugs
  • I'm So Tired/Steven King
  • Blackbird/Wendy Woo
  • Piggies/Theodore Bikel
  • Rocky Racoon/Richie Havens
  • Don't Pass Me By/Georgia Satellites
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road?/Youth Gone Mad
  • I Will/Ben Taylor
  • Julia/Neilson Hubbard

  • GEAR! page
LIVE PAUL — Here's a live set put together by Bridey Sears of Boulder to commemorate Paul's appearance at the Super Bowl later today:
  • Peace In The Neighbourhood
  • Venus & Mars
  • Rock Show
  • Jet
  • My Brave Face
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Soily
vol. 1
vol. 2
RUTLEMANIA! — The October 2004 Breakfast With The Beatles Neil Innes special, "Breakfast With A Rutle," has become the latest release from Neil Innes! To celebrate, here's a set of our most-requested Rutles tracks:
  • Eric Idle: the Rat Keller
  • Ouch!
  • Major Happy's Up & Coming Once Upon A Good Time Band
  • Rendezvous
  • Bill Murray The K: big day in Flushing
  • Hold My Hand
  • Cheese & Onions
  • Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik
  • Piggy In The Middle
  • Eric Idle & Neil Innes: where Ron Nasty's been
  • Get Up & Go
UPDATE: The "Breakfast With A Rutle" CDs are no longer available.

BETTER IN MONO — Henry Tucker of Denver put together this set of his favorite mono mixes:

  • Lady Madonna (45)
  • Birthday (UK mono "White Album")
  • Help! (45)
  • Sgt. Pepper (Reprise) (South American jukebox 45)
  • A Day In The Life ("Imagine: John Lennon" mono promo EP)
  • We Can Work It Out (45)
  • Tomorrow Never Knows (mono "Revolver")
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (UK mono "Help!")
  • Day Tripper (45)

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Jim Capaldi, 1944-2005 JIM CAPALDI, 1944-2005:

ON DVD ONLY — Tina Kramden of Greeley put together this set of Beatles & solo song versions available only on DVD:
  • Instant Karma!/John (long version from "Lennon Legend")
  • I Saw Her Standing There (live in Washington)/Beatles (from "The First U.S. Visit")
  • Hottest Gong In Town/George (from "The Dark Horse Years")
  • Raunchy/Thinking Of Linking/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Paul, George & Ringo from "Beatles Anthology")
  • Singing Guitar Blues/George & Ringo (from "The First U.S. Visit")
  • Power To The People (from "Lennon Legend")
  • This Boy (from "The Ed Sullivan Show")
  • For No One (from "Give My Regards To Broad Street")
ACOUSTIC BEATLES — A set of mostly-unplugged Beatles & solo Beatles tracks from John Drexel of Denver:
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (version 1)/Beatles
  • Working Class Hero (alternate take)/John Lennon
  • Yesterday (basic track)/Beatles
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/Beatles
  • Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five (broadcast)/Paul
  • Across The Universe ("Naked" remix)/Beatles
  • I've Just Seen A Face/Beatles
  • Norwegian Wood (early take)/Beatles
  • Goodbye (demo)/Paul
ROCKIN' BEATLES — a set from Jim Turner of Aurora:
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie
  • She's A Woman
  • When I Get Home
  • Helter Skelter
  • One After 909
  • Bad Boy
Click here! ANIMAL SONGS — Celebrating the Dumb Friends League's annual Pledges For Pets telethon which runs from 2 - 6 PM today on UPN-20.
  • Living In A Pet Shop/Ringo
  • Rocky Racoon/Beatles
  • Leave My Kitten Alone/Beatles
  • Hound Dog/John
  • Scouse The Mouse/Ringo
  • Blackbird/Beatles
  • Ode To A Koala Bear/Paul
  • Piggies/Beatles
  • Hey Bulldog/Beatles
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland & George
  • All You Horseriders/Paul
  • Octopus' Garden/Beatles
  • Three Cool Cats/Beatles
  • Three Legs/Paul
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey/Beatles
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (long version)/Beatles
  • Bye Bye Blackbird/Ringo
  • Cold Turkey/John
  • Ram On/Paul
  • Too Much Monkey Business/Beatles
  • Single Pigeon/Paul
  • Dark Horse (demo acetate)/George
  • Paul introduces "Wildlife"
  • Wildlife/Paul
  • I Am The Walrus/Beatles

Sunday, January 23, 2005

MACCA COVERS — A set of covers from Paul McCartney, courtesy of Susan Hanley of Westminster:

John Lennon & Nilsson "PUSSY CATS" — Highlights from the much-anticipated but critically-panned 1974 collaboration album from Harry Nilsson and John Lennon, as chosen by Vernon Ayl of Denver:
  • John: he & Harry recorded "Pussy Cats" to keep themselves out of trouble
  • Many Rivers To Cross
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues
  • All My Life
  • Loop De Loop
  • Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga
  • Rock Around The Clock
VEDDY BRITISH GEORGE — A set of "Anglo-ish George Harrison tunes" submitted by Brad Peters:
  • Crackerbox Palace
  • Taxman
  • Apple Scruffs
  • When We Was Fab
  • His Name Is Legs (Ladies & Gentlemen)
  • Piggies
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 9 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part nine, it's "Magical Mystery Tour."
  • Magical Mystery Tour/Cheap Trick
  • The Fool On The Hill/Rockbeach
  • Flying/Residents
  • Blue Jay Way/Lord Sitar
  • Your Mother Should Know/Kenny Ball
  • I Am The Walrus/Styx
  • Hello Goodbye/Wild Ones
  • Strawberry Fields Forever/Todd Rundgren
  • Penny Lane/Frank Pourcel
  • Baby You're A Rich Man/Steven King
  • All You Need Is Love/House Jacks

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RARITY REQUESTS:
  • Free As A Bird (long version)
  • I'm Down ("mismix" from the first UK pressing of "Rock & Roll Music")
  • Long Tall Sally (live in Melbourne, 1964)
LENNON LEADS — Breakfast With The Beatles listener Peter Herrold wrote of John Lennon: "People associate him with rhythm, of course, but I've always admired his infrequent forays into playing lead. George was a master of good taste, of course, but John was very creative (and underrated) on guitar."
  • You Can't Do That
  • I Feel Fine
  • Revolution
  • Dear Prudence
  • Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me & My Monkey
  • I've Got a Feeling
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy)
  • The End

Sunday, January 16, 2005

COMPOSED BY PAUL McCARTNEY AND... — Gloria Alvarez of Boulder put together this set of her favorite McCartney songwriting collaborations.

"THE BEATLES' HOTTEST HITS" LP — We're still getting hundreds of requests to play this super-rare 1965 compilation LP, which was released only in Denmark. A collection of 1962-1965 non-album tracks, "Hottest Hits" is considered by many to be the highest-fidelity pressing of any vinyl Beatles compilation — the high frequencies and bass notes are remarkably clear — and Breakfast With The Beatles brings you a pristine copy. The cover art for "Hottest Hits" helps make it a valuable collectible, too — it bears a unique picture of the fab four dressed in winter garb. Click on the album cover to see a detailed view.
    Side One
  • I Feel Fine
  • I Call Your Name
  • I'll Get You
  • From Me To You
  • This Boy
  • She Loves You

    Side Two

  • Long Tall Sally
  • Thank You Girl
  • Matchbox
  • She's A Woman
  • Slow Down
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand
''A Tribute From India'' by Madooo RECENT COVERS:
  • I Am The Walrus/Styx
  • I'll Be Back/Curtis Salgado
  • Something/Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton (nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award.)
  • Eleanor Rigby/Rick Wakeman
  • If I Needed Someone/Madooo
HIGHLIGHTS FROM "WALLS & BRIDGES" — Calling the album "criminally underrated," Jack Posey of Denver assembled some highlights from John's 1974 release. Breakfast With The Beatles throws in clips from Dennis Elsas' historic interview with John as they introduce the LP on WNEW, New York.
  • Going Down On Love
  • John: New York City weather forecast
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night
  • John: Wanting to live in the U.S.
  • What You Got
  • John: "What You Got"
  • Scared
  • Ringo & John: "Walls & Bridges" commercial
  • Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
  • John: Joint In The Woods commercial
  • Steel & Glass
RARITY REQUESTS:
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic version with complete ending)
  • Blackbird/Paul (outtake from the "James Paul McCartney" TV special)
  • Yellow Submarine (alternate mix left off the "Anthology" CDs)
  • Medley Of Hits (lipsync tape prepared for the "Around The Beatles" special)
  • I'm Looking Through You (unsweetened version 2)
  • Sexy Sadie (long version)
"BLUISH" SONGS — submitted by Teddy Krasnow of Littleton:
  • Singing The Blues/Paul McCartney
  • Deep Blue/George
  • For You Blue/Beatles
  • Blue Moon Of Kentucky/Paul, George & Ringo
  • Yer Blues/Beatles
  • Blue Jay Way/Beatles
  • Out The Blue/John
  • Marwa Blues/George

Sunday, January 9, 2005

MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN COVERS:

Paul & John in Paris THE BEATLES LIVE IN PARIS — One of the cleanest live recordings of the fab four was taken directly from the public address amplifier onto a reel tape. The original reel of this June 1965 performance at the Olympia in Paris was loaned exclusively to 99.5 The Mountain by its owner, collector Andre Oulette.
  • She's A Woman
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • I'm A Loser
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Baby's In Black
  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
  • Ticket To Ride
GEORGE HARRISON GUEST APPEARANCES — as suggested by FabFourFan, Eric D., Jim Rapp and Tanya Klemmer:
  • with Jools Holland's Rhythm & Blues Orchestra/Horse To The Water (guitar, lead vocal, cowriter)
  • with Paul Simon/Here Comes The Sun (guitar, vocal, on 'Saturday Night Live')
  • with the Remo Four/In The First Place (vocal, composer)
  • with Bob Dylan/If Not For You (guitar, from the Dylan-Harrison sessions)
  • with Cream/Badge (guitar, cowriter)
  • with Ravi Shankar/I Am Missing You (vocals, guitar, dobro)
  • with John Lennon/Give Me Some Truth (lead guitar)
  • with Tom Petty/I Won't Back Down (background vocals)
  • with Gary Moore/That Kind Of Woman (slide guitar, composer)
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 8 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part eight, it's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/Inmates
  • With A Little Help From My Friends/Ellis Island
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/William Shatner
  • Getting Better/Lon & Derek Van Eaton
  • Fixing A Hole/George Burns
  • She's Leaving Home/Ofra Harnoy
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite/Billy Connolly
  • Within You Without You/Big Head Todd & The Monsters
  • When I'm Sixty Four/Big Daddy
  • Lovely Rita/Deafaids
  • Good Morning Good Morning/Paul Nicholas, Peter Frampton & the Bee Gees
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/Persuasions
  • A Day In The Life/Sting

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RARITIES — from various e-mail requests:
  • I'm Only Sleeping (US mono version)
  • Yes It Is (takes 1 & 2)
  • I Am The Walrus (US single)
  • Stop!/Paul (from the "Tug Of War" sessions)
  • I Saw Her Standing There (takes 6, 7, 8 & 9)
  • I'm A Loser (takes 1 & 2)
  • Flying Hour/George (from the "Somewhere In England" sessions)
  • Day Tripper (takes 1 & 2)

Sunday, December 19, 2004

MOST-REQUESTED RARITIES IN 2004 — Breakfast With The Beatles' 10 most-requested Beatles rarities during the past year:

10 — You Know My Name (long version)
    9 — I Am The Walrus (US single version)
    8 — I'm Looking Through You (US stereo version)
    7 — I'm A Loser (BBC version with alternate lyrics: "Beneath this wig I am wearing a tie.")
    6 — Revolution (mono mix)
    5 — Tie Me Kangaroo Down (BBC version with Rolf Harris)
    4 — I'm So Tired ("distant guitar" mix)
    3 — You Can't Do That (live in Australia)
    2 — Help! (acoustic mix)
    1 — Penny Lane (US DJ version)

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 7 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part seven, it's "Revolver."

THE GRAMMY GOES TO... — Erin Staples of Boulder put together this set of some of the Beatles & solo songs that snagged Grammy Awards over the past 40 years:
  • A Hard Day's Night (Best Performance By A Vocal Group, 1964)
  • Eleanor Rigby (Best Male Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, 1966)
  • Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends (from the Album Of The Year, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," 1967)
  • Let It Be (from the Best Original Score, "Let It Be," 1970)
  • Bangla Desh/George (from the Album Of The Year, "The Concert For Bangla Desh," 1972)
  • Rockestra Theme/Paul (Best Instrumental Recording, 1979)
  • End Of The Line/Traveling Wilburys (from the Best Rock Vocal Album, "Traveling Wilburys Volume One," 1989)
  • Free As A Bird/Beatles (Best Pop Performance, 1996)
  • Marwa Blues (Best Pop Instrumental, 2004)
1966 Christmas message CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE AGAIN — VOLUME 2
  • 1966 Christmas flexi-disc
  • Wonderful Christmastime/Paul
  • "Saturday Club" Christmas intro outtake
  • 1967 Christmas flexi-disc
  • The Christmas Dance/Ringo
  • 1968 Christmas flexi-disc
  • Happy Christmas/John & Yoko with the Harlem Community Children's Choir
BEST BEATLE MOMENT OF 2004 — Locally, it would be the "1964" concert at Red Rocks on the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' sole visit to Colorado. Worldwide, the big moment for Beatles fans came in March, when George Harrison was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
  • Tom Petty inducts George
  • Handle With Care/Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison

Sunday, December 12, 2004

I'LL BE BACK THREE TIMES — The new version of "I'll Be Back" by Shawn Colvin inspired Mary St. Pierre of Westminster to create this set of three very different versions of the tune:

RARE BEATLES:
  • Paperback Writer (alternate mix)
  • I Am The Walrus (alternate mix)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (instrumental track)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (alternate mix)
  • Hello Goodbye (instrumental track)
THE BEATLES & MOTOWN — Although the Beatles covered only two Motown songs on record, they often acknowledged that they were highly influenced by the music coming out of Hitsville, USA — and in turn, some Motown artists found themselves being influenced by the Beatles. Thanks to Dutch Hosterman for the suggestion:
  • George: buying Motown records in the Cavern days
  • Money (That's What I Want)/Barrett Strong
  • We Can Work It Out/Stevie Wonder
  • Smokey Robinson: the Beatles covering "You Really Got A Hold On me"
  • You Really Got A Hold On Me/Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  • Eleanor Rigby/Four Tops
  • George: his tribute to Smokey Robinson
  • Pure Smokey/George
  • What's That You're Doing?/Stevie Wonder & Paul
1963 Christmas message CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE AGAIN — VOLUME 1:
  • 1995 Apple Christmas message
  • 1963 Christmas flexi-disc
  • All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle/Doreen Bryan
  • Christmas medley/Beatles
  • Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae/Paul
  • 1964 Christmas flexi-disc
  • Little Drummer Boy/Ringo
  • 1965 Christmas flexi-disc
  • Ding Dong! Ding Dong!/George
HOMEGROWN BEATLES COVERS: THE MONO BRITISH "RUBBER SOUL" LP — Up until 1969, George Martin and the Beatles spent their time on mono mixes and relegated the stereo mixing to others, so the mono LPs more fully represented the sound and mixes they were trying to achieve.
    Side 1
  • Drive My Car
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You Won't See Me
  • Nowhere Man
  • Think For Yourself
  • The Word
  • Michelle

    Side 2

  • What Goes On
  • Girl
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • In My Life
  • Wait
  • If I Needed Someone
  • Run For Your Life

Sunday, December 5, 2004

BEST OF THE BOX — Listener Darlene Kincaid's set of her favorite rarities unique on CD to "The Capitol Albums Vol. 1"

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 6 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part six, it's "Rubber Soul."
  • Drive My Car/McCoys
  • Norwegian Wood/Madooo
  • You Won't See Me/Laurence Juber
  • Nowhere Man/Settlers
  • Think For Yourself/Danny Colfax Mallon
  • The Word/Curt Boettcher
  • Michelle/Myeck
  • What Goes On/Seldom Scene
  • Girl/Steven Weinmeister & Jock Bartley of Firefall
  • I'm Looking Through You/Wallflowers
  • In My Life/Stephen Stills
  • Wait/Misty Daze
  • If I Needed Someone/Roger McGuinn
  • Run For Your Life/Nancy Sinatra

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The new John Lennon CDs YOKO ONO ON THE NEW JOHN LENNON RELEASES:
  • Yoko: two sides of John
  • Rip It Up/Ready Teddy (from the remastered "Rock & Roll")
  • Working Class Hero (from "Acoustic")
  • Yoko: why the chords are included in the "Acoustic" lyrics booklet
  • Watching The Wheels (from "Acoustic")
  • Slippin' & Slidin' (from the remastered "Rock & Roll")
  • Yoko: problems with Phil Spector
  • Ya Ya (from the remastered "Rock & Roll")
  • Imagine (live) (from "Acoustic")
  • Yoko: the "Real Love" demo
  • Real Love (from "Acoustic")
  • Peggy Sue (from the remastered "Rock & Roll")
  • Yoko: watching over John's work
  • Ain't That A Shame (from the remastered "Rock & Roll")
MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN ARTISTS INFLUENCED BY THE BEATLES HEAVILY-REQUESTED TRACKS FROM "THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE:"
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Eric Clapton & Paul McCartney
  • Lumberjack Song/Monty Python (DVD only)
  • Handle With Care/Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison
  • Inner Light/Anoushka Shankar & Jeff Lynne
  • Horse To The Water/Sam Brown, Jools Holland & Jim Capaldi (DVD only)
  • Old Brown Shoe/Gary Brooker
  • Something/Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton

Sunday, November 28, 2004

THE BEATLES INVADE COLORADO — By popular demand, the Mountain rebroadcasts the Breakfast With The Beatles special which marked the 40th anniversary of the band's appearance at Red Rocks.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD PORTER — The London Beatles Walk host talks about his online petition to the Westminster Council asking that Beatle fans be allowed to continue to leave messages on the Abbey Road wall.

The mono ''White Album'' HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MONO "WHITE ALBUM" — A set of tracks from the U.K.-only mono mix of the White Album, which was released 36 years ago this week, courtesy of Erik Nyberg of Boulder:

ROCK 'N' ROLL REMASTERED — The complete remastered version of John Lennon's "Rock 'N' Roll" music album:
  • Be-Bop-A-Lula
  • Stand By Me
  • Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
  • You Can't Catch Me
  • Ain't That A Shame
  • Do You Wanna Dance?
  • Sweet Little Sixteen
  • Slippin' And Slidin'
  • Peggy Sue
  • Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin'
  • Bony Marone
  • Ya Ya
  • Just Because
  • Angel Baby
  • To Know Her Is To Love Her
  • Since My Baby Left Me
  • Just Because (Reprise)
Click here for JackieLomax.com INTERVIEW WITH JACKIE LOMAX — Originally from one of Liverpool's most popular live acts, the Undertakers, Jackie was one of the first artists signed to the Beatles' Apple Records. Although he never gained the mega-fame of Apple labelmates like Badfinger and James Taylor, he's got a huge worldwide fan base and continues to create his unique blend of American R&B; and British rock from his adopted home in Southern California. His latest album, "Liverpool Slim," is available online from 7th Street Songs.
  • Excerpt: Sour Milk Sea/Beatles (demo)
  • Money/Undertakers (single B-side)
  • Jackie Lomax: the Undertakers turn down Brian Epstein as a manager
  • Excerpt: Try As You May/Lomax Alliance
  • Jackie Lomax: the Lomax Alliance's brief time in Epstein's stable
  • Thumbin' A Ride/Jackie Lomax (single B-side)
  • Jackie Lomax: singing on "Dear Prudence"
  • Dear Prudence/Beatles
  • Jackie Lomax: witnessing Eric Clapton's performance on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Beatles
  • I'm Gonna Be There/Jackie Lomax (from "Liverpool Slim")
  • [MP3 AUDIO] Jackie Lomax: recording for Apple
  • Little Yellow Pills/Jackie Lomax (from "Is This What You Want?")
  • Be My Little Girl/Undertakers (from the "Unearthed" compilation)
  • Jackie Lomax: his American R&B; infuences
  • Lavender Dream/Jackie Lomax (from "Three")
  • Jackie Lomax: the unusual-sounding instrument in "Lavender Dream;" playing lead guitar on "Liverpool Slim"
  • The Blues Made Me Do It/Jackie Lomax (from "Liverpool Slim")
  • Jackie Lomax: "Friend-A-Mine"
  • Friend-A-Mine/Jackie Lomax (from the "Liverpool Slim" 2004 edition)
  • Sour Milk Sea/Jackie Lomax (from "Is This What You Want?")
REQUESTED SOLO-BEATLE RARITIES:
  • Country Dreamer/Paul (B-side)
  • In The First Place/Remo Four With George (from the restored "Wonderwall" soundtrack)
  • Gimme Some Truth/John (long version)
  • Runnin' Free/Ringo (from "Scouse The Mouse")

Sunday, November 14, 2004

MORE NEW & RECENT RELEASES:

Listen to samples from ''The Capitol Albums Vol. 1'' - Flash 6 required PREVIEW #4: THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 1 — Capitol Records will issue four of its 1964 Beatles LPs in both mono & stereo in a boxed set on Tuesday. This edition of Breakfast With The Beatles previews "Beatles '65" in stereo (except * fake stereo):
  • No Reply
  • I'm A Loser
  • Baby's In Black
  • Rock & Roll Music
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • Mr. Moonlight
  • Honey Don't
  • I'll Be Back
  • She's A Woman*
  • I Feel Fine*
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
BILL BERNSTEIN, PAUL McCARTNEY'S PHOTOGRAPHER — Breakfast With The Beatles chats with the man who took thousands of pictures as Paul toured the planet from 2002 to 2004. Hundreds of Bill's photos are included in the new book Each One Believing: On Stage, Off Stage and Backstage, varying from intimate backstage and hotel scenes to spectacular shots of Paul's record-breaking audiences in Rome and Russia. Photographer Bill Bernstein
  • [MP3 AUDIO] Paul: preparing to tour
  • Hello Goodbye/Paul (live)
  • Jet/Paul (live)
  • Bill Bernstein: using modern photograph technology
  • Can't Buy Me Love/Paul (live)
  • Live & Let Die/Paul (live)
  • Paul: entertaining his 8 millionth fan
  • Bill Bernstein: the Colosseum; fans at indoor venues
  • Hey Jude/Paul (live)
  • Bill Bernstein: Paul & Brian Wilson
  • Brian Wilson: recording with Paul
  • A Friend Like You/Brian Wilson with Paul McCartney
  • Band On The Run/Paul (live)
  • Bill Bernstein: venues in Japan and Red Square; meeting Mikhail Gorbachev; [MP3 AUDIO] Vladimir Putin growing up with the Beatles; another tour?
  • Paul: he has no desire to retire
  • Back In The USSR/Paul (live)
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 5 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of the Hoagies and Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs — and the influential versions of the songs they covered — in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums. For volume five, it's "Help!"
  • Help!/Isaac Scott
  • The Night Before/The KGB
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/Eddie Vedder
  • I Need You/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • Another Girl/Mason Williams
  • You're Going To Lose That Girl/Chris Martin
  • Ticket To Ride/Vanilla Fudge
  • Act Naturally/Buck Owens
  • It's Only Love/Bryan Ferry
  • You Like Me Too Much/Steven King
  • Tell Me What You See/Jacob's Trouble
  • I've Just Seen A Face/Holly Cole
  • Yesterday/Red Stripe Ebony Steel Band
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy/Larry Williams

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Sunday, November 7, 2004

The ''Something New'' LP YET ANOTHER PREVIEW: THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 1 — Capitol Records will issue four of its 1964 Beatles LPs in both mono & stereo in a boxed set on November 16th. This edition of Breakfast With The Beatles previews "Something New," in stereo:

BEATLES HARRISONGS — Karl Stardt of Littleton suggested this chronological set of Beatles songs written by George Harrison:
  • Cry For A Shadow
  • George: writing songs
  • Don't Bother Me (mono mix)
  • I Need You
  • You Like Me Too Much (mono mix)
  • John, Paul & George: vocal session
  • Think For Yourself ('99 remix)
  • If I Needed Someone (mono mix)
  • I Want To Tell You
  • Taxman (long mono version)
  • Love You To
  • The Inner Light (mono version)
  • George: writing "Gently Weeps"
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (mono mix)
  • Piggies (mono mix)
  • Not Guilty ("Sessions" mix)
  • It's All Too Much (mono mix)
  • George: getting an A-side
  • Something
  • Here Comes The Sun (mono mix)
  • I Me Mine ("Anthology" version)
The new John Lennon CDs 2004 RELEASES:
  • Working Class Hero/John (from "Acoustic")
  • Blink/Ringo (from the deluxe edition of "Ringo Rama")
  • Boney Maronie/John (from the remastered "Rock 'N' Roll")
  • Tears Of The World/George (bonus cut from the remastered "Thirty Three & A Third")
  • Thank You Girl/Beatles (stereo version from "The Capitol Albums Vol. 1," out November 16th)
  • Cold Turkey/John (from "Acoustic")
  • Tropic Island Hum/Paul McCartney & Marion Montgomery (from Paul McCartney's "Music & Animation Collection" DVD)
  • I'll Be Back/Shawn Colvin (new track from "Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection," out November 23rd)
  • Ya Ya/John (from the remastered "Rock 'N' Roll")
  • Memphis In Your Mind/Ringo (from "All Starr Band Live 2003")
  • Blow Away/George (from the remastered "George Harrison" album)
  • Temporary Secretary (Radioslave Mix)/Paul (from the "Glastonbury Groove" compilation)
  • Baby's In Black/Beatles (stereo version from "The Capitol Albums Vol. 1," out November 16th)
  • Hottest Gong In Town (from the George Harrison "Dark Horse Years" DVD)
  • Watching The Wheels/John (from "Acoustic")
  • Friend-A-Mine/Jackie Lomax (from the 2004 edition of "Liverpool Slim")
LIVE MACCA — Paul's behind-the-scenes tourbook, Each One Believing: On Stage, Off Stage and Backstage, was released this past week. Here are some performances from "Back In The U.S." and/or "Back In The World."
  • Every Night (both)
  • She's Leaving Home ("Back In The World")
  • Can't Buy Me Love (both)
  • Vanilla Sky ("Back In The U.S.")

Sunday, October 31, 2004

The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 ANOTHER PREVIEW: THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 1 — Capitol Records will issue four of its 1964 Beatles LPs in both mono & stereo in a boxed set on November 16th. This edition of Breakfast With The Beatles previews "The Beatles' Second Album," in stereo (except *fake stereo):

MOST-REQUESTED HOMEGROWN COVERS: MORE NEW RELEASES:
  • Stand By Me/John (digital remix from "Rock 'N' Roll," out on Tuesday)
  • Devil's Radio/George (from the "Dark Horse Years" DVD which will be released separately on Tuesday)
  • Imagine/John (from the "Acoustic" album, out Tuesday)
  • We All Stand Together/Paul (his current single, from 1984's "Rupert & The Frog Song," in his Animation Collection DVD)
  • Slippin' & Slidin'/John (digital remix from "Rock 'N' Roll," out on Tuesday)
  • No Reply (the stereo version from the "Beatles '65" disc in "The Capitol Albums Vol. 1," out November 16th.)
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 4 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs — and the influential versions of the songs they covered — in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums. For part four, it's "Beatles For Sale."
  • No Reply/Steven Weinmeister & Jock Bartley of Firefall
  • I'm A Loser/Marianne Faithfull
  • Baby's In Black/Hi Fis
  • Rock & Roll Music/Chuck Berry
  • I'll Follow The Sun/Glyn Johns
  • Mr. Moonlight/Dr. Feelgood & The Interns
  • Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey/Little Richard
  • Eight Days A Week/Procol Harum
  • Words Of Love/Buddy Holly
  • Honey Don't/Carl Perkins
  • Every Little Thing/Yes
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party/Roseanne Cash
  • What You're Doing/Thesyzer
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Carl Perkins
MOST-REQUESTED BEATLES RARITIES:
  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down/Rolf Harris with the Beatles (BBC 12/26/63)
  • It's All Too Much (longer version from the "Songtrack" DJ sampler)
  • I'm A Loser (BBC version with the lyrics, "beneath this wig I am wearing a tie")
  • Penny Lane (US DJ mix)

Sunday, October 24, 2004

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BREAKFAST WITH A RUTLE — Breakfast With The Beatles turns tongue-in-cheek with an exclusive interview with Neil Innes — creator of the Rutles' music in "All You Need Is Cash" and "The Rutles Archaeology."

Innes was co-founder of the jazz-pop-rock-comedy troup the Bonzo Dog Band, who appeared in the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour."

He later replaced John Cleese in the last season of TV's "Monty Python's Flying Circus," appeared as the minstrel in "Monty Python & The Holy Grail" and co-created Rutland Weekend Television with Eric Idle on British TV, from which the Rutles evolved.

Innes portrayed Ron Nasty — the John Lennon character in the Rutles' "All You Need Is Cash." Executive produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, the "Prefab Four" mockumentary also featured appearances from Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Ayckroyd, Michael Palin, Bill Murray, Paul Simon, Mick Jagger and George Harrison.

Innes has also released several critically-acclaimed solo albums and was part of underground radio darlings the World and Grimms. In the U.K., he hosted the popular musical-comedy series "The Innes Book Of Records."

• Click here for audio clips and the track listing from Breakfast With A Rutle.
• Click here for photos from Neil's performance at the Hensel Phelps Auditorium in Greeley.

Sunday, October 17, 2004

FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

THE "ABBEY ROAD" ADVANCE ACETATE — We've had several dozen requests to play the alternate mono mix of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" LP, which made its way to several underground stations on the East Coast two months in advance of its release. It was on two one-sided acetates at 16 RPM and had poor fidelity and lots of distortion after being played a few times, but Breakfast was able to clean up a lot of the distortion and remove the scratches — restoring the full audio fidelity, however, was impossible. The most noticeable differences are the introduction to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," an extra set of vocals in "Because" and inclusion of "Her Majesty" in the "Sun King" medley, but there are many other differences in mix along the way.
  • Come Together
  • Something
  • Maxwell's Silver Hammer
  • Oh! Darling
  • Octopus's Garden
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy)
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • Because
  • You Never Give Me Your Money
  • Sun King
  • Mean Mr. Mustard
  • Her Majesty
  • Polythene Pam
  • She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
  • Golden Slumbers
  • Carry That Weight
  • The End
PAUL McCARTNEY AND... — A set of Paul's collaborations, put together by Amy Stillwater of Boulder:
  • What's That You're Doing?/Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
  • Voice/Heather Mills & Paul McCartney
  • Have You Got Problems?/Mike McGear & Paul McCartney
  • Little Children/Peter Kirtley Band with Paul McCartney
  • Get It/Paul McCartney & Carl Perkins
  • My Dark Hour/Steve Miller & Paul McCartney
The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 PREVIEW: THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 1 — Capitol Records will issue four of its 1964 Beatles LPs in both mono & stereo in a boxed set on November 16th. Here's the first Capitol album, "Meet The Beatles," in stereo (except *fake stereo):
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand*
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • This Boy*
  • It Won't Be Long
  • All I've Got To Do
  • All My Loving
  • Don't Bother Me
  • Little Child
  • Till There Was You
  • Hold Me Tight
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • Not A Second Time
MANIPULATING THE BEATLES — From an idea by Jeff Crone of Lakewood, a set of recordings which use actual audio from Beatles' songs:
  • Let's Do It (Excerpt from the bootleg disco medley that used actual Beatles recordings — the boot that inspired "Stars On 45.")
  • The Invasion/Buchanan & Greenfield (Only the DJ copy contained actual clips from "She Loves You" — the label was forced to replace the yeah-yeah-yeahs with Beatles impersonators in its public release.)
  • Free Now/Paul McCartney & Super Furry Animals with a rhythm track based on the "Think For Yourself" vocal session.
  • The Beatles' Movie Medley (EMI's lame attempt to promote "Reel Music" with a Stars On 45-style medley)
  • Tomorrow Revolves/Mark Samansky
LEGENDARY LENNON — We've had many requests for the alternate versions of John Lennon songs from the "Lennon Legend" DVD.
  • Power To The People (long version)
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night (long version)
  • Imagine (instrumental track)
  • Everybody Had A Hard Year

Sunday, October 10, 2004

LENNON INTERPRETATIONS — A set put together by Carole Stardt of Castle Rock:

LIVE BEATLES — A combinaton of live-recording sets suggested by Steve Rodgers of Denver and Chuck Williams of Boulder.
  • Some Other Guy (London)
  • You Can't Do That (Melbourne)
  • She's A Woman (Paris)
  • Long Tall Sally (Hollywood)
  • She Loves You (Stockholm)
  • I'm A Loser (Paris)
  • Till There Was You (London)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Hollywood)
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand (London)
  • A Hard Day's Night (Paris)
  • Roll Over Beethoven (Stockholm)
  • Baby's In Black (Hollywood)
  • Thank You Girl (London)
  • Twist & Shout (London)
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 3 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs — and the influential versions of the songs they covered — in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums. For part three, it's "A Hard Day's Night."
  • A Hard Day's Night/Peter Sellers
  • I Should Have Known Better/Naturals
  • If I Fell/Chet Atkins
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You/George Martin
  • And I Love Her/Bob Marley
  • Tell Me Why/Beach Boys
  • Can't Buy Me Love/Shenandoah
  • Any Time At All/Dweezil Zappa
  • I'll Cry Instead/Joe Cocker
  • Things We Said Today/Laurence Juber
  • When I Get Home/Brotherhood
  • You Can't Do That/Ian Gomm
  • I'll Be Back/Curtis Salgado

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SOLO B-SIDES — This set was put together by Christine Radcliffe of Westminster:
  • Daytime Nighttime Suffering/Paul
  • Deep Blue/George
  • Sally G/Paul
  • Meat City/John
  • I'll Give You A Ring/Paul
  • Zig Zag/George
  • Don't Be Cruel/Ringo
  • Flying To My Home/Paul
RECENT & FORTHCOMING RELEASES:
  • Yer Blues/Dirty Mac (John, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell; from "The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus," out Tuesday on DVD)
  • A Friend Like You/Brian Wilson & Paul (from Wilson's "Gettin' In Over My Head" CD)
  • Ain't That A Shame/John (from the remixed "Rock 'N' Roll," out November 2nd)

John Lennon Sunday, October 3, 2004

THE JOHN LENNON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

John would have been 64 on this coming Saturday.

This Mountain-exclusive special presents a chronology of rare versions of John's music along with interview clips, including excerpts from Archer's 1972 chat with John which are available nowhere else.

Sunday, September 26, 2004

THE U.S. STEREO "HELP!" LP — This is one of our biggest whole-album requests; many recent e-mailers wanted to hear the instrumentals by Ken Thorne included, as they were unique to the American album. It was Thorne's use of the sitar and other Indian instruments that got George interested in the music and culture of India. This scratchless, high-quality version of the U.S. "Help!" LP comes from a stereo reel-to-reel dub of the U.S. master, made for an L.A. movie theater by Capitol Records — and has much better fidelity than any vinyl pressings!

JOHN LENNON RELEASE PREVIEW — Previews from the remastered "Rock 'N' Roll" album and "Acoustic," both of which will be released November 2nd.
  • You Can't Catch Me (remix from "Rock 'N' Roll")
  • Imagine (live)/(from "Acoustic")
  • Do You Wanna Dance? (remix from "Rock 'N' Roll")
  • Cold Turkey (from "Acoustic")
  • Ya Ya (remix from "Rock 'N' Roll")
LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD — Breakfast With The Beatles gets a lot of requests for this 1973 LP, the last hit album by George in the Apple era. Musicians include Nicky Hopkins, Gary Wright, Klaus Voormann, Jim Horn, Zakir Hussein, Jim Keltner, Ringo Starr & Jim Gordon.
    Side 1
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
  • Sue Me, Sue You Blues
  • The Light That Has Lighted The World
  • Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
  • Who Can See It
  • Living In The Material World

    Side 2

  • The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord)
  • Be Here Now
  • Try Some Buy Some
  • The Day The World Gets 'Round
  • That Is All

  • PLUS ... Miss O'Dell (B-side of "Give Me Love")
BEATLES IN THE SKA WITH REGGAE — Some Jamaican-style covers of Beatles and solo-Beatles songs, assembled by Kenny Lohder of Denver:
  • Get Back/Anonymously Yours
  • In My Life/Jackie Robinson
  • Isn't It A Pity?/Nicky Hopkins
  • She Loves You/Hugh J
  • Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da/Heptones
  • Rain/Bim Skala Bim
  • You Won't See Me/Ernie Smith
  • Give Peace A Chance/Toots & The Maytals
MONO MIX RARITIES — from e-mail requests
  • Tomorrow Never Knows (U.K./U.S. mono LP)
  • I Call Your Name (U.K. mono EP)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (U.S. mono LP)

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 2 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs and the influential versions of the songs they covered, in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — for part two, it's "With The Beatles."

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MISMIXED "ROCK & ROLL MUSIC" LP — This June 1976 compilation featured remixed versions of many of the Beatles' rockers. The first version of the remix, done by EMI without consulting the fab four, annoyed George Martin so much he went into Capitol studios in Hollywood and remixed the tracks again. Martin's mix was released in the U.S., but the first pressings in the U.K. contained the so-called "mismixed" versions.
  • You Can't Do That (extra background vocals)
  • I Call Your Name (alternate vocals)
  • Boys (longer version)
  • Long Tall Sally (extra lead guitar licks)
  • Rock & Roll Music (alternate piano parts)
  • Slow Down (alternate piano track)
  • Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! (extra guitar tracks, curs off during fade)
  • Money (That's What I Want) (extra piano & percussion)
  • Bad Boy (alternate second guitar track, different type of vocal reverb)
  • Matchbox (extra vocals & guitar)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy (no echo on vocal, lead guitar differences)
  • Anytime At All (extra lead vocal track, loud keyboard mix)
  • Drive My Car (extra guitar licks audible in background)
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (alternate lead vocal)
  • The Night Before (extra vocals)
  • I'm Down (extra background vocals, no second lead guitar in background)
  • Revolution (both Nicky Hopkins' & John's keyboard solos audible)
  • Helter Skelter (extra sound effects and vocal bits)
  • Got To Get You Into My Life (extra horns during verses)
  • Hey Bulldog (extra chorus vocals, louder piano mix)
  • Birthday (alternate/extra vocals in places)
  • Get Back (louder electric piano & rhythm guitar)
CONCERT FOR GEORGE — catching up on requests for tracks from the audio CD and DVD.
  • Horse To The Water (DVD only)/Jools Holland, Sam Brown & Jim Capaldi
  • The Inner Light/Anoushka Shankar & Jeff Lynne
  • Handle With Care/Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison & the Heartbreakers
  • Isn't It A Pity? (longer DVD version)/Eric Clapton & Billy Preston
  • If I Needed Someone/Eric Clapton
  • Honey Don't/Ringo Starr
  • Old Brown Shoe/Gary Brooker
  • Something/Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton
  • All Things Must Pass/Paul McCartney
  • I WantTo Tell You/Jeff Lynne

Sunday, September 12, 2004

BEATLES & SOLO BEATLES MOVIE SOUNDTRACK SONGS

NEW RELEASES — Archer talked with Robert Harrison of Amnesty International of Canada's French language division about a new version of "Give Peace A Chance" recorded in the same Montreal hotel room as the original. [Click here for an MP3 audio excerpt from the interview.]

The 35th anniversary remake of "Give Peace A Chance" is being sold as a download benefiting Amnesty International at archambeault.ca. To see the web site in English, click the "English" button in the upper right hand corner of the page you're taken to.

  • Give Peace A Chance/Amnistie Internationale
  • Ain't That A Shame (remix)/John (from the forthcoming reissue of "Rock 'N' Roll")
  • Tropic Island Hum/Paul McCartney (newly-issued 45 from the "Animation Collection")

Sunday, September 5, 2004

The stereo U.S. ''Yesterday and Today'' LP THE STEREO U.S. "YESTERDAY & TODAY" LP — One of our most-requested U.S. LPs features alternate mixes of tracks from the UK "Help!," "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" albums, plus the best stereo mixes of "If I Needed Someone," "We Can Work It Out" and "Day Tripper."

THE BALLAD OF JOHN & YOKO — Maria Trask put together this set of songs about John & Yoko:
  • Ballad Of John & Yoko/Beatles
  • John & Yoko (excerpt from "Wedding Album")
  • Hold On/John
  • Local Plastic Ono Band/Elephant's Memory
  • Oh Yoko/John
  • John & Yoko on "The Mike Douglas Show"
  • You Are Here/John
  • John: He and Yoko are like Laurel & Hardy
  • Dear Yoko/John
Click here for the GEAR! page GEAR! VOL. 1 — Artist-designer-cartoonist-musician Scott Johnson of Sputnik Design Works came up with the concept of covers of Beatles' songs and the influential versions of the songs they covered, in the same order as the tracks on each of their original albums — starting with "Please Please Me."
  • I Saw Her Standing There/Laurence Juber
  • Misery/Kenny Lynch
  • Anna (Go To Him)/Arthur Alexander
  • Chains/Cookies
  • Boys/Shirelles
  • Ask Me Why/Electro Club
  • Please Please Me/Barnes & Barnes
  • Love Me Do/Ringo Starr
  • P.S. I Love You/Steven King
  • Baby It's You/Shirelles
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret?/Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
  • A Taste Of Honey/Lenny Welch
  • There's A Place/Flamin' Groovies
  • Twist And Shout/Isley Brothers

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OUR MOST-REQUESTED ALBUM SIDE — Side 2 of ABBEY ROAD:
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • Because
  • You Never Give Me Your Money
  • Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
  • Her Majesty
George's ''Deep Blue'' 45 MORE RARITY REQUESTS:
  • My Bonnie/Tony Sheridan & The Beatles (original UK single mix)
  • Be My Baby/John Lennon (from the Adam VIII "Roots" collection)
  • Only A Northern Song/Beatles (original mono mix used for production of the "Yellow Submarine" film)
  • Deep Blue/George (B-side of the "Bangla Desh" 45)
  • I'm So Tired/Beatles (alternate mix with "distant guitar")
  • I'm Looking Through You (U.S. stereo version w/false starts & extra guitar)
  • Your Mother Should Know (alternate mono mix used for production of the "Magical Mystery Tour" film)
  • I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra/Paul (from the "Brand New Boots And Panties" tribute to Ian Dury)
  • Penny Lane (U.S. DJ version)

Sunday, August 29, 2004

LIVE IN SWEDEN — The Beatles' October 1963 performance for Sveriges Radio in Stockholm is considered one of their best live recordings. Five of the seven songs turned up on the "Anthology 1" CD, but they were out of sequence and some dialogue was edited.

HOMEGROWN COVERS — Another set of Beatles covers by local musicians, kicked off by Incognito performing in the Mountain Music Room:
  • No More Lonely Nights/Incognito
  • Don't Bother Me/Danny Colfax Mallon
  • Yes It Is/The Deafaids
  • And I Love Her/Paul Thomas
  • Norwegian Wood/Jock Bartley & Steven Weinmeister of Firefall
  • I Will/Ben Taylor (He's appearing with his sister Sally and Uncle Liv at tonight's benefit for the Tranquility Project at Chatauqua. The charity is working to remove landmines from southeast Asia and provide relief for the innocent victims of them.)
BEATLES ROCKERS — Seth Linton suggested this set of the fab four's more intense numbers:
  • I'm Down
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey
  • Helter Skelter
  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Leave My Kitten Alone
  • Long Tall Sally
  • Revolution
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Michael Palin of Monty Python at the Concert For George FREAKY SINGLES — Aaron Schiff wanted to hear some rare single mixes and Breakfast With The Beatles was able to dig up most of them:
  • All Together Now (German 45 mix)
  • Get Back (UK mono 45 mix)
  • Nowhere Man (US 45 mix)
  • I Feel Fine (US 45 mix)
  • Don't Let Me Down (UK 45 mix)
  • The Beatles Movie Medley (US 45)
  • Hey Jude (mono US DJ edit; this was distributed only on a reel tape to major market stations which requested a shorter version)
RECENT RELEASES:
  • Eleanor Rigby/Rick Wakeman (from his new "Revisited" CD)
  • Temporary Secretary (2004 remix)/Paul McCartney (from the "Glastonbury Groove" compilation)
  • Lumberjack Song/Monty Python (from The Concert For George DVD)
  • If I Needed Someone/Madoo (From "A Tribute From India")
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night/John Lennon (long version from the "Legend" DVD)
  • I Don't Want To Do It/George Harrison (from the remastered "Porky's Revenge" soundtrack)
CATCHING UP ON SOLO RARITIES — compiled from e-mail requests:
  • (Just Like) Starting Over/John (long version from advance DJ copy)
  • Rainclouds/Paul (B-side of "Ebony & Ivory")
  • Save The World/George (Greenpeace remix)
  • Running Free/Ringo (from the UK TV production "Scouse The Mouse")

Sunday, August 22, 2004

THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY AT RED ROCKS SPECIAL — Celebrating the Beatles' sole visit to Colorado on August 26th, 1964, with American vinyl, archival audio and reminiscences from some of the people involved. 99.5 The Mountain welcomes "1964 — The Tribute" to Red Rocks Thursday night, in a benefit concert for KBDI-TV, channel 12. Tickets are retro-priced at $15 and available from Ticketmaster.

Sunday, August 16, 2004

GRAND PRIX MINI-SET — suggested by Bart Frick.

John Lennon's copy of Dr. Feelgood's ''Mr. Moonlight'' THE BEATLES' R&B; ROOTS — Smokey Robinson joined Archer on the Mountain's morning show Friday, so his comment on the Beatles covering one of his songs kicks off this set put together by listener Barry Schiff of Aurora.
  • Smokey Robinson on the Beatles covering "You Really Got A Hold On Me"
  • You Really Got A Hold On Me/Miracles
  • Bad Boy/Larry Williams
  • Baby It's You/Shirelles
  • Mr. Moonlight/Dr. Feelgood & the Interns
  • Roll Over Beethoven/Chuck Berry
  • Please Mr. Postman/Marvelettes
  • Devil In His Heart/Donays
  • Twist & Shout/Isley Brothers
"COLOUR ME BLUE" — That's the title given this set of "blue" songs by its creator, Ernie Stokes of Westminster:
  • Out The Blue/John
  • Bluebird/Paul & Wings
  • New Blue Moon/Traveling Wilburys
  • a Blue Meanie's confession
  • Blue Suede Shoes/John
  • Deep Blue/George
GIVING THEIR ALL — This set is all Beatlish all the time, with song titles that start with the word "all," courtesy of of Elaine Presmann of Denver.
  • All My Loving/Beatles
  • All You Horseriders/Paul
  • All I've Got To Do/Beatles
  • All Things Must Pass/George
  • All My Trials/Paul
  • All Together Now/Beatles
  • All Those Years Ago/George
  • All Shook Up/Paul
  • All You Need Is Love/Beatles
SOLO BEATLES COVERING THE BEATLES — Rita Perez came up with this set of post-Beatles Beatles playing Beatles tunes:
  • Come Together/John
  • Not Guilty/George
  • I Call Your Name/Ringo
  • Eleanor Rigby/Eleanor's Dream/Paul
  • I Saw Her Standing There/John
  • For You Blue/George
  • Love Me Do/Ringo
  • Strawberry Fields Forever/Help!/Give Peace A Chance/Paul
The U.S. ''Eight Days A Week'' single ORIGINAL SINGLE VERSIONS — A set of much-requested single-only mixes of Beatles songs.
  • Eight Days A Week (US)
  • Baby You're A Rich Man (UK)
  • I'll Cry Instead (US)
  • Lady Madonna (US/UK)
  • Nowhere Man (US)
  • Get Back (UK)
  • I Am The Walrus (US)
  • Day Tripper (US/UK)
  • And I Love Her (US DJ)
  • Slow Down (US)

Sunday, August 8, 2004

Yellow Submarine SUBMARINE TRACKS — Apple's illustrated children's book, The Yellow Submarine Book, was released in the U.S. this week. To celebrate, here are selected tracks from "The Yellow Submarine Songtrack," along with voice clips from the movie:

THE MONO MIX OF SGT. PEPPER — George Martin and the Beatles spent days and days mixing the mono version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," yet the stereo version was passed off to underlings. There are many subtle differences between the two, making the mono LP a sought-after item, but the album's sound was a bit muddy on vinyl. For the first time ever on radio, Breakfast With The Beatles brings you the mono version directly from a dub of Capitol's master tape, which was prepared for a Pacific Northwest radio station in 1967 — but never broadcast. It's the highest-fidelity version of the mono "Pepper" you may ever hear, and 99.5 The Mountain plays the album in its entirety.
    Side 1
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (less reverb on brass, prominent lead guitar during the link to the next song)
  • With A Little Help From My Friends (differently-mixed background vocals)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (extra background vocals and phase effects)
  • Getting Better (extra background vocals)
  • Fixing A Hole (different guitar tracks and a longer fadeout)
  • She's Leaving Home (different orchestral and vocal tracks)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (different effects mix)

    Side 2

  • Within You Without You (different orchestral portions and tabla tracks)
  • When I'm Sixty Four (different background vocals)
  • Lovely Rita (different vocal portions and echo effects)
  • Good Morning Good Morning (different sound effects, more phasing effects)
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (diffrent sound effects and count-in, Paul's screaming ad lib is moved to the front of the mix)
  • A Day In The Life (different orchestral mixes and vocal echo effects)

"LET IT BE" ON DVD! — The director/producer in charge of restoring the film tells 99.5 the Mountain it WILL be issued on DVD. Here's a set of tracks from the sessions:

  • Bob Smeaton on the progress of restoring "Let It Be"
  • Oh! Darling
  • One After 909
  • Don't Let Me Down
  • She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
  • I've Got A Feeling
  • For You Blue
  • I Lost My Little Girl
  • Long & Winding Road
  • Alan Parsons on the "Let It Be" sessions
  • Get Back
  • Rip It Up
  • Shake, Rattle & Roll
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • Blues Machine
  • Two Of Us
  • Because I Know You Love Me So
  • Get Back
  • High Heel Sneakers
  • Let It Be
MORE RARITIES — Fulfilling more e-mail requests:
  • Looking For You/Paul McCartney, Jeff Lynne & Ringo Starr
  • Meat City (single version)/John Lennon
  • Soldier Of Love (with complete ending)/Beatles
  • Flying Hour/George Harrison

Sunday, August 1, 2004

The ''Imagine: John Lennon'' soundtrack CD "IMAGINE: JOHN LENNON" — Breakfast With The Beatles has received lots of requests for the soundtrack from the 1988 Andrew Solt documentary on John Lennon. It was the first authorized compilation to mix John's Beatles songs with his solo work. It included two previously-unreleased tracks, an alternate mix of "Stand By Me" and the first U.S. release of the clean-intro version of "A Day In the Life."

October 1969 ''Beatles Again'' test pressing ANOTHER "BEATLES AGAIN" — Here's another "mock-up" of the U.S. compilation that evolved into "Hey Jude." This version has four more tracks than the June 1969 prototype and found its way to a New York radio station in October of 1969. All 16 of the EMI tracks that had not been on Capitol albums are represented, but most of the stereo mixes are nothing more than the mono versions with stereo reverb added. Of course, by the time the official "Hey Jude" came out in 1970, it had been reduced to 10 tracks and bore true stereo mixes.
    Side 1
  • There's A Place (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Misery (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • From Me To You (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Can't Buy Me Love (true stereo mix)
  • A Hard Day's Night (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • I Should Have Known Better (true stereo mix)
  • I'm Down (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Paperback Writer (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Rain (mono mix with stereo reverb added)

    Side 2

  • Lady Madonna (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • The Inner Light (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Hey Jude (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Revolution (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • Don't Let Me Down (mono mix with stereo reverb added)
  • The Ballad Of John & Yoko (true stereo mix)
  • Old Brown Shoe (true stereo mix)
HOMEGROWN BEATLES COVERS — Here's a set of our most-requested Beatles covers performed by area musicians:

Sunday, July 25, 2004

THE MONO "RAM" LP — Paul & Linda McCartney's 1971 "Ram" album had a technical problem: it was mastered in stereo on a tape machine that wasn't tracking correctly. The result is obvious in all the stereo releases, even on CD — if you listen to the stereo tracks in mono, you can hear the tape mistracking. As most of America's music radio stations were still mono in 1971, it was decided to do a mono remix of the album for U.S. DJ copies only. The quickly-done remix has many differences from the stereo — especially among the vocal and guitar tracks.

CLAPTON COLLABORATIONS — Brian Trew put together this set to commemorate Eric Clapton's appearance in Denver last night:
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Beatles
  • Cold Turkey (live in Toronto)/Plastic Ono Band
  • Badge/Cream
  • Something/Paul & Eric
  • That Kind Of Woman/Eric & George
The Traveling Wilburys THE TRAVELING WILBURYS — The Mountain gets a seemingly endless amount of e-mails asking for Traveling Wilburys sets.

    WILBURY FACTS:
    1. The supergroup began in 1988 when George and Jeff Lynne asked Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison to collaborate on a B-side for George's "When We Was Fab" single. Their first song, "Handle With Care," was taken from a sticker on a crate George spotted in Dylan's garage, where they wrote and recorded the demo.
    2. "Handle With Care" was such a strong song, the quintet decided to secretly record an album under assumed names.
    3. Who's who?
      • Nelson/Spike - George Harrison
      • Charlie T. Jr./Muddy - Tom Petty
      • Lefty - Roy Orbison
      • Lucky/Boo - Bob Dylan
      • Otis/Clayton - Jeff Lynne
    4. George came up with the name "Wilburys," based on the nickname for technical glitches that had popped up during his recording sessions for "Cloud Nine."
    5. Bob Dylan came up with the "traveling" part; the original name was going to be the Trembling Wilburys.
    6. Derek Taylor came up with the concept of a group made up of half-brothers born to a traveling salesman. Taylor commissioned Michael Palin to create the full story for the liner notes.
    7. Had Roy Orbison not died shortly after the release of the first album, the TWs would have toured.
    8. Del Shannon was to replace Roy Orbison in the TWs, but suffered from depression and committed suicide. George & Tom had nicknamed him Larry Wilbury, as in Hats Off To Larry.
    9. The second album, without a fifth Wilbury, was named "Vol. 3" to honor the "Vol. 2" with Shannon that was never to be realized.
  • Handle With Care (12" version)
  • Dirty World
  • Rattled
  • Last Night
  • Heading For The Light
  • End Of The Line (12" version)
  • Nobody's Child (with Del Shannon, charity 45)
  • She's My Baby
  • Inside Out
  • The Devil's Been Busy
  • New Blue Moon (instrumental version, from B-side of Wilbury Twist)
  • Wilbury Twist
  • Runaway (B-side of She's My Baby in the UK)
RARITY REQUESTS — Catching up on our boatload of requests for specific Beatles' rarities:
  • I Am The Walrus (U.S. 45 version)
  • Suzy Parker (film soundtrack from "Let It Be" sessions)
  • Yesterday (without orchestration)
  • You Like Me Too Much (UK EP version)
  • I'm So Tired ("distant guitar" version)
  • Free As A Bird (complete version)

Sunday, July 18, 2004

THE MONO BRITISH "HELP!" LP — Except for DJ copies, the American mono "Help!" album contained the stereo versions mixed into mono. But in England, the mono mixes were different than their stereo counterparts — not to mention the album had 14 Beatles songs instead of 7.

APPLE CART — Mondo Chuck put together this mondo set of songs released on the Beatles' Apple label, some of which he has not found after decades of collecting:
  • Don't Talk Now/James Taylor
  • I've Got A Feeling/Billy Preston
  • And Her Daddy's A Millionaire/Iveys
  • Sour Milk Sea/Jackie Lomax
  • Local Plastic Ono Band/Elephant's Memory
  • Get Back/Doris Troy
  • Hare Krishna Mantra/London Radha Krishna Temple
  • Crimson Ship/Badfinger
  • That's The Way God Planned It/Billy Preston
  • Goodbye/Mary Hopkin
  • God Save Us/Elastic Oz Band
  • Carolina In My Mind/James Taylor
  • Ain't That Cute/Doris Troy
RECENT RELEASES:
  • Temporary Secretary (Radioslave Mix)/Paul (from the Uncut magazine bonus CD)
  • Power To The People/John (long version from the "Lennon Legend" DVD)
  • Tears Of The World/George (bonus cut on the "33 And A Third" reissue)
  • Blink/Ringo (from the deluxe edition of "Ringo Rama")
  • Maggie May/Fancy Me Chances/Beatles (from the "Fly On The Wall" bonus disc)
EXTRAORDINARY COVERS — Cover versions of Beatles songs that take the songs to different levels. SUN SET — Breakfast With The Beatles listeners Audrey Shepherd and Jace both submitted sets of songs about the sun; here's a combination of their sets:
  • Here Comes The Sun/Beatles
  • Sunshine Life For Me/Ringo
  • Sun King/Beatles
  • Hot As Sun/Paul
  • I'll Follow The Sun/Beatles

Sunday, July 11, 2004

THE RINGO STARR BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Ringo turned 64 on Wednesday, and yes, we'll still need him, yes, we'll still feed him. This is the debut of 99.5 The Mountain's exclusive Ringo special, spanning his Beatles and solo careers. Click here for the track list.

Sunday, July 4, 2004

AN ALL-AMERICAN BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES — for the Independence Day weekend, Breakfast brings the Colonies and Crown together: American music done by Britain's most successful export. The Beatles loved American music, from country (Buck Owens) to rhythm & blues (Chuck Berry) to rockabilly (Carl Perkins) to rock (Gene Vincent) to pop (Elvis) to Broadway (Meredith Willson). It's exemplified by the amount of covers they did as a group and as individuals — too many to fit into three hours! Special thanks to Tanker Whitman of Boulder for the original suggestion.

Sunday, June 27, 2004

The ''high fidelity'' version of the U.S. ''A Hard Day's Night'' album. THE AMERICAN "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT" LP — United Artists' unique version of the album was released 40 years ago yesterday. Here's the mono version of this mix of Beatles' cuts and George Martin instrumentals, including alternate mixes of "Tell Me Why," "I'll Cry Instead" and "And I Love Her." UA called its mono records "high fidelity," but that's certainly not the case with this LP, which used second-generation copies of the Beatles tapes that had been given to the film's producers.

BEATLES FASHION — John Portnoy of Denver put together this set of songs about articles of clothing:
  • Baby's In Black/Beatles
  • Cuff Link/Wings
  • Heart On My Sleeve/Ringo
  • Old Brown Shoe/Beatles
  • Polythene Pam/Beatles
  • Hi Heel Sneakers/Paul
  • Blue Suede Shoes/John
  • Yes It Is/Beatles
  • Dress Me Up As A Robber/Paul
PAUL IN CONCERT — Karen Stills put together some of her favorite live recordings by Paul McCartney to commemorate Macca playing the 3,000th concert of his lifetime during his recent European tour.
  • Let Me Roll It (from "Back In The U.S.")
  • We Can Work It Out (from "Unplugged")
  • My Brave Face (from "Tripping The Live Fantastic")
  • Magneto & Titanium Man (from "Wings Over America")
  • Drive My Car (from "Paul Is Live")
  • Vanilla Sky (from "Back In The U.S.")
  • Coming Up (from the 45)
REQUESTED RARE COVERS:
  • Get Back/Rod Stewart (from the "All This And World War Two" soundtrack)
  • Imagine/Elton John (from a 1990 John Lennon tribute concert)
  • I'll Follow The Sun/Glyn Johns (1965 single)
  • Blackbird/CSN (from their Apple audition tape)
  • Instant Karma/Toad The Wet Sprocket (from a 1995 CD single)
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand/Moving Sidewalks (1967 single)
  • Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill/Young Blood (1969 single)
  • Help!/U2 (from a 1990 John Lennon tribute concert)
  • Oh My Love/Wackers (1972 single)
  • I'll Cry Instead/Joe Cocker (1964 single)
LENNON LIVE — This set of John Lennon solo performances was put together by Jim Creighton of Boulder:
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night (with Elton John at Madison Square Garden)
  • Come Together (from the second One-To-One show at Madison Square Garden)
  • Yer Blues (from the "Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus" pilot)
  • Imagine (at the Apollo Theater, New York)
  • Cold Turkey (at the Lyceum Ballroom, London)

Sunday, June 20, 2004

REMEMBERING RAY...

PURE POETRY - Jim Nell of Boulder suggested this set of songs in which, he says, "the lyrics for each tune stand up by themselves as great poems."
  • Things We Said Today/Beatles
  • The Pound Is Sinking/Paul McCartney
  • Across The Universe/Beatles
  • Paul on writing "Getting Better" with John
  • Getting Better/Beatles
  • Cry Baby Cry/Beatles
  • Give Me Some Truth/John Lennon
BY GEORGE — Amy Schultz assembled this set of George Harrison songs performed by others: INSTRUMENTALS — This set was put together by John Copley of Denver:
  • Paul on "Cry For A Shadow"
  • Cry For A Shadow/Beatles
  • Zoo Gang/Wings
  • Badfinger Boogie/Beatles
  • Hari's On Tour (Express)/George
  • Cat's Walk/Beatles
  • Beef Jerky/John
  • Flying/Beatles
  • Eleanor Rigby (strings only)/Beatles
  • Marwa Blues/George
"THE BEATLES' HOTTEST HITS" LP — We've had over a hundred requests to play this super-rare 1965 compilation LP, which was released only in Denmark. A collection of 1962-1965 non-album tracks, "Hottest Hits" is considered by many to be the highest-fidelity pressing of any vinyl Beatles compilation — the high frequencies and bass notes are remarkably clear — and Breakfast With The Beatles brings you a pristine copy. The cover art for "Hottest Hits" helps make it a valuable collectible, too — it bears a unique picture of the fab four dressed in winter garb. Click on the album cover to see a detailed view.
    Side One
  • I Feel Fine
  • I Call Your Name
  • I'll Get You
  • From Me To You
  • This Boy
  • She Loves You

    Side Two

  • Long Tall Sally
  • Thank You Girl
  • Matchbox
  • She's A Woman
  • Slow Down
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand
DEMOS — Compiled from many various requests, here are some of the Beatles' song demo recordings:
  • Seventeen/Beatles
  • Dark Horse/George
  • Bad To Me/Beatles
  • God Save Oz/John
  • Maxine/George, Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne
  • Suicide/Paul

Chris Farley & Paul McCartney Sunday, June 13, 2004

PAUL TURNS 62 THIS COMING FRIDAY — "Breakfast" celebrates with our annual Paul McCartney Birthday Special featuring the words and music of Paul McCartney, spanning his Beatles and solo careers. Lots of rarities and exclusive interview clips are featured. Click here for the track listing.

Sunday, June 6, 2004

LONG VERSIONS — "Breakfast With The Beatles" receives hundreds of e-mails from across the Front Range asking for the "long versions" of many Beatles and solo Beatles songs:

Sunday, May 30, 2004

Paul McCartney Rocks PAUL McCARTNEY ROCKS — This compilation CD was put together in 1990 by Capitol and MPL Communications especially for rock radio stations. The rock world seemed to be abandoning Paul because of his mega-pop hits of the eighties, so Paul thought a rock compilation would help promote his edgy "Flowers In The Dirt" LP. The album contains two cuts from the "Flowers In The Dirt" album, two cuts from the Russian album, six single sides and the title cut from "Band On The Run," all digitally remixed for this sampler. "Paul McCartney Rocks" was never released to the public. Thanks to all the people — including Armand Cello of Boulder — who suggested we dig out this CD.

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM RINGO — Tracks on which Ringo Starr guests, suggested by Tim Shreve of Boulder:
  • Alright/Peter Frampton
  • Daybreak/Harry Nilsson
  • Solid Gold/Keith Moon
  • Delta Lady/Leon Russell
  • California Calling/Beach Boys
MORE BEATLES RARITIES BY REQUEST:
  • Ballad Of John & Yoko (advance radio mono mix)
  • Thank You Girl (stereo version)
  • I'm A Loser (BBC version with alternate lyrics: "beneath this wig I am wearing a tie")
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (alternate mix with extra noise tracks and complete word "having")
  • Every Little Thing (basic version from acatate)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (alternate effects and vocals)
Incognito in the Mountain Music Room SPECIAL SEGMENT: THE BRITISH INVASION — The bands that followed the Beatles on to the American charts, with commentary from special guest Rod Gerrard. Rod is part of Incognito, a new, informal band that makes its debut Friday night at 10 at Denver's Hard Rock Cafe. The rest of the band file into the Mountain Music Room to perform a semi-acoustic version of a Traveling Wilburys song. Performing on "Handle With Care" are: Larry Sims (Sunshine Company, Loggins & Messina, the Spencer Davis Group), Tom Murray (the Litter, the Castaways), Rod Gerrard (the Hermits, the Mindbenders, the Outrage), Paul Thomas and Dave Webb.
  • Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders/Game Of Love (45 version)
  • Kinks/You Really Got Me (45 version)
  • Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas/Bad To Me (45 version)
  • Rolling Stones/It's All Over Now (45 version)
  • Zombies/Tell Her No (stereo version)
  • Dave Clark Five/Bits & Pieces (45 version)
  • Honeycombs/Have I The Right? (45 version)
  • Searchers/Needles & Pins (45 version)
  • Animals/House Of The Rising Sun (LP version)
  • Manfred Mann/5-4-3-2-1 (45 version)
  • Peter & Gordon/A World Without Love (stereo version)
  • Swingin' Blue Jeans/You're No Good (45 version)
  • Gerry & The Pacemakers/How Do You Do It (stereo version)
  • Incognito/Handle With Care

Sunday, May 23, 2004

British EPs THE VINYL BRITISH EPs, PART 2 — Breakfast With The Beatles continues the original vinyl 45 RPM Extended Play discs released in England:

PRODUCED BY GEORGE HARRISON — A set from Arnie celebrating the "other" producer named George:
  • I Am Missing You/Ravi Shankar, Family & Friends
  • Hey Brother/Billy Preston
  • Little Yellow Pills/Jackie Lomax
  • It Don't Come Easy/Ringo Starr
  • Gravy Train/Splinter
  • I'd Die, Babe/Badfinger
  • Lumberjack Song (single version)/Monty Python
E-MAIL QUESTIONS, AUDIO ANSWERS — Here are some tracks that answer questions "Breakfast" has gotten via e-mail:
  • Q: John, George & Paul each sing a lead vocal on "Free As A Bird" but is there a song on which all four, including Ringo trade lead vocals? — Amy
  • A: Just one, "Shout!" — recorded for the ITV special "Around The Beatles."

  • Q: Paul sang "Get It" with Carl Perkins on his "Tug Of War" album, but I remember reading in Perkins' obituary that he and Paul recorded another song together called "My Old Friend." Was this ever released? — Becker in Brighton
  • A: "My Old Friend" was part of an all-star 1996 Carl Perkins duets album called "Go Cat Go!" George Harrison and Ringo Starr also did duets with Perkins on the CD.

  • Q: I'd really like to hear the original mono single mix of "Hey Jude" but I have a question. When "Hey Jude" came out I worked at a small radio station in Maine and I would swear our copy of "Hey Jude" was on Capitol, not Apple. Is this possible? - "Tall Paul" Michaels
  • A: Very possible, if you worked in radio. Capitol didn't have enough copies of the single ready for their advance release to radio, so some stations in smaller markets were shipped a Mexican copy of the record, which was on a Capitol "swirl" label.

  • Q: In the mid-seventies a radio station I listened to in Boston played a different version of "I'm Down." It was in stereo and had extra background vocals. Have you ever heard of such a version?
  • A: Actually, this strange stereo mix of "I'm Down" was slipped to a few radio stations in advance of the release of the "Rock & Roll Music" compilation. This particular mix never showed up on any form of the album.

  • Q: I've been told that "Her Majesty" was originally in between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" on "Abbey Road." - Christine Whitley of Lafayette
  • A: Yes it was, as you can hear on an alternate mix of the "Abbey Road" medley from a personal acetate made of "Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window."

  • Q: I used to have all the stereo Beatles albums and it seems to me that there wasn't all that echo on John's voice in "Dizzy Miss Lizzy." Am I dreaming? — Niles Carpenter
  • A: No you're not! When the British "Help!" album was mixed digitally for CD, an echo was added to John's voice. The echo is not used on any of the vinyl versions, mono or stereo.

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Steven Weinmeister, Archer, Jock Bartley JOCK & STEVEN FROM FIREFALL — To celebrate Firefall's induction into the Hard Rock Cafe's Colorado Rock Hall Of Fame this afternoon, Steven Weinmeister & Jock Bartley stopped by to perform some Beatles tunes in the Mountain Music Room. The full band (Jock, Steven, Chris Ball, Bil Hopkins and Sandy Ficca) will perform as part of the ceremony from 3 to 6 PM today at the Hard Rock Cafe on 16th in downtown Denver. The cover charge is $10 and you can get in starting at 2:30 PM. Jock & Steven performed:

THE VINYL BRITISH EPs — Breakfast With The Beatles plays the original vinyl 45 RPM Extended Play discs released in England:
  • Twist And Shout (July 1963)
    • Twist and Shout
    • A Taste of Honey
    • Do You Want To Know A Secret
    • There's A Place
  • The Beatles' Hits (September 1963)
    • From Me To You
    • Thank You Girl
    • Please Please Me
    • Love Me Do
  • The Beatles No. 1 (November 1963)
    • I Saw Her Standing There
    • Misery
    • Anna
    • Chains
  • All My Loving (February 1964)
    • All My Loving
    • Ask Me Why
    • Money
    • P.S. I Love You
  • Long Tall Sally (June 1964)
    • Long Tall Sally
    • I Call Your Name
    • Slow Down
    • Matchbox
  • A Hard Day's Night No. 1 (November 1964)British EPs
    • I Should Have Known Better
    • If I Fell
    • Tell Me Why
    • And I Love Her
  • A Hard Day's Night No. 2 (November 1964)
    • Anytime At All
    • I'll Cry Instead
    • Things We Said Today
    • When I Get Home
  • Beatles For Sale No. 1 (April 1965)
    • No Reply
    • I'm A Loser
    • Rock and Roll Music
    • Eight Days A Week
  • Beatles For Sale No. 2 (June 1965)
    • I'll Follow The Sun
    • Baby's In Black
    • Words Of Love
    • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
  • Beatles' Million Sellers (December 1965)
    • She Loves You
    • I Want To Hold Your Hand
    • Can't Buy Me Love
    • I Feel Fine
  • Yesterday (March 1966)
    • Yesterday
    • Act Naturally
    • You Like Me Too Much
    • It's Only Love
    ... the last six EPs will open the show next week ...

Sunday, May 9th, 2004

MOTHER'S DAY SET:

PAUL'S BRO — Amy Whitehall asked for a set featuring Paul's brother, Mike McGear:

  • Thank U Veddy Much/Scaffold
  • Leave It/Mike McGear
  • Take It While You Can/G.R.I.M.M.S. (John Gorman, Andy Roberts, Neil Innes, Mike McGear, Roger McGough, Vivian Stanshall)
  • Nuclear Band/Scaffold
  • What Do We Really Know?/Mike McGear
  • Liverpool Lou/Scaffold
  • Have You Got Problems?/Mike McGear
RINGO RARITIES:
  • I Call Your Name (w/Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Jeff Lynne & Jim Keltner)
  • Mr. Double-It-Up (B-side)
  • Don't Be Cruel (B-side)
  • Blink (from the "Ringo Rama" deluxe edition)
  • Runnin' Free (from "Scouse The Mouse" cartoon)
  • Everday (B-side)
  • She's About A Mover (unreleased US advance single mix)
UP PERISCOPE YELLOW: SPECIAL GUEST AL BRODAX — The producer & co-writer of the animated classic documents the 11-month whirlwind of making the film in his new book, "Up Periscope Yellow." Al shares some behind-the-scenes stories with 99.5 The Mountain:
  • Al Brodax: "Yellow Sub" was intended to fulfill a contractual obligation
  • Yellow Submarine
  • [MP3 AUDIO] Al Brodax: The Beatles became quite involved in creation of the film
  • All Together Now
  • Al Brodax: switching gears from the cheaply-made Beatles TV cartoons to a high-quality feature
  • It's All Too Much
  • Hey Bulldog
  • soundtrack: a capella "Think For Yourself"
  • Only A Northern Song
  • Al Brodax: doing the film in eleven months for one million dollars
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Al Brodax: his favorite segment
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
  • Nowhere Man
MORE REQUESTED RARITIES:
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (US DJ version which doesn't fully fade out)
  • I'll Get You (full-fidelity BBC master retrieved from a trash dumpster)
  • Help! (acoustic mix from an unused tape reduction)
  • Because (a capella version without digital reverb)
  • One After 909 (fully completed 1963 version)
  • Get Back (fast version from magnetic film soundtrack)
  • Here Comes The Sun (mono mix from advance US DJ copy of "Abbey Road")
  • I Should Have Known Better (stereo remix from the US "Reel Music" LP)
  • Child Of Nature (demo of the song which became "Jealous Guy")
  • Pop Go The Beatles (long version of the BBC theme)
  • Across The Universe (backwards guitar & "monk chorus" mix)
  • Getting Better (alternate vocals & bass from advance acetate)

Click here for info. Sunday, May 2, 2004

SONGS FROM '64 — To celebrate the announcement of "1964 - The Tribute" coming to Red Rocks on the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' appearance there, here's a set of Beatles songs that were all over the radio from January to August 1964.

MORE RARITIES:
  • Free Now/Paul (DJ promo mix)
  • It's All Too Much (long version from DJ copies of the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack")
  • Flying (longer mono mix)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (mono mix)
  • Long Long Long (alternate mix)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (completed mix of version one)
SOLO & A CAPELLA — Rush Jensen suggested a set of solo instrumental and a capella Beatles covers:
  • Ballad Of John & Yoko/Persuasions
  • Love You To/Steven King (KingOfGuitar.net)
  • Tomorrow Never Knows/Five O'Clock Shadow
  • Think For Yourself/Danny Colfax Mallon
  • I Am The Walrus/Tufts Beezlebubs
  • She Came In Through The Bathroom Window/Goran Sollscher
ORIGINAL "CLOUD NINE" — We've had lots of requests to play the alternate vinyl mix of "Cloud Nine." Its audio varies from its CD counterpart and the new remix in George's "Dark Horse" boxed set:
    Side 1
  • Cloud 9
  • That's What It Takes
  • Fish On The Sand
  • Just For Today
  • This Is Love
  • When We Was Fab

    Side 2

  • Devil's Radio
  • Someplace Else
  • Wreck Of The Hesperus
  • Breath Away From Heaven
  • Got My Mind Set On You
RECENT RELEASES — A set of the Beatles and solo Beatles material that has been released in recent months.
  • OK Ray/Ringo (from the deluxe edition of "Ringo Rama")
  • Tears Of The World/George (from the remastered "33 And A Third")
  • Don't Let Me Down/Beatles (from "Let It Be...Naked")
  • Power To The People (long version)/John (from the "Lennon Legend" DVD)
  • Blue Moon Of Kentucky/Paul, George & Ringo (from the "Anthology" DVD)
  • A Love For You/Paul (from the "In-Laws" soundtrack)
  • Maggie May/Fancy Me Chances/Beatles (from the "Fly On The Wall" disc)
  • Photograph/Ringo (from "The Concert For George")

Sunday, April 25, 2004

Carl Perkins ROCKABILLY SESSION — Carl Perkins celebrated his 30th year in rock & roll in 1985 with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds and others, videotaped for pay TV. These cuts come from a promotional audio CD released to radio stations at the time. A year later, Perkins was inducted into the Rock Hall Of Fame. He died in 1998.

GEORGE GOES TO THE MOVIES — The Bob Dylan-penned and Dave Edmunds-produced "I Don't Want To Do It" by George will be released on CD this coming Tuesday. It's part of a "Porky's Revenge" remaster ... one of three classic Edmunds CDs being reissued. Starting with that song, here's a set of George Harrison soundtrack songs:
  • I Don't Want To Do It (from "Porky's Revenge")
  • Wonderwall To Be Here (from "Wonderwall")
  • Cheer Down (long version; from "Lethal Weapon 2")
  • Hottest Gong In Town ("Dark Horse" box version, from "Shanghai Surprise")
  • Dream Away (from "Time Bandits")
  • Skiing/Gat Kirwani (from "Wonderwall")
  • Bangla Desh (from "The Concert For Bangla Desh")
LIVE PEACE, SIDE 1 — Side one of "Live Peace In Toronto 1969" contained the six rock numbers from the Plastic Ono Band's appearance at Varsity Stadium in Toronto on September 13th, 1969. John & Yoko were backed by Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Alan White.
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • Money
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Yer Blues
  • Cold Turkey
  • Give Peace A Chance
DO IT IN THE ROAD:
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road?/Beatles
  • Lonely Road/Paul
  • Old Dirt Road/John
  • Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go/Ringo
  • Long & Winding Road/Beatles
  • Any Road/George
BEATLES '65, IN STEREO — Released just 10 days before Christmas 1964, "Beatles '65" contained eight songs* from the "Beatles For Sale" LP, a leftover track from the British version of "A Hard Day's Night" and two single sides. Only "She's A Woman" and "I Feel Fine" are currently available in stereo on CD.
  • No Reply*
  • I'm A Loser*
  • Baby's In Black*
  • Rock & Roll Music*
  • I'll Follow The Sun*
  • Mr. Moonlight* (slightly longer stereo mix)
  • Honey Don't*
  • I'll Be Back (alternate stereo mix)
  • She's A Woman (fake stereo)
  • I Feel Fine (fake stereo)
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby*

    Plus...

  • I'm A Loser (alternate take)

Sunday, April 18, 2004

ANIMATION COLLECTION — With the release of Paul McCartney's "Music & Animation Collection" earlier this week, the Mountain puts together a set of Beatle-involved animation songs:

THE STEREO AMERICAN "HELP!" ALBUM — "Ticket To Ride" is in rechanneled stereo; the other six stereo Beatles tracks are mixed differently than their CD counterparts:
  • Help! (with James Bond Theme intro by Ken Thorne)
  • The Night Before
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Need You
  • Another Girl
  • Ticket To Ride
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl
THE STEREO AMERICAN "RUBBER SOUL" LP — The US LP was made up of 10 Rubber Soul cuts and two leftovers from the British Help! album. All cuts were alternate stereo mixes, including two false starts on "I'm Looking Through You" and a doubled lead vocal on "The Word."
  • I've Just Seen A Face
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You Won't See Me
  • Think For Yourself
  • The Word
  • Michelle
  • It's Only Love
  • Girl
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • In My Life
  • Wait
  • Run For Your Life
THE "HEY JUDE" LP — This contrived 1970 LP was made up of stereo versions of single A- & B-sides that had not yet been on Capitol albums. ("From Me To You," "A Hard Day's Night," "The Inner Light" and "I'm Down" were not included, however.) It was the first release to include stereo versions of "Rain," "Lady Madonna," "Revolution" and "Hey Jude."
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • I Should Have Known Better
  • Paperback Writer
  • Rain
  • Lady Madonna
  • Revolution
  • Hey Jude
  • Old Brown Shoe
  • Don't Let Me Down
  • The Ballad Of John & Yoko
MORE RARITIES:
  • I Am The Walrus (unreleased alternate mix)
  • In The First Place/George & The Remo Four (left off the "Wonderwall" soundtrack)
  • Sexy Sadie/Beatles (long version)
  • I've Had Enough/Paul (studio run-through)
  • Badfinger Boogie/Beatles (early version of "With A Little Help From My Friends")
  • Miss O'Dell/George (B-side)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite/Beatles (alternate stereo mix with complete "having been" lyric)

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF "THE BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM" — Capitol's thrown-together LP of 11 songs was issued on April 10, 1964 to advance orders of over 1ฝ million copies — a record at that time. It was comprised of five tracks from England's "With The Beatles," two cuts from the British "Long Tall Sally" EP, three B-sides and an A-side. Capitol was given unique stereo mixes of four of the cuts — unfortunately, they added tons of reverb to all the stereo tracks. The only stereo version of "Thank You Girl" ever issued was included, complete with extra harmonica fills. Many e-mailers grew up with the US vinyl versions of the these songs and wanted to hear them again — so Breakfast With The Beatles plays the entire album:

UNABASHEDLY BEATLESQUE — That's the title of this fascinating set from Mountain listener Kristen Marzolf, made up of blatantly Beatle-ish recordings.
  • Lies/Knickerbockers
  • Burn Baby Burn/Hudson Ford
  • Midnight Caller/Badfinger
  • Who Am I?/String Cheese Incident
  • I Hardly Know Her Name/Wackers
  • Jeremy Bender/Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • In My Own Time/Bee Gees
  • I Just Want To Touch You/Utopia
  • 10538 Overture/Electric Light Orchestra
  • Everything Will Turn Out Fine/Stealers Wheel
  • Fresh Wound/Bonzo Dog Band
  • Slipping Through My Fingers/Family Tree
  • Yes/Grapefruit
  • Don't Be Long/Beefeaters
  • Ouch!/The Rutles
MORE REQUESTED RARITIES — Fulfilling more of our hundreds of requests for specific rarities:
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (complete acoustic version)
  • Penny Lane (US DJ version)
  • Nowhere Man (mono mix)
  • This Boy (alternate stereo without the edit in the middle)
  • The Inner Light (mono mix)
  • I'll Get You (BBC session take)
  • Free As A Bird (long version)
  • From Me To You (alternate stereo take)
  • One And One Is Two (demo recording)
  • I'm So Tired (alternate mix with "distant guitar" and extra Paul vocal)
  • Drive My Car (mono mix)
  • Savoy Truffle (alternate stereo mix)
  • She's A Woman (alternate stereo mix with count-in)
  • Run For Your Life (alternate mono mix with extra vocal tracks)
McCartney DVDsPREVIEW OF PAUL'S APRIL DVD RELEASES — This coming Tuesday, Miramax will issue the "Music & Animation Collection" from Paul McCartney, featuring a restored version of the 1984 cartoon classic "Rupert And The Frog Song" and a new animated featurette called "Tropical Island Hum," starring a scouse squirrel named Wirral. Fox Home Video is releasing Paul McCartney's 1984 feature film, "Give My Regards To Broad Street," on DVD April 20th. Here's a preview of these releases featuring Archer's exclusive interview with Paul McCartney:
  • Paul: he likes the movie-making lifestyle
  • No More Lonely Nights
  • Paul: performing Beatles tunes in "Broad Street"
  • For No One (run-through)
  • Paul: writing a film
  • Ballroom Dancing
  • [MP3 AUDIO] Paul: working with Sir Ralph Richardson
  • Good Day Sunshine
  • Paul: the film's theme; Ringo in the movie
  • Not Such A Bad Boy
  • Paul: Rupert the Bear
  • We All Stand Together (self-recorded demo)

Sunday, April 4, 2004

THE SWEDISH RADIO CONCERT — Because of the politeness of the audience, the Beatles' October 1963 performance for Sveriges Radio in Stockholm is considered one of their best live recordings. Five of the seven songs turned up on the "Anthology 1" CD, but they were out of sequence and some dialogue was edited. We've had many requests to play the whole concert:

SOMETHING NEW — This 1964 Capitol LP was made up of three non-movie cuts from the English "A Hard Day's Night" album, the stereo versions of four songs from the soundtrack (which had appeared in mono on the United Artists soundtrack LP a month earlier) and stereo mixes of non-LP tracks. Oddly, Capitol didn't include the US single "A Hard Day's Night"/"I Should Have Known Better." Those cuts wouldn't find their ways to Capitol Albums until the '70s. To promote the album, Capitol issued a "Compact 33" — a 33 RPM 7" EP for radio stations and jukeboxes — which featured six cuts from the stereo version of the LP, as shown to the right.
    Side 1
  • I'll Cry Instead (short version, UK stereo mix)
  • Things We Said Today (UK stereo mix)
  • Any Time At All (UK stereo mix)
  • When I Get Home (stereo mix with an extra vocal track)
  • Slow Down (stereo mix)
  • Matchbox (stereo mix)

    Side 2

  • Tell Me Why (UK stereo mix)
  • And I Love Her (stereo mix with extra vocal tracks)
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (UK stereo mix)
  • If I Fell (stereo mix with extra vocal tracks and Paul's voice cracking on "in vain")
  • Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (stereo mix of the German single)
RHYTHM & BEATLES - Chelsea Stark of Denver put together this set of rhythm & blues covers of Beatles songs:
  • Come Together/Ike & Tina Turner
  • We Can Work It Out/Stevie Wonder
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand/Al Green
  • Get Back/Billy Preston
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/Heptones
  • Hey Jude/Wilson Pickett
  • Got To Get You Into My Life/Four Tops
  • Let It Be/Aretha Franklin
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey/Fats Domino
  • Eleanor Rigby/Ray Charles
  • Day Tripper/Otis Redding
  • Rocky Raccoon/Richie Havens
VINYL ONO BAND — Because John Lennon's first solo album was dramatically remixed for CD, John Parker put together a set of the original vinyl mixes of six songs from the "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" LP:
  • Mother
  • Hold On
  • Isolation
  • Remember
  • Well Well Well
  • God
MORE SUPER-RARITIES — More of the rarest of the rare, as requested by listeners:
  • Dr. Robert (alternate vocals and full ending, from acetate)
  • Not Guilty (unedited version)
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (completed alternate version)
  • Cottonfields (John with Kenny Everett during a 1968 Abbey Road interview)
  • Cry Baby Cry (alternate mix/edit from acetate)
  • It's All Too Much (long version with extra verse from advance DJ copies of 1999's "Yellow Submarine Songtrack")
  • My Bonnie (original long mono version without reverb on the vocals)
  • She Said She Said (mono mix with extra verse from advance US copies of "Revolver")
  • You Won't See Me (alternate edit/mix from the US "Rubber Soul" 8-track)

Sunday, March 28, 2004

BEATLES VI — Released in June of 1965, this LP was typical of Capitol's tendency to compile stray albums cuts and single sides, but this one had a couple of unique twists. First, it featured the Beatles' cover of Larry Williams' "Bad Boy," which was specifically recorded for the American market (The song didn't appear in the UK until the 1966 compilation "A Collection Of Beatles Oldies.") Second, it was the first Capitol LP to draw from the Beatles next British album — "You Like Me Too Much," "Tell Me What You See" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" were released in England on the "Help!" album nearly two months later. "Breakfast" plays the stereo version, which features a lot of unique mixes. The stereo mixes of the cuts Capitol culled from England's "Beatles For Sale" are not available on CD.

MORE GEORGE COVERS — Two complete performances from George's induction into the Rock Hall of Fame followed by a set of unusual George Harrison covers, most of which were requested by listeners.
  • Dhani Harrison accepting his Dad's induction
  • Handle With Care/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with Dhani Harrison
  • Olivia Harrison on George's induction
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/all-star inductee band featuring Prince on lead guitar
  • Here Comes The Sun/Prelude
  • Try Some, Buy Some/David Bowie
  • Piggies/Theodore Bikel
  • Don't Bother Me/Gregory Philips
  • What Is Life/Ventures
  • Isn't It A Pity?/Eric Clapton & Billy Preston
  • Taxman/Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • All Those Years Ago/Danny Colfax Mallon (from his homegrown CD "George")
SUPER-RARITIES — A collection of the rarest of the Beatles' rarities, requested by listeners.
  • Maxwell's Silver Hammer (with synthesizer intro, as issued to US radio on advance copies of "Abbey Road")
  • I'm A Loser (BBC performance with the lyrics: "beneath this wig I am wearing a tie")
  • Free Now (single mix of the Paul/Super Furry Animals/Beatles track issued to radio stations in Europe in September 2000)
  • Rocky Raccoon (alternate stereo mix from first stereo DJ pressings of the White Album)
  • Soldier Of Love (complete version of the BBC performance from source tape)
  • Blue Jay Way (alternate digital stereo remix from the now out-of-print "Magical Mystery Tour" digital VHS release)
  • Because (a capella version without the extra reverb that was added on the "Anthology 3" CD)
  • You're Going To Lose That Girl (alternate version from acetate)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (alternate mix from the blue vinyl pressing of "The Beatles 1967-1970")
  • Seventeen (rehearsal tape of "I Saw Her Standing There")
  • I'm Looking Through You (American stereo "Rubber Soul" mix with extra intro)
  • You Never Give Me Your Money (unsweetened jam version from acetate)
Ringo's ''Tour 2003'' CD RINGO'S NEW ALBUM — The All-Starr Band's "Tour 2003" CD was released on Tuesday. Here are some highlights:
  • It Don't Come Easy
  • Honey Don't
  • Memphis In Your Mind
  • Boys
  • Don't Pass Me By
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • With A Little Help From My Friends

Sunday, March 21, 2004

THE "LONG TALL TALLY" LP — We've had tons of requests to replay the rare mono version of this album. It was the third Beatles album released by Capitol of Canada, collecting UK single and EP tracks plus cuts from the British LPs "Please Please Me" and "With The Beatles." The mono version of this album has alternate mixes of the tracks marked * below — none of which have appeared on any other album. Collectors find tracking down the unique mono version of this album frustrating because, in many pressings, a stereo version of the album is found inside the mono cover.

GEORGE'S INDUCTION INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME — The event took place Monday night but doesn't air until tonight (on VH1). This exclusive preview features comments and clips from Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Jim Capaldi of Traffic, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. We follow it with a countdown of our five most-requested George Harrison solo songs:
  1. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
  2. Any Road
  3. Blow Away
  4. Isn't It A Pity
  5. Devil's Radio
Harrison, Lennon & McCartney Giveaways HARRISON, LENNON & McCARTNEY GIVEAWAYS — Aldon Stewart put together 14 tracks by lucky recording artists who were given songs by the Beatles or had a Beatle collaborating on songwriting.
  • Fame/David Bowie (Bowie/Lennon/Alomar)
  • Nobody I Know/Peter & Gordon (Lennon/McCartney)
  • My Dark Hour/Steve Miller Band (Miller/McCartney)
  • Step Inside Love/Cilla Black (Lennon/McCartney)
  • God Save Us/Elastic Oz Band (Lennon/Ono)
  • Cat Call/Chris Barber Band (McCartney)
  • Badge/Cream (Clapton/Harrison)
  • Come & Get It/Badfinger (Paul McCartney)
  • Bad To Me/Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas (Lennon/McCartney)
  • Sour Milk Sea/Jackie Lomax (Harrison)
  • Like Dreamers Do/Applejacks (Lennon/McCartney)
  • The Holdup/David Bromberg (Bromberg/Harrison)
  • Goodbye/Mary Hopkin (Lennon/McCartney)
  • Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga/Nilsson (Lennon)
MYSTERY TOUR MYSTERY TRACKS — Jason Klaus wanted to hear the original stereo vinyl US "Magical Mystery Tour" LP — it's mixed much differently than its CD counterpart:
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • Fool On The Hill
  • Flying
  • Blue Jay Way
  • Your Mother Should Know
  • I Am The Walrus (partially fake stereo)
  • Hello Goodbye
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Penny Lane (fake stereo)
  • Baby, You're A Rich Man (fake stereo)
  • All You Need Is Love (fake stereo)

Sunday, March 14, 2004

ALL LIVE! — When we did three hours of Beatles and solo Beatles live tracks back in 2002, we got a huge response and continuous requests to do it again:

Sunday, March 7, 2004

Little Richard's 1958 'Long Tall Sally' EP MORE FAB ROOTS — We had such a huge reaction to last week's set of songs that the Beatles had grown up listening to — and would eventually cover — here's a second set:

PAUL LIVE — With Paul's announcement of a 2004 European tour (can a U.S. one be far behind?), Gerry Stickel put together a set of Paul's live performances spanning his solo career.
  • The Mess (b-side of My Love)
  • Hi Hi Hi (from Wings Over America)
  • Coming Up (live) (US single)
  • My Brave Face (from Tripping The Live Fantastic)
  • All My Trials (UK single)
  • I've Just Seen A Face (from Unplugged)
  • Live & Let Die (from Paul Is Live)
  • I'm Down (from the Concert for New York)
  • Calico Skies (from Back In The World)
  • All Things Must Pass (from the Concert For George)
THE JOHN LENNON "ROOTS" ALBUM — This is the alternate, unauthorized version of the "Rock & Roll" LP that was briefly sold by mail-order TV ads on Morris Levy's Adam VIII label.

In addition to alternate mixes on all the tracks, plus three longer versions of "Rock & Roll" songs, "Roots" contains two tunes that were left off the authorized LP: "Angel Baby" and a steamy version of "Be My Baby." One track, "You Can't Catch Me," is shorter than the "Rock & Roll" version because it was extended by repeating the first verse on the authorized album.

The "Roots" album is of inferior sound quality because it was pressed from a demo tape that John had given to Levy. The cover featured a 6-year-old photo of John from the "Get Back" era. To add to the confusion, a paranoid Phil Spector had disappeared with the master tapes for half of the tracks, delaying the album's sessions by a year and a half.

The release of the Adam VIII version was the last straw in a series of legal threats that went back and forth between Levy and Lennon. The complex story began when John nicked a line from Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" for the Beatles' "Come Together." The lengthy litigation is chronicled by Joseph C. Self on the AbbeyRd fan site; view it by clicking here.

    SIDE ONE
  • Be-Bop-A-Lula
  • Ain't That A Shame (longer version)
  • Stand By Me
  • Sweet Little Sixteen
  • Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
  • Angel Baby (not on "Rock & Roll")
  • Do You Want To Dance? (longer version)
  • You Can't Catch Me (un-extended version)

    SIDE TWO

  • Bony Maronie
  • Peggy Sue
  • Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin'
  • Slippin' & Slidin' (longer version)
  • Be My Baby (not on "Rock & Roll")
  • Ya-Ya
  • Just Because
THOSE AMERICAN SINGLES — We get lots and lots of requests for the alternate US single versions of Beatles songs. They might not be the definitive versions, but they are rare — the US 45s have been out of print for a long time.
  • I'll Cry Instead (longer version)
  • And I Love Her (DJ version: solo vocal, longer ending)
  • I Feel Fine (reverb added)
  • She's A Woman (reverb added)
  • Eight Days A Week (reverb added to voice track)
  • Yesterday (no effects on vocal)
  • Nowhere Man (no effects on vocals)
  • Penny Lane (DJ version: alternate mix and horn tag)
  • I Am The Walrus (extra bar in middle)
  • Julia (remix for 1976 b-side)

Sunday, February 29, 2004

HOMEGROWN BEATLES COVERS:

ROCK & ROLL MUSIC — Since we played the "mismixed" version of this album back in June, we've received nearly a hundred requests to play the original American vinyl version of this double-LP compilation — the version with which a lot of listeners grew up. George Martin took a lot of care with this mix, especially improving on the stereo mixing on cuts from the first four albums and creating exclusive stereo mixes for EP and single tracks like "I'm Down," "I Call Your Name" and "Long Tall Sally." A majority of these mixes remain unissued on CD. Although the album credits say all the cuts were produced by George Martin, the Phil Spector version of "Get Back" closes the album.
  • Twist & Shout
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • You Can't Do That
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • I Call Your Name
  • Boys
  • Long Tall Sally
  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Slow Down
  • Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
  • Money (That's What I Want)
  • Bad Boy
  • Matchbox
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  • Anytime At All
  • Drive My Car
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
  • The Night Before
  • I'm Down
  • Revolution
  • Back In The USSR
  • Helter Skelter
  • Taxman
  • Got To Get You Into My Life
  • Hey Bulldog
  • Birthday
  • Get Back
The restored 'Somewhere In England' cover GEORGE HARRISON BONUS CUTS — A lot of listeners have asked us to feature the bonus cuts from the new George Harrison reissues. Here they are, plus, for extra measure, a song from the "Dark Horse Years" boxed set bonus DVD.
  • Here Comes The Moon/demo version (bonus cut from George Harrison CD)
  • Tears Of The World (bonus cut from Thirty Three And A Third)
  • Hottest Gong In Town (from The Dark Horse Years bonus DVD)
  • Mystical One/demo version (bonus cut from Gone Troppo)
  • Shanghai Surprise/duet with Vicki Brown (bonus cut from Cloud Nine)
  • Save The World/demo version (bonus cut from Somewhere In England)
  • Zig Zag (bonus cut from Cloud Nine)
FAB ROOTS — We gets lots and lots of requests to play the original recordings that inspired the Beatles' cover songs, so here's a set of vintage goodies:
  • Twist & Shout/Isley Brothers
  • Mr. Moonlight/Dr. Feelgood & The Interns
  • Honey Don't/Carl Perkins
  • Kansas City/Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!/Little Richard
  • Act Naturally/Buck Owens
  • Devil In His Heart/Donays
  • Slow Down/Larry Williams
  • Roll Over Beethoven/Chuck Berry
  • Chains/Cookies
  • Set On You/James Ray

Sunday, February 22, 2004

THE GEORGE HARRISON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — George would have been 61 on Tuesday. For years, George thought his birthday was February 25th — but a fan researching public records discovered George had actually been born in the late-night hours of February 24th, 1943.

The 2004 version of this annual Breakfast With The Beatles special includes some of the remixes from the new boxed set, "George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992." The box, to be released on George's birthday this Tuesday, collects six remastered versions of his albums and a bonus DVD of live performances, videos and interview footage.

George will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame by Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty on March 15th.

Click here for a track listing from the George Harrison Birthday Special.

Sunday, February 15, 2004

A Valentine to Fellow Beatles Fans A VALENTINE TO FELLOW BEATLE FANS - This huge set, submitted by Ron Lenz of Lakewood, is all about love.

GEORGE HARRISON/THE DARK HORSE YEARS 1976-1992 - More digital remixes from the boxed set which will be released February 24th. The package contains six albums, bonus tracks and a special DVD.
  • Got My Mind Set On You (Cloud 9)
  • When We Was Fab (Cloud 9)
  • Wake Up My love (Gone Troppo)
  • That's The Way It Goes (Gone Troppo)
  • Not Guilty (George Harrison)
  • Blow Away (George Harrison)
  • Piggies (Live In Japan)
  • Cheer Down (Live In Japan)
  • Devil's Radio (Cloud 9)
  • Dear One (Thirty Three And A Third)
RINGO & GEORGE SING LENNON & McCARTNEY - Aaron Betts put together this set of Lennon-McCartney tunes which were given to George or Ringo to sing.
  • With A Little Help From My Friends
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret?
  • Yellow Submarine
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
  • I Wanna Be Your Man

Sunday, February 8, 2004

The Beatles with Ed Sullivan THE BEATLES INVADE AMERICA! - Archer hosts & produces a three-hour documentation of their first U.S. visit, featuring - in order of appearance - "Beatles & The British Invasion" author Bill Harry, promoter Sid Bernstein, Ringo Starr, Firefall's Jock Bartley, TV host Ed Sullivan, Paul McCartney, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, filmmaker Albert Maysles, BBC reporter Malcolm Davis, WINS DJ Murray The K, John Lennon, George Harrison, BBC presenter Brian Matthew, Robert Cray, Tom Petty and WWDC DJ Carrol James. Click here for a tracklist.

Sunday, February 1, 2004

INTRODUCING THE BEATLES - As a prelude to next week's "Beatles Invade America" special, here's the July 1963 Vee Jay release of "Introducing The Beatles" - the first Beatles album released in the United States. This is a pristine vinyl stereo version of the first edition of the LP, which was released 5 months before Beatlemania broke in the U.S.  Its track lineup was revamped by Vee-Jay in January of 1964, making the original 1963 version a much-sought collectible.

FORWARD REVERSE - This is a fantasy Beatles album created by Jeff Hollinger, made from 1970-1971 post-Beatles solo cuts. If the Beatles had gotten back together for a 1971 reunion album, this is what it might have sounded like. For a little more authenticity, the original vinyl mixes are used:
    SIDE ONE
  • Beware Of Darkness
  • Remember
  • It Don't Come Easy
  • Back Seat Of My Car
  • Give Me Some Truth
  • I'd Have You Anytime

    SIDE TWO

  • Dear Boy
  • How?
  • Behind That Locked Door
  • Too Many People
  • Jealous Guy
  • All Things Must Pass
THE BEATLES: THE FIRST U.S. VISIT - This 1964 behind-the-scenes documentary - expanded from 40 to 80 minutes - will be released by Apple this week on DVD. Here's a preview:
  • The fab four with Murray the K backstage at the Ed Sullivan Show.
  • She Loves You/The Ed Sullivan Show in New York
  • George & John do a spoof cigarette commercial on the train to Washington D.C.
  • I Saw Her Standing There/Washington Coliseum
  • Guitar Blues in the Beatles' room at the Deauville Hotel in Miami.
  • This Boy/The Ed Sullivan Show in Miami
THE "THIRTY THREE AND A THIRD" RADIO SPECIAL - Portions of an interview disc released to radio stations to promote the "Thirty Three And A Third" LP in 1976, plus tracks from the mono mix of the album. "Thirty Three And A Third" and five other albums - along with a special DVD - will be released in a boxed set on February 24th. In between the interview clips:
  • This Song
  • True Love
  • Crackerbox Palace
  • It's What You Value
  • See Yourself
  • Beautiful Girl
  • Pure Smokey

Sunday, January 25, 2004

GEORGE HARRISON BOXED SET PREVIEW — Capitol will issue "The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992" on February 24th. Here are some of the digitally remixed cuts from the box, one from each album:

ANIMAL SETS — To celebrate today's Pledges For Pets Telethon on UPN-20, here are some animal songs for our friends at — and sponsors of — the Dumb Friends League:
  • Ram On/Paul & Linda
  • Too Much Monkey Business/Beatles
  • Single Pigeon/Paul
  • Dark Horse (demo acetate)/George
  • Wildlife (introduced by Paul)/Wings
  • I Am The Walrus (basic track)/Beatles
  • Living In A Pet Shop/Ringo
  • Rocky Racoon/Beatles
  • Leave My Kitten Alone/Beatles
  • Hound Dog/John
  • Scouse The Mouse/Ringo
  • Blackbird/Beatles
  • Ode To A Koala Bear/Paul
  • Piggies/Beatles
  • Hey Bulldog/Beatles
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland & George
  • All You Horseriders/Paul
  • Octopus' Garden/Beatles
  • Three Cool Cats/Beatles
  • Three Legs/Paul & Linda
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey/Beatles
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (long version)/Beatles
  • Bye Bye Blackbird/Ringo
  • Cold Turkey/John
  • Free As A Bird (alternate ending)/Beatles
  • Bluebird/Wings
CAPITOL SINGLES — A set of US Capitol Beatles singles that are unique versions or mixes, suggested by Bill Holabird of Littleton, Tim C from Denver and Jessie LaValle of Aurora.
  • I Feel Fine (awash in reverb)
  • I'm Down (longer fadeout)
  • I'll Cry Instead (extra verse)
  • Penny Lane (DJ copy with horn tag)
  • Slow Down (alternate lead)
  • She's A Woman (reverberated)
  • I Am The Walrus (with extra bar & alternate orchestration)
  • And I Love Her (with solo vocal)
  • Baby You're A Rich Man (alternate vocal sections and longer fade)

Sunday, January 18, 2004

THE MONO WHITE ALBUM — Until EMI began releasing albums exclusively in the stereo format around 1969, more care was taken on the mixes for the mono versions. The double-disc set "The Beatles" was the last of the Beatles albums to get an exclusive mono mix and nearly every cut was an alternate mix to its stereo counterpart. Many of the differences are subtle, such as changes in the balances between vocals and instrumentation, but there are many standout differences as well. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" has alternate lead guitar portions and George's "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah..." vocal is removed during the fadeout. The tuba and piano in "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" are more prominent and the mixing mistake where you hear the end of a vocal singing "down" is not present at the end of the guitar solo. "I'm So Tired" features a prominent harmony vocal from Paul in places. "Blackbird" and "Piggies" feature different sound effect tracks. "Don't Pass Me By" is sped up and features alternate fiddle tracks. The mono version of "Birthday" reveals extra vocal harmonies and guitar licks. "Helter Skelter" — although shortened when it doesn't come back after the fadeout — features alternate echoes and sound effects, plus a killer drum fill that was mixed out of its stereo version. "Savoy Truffle" has alternate guitar and vocal pieces and "Cry Baby Cry" features more harmonies on the chorus. The segues into and out of "Revolution 9" are also quite different. The mono White Album has become sought after by collectors because there are relatively fewer copies on the planet — the album was released in the US and many other countries in the stereo format only.

GUEST: JOCK BARTLEY OF FIREFALL — "Breakfast" talks with Jock about his rock & roll paintings — which include renderings of the fab four. Jock also picks "Rain" to kick off a set of rarities requests.

  • Rain (Japanese mono 45 version, with more prominent bass track)
  • Goodbye/Paul (demo for Mary Hopkin)
  • I Found Out/John (long version)
  • I Don't Want To Do It/George (single mix)
  • Rock & Roll People/John (long version)
  • Stop!/Paul (1983 demo)

'90s BEATLES — Non-album tracks from the now-out-of-print Beatles EPs released in the '90s.

    "BABY IT'S YOU" EP: (1994)
  • I'll Follow The Sun (BBC, 11/64)
  • Boys (BBC, 6/63)

    "FREE AS A BIRD" EP: (1995)

  • I Saw Her Standing There (complete take 9)
  • This Boy (takes 12 and 13)

    "REAL LOVE" EP: (1996)

  • Yellow Submarine (remix which restores a portion of the previously unreleased intro)
  • Here, There & Everywhere (composite of takes 7 and 13)

Sunday, Janury 11, 2004

A COLLECTION OF BEATLES OLDIES ... BUT GOLDIES — This was the first EMI/Beatles-sanctioned greatest hits LP, released in time for Christmas 1966 in the UK. As an enticement, the album contained "Bad Boy," which had never been released in England. The mono version of the album had many unique mixes, including an errant version of "Ticket To Ride" in which the first few notes had been cut off. The unique mono mixes of "We Can Work It Out," "Bad Boy," "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Feel Fine" have not appeared on any other album. Also of note: "She Loves You," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Yesterday" and "From Me To You" contain less sound-level compression than any other versions issued, making them the cleanest, most dynamic versions ever available.

CONCERT FOR GEORGE — A set of our most-requested moments from the CD and DVD:

  • Isn't It A Pity?/Eric Clapton & Billy Preston
  • The Inner Light/Anoushka Shankar & Jeff Lynne
  • Something/Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton
  • All Things Must Pass/Paul McCartney
  • Lumberjack Song/Monty Python (DVD only)
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland (DVD only)
  • Old Brown Shoe/Gary Brooker
  • Handle With Care/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison

THE STEREO U.S. "PEPPER" LP — We've had dozens of requests to replay the stereo American version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." With the exception of the removal of the "inner groove" track on side two, "Pepper" marked the first time a Beatles LP was released in America with the same track lineup of its British counterpart. Initial pressings of the American version, however, were mixed with slighty less stereo separation, which actually made it sound better on FM radio. Plus, the US version was a bit brighter sounding and had minor differences in the vocal and instrumentation mixes.

    SIDE ONE
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • With A Little Help From My Friends
  • Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
  • Getting Better
  • Fixing A Hole
  • She's Leaving Home
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite

    SIDE TWO

  • Within You Without You
  • When I'm Sixty Four
  • Lovely Rita
  • Good Morning Good Morning
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
  • A Day In The Life
THE BEATLES AS PRODUCERS — Inspired by last week's tribute to Beatles producer George Martin, Mark J. came up with this set to demonstrate what John, Paul and George learned from their producer: songs produced by the Beatles for others.
  • My Dark Hour/Steve Miller Band (produced by Paul)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/The Silkie (produced by John & Paul)
  • Little Yellow Pills/Jackie Lomax (produced by George)
  • Giving Grease A Ride/Mike McGear (produced by Paul)
  • I'm The Urban Spaceman/Bonzo Dog Band (produced by Paul)
  • God Save Us/Elastic Oz Band (produced by John)
  • I Am Missing You/Shankar Family & Friends (produced by George)
  • Many Rivers To Cross/Nilsson (produced by John)
  • Goodbye/Mary Hopkin (produced by Paul)
  • I'd Die, Babe/Badfinger (produced by George)

Sunday, December 28, 2003

BREAKFAST WITH THE ROLLING STONES — An encore of The Mountain's "morning after special" which originally aired following the Stones' appearance at the Pepsi Center in February 2003. Click here for a tracklist.

Thursday, December 25, 2003

THE BEATLES CHRONICLES — This 9-hour Mountain documentary caps the 24-hour Christmas With The Beatles, from 9AM to 6PM Christmas day. Click here for a tracklist.

Sunday, December 21, 2003

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, SET 1:

THE AMERICAN "HELP!" ALBUM — Our most popular requests for U.S. albums are for the stereo versions of Help!, Rubber Soul and Yesterday And Today, which were released in the States in that order. Here are the 7 Beatles tracks from the US Help! LP, all of which are alternate mixes from their CD counterparts:
  • Help! (with James Bond Theme intro by Ken Thorne)
  • The Night Before
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Need You
  • Another Girl
  • Ticket To Ride
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl
THE AMERICAN "RUBBER SOUL" LP — The US LP was made up of 10 Rubber Soul cuts and two leftovers from the British Help! album. All cuts were alternate stereo mixes, including two false starts on I'm Looking Through You and a doubled lead vocal on The Word.
  • I've Just Seen A Face
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You Won't See Me
  • Think For Yourself
  • The Word
  • Michelle
  • It's Only Love
  • Girl
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • In My Life
  • Wait
  • Run For Your Life
THE STEREO "YESTERDAY & TODAY" LP — Featuring alternate mixes of tracks from the UK Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver albums, plus the best stereo mixes of If I Needed Someone, We Can Work It Out and Day Tripper.
  • Drive My Car
  • I'm Only Sleeping
  • Nowhere Man
  • Dr. Robert
  • Yesterday
  • Act Naturally
  • And Your Bird Can Sing
  • If I Needed Someone
  • We Can Work It Out
  • What Goes On
  • Day Tripper
HAPPY CHRISTMAS, SET 2:
  • Ding Dong! Ding Dong!/George Harrison
  • Christmastime Is Here Again (1967 fan club flexidisc)
  • Come On, Christmas, Come On/Ringo Starr
  • All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle/Dora Bryan
REVIEWING THE 2003 RELEASES...
  • Something (The Concert For George)
  • I've Got A Feeling (Let It Be...Naked)
  • Slippin' & Slidin' (Lennon Legend DVD)
  • Maggie Mae/Fancy Me Chances (Fly On The Wall)
  • Never Without You (Ringo Rama)
  • Baby What You Want Me To Do?/Raunchy (The Beatles Anthology DVD)
AND, FINALLY:
  • Christmas (1968 fan club flexidisc)

Sunday, December 14, 2003

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, SET 1:

MORE RARITY REQUESTS...
  • Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (mono mix/edit from acetate)
  • Magical Mystery Tour (soundtrack mix)
  • Seventeen (rehearsal, later titled I Saw Her Standing There)
  • Thank You Girl (stereo version The Beatles' Second Album)
  • You Never Give Me Your Money (rough, longer version from acetate)
  • Here Comes The Sun (one of several digital remixes done in 1999, but never used)
  • When I Get Home (alternate stereo mix from Something New)
  • Leave My Kitten Alone (mix used for the Abbey Road Studios demonstration, with false start and alternate vocal and guitar tracks)
  • Help! (unfinished semi-acoustic version)
  • Money (Decca audition version)
JAMAICAN VERSIONS, MON — Sire from Reggae On The Mountain (Saturdays, 10pm to midnight) joined us for some Jamaican-style Beatles covers:
  • Blackbird/Roslyn Sweet & The Paragons
  • Norwegian Wood/Ska Boys
  • Give Peace A Chance/Toots & The Maytals
  • Eleanor Rigby/B.B.Seaton
  • Don't Bother Me/I-Tones
  • Get Back/Anonymously Yours
  • Rain/Bim-Skala-Bim
  • I Should Have Known Better/Skatallites
  • Isn't It A Pity/Nicky Thomas
  • My Sweet Lord/Keith Lynn
  • Come Together/Desmond Dekker & The Aces
  • Don't Let Me Down/Harry J All Stars
  • And I Love Her/Bob Marley
HAPPY CHRISTMAS, SET 2:
  • Another Beatles Christmas Record (1964 fan club flexidisc)
  • The Christmas Dance/Ringo Starr
  • Wonderful Christmastime/Paul McCartney
MORE RARITY REQUESTS...
  • It's All Too Much (long version with extra verse from advance DJ copies of the Yellow Submarine Songtrack)
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl (reverb-free version from the movie soundtrack)
  • You Know My Name (complete 7:17 version)
  • Nowhere Man (mono mix with count-in)
REVIEWING THE 2003 RELEASES...
  • Thinking Of Linking/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (from The Beatles Anthology DVD)
  • Blink (from the deluxe edition of Ringo Rama)
  • Across The Universe (from Let It Be...Naked)
  • The Inner Light (Anoushka Shankar & Jeff Lynne from The Concert For George)
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night (long version from the Lennon Legend DVD)
  • Don't Let Me Down (from Let It Be...Naked)

Sunday, December 7, 2003

John Lennon in 1980.
LENNON'S LAST YEAR — Even though we'd rather celebrate John's birthday than mourn his death-day, we had a ton of requests to play some of John's music today, a day shy of the 23rd anniversary of his murder. Stanley Hatch proposed we play Disc 4 of the "Lennon" 4-CD set, which compiles his recordings from 1980 — the last year of his life.
  • (Just Like) Starting Over
  • Cleanup Time
  • I'm Losing You
  • Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
  • Watching The Wheels
  • Woman
  • Dear Yoko
  • I'm Stepping Out
  • I Don't Wanna Face It
  • Nobody Told Me
  • Borrowed Time
  • (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess (remix)
  • Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him (remix)
  • Grow Old With Me (demo)
RARITY REQUESTS — Catching up on 2003's e-mail requests for individual rarities:
  • She Said She Said (alternate stereo mix from German first pressing of Revolver)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (unique mono mix used in the original release of the Yellow Submarine film)
  • Tomorrow Never Knows (mono mix)
  • Soldier Of Love (with more-complete fade)
  • Within You Without You (UK mono mix)
  • Help! (US mono LP version with James Bond Theme intro)
  • I'm Looking Through You (UK mono version with longer fadeout)
  • For No One (run-through from Give My Regards To Broad Street)
  • And I Love Her (single vocal version from US single)
  • Got To Get You Into My Life (mono mix)
  • God Save Oz (advance Elastic Oz Band acetate with John Lennon vocal)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (mono mix with dry vocal)
  • Miss O'Dell (George Harrison B-side)
  • Love (Dutch Lennon single remix)
  • Eight Days A Week (US single mix)
  • Good Day Sunshine (mono mix with extra drums at the end)
  • I Call Your Name (Ringo with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Joe Walsh, from a John Lennon tribute video)
  • The Fab Four On Film (from the B-side of the US DJ copy of The Beatles Movie Medley)
  • I'll Cry Instead (long version from the US single)
  • Stop! (unfinished McCartney demo from the Tug Of War sessions)
  • I Need You (mono mix)
  • Good Morning Good Morning (mono mix)
  • I Feel Fine (US single mix)
  • Free Now (Paul with Super Furry Animals & Beatles sessions tracks — single remix)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (punchier UK mono version with extra guitar tracks and no ad-lib vocals on the fade)
  • I Don't Want To Do It (US DJ mono mix of George's Dylan cover from Porky's III, with extra guitar licks)
  • Band On The Run (mono US DJ mix/edit)

Sunday, November 30, 2003

GEORGE REMEMBERED — Ian Morrison e-mailed Breakfast With The Beatles earlier this week:

"This Saturday the 29th marks two events in my life. First it's my birthday; unfortunately, November 29th is also the day George Harrison died 2 years ago, on my 13th birthday. Will you please play 'Something,' 'Taxman' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps?'"

No prob, Ian.

LOVE SONGS — A short-lived but popular radio format in the late seventies was "mellow rock," featuring just the softer cuts from rock albums, giving adults an alternative to the disco that was beginning to dominate adult contemporary stations. Capitol Records in the U.S. cashed in on the trend with a rather exquisitely packaged two-LP set of the Beatles "Love Songs." The original pressing came with a simulated leather cover bearing a goldleaf "Love Songs" logo and an oversized booklet containing all the lyrics. Care was also taken to remix most of the cuts, although "Yes It Is," "This Boy" and "P.S. I Love You" were in fake stereo. Although the brainchild of Capitol executives, the album was released worldwide. Thanks to Mountain listener Ana Harding for the suggestion.
Goldleaf logo from the orignal textured cover of the 'Love Songs' double LP.
    SIDE ONE
  • Yesterday
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • I Need You
  • Girl
  • In My Life
  • Words Of Love
  • Here, There & Everywhere

    SIDE TWO

  • Something
  • And I Love Her
  • If I Fell
  • I'll Be Back
  • Tell Me What You See
  • Yes It Is

    SIDE THREE

  • Michelle
  • It's Only Love
  • You're Going To Lose That Girl
  • Every Little Thing
  • For No One
  • She's Leaving Home

    SIDE FOUR

  • The Long & Winding Road
  • This Boy
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Will
  • P.S. I Love You
NAKED WITH PAUL & RINGO — Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr check in with comments on the Beatles' "Let It Be ... Naked" release.
  • Paul says he's thrilled by the audio clarity of himself and John singing together.
  • Two Of Us
  • Don't Let Me Down
  • Paul: stripping down the recordings.
  • Dig A Pony
  • I Me Mine
  • A run-through of Because I Know You Love Me So (from the bonus disc).
  • Ringo enjoys the album's nakedness.
  • One After 909
  • Paul: the advantage of digital remixing.
  • Get Back
  • Ringo compares "Naked" to the Phil Spector version.
  • Across The Universe
  • George likes recording without overdubs (from the bonus disc).
  • For You Blue
  • Paul on whether or not remixing Let It Be could be considered tampering.
  • I've Got A Feeling
  • Paul says the great music outshines the bad memories from the sessions.
  • Let It Be
  • Paul says goodnight (from the bonus disc).
  • Long & Winding Road
... AND JUST BECAUSE IT'S THE SUNDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING:
  • Cold Turkey/John Lennon

Sunday, November 23, 2003

NEW RINGO TRACKS — The three bonus cuts on the limited special-edition of "Ringo Rama" released this month:

THE BEATLES AGAIN — This is a protype to the "Hey Jude" LP. The concept of the album was to compile U.S. single sides and other-label album tracks that had not yet appeared on a Capitol LP. This version of the album was slated to be released in May of 1969 to accompany the "Ballad Of John & Yoko" 45, but was delayed until February of 1970. By the time of its release, the album title was changed to "Hey Jude" and "There's A Place," "Misery" and "The Inner Light" had been removed, while "Don't Let Me Down" was added. In addition to the different track lineup, "The Beatles Again" version contains several alternate mixes. A test pressing made its way to a radio station in June of 1969, and Breakfast With The Beatles has cleaned it up for what may well be its first broadcast since then!

    SIDE ONE
  • There's A Place (alternate stereo mix)
  • Misery (alternate stereo mix)
  • Can't Buy Me Love (stereo mix)
  • I Should Have Known Better (alternate stereo mix without the gap in the harmonica intro)
  • Paperback Writer (alternate stereo mix)
  • Rain (alternate stereo mix)
  • Lady Madonna (alternate stereo mix)

    SIDE TWO

  • The Inner Light (alternate stereo mix)
  • Hey Jude (alternate stereo mix with a 7-second longer fadeout)
  • Revolution (alternate stereo mix)
  • The Ballad Of John & Yoko (stereo single mix)
  • Old Brown Shoe (stereo single mix)
The 'Lennon Legend' DVD
LENNON LEGEND — Alternate versions of John's songs from the new video collection on DVD:
  • Instant Karma (longer version)
  • Power To The People (longer version)
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night (longer version)
  • Stand By Me (longer version)
  • Borrowed Time (longer version)
  • Slippin' & Slidin' (longer version)
  • Imagine (live version from the Salute To Sir Lew Grade)
  • Imagine (instrumental mix from the DVD photo gallery)
  • Everybody Had A Hard Year (from John & Yoko's Film #6)
THE WHITE ALBUM TURNS 35! The double-LP "The Beatles" was first released on November 22nd, 1968. Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates with a bevy of freaky versions of White Album tracks! All of these cuts are alternate advance versions from tapes and acetates given to friends like Peter Sellers, Victor Spinetti, Kenny Everett, Eleanor Bron, Derek Taylor, etc.
  • Glass Onion (alternate version)
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey (with count-in and alternate vocals)
  • Piggies (longer intro and alternate sound effects and orchestration)
  • Martha My Dear (alternate vocals)
  • Back In The USSR (alternate vocals & lead guitar)
  • Dear Prudence (alternate vocals, guitar and a full endng)
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (acoustic take)
  • Savoy Truffle (alternate guitar and vocal effects)
  • Happiness Is A Warm Gun (with a tuba and extra keyboards)
  • Helter Skelter (long version of the mono mix)
  • I'm So Tired (with extra lead guitar and a Paul McCartney harmony vocal)
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (false start and alternate lead vocal)
  • Don't Pass Me By (extra verse and alternate fiddle and bass tracks)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (:37 longer than the released version)
  • Sexy Sadie (:25 longer than the released version)

Sunday, November 16, 2003

Withdrawn cover art for 'Let It Be ... Naked' as it appeared in an early press kit LET IT BE ... NAKED — The entire album, plus selections from the bonus "Fly On The Wall" disc:

THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE — Most of the tracks from the double-disc audio CD and DVD:
  • Olivia Harrison on the people who participated.
  • The Inner Light/Anoushka Shankar with Jeff Lynne
  • The Lumberjack Song/Monty Python (Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland with the Fred Tomlinson Singers and Tom Hanks)
  • I Want To Tell You/Jeff Lynne
  • If I Needed Someone/Eric Clapton
  • Old Brown Shoe/Gary Brooker
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)/Jeff Lynne
  • Beware Of Darkness/Eric Clapton
  • Here Comes The Sun/Joe Brown
  • That's The Way It Goes/Joe Brown
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland, Sam Brown & Jim Capaldi
  • Taxman/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • Handle With Care/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison
  • Tom Petty on George's sense of humor
  • Isn't It A Pity/Eric Clapton & Billy Preston
  • Photograph/Ringo Starr
  • Honey Don't/Ringo Starr
  • For You Blue/Paul McCartney
  • Something/Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton
  • Dhani Harrison: his dad was his best friend
  • Paul McCartney: remembering George
  • All Things Must Pass/Paul McCartney
  • My Sweet Lord/Billy Preston
  • Wah Wah/Eric Clapton & the guests
  • Dhani and Paul speak

Sunday, November 9, 2003

ALAN PARSONS — our special guest on the first episode of Breakfast With The Beatles in August 2002 reminisced about the Get Back/Let It Be and Abbey Road sessions: Alan Parsons

THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE — last week we previewed Billy Preston singing My Sweet Lord and Eric Clapton & Paul McCartney performing While My Guitar Gently Weeps; here are some more:
  • Ringo on The Concert For George
  • Photograph — performed by Ringo
  • I Need You — Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • Handle With Care — Tom Petty with Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison
BEATLES LIVE IN MELBOURNE, 1964
  • You Can't Do That
  • She Loves You
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • Long Tall Sally
PAUL McCARTNEY'S USA & WORLD TOURS
  • Paul on planning a tour
  • Every Night
  • Paul: enjoying touring the USA
  • Listener Jeff Donovan on seeing Paul in Vegas on the second leg of the US tour: a tribute to John...
  • Here Today
  • Jeff Donovan on Paul's tribute to George...
  • Something
  • Paul McCartney on turning 60 during the tour
  • Listener Gordon Miller between seeing two Paul shows in London
  • Back In The USSR
  • [PHOTO] Listener Darin Toohey on seeing both of Paul's Rome concerts
  • Lady Madonna
LISTENER'S BIRTHDAY SET — put together by Linda of Platteville, who's celebrating her birthday today.
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Drive My Car
  • I Am The Walrus
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey
  • Hello Goodbye
  • Birthday
JOEY MOLLAND OF BADFINGER — Highlights from July's interview.

TOP THREE RARITIES — When Breakfast With The Beatles asked you last week what rarities you'd like to hear again this week, these were the top three choices:

  • Penny Lane (the US DJ version)
  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport (with Rolf Harris)
  • Bad To Me (the demo)

Sunday, November 2, 2003
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A PREVIEW OF THE NOVEMBER RELEASES — All come out on November 18th:

PAUL McCARTNEY RARITIES — Fulfilling dozens of requests for these rare vinyl versions:
  • Flying To My Home (B-side of My Brave Face)
  • Simple As That (from the 1986 various artists album The Anti-Heroin Project)
  • Girl's School (B-side of Mull Of Kintyre)
  • Country Dreamer (B-side of Helen Wheels)
  • I Lie Around (B-side of Live & Let Die)
  • Sally G (B-side of Junior's Farm)
  • Back On My Feet (B-side of Once Upon A Long Ago)
RARE BEATLES — Fulfilling dozens of requests for these Beatles rarities from around the world:
  • My Bonnie (original US mono LP/UK mono single mix)
  • Maxwell's Silver Hammer (with intro, from advance acetate)
  • You Won't See Me (US stereo LP edit)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (from the blue vinyl US 1967-1970 LP)
  • I'll Be On My Way (long version from European DJ sampler)
  • Here Comes The Sun (mono mix from a Japanese DJ sampler)
  • Dr. Robert (mono mix from the DJ version of Yesterday & Today)
  • Me & My Monkey (mono mix)
  • Taxman (alternate stereo Dutch mix)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (US mono DJ mix with segments overlapped)
  • I Call Your Name (mono mix)
  • She Said She Said (alternate stereo Dutch mix)
  • Free As A Bird (longer version from DJ sampler CD)
REMIXED JOHN — Timothy Pratt submits this set of his favorite digital remixes of John Lennon tracks:
  • Out The Blue (from the Mind Games remaster)
  • Hold On (from the Plastic Ono Band remaster)
  • How Do You Sleep? (from the Imagine remaster)
  • Cleanup Time (from the Double Fantasy remaster)
  • Power To The People (from the Plastic Ono Band remaster)
  • Bring On The Lucie (from the Mind Games remaster)
  • How? (from the Imagine remaster)
  • Remember (from the Plastic Ono Band remaster)
FAB FOLK-ROCK — A mid-'60s Beatles folk-rock set compiled by Randy Darling of Aurora (who also noted that, coincidentally, all the titles begin with "I"):
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • It's Only Love
  • I'll Follow The Sun
  • If I Needed Someone
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
  • I've Just Seen A Face

Sunday, October 26, 2003
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JOHN & GEORGE LIVE! — John Lennon's One-To-One Benefit Concert took place at Madison Square Garden in 1972 and was released as "Live In New York City" in 1986. George Harrison with pal Eric Clapton played Tokyo and Osaka in 1991 — released as "Live In Japan" on a double-CD set in 1992. We've had many, many requests to feature these albums:

John Lennon — Live In New York City

John Lennon with Yoko Ono, Stan Bronstein, Tex Gabriel, John Ward, Gary Van Syoc, Jim Keltner, Rick Frank and Adam Ippolito.

A setlist from one of George's Japan concerts. George Harrison — Live In Japan

George Harrison with Eric Clapton, Steve Ferrone, Ray Cooper, Greg Phillinganes, Chuck Leavel, Nathan East, Andy Fairweather-Low, Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon.

Sunday, October 19, 2003

RARE AMERICAN VINYL: THE RED & BLUE ALBUMS — Apple's two double-LP compilation albums were hurredly put together in 1973 after a "Best Of The Beatles" bootleg package appeared on U.S. TV ads. George Martin came up with the chronological sequence, which included hits and choice LP cuts, but Martin thought Capitol in the U.S. should assemble its own master using American versions of the songs, like the reverberated version of "I Feel Fine." The result was a U.S. release which included many odd mixes and versions that are still not available on CD. The albums' designs, by Tom Wilkes, were clean and simple, with lyrics on the sleeves. "1962-1966" used the British "Please Please Me" cover photo with the Beatles on an EMI balcony. "1967-1970" used a 1969 update of that photo that had been intended for use on the scrapped "Get Back" LP.

1962-1970 (Red Album)

Side 1

Side 2

  • A Hard Day's Night (US mono single mix)
  • And I Love Her (US stereo LP mix)
  • Eight Days A Week (reverberated US stereo mix)
  • I Feel Fine (reverberated US mono single version)
  • Ticket To Ride (US mono single mix)
  • Yesterday (US stereo mix)

Side 3

  • Help! (with Ken Thorne intro)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (US stereo mix)
  • We Can Work It Out (reverb-free US stereo mix)
  • Day Tripper (reverb-free US stereo mix)
  • Drive My Car (US stereo LP mix)
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (US stereo LP mix with 2nd guitar)

Side 4

  • Nowhere Man (US stereo LP mix)
  • Michelle (flipped-channels US stereo LP mix)
  • In My Life (US stereo LP mix)
  • Girl (flipped-channels US stereo mix)
  • Paperback Writer (UK "Oldies But Goldies" stereo mix)
  • Eleanor Rigby (stereo LP mix)
  • Yellow Submarine (stereo LP mix)

1967-1970 (Blue Album)

Side 1

  • Strawberry Fields Forever (US stereo "Mystery Tour" LP mix)
  • Penny Lane (US mono "Mystery Tour" LP mix)
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (stereo LP mix)
  • With A Little Help From My Friends (stereo LP mix)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (alternate stereo mix with extra phase effects)
  • A Day In The Life (stereo LP mix, faded in from the end of the Pepper Reprise)
  • All You Need Is Love (German stereo "Mystery Tour" mix)

Side 2

  • I Am The Walrus (stereo/fake stereo LP mix)
  • Hello Goodbye (US single mix)
  • The Fool On The Hill (US stereo LP mix)
  • Magical Mystery Tour (US stereo LP mix)
  • Lady Madonna ("Hey Jude" LP mix)
  • Hey Jude ("Hey Jude" LP mix)
  • Revolution ("Hey Jude" LP mix)

Side 3

  • Back In The U.S.S.R. (US LP mix)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (US LP mix)
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (US LP mix)
  • Get Back (US single mix)
  • Don't Let Me Down (US single mix)
  • The Ballad Of John And Yoko (single mix)
  • Old Brown Shoe (single mix)

Side 4

  • Here Comes The Sun (LP mix)
  • Come Together (US single mix with drums up front)
  • Something (US single mix with prominent organ)
  • Octopus's Garden (LP mix)
  • Let It Be (single version)
  • Across The Universe ("Let It Be" LP mix)
  • The Long And Winding Road (US single mix)

Soul Tribute To The Beatles Sunday, October 12, 2003

SOUL TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES — Breakfast With The Beatles had such an overwhelming response when we previewed this compilation, we interviewed compiler Tom Vickers (a one-time Colorado resident now based in L.A.), who shares some of the stories behind the R&B; versions of Beatles songs.

FRONT RANGE FAB FAVORITES ... CATCHING UP ON SONG REQUESTS — In addition to all the suggestions for theme sets and features, we get hundreds and hundreds of requests for individual tracks, so 99.5 The Mountain sifted through all the Breakfast With The Beatles song requests received up until yesterday and compiled the Front Range's favorite songs by the Beatles, John, Paul and George (we did a Ringo set on August 24th.)

The Beatles:

  1. Help!
  2. Here Comes The Sun
  3. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Her Majesty
  4. Across The Universe
  5. Things We Said Today
  6. The Word
  7. I Feel Fine
  8. Getting Better
  9. Hey Bulldog

John Lennon:

  1. Woman
  2. Cold Turkey
  3. Watching The Wheels
  4. Imagine
  5. Give Me Some Truth
  6. Isolation
  7. What You Got
  8. Jealous Guy
  9. Intuition

Paul McCartney:

  1. Band On The Run
  2. Hi Hi Hi
  3. Every Night
  4. My Brave Face
  5. Simple As That
  6. Vanilla Sky
  7. Jet
  8. Take It Away
  9. Daytime Nighttime Suffering

George Harrison:

  1. If Not For You
  2. Any Road
  3. Blow Away
  4. Cloud Nine
  5. Apple Scruffs
  6. Got My Mind Set On You
  7. Crackerbox Palace
  8. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
  9. Devil's Radio

Sunday, October 5, 2003

THE JOHN LENNON BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — John would have been 63 on this coming Thursday.

This annual Mountain-exclusive special presents rare versions of John's music in chronological order, along with interview clips of John, including excerpts from Archer's 1972 chat with John & Yoko.

November 18th, a definitive collection of videos, "Lennon Legend," will be released on DVD.

Sunday, September 28, 2003

THE BEATLES AT THE BEEB — Highlights from the legendary BBC performances as compiled on the 1994 Apple/BBC release "Live At The BBC," plus some rarities and interview clips from those who participated in the sessions. Items marked (*) do not appear on the album. The Beatles at the Beeb

Sunday, September 21, 2003

A SPECIAL LOOK AT THE WHITE ALBUM — The double album "The Beatles" was released 35 years ago this November.

Sunday, September 14, 2003

THE MONO MYSTERY TOUR — Among our most-frequent requests are the mono mixes of the six "Magical Mystery Tour" songs. Here they are in the order they appeared on the British soundtrack EP:

RINGO SINGS — Reggie Hausen put together this collection of Ringo's lead vocals with the Beatles.
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • Honey Don't
  • Act Naturally
  • If You've Got Trouble
  • With A Little Help From My Friends
  • Octopus' Garden
BAND ON THE RUN: THE SPECIAL EDITION — We've had a lot of requests to feature tracks from the bonus interview disc of the special 1999 25th anniversary "Band On The Run" package, so Breakfast With The Beatles features highlights from the bonus disc mixed with complete songs from this landmark 1974 album.
  • Paul on recording the LP in Africa
  • Band On The Run
  • Paul on releasing Jet as a single
  • Jet
  • Paul on being robbed in Lagos
  • Bluebird
  • Let Me Roll It
  • Paul on the EMI studio in Africa
  • Mamunia
  • Paul on Tony Visconti
  • Tony Visconti on Band On The Run and No Words
  • No Words
  • Helen Wheels
  • Paul McCartney, James Coburn and John Conteh on the cover shoot.
  • Nineteen Hundred & Eighty Five
  • Paul: thanks
  • Band On The Run ("comedic Northern version")
The Rutles MEET THE RUTLES! — A special feature on the mockumentary sketch from the minds of Eric Idle and Neil Innes, born on the U.K.'s "Rutland Weekend Television," later aired on "Saturday Night Live" and fully realized on the full-length TV special "All You Need Is Cash," which featured cast members from Monty Python and SNL, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and even George Harrison. Beatleologist Dave Haber created the ultimate website on the Rutles, at Rutles.org.
  • Children Of Rock & Roll (from Rutland Weekend Television)
  • I Must Be In Love ("live" version from Rutland Weekend Television)
  • Eric Idle: How Rutlemania began
  • Goose-Step Mama
  • Number One
  • Eric Idle: The Rat Keller
  • Baby Let Me Be (unused track)
  • Manager Leggy Mountbattan's mum on what attracted him to the Rutles
  • Hold My Hand
  • Mick Jagger: The Rutles wrote the Stones a song
  • Blue Suede Shubert
  • Bill Murray: Bill Murray The K
  • I Must Be In Love (studio version)
  • With A Girl Like You
  • Paul Simon: The Rutles' debut on The Ed Sullivan Show
  • Between Us
  • Dan Ayckroyd: The record executive who turned down the Rutles
  • Ouch!
  • Doubleback Alley
  • Neil Innes: Nasty on avoiding Liverpool
  • Good Times Roll (an expansion of RWT's Children Of Rock & Roll)
  • Eric Idle: backmasking
  • Major Happy's Up & Coming Once Upon A Good Time Band/Rendezvous
  • Eric Idle & the band: Losing Leggy Mountbatten
  • Piggy In The Middle
  • Nasty & Chastity: You Need Feet
  • Cheese & Onions
  • Living In Hope
  • George Harrison & Michael Palin: The ripoffs at Rutle Corps
  • Get Up & Go
  • Mick Jagger: The Rutles' breakup

Sunday, September 7, 2003

BEATLES' STORY SONGS — Suggested by Margaret Wheeler of Littleton.

BEATLE BLUES — Submitted by Cyndi Jaisen.
  • Marwa Blues/George
  • Yer Blues/Beatles
  • San Francisco Bay Blues/Paul
  • Sue Me, Sue You Blues/George
  • Guitar Blues/Beatles
MAIN TITLES BY SOLO BEATLES — Movie themes compiled by Ken Goewey of Broomfield.
    Ringo Starr & Barbara Bach in 'Caveman'
  • Spies Like Us/Paul
  • Caveman (Caveman Groove)/Ringo
  • Time Bandits (Dream Away)/George
  • Vanilla Sky/Paul
  • Wonderwall (Wonderwall To Be Here)/George
  • Blindman/Ringo
  • In-Laws (A Love For You)/Paul
  • Lethal Weapon 2 (Cheer Down)/George
  • Give My Regards To Broad Street (No More Lonely Nights — playout version)/Paul
  • Live & Let Die/Wings
  • Porky's III (I Don't Want To Do It)/George
BEATLES' SONGS THAT MENTION OTHER BEATLES' SONGS — From various listener suggestions.
  • I Am The Walrus/Beatles (refers to "Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds")
  • Savoy Truffle/Beatles (mentions "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da")
  • All You Need Is Love/Beatles (references "Yesterday" and "She Loves You")
  • All Those Years Ago/George (refers to "Imagine" and "All You Need Is Love")
  • How Do You Sleep?/John (mentions "Sgt. Pepper," "Yesterday" and "Another Day")
  • Glass Onion/Beatles (references "Strawberry Fields," "I Am The Walrus," "Fool On The Hill," "Lady Madonna," "Fixing A Hole")
  • Never Without You/Ringo (mentions "Within You Without You," "Here Comes The Sun," "I Dig Love" and "All Things Must Pass")
SUPER-RARITIES — We receive many, many requests for rarities, but this set contains some of the rarest of the rare!
  • You Know My Name (the complete 7:17 version)
  • Hey Bulldog (shorter alternate mix with guitar on fade)
  • Badfinger Boogie (instrumental that evolved into With A Little Help From My Friends)
  • Revolution (early mix of the slow version with "#9" montage attached to the fade)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (5:16 version)
  • I'm Down (alternate stereo mix)
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (alternate version)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (finished mix of the first version)
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (alternate mix with long playout instead of fade)
  • I'm So Tired (with an alternate Paul harmony and "distant" guitar)
  • Dr. Robert (long version with alternate lead vocal)
  • Octopus' Garden (never-issued 1999 digital remix)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (alternate mix/edit)

Sunday, August 31, 2003

GEORGE GUEST APPEARANCES — Long John 49er of Boulder put together this set of some of George Harrison's more obscure guest appearances:

I LIKE THIS KIND AND THAT KIND OF MUSIC — This interesting set from Carmen Laughlin of Littleton highlights some of the Beatles' departures from rock — genre-bending, so to speak:
  • Love You To (Indian music)
  • Got To Get You Into My Life (Memphis R&B;)
  • Back In The USSR (US surf music a la Beach Boys)
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (ska)
  • Honey Pie (Music Hall/Vaudeville)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (contemporary folk a la Bob Dylan)
  • Yellow Submarine (children's)
  • Lady Madonna (New Orleans R&B; a la Fats Domino)
THE "IMAGINE" LP — There are many discrepancies in mixing between the original vinyl LP and the two mixes that have been released on CD, so we've had several requests to play the original vinyl version of John's 1971 classic. The 'Imagine' LP
    Side One

  • Imagine
  • John on Crippled Inside
  • Crippled Inside
  • Jealous Guy
  • It's So Hard
  • I Don't Want To Be A Soldier

    Side Two

  • Give Me Some Truth
  • Oh My Love
  • John on How Do You Sleep?
  • How Do You Sleep?
  • How?
  • Oh, Yoko!
SEA OF BEATLES — Julia & Jack put together this set of nautical numbers. We'd already played Yellow Submarine earlier in the show, but the rest of their set is intact:
  • Octopus' Garden/Beatles
  • Moonlight Bay (from the Morcambe & Wise Show)/Beatles
  • Seaside Woman/Linda McCartney & Wings
  • You Are Here/John
  • Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea/George
THE BEATLES LIVE IN PARIS — We've had dozens of requests to repeat this — it's one of the cleanest live recordings of the fab four, recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder directly from the public address amplifier. The original reel of this June 1965 performance was loaned to Breakfast With The Beatles by its owner, collector Andre Oulette. The Mountain repeated these seven cuts:
  • She's A Woman
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • I'm A Loser
  • I Wanna Be Your Man
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Baby's In Black
  • Rock & Roll Music

Sunday, August 24th, 2003
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I'M YOUR VEHICLE — A set put together by L.B. Jackson takes us for a ride:

BEATLES IN THE SKA WITH REGGAE — Reggae covers of Beatles songs, suggested by Razor Trimm, who's a fan of Breakfast With The Beatles and Reggae On The Mountain (Saturday nights at 10.)
  • Bob Marley/And I Love Her
  • Toots & The Maytals/Give Peace A Chance
  • Desmond Dekker & The Aces/Come Together
  • I-Tones/Don't Bother Me
THE "WEIRD" U.S. SINGLES — This chronological set of "different" American 45s was requested by Emil4055.
  • I'll Cry Instead (longer version repeats the first verse)
  • I Feel Fine (extra reverb)
  • She's A Woman (extra reverb)
  • Eight Days A Week (alternate mono mix with reverb on vocals)
  • Penny Lane (U.S. DJ version: alternate mono mix with the horn tag)
  • I Am The Walrus (alternate mono mix with an extra measure in the middle)
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (alternate mono mix from DJ copy)
THE BEST OF RINGO — With Ringo & His All Starrs coming to Denver Wednesday night, Breakfast With The Beatles counts down our top 10 all-time e-mail requests for Ringo solo songs:
  • #10 — Back Off Boogaloo
  • #09 — Wrack My Brain
  • #08 — Oh My My
  • #07 — Cookin' In The Kitchen Of Love
  • #06 — I'm The Greatest
  • #05 — She's About A Mover
  • #04 — Photograph
  • #03 — Weight Of The World
  • #02 — It Don't Come Easy
  • #01 — Never Without You
WAITING — Darby Scott came up with this set of tunes about waiting.
  • Waiting For The Band/Nicky Hopkins with George
  • Please Mr. Postman/Beatles
  • Ya Ya/John
  • Don't Let Me Wait Too Long/George
  • Wait/Beatles
PAUL ON TV — a set of televised performances, suggested by MaccaMecca.
  • Flaming Pie (on Oprah)
  • Hey Jude (on Saturday Night Live)
  • Gotta Sing Gotta Dance (from the James Paul McCartney special)
  • Lawdy Miss Clawdy (on the U.K. series The Last Resort)

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

ELVIS WEEK CONCLUDES IN MEMPHIS — Here's a set of Elvis covers suggested by J. L. Lincoln of Boulder.

BEATLES UNPLUGGED — Lee & Jamie C. of Evergreen submitted this set of acoustic Beatles tunes:
  • Girl
  • Till There Was You
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • I Will
  • Two Of Us
  • I'll Follow The Sun
JOHN LENNON — Ernie Watts assembled this chronological set of John Lennon songs, using his favorite tracks from each of John's original solo albums.
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Live Peace In Toronto)
  • Hold On (Plastic Ono Band)
  • Give Me Some Truth (Imagine)
  • New York City (Sometime In New York City)
  • Intuition (Mind Games)
  • What You Got (Walls & Bridges)
  • John on What You Got and the Walls & Bridges LP
  • Ya Ya (Rock & Roll)
  • Cleanup Time (Double Fantasy)
SOUL TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES — This new compilation released by Vanguard Records features 12 well-researched and annotated R&B; covers of Beatles songs. Here are some highlights:
  • Hey Jude/Wilson Pickett
  • Lady Madonna/Fats Domino
  • Let It Be/Aretha Franklin
  • Day Tripper/Otis Redding
  • Got To Get You Into My Life/Earth, Wind & Fire
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand/Al Green
BEATLES INSTRUMENTALS — submitted by Fabster.
  • 12 Bar Original/Beatles
  • Beef Jerky/John
  • Flying/Beatles
  • Hot As Sun/Paul
  • Marwa Blues/George

RINGO RERUN — Archer's Ringo interview from last Monday's Mountain morning show, including I'm The Greatest, Don't Be Cruel and She's About A Mover.

FEATURING ERIC CLAPTON — Beatles & solo cuts featuring "Slowhand," submitted by Dustin Renborn of Denver.

  • Yer Blues/The Dirty Mac (John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell)
  • Something/with George, live in Japan
  • Cold Turkey/with John & the Plastic Ono Band
  • Badge/Cream with George Harrison
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps/with the Beatles
  • Dream Scene/with George Harrison
  • Money/with the Plastic Ono Band
  • That Kind Of Woman/Eric Clapton with George Harrison

Sunday, August 10th, 2003

HEAR THE BEATLES TELL ALL — We've had numerous requests to play this interview album which was released on Vee Jay Records in November 1964. Side 1 consists of an interview with John Lennon by Jim Steck, on topics ranging from forming the band to Lennon's books. On side 2, Dave Hull interviews the four Beatles on topics ranging from filming "A Hard Day's Night" to the state of Ringo's tonsils. The interviews were edited and set to incidental music by producer Lou Adler.

GETTIN' READY FOR RINGO — Ringo joins Archer tomorrow morning in the 8 AM hour of the Mountain's morning show, as the All Starrs prepare to play the Fillmore on August 27th. To get you ready, here's a set of tunes from previous All Starr Band performances:

THE LENNON KIDS — Mary Sampco put together this set of Julian and Sean Lennon tunes:
  • Julian/Too Late For Goodbyes
  • Sean & The Peace Choir/Give Peace A Chance
  • Julian/Ruby Tuesday
  • Sean/It's Alright
  • Julian/Day After Day
SITAR SET — Inspired by last week's Ravi Shankar performance from the Concert for Bangla Desh, Lynne Allen suggested a set of psychedelic tunes featuring the sitar:
  • Within You Without You/Beatles
  • Love You To/Beatles
  • Love Scene/George Harrison
  • The Inner Light/Beatles
RARITIES — Catching up on more e-mail requests for individual rarities:
  • Sun King Medley (alternate micx with "Her Majesty" still intact)
  • All My Trials/Paul (Asian EP cut, requested by Jimmy Jensen)
  • Get Back (fast version, requested by Shiela Farber)
  • Come Together/John (alternate N.Y. performance, requested by PickerKicker)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite (alternate stereo mix with complete "having been" lyric, requested by Elmore)
  • Thank You Girl (complete alternate take, requested by Stash Greeley)
  • Money (Decca audition version, requested by BabyBoomR)
  • Flying Hour/George (song left off "Somewhere in England")
  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport/Rolf Harris with the Beatles (BBC)
McGEAR — Paul's brother, Mike McCartney, was a well-known Liverpool poet, a member of the comedy bands the Scaffold and Grimms and an accomplished photographer. He used the name McGear, but everyone knew who he was, so he eventually reverted back to McCartney. In 1974, he released a critically-acclaimed solo album called "McGear," on which he was backed up by brother Paul and Wings. Fulfilling many requests, here are some highlights from the "McGear" LP:
  • What Do We Really Know?
  • Norton
  • Leave It
  • Have You Got Problems?
  • The Man Who Found God On The Moon

Sunday, August 3rd, 2003

RARITIES — catching up on e-mail requests for specific rarities:

A Paul McCartney rarity set suggested by Marie Jenkins of Boulder:

Requests for individual Beatles rarities:

  • Sexy Sadie (long version, requested by Barry Levitt)
  • I Should Have Known Better (alternate stereo mix from "Reel Music;" requested by Fab4Maniac)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (original vinyl mix, requested by Clare St. Pere)
  • Penny Lane (US DJ version — our most-requested rarity)
  • I'm A Loser (with the alternate lyrics "beneath this wig I am wearing a tie," requested by Karl Steiger)
  • The End (the long version of the alternate mix, requested by AlbumPopper)
  • And Your Bird Can Sing (alternate version, requested by Byron Stendel and BeatleRick)
  • Free As A Bird (long version from DJ sampler, a heavily-requested track)
The 8-track of 'The Concert For Bangla Desh' HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH — Fulfilling nearly a hundred requests, here are highlights from the Concert for Bangla Desh (officially titled "George Harrison & Friends" at the time). The concert took place 32 years ago this weekend. Performers included Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Alla Rakah, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Klaus Voorman, Ringo Starr, Badfinger (Pete Ham, Joey Molland, Tom Evans, Mike Gibbins), Jesse Ed Davis, Chuck Findley, Marlin Green, Jeanie Greene, Jim Horn, Dolores Hall, Don Nix, Claudia Linnear, Usted Aliakbar Khan, Alan Beutler, Jackie Kelso, Jim Keltner, Don Preston, Carl Radle, Kamala Chakravarty, Jo Green and a major surprise appearance from Bob Dylan. The recording was produced by George Harrison & Phil Spector. With this Madison Square Garden event, George was credited with inventing the all-star rock & roll benefit concert — it raised nearly a quarter-million dollars for the United Nations Children's Relief Fund.
  • Bangla Dhun
  • Wah-Wah
  • My Sweet Lord
  • Awaiting On You All
  • That's The Way God Planned It
  • Beware Of Darkness
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Jumpin' Jack Flash/Youngblood
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
  • It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
  • Blowin' In The Wind
  • Mr. Tambourine Man
  • Just Like A Woman
  • Something
  • Bangla Desh

Sunday, July 27, 2003
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THIS WEEK: THREE EXOTIC, COLLECTIBLE BEATLES ALBUMS!

First, an alternate version of the 1999 "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" CD: Digitally remixed in 1998, this version features passages from George Martin's soundtack music between the Beatles songs. Although there are fewer Beatles cuts, all of them are alternate mixes, although some, like "All You Need Is Love" and "It's All Too Much" are the edits used in the movie. In one case, "Hey Bulldog," the song is slightly longer than the released mix. This album was rejected and replaced with a full-Beatles version by the time it was issued in 1999, but this version made it to some DVD and video vendors as a promotional audio CD for in-store play. (Incidentally, a third variation of the "Songtrack" album found its way to U.S. radio stations. Advance DJ copies contained a longer version of "It's All Too Much" — the long version with the movie-only verse included.)

Click for larger image Next, it's the Canadian LP, "Long Tall Sally." The third Beatles album released by Capitol of Canada collected UK single and EP tracks plus cuts from the British LPs "Please Please Me" and "With The Beatles." The mono version of this album has alternate mixes of the tracks marked * below — none of which have appeared on any other album. Collectors find tracking down the unique mono version of this album frustrating because in many pressings a stereo version of the album is found inside the mono cover.
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand
  • *I Saw Her Standing There
  • *You Really Got a Hold On Me
  • *Devil In Her Heart
  • *Roll Over Beethoven
  • Misery
  • *Long Tall Sally
  • *I Call Your Name
  • Please Mister Postman
  • *This Boy
  • I'll Get You
  • *You Can't Do That
Third, it's the Hong Kong/Asian version of the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP, which was censored to exclude three songs that Chinese officials thought refered to drugs: "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "A Day In the Life." We've got an original mono copy — alternate mono mixes marked * below are exclusive to this Asian version of the album.
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (the mono mix, edited into:)
  • *Fool On The Hill (vocal mixed back, piano & woodwinds mixed way forward)
  • *Baby You're A Rich Man (mono mix with a longer fade-out than on any other LP or single)
  • *Getting Better (doubled bass track)
  • *Fixing A Hole (different lead guitar mix, longer fade-out)
  • *She's Leaving Home (alternate strings & vocal mixes)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (mono mix)
  • Within You Without You (mono mix)
  • When I'm Sixty Four (mono mix)
  • *Lovely Rita (alternate background vocal mix and effects at the end)
  • Good Morning Good Morning (mono mix)
  • *Sgt. Pepper Reprise (alternate vocals and sound effects; cross-faded into:)
  • I Am The Walrus (mono mix — incorrectly listed on the back cover and label as "I'm The Walrus")
'Real Love' EP EXTRA CUTS FROM THE "REAL LOVE" EP — The three cuts left off "Anthology," but released on the 4-song "Real Love" CD:
  • Baby's In Black (live)
  • Yellow Submarine (alternate intro and sound effects)
  • Here, There & Everywhere (an alternate take edited into a remix of the original)

Sunday, July 20, 2003
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THE BEATLES IN MELBOURNE — It was Ringo's first night back with the band after sick leave for tonsilitis — the fab four were in great form the night they played Melbourne, Australia in 1964. Here are six songs from that performance:

SAME SONG, DIFFERENT SINGER — Kelly Brown of Littleton suggested this set of each of the fab four singing songs usually sung by another Beatle.
  • Honey Don't, sung by John Lennon instead of Ringo.
  • Get Back, sung by George Harrison instead of Paul.
  • I Call Your Name, sung by Ringo instead of John.
  • Something, sung by Paul instead of George.
FREE SONGS — A set of "free" songs submitted by Karen, Lyle and Jody Styler, who came up with the idea during their Independence Day barbecue.
  • Free Now/Paul McCartney
  • Running Free/Ringo Starr
  • Free As A Bird/Beatles
  • Freedom/Paul McCartney

Joey Molland SPECIAL GUEST: JOEY MOLLAND — The Mountain had many requests to do a feature on Badfinger, Apple Records' second-most successful group (next to the Beatles, of course). Well, there's no better way to highlight Badfinger's tenure at Apple than with Badfinger's Joey Molland, who's been in Denver recently working on a new project with Jock Bartley (Firefall), Rod Gerrard (Hermits, Mindbenders, etc.), Larry Sims (Loggins & Messina, Sunshine Company, etc.) and Bob Harris (Mothers, Warren Zevon, Dazz Band, Steve Vai, etc.). Keep your ear to the ground for the emergence of The Retro Rockets.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE "GEORGE HARRISON" LP — Wendy Hightower asked for these cuts from George's still-out-of-print self-titled album from 1979.
  • Love Comes To Everyone (long version)
  • Not Guilty
  • Here Comes The Moon
  • Soft-Hearted Hana
  • Faster
  • Blow Away (long version)

Sunday, July 13, 2003
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THE 1963 SWEDISH BROADCAST — The Beatles played a seven-song set to a very polite audience in a Stockholm TV studio in October 1963. The show was aired two months later. Fragments of this concert — out of sequence — showed up on the first Anthology CD, but "Breakfast" brings you the complete performance.

THE UNIQUE AMERICAN SINGLES — the U.S.-only 45s, as suggested by Tina Starr and SingleJockey.
  • Sie Liebt Dich (released by Swan records in May 1964 as the label's last attempt to put out a Beatles product before Capitol took over the catalogue)
  • I'll Cry Instead (the long version unique to the July 1964 Capitol single and the United Artists version of the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack LP)
  • And I Love Her (the mostly-solo-vocal mono version, with a longer ending that's unique to DJ copies of the July 1964 Capitol single.)
  • Slow Down (this mix is unique to the August 1964 Capitol single)
  • Matchbox (this mix is unique to the B-side of the US Slow Down single)
  • I Feel Fine (the November 1964 Capitol single mix.)
  • She's A Woman (the B-side of I Feel Fine; both sides of the American 45 had much more reverb added to the tracks.)
  • Eight Days A Week (this US-only single had more reverb on the vocal tracks — its B-side, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, was the mono LP version)
  • Yesterday (this huge hit was not released as a single in England; in a reversal of the trend, the US single had less reverb on it than the version on the British Help! LP)
  • Act Naturally (this mix is unique to the B-side of the American Yesterday 45)
  • Nowhere Man (like Yesterday, there's less reverb on the vocals on the US single mix; released as a US 45 in February 1966, the song had been left off the American version of Rubber Soul)
  • What Goes On (a mono mix unique to the B-side of Nowhere Man; this song was left off Rubber Soul in the US)
  • Penny Lane (the January 1967 US DJ copy with a unique mix throughout and the horn at the end)
  • I Am The Walrus (the US single featured an extra bar after the "I'm crying" lyric)
  • The Long & Winding Road (the US DJ/jukebox mono mix from May 1970.)
  • For You Blue (the US DJ/jukebox mono mix from the B-side of the Long & Winding Road single)
  • Helter Skelter (issued on a 45 by Capitol in May 1976 to cash in on a TV movie about Charles Manson; this DJ copy version is the only mono mix to include the full ending)
  • Got To Get You Into My Life (the B-side of Helter Skelter, this mono version was issued to radio stations)
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (issued as a single in November 1976, this mono mix comes from a DJ copy)
  • Julia (mono mix from the B-side of an Ob-La-Di, Obl-La-Da DJ copy)
  • The Beatles' Movie Medley (edited medley of their soundtrack songs, released in March 1982 to promote the Reel Music collection)
  • Fab Four On Film: The Beatles Talk About "A Hard Day's Night" (from the B-side of the US DJ version of The Beatles' Movie Medley)
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (unique stereo mix from the B-side of the commercial version of The Beatles' Movie Medley)
OFFBEAT BEATLE SONG COVERS — "Breakfast" has received hundreds of e-mail requests for various covers. Some were a challenge to find, some we've played before, most are rare, nearly all are fascinating.
  • Glass Onion/Orbit III
  • Tell Me Why/Beach Boys
  • Day Tripper/Cheap Trick
  • Within You Without You/Big Head Todd & The Monsters
  • Blackbird/Crosby, Stills & Nash
  • With A Little Help From My Friends/Santana Blues Band
  • Things We Said Today/Steven King (courtesy of KingOfGuitar.com)
  • I Feel Fine/Ventures
  • Eleanor Rigby/Four Tops
  • I Will/Ben Taylor
  • If I Needed Someone/Hollies
  • Yes It Is/Peter Sellers
  • Dear Prudence/Carpet Frogs
  • A Day In The Life/Big Daddy
  • I, Me, Mine/Marc Ford

Sunday, July 6, 2003

AN ALL-AMERICAN BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES — for the Independence Day weekend, "Breakfast" brings the Colonies and Crown together: American music done by Britain's most successful export. The Beatles loved American music, from country (Buck Owens) to rhythm & blues (Chuck Berry) to rockabilly (Carl Perkins) to rock (Gene Vincent) to pop (Elvis) to Broadway (Meredith Willson). It's exemplified by the amount of covers they did as a group and as individuals — too many to fit into three hours! Special thanks to Tanker Whitman of Boulder for the holiday weekend suggestion.

Sunday, June 29, 2003

PAUL ON "THE LAST RESORT" — we've had several requests to play the three songs Paul performed in 1987 on this British TV series:

THE BEATLES SING LARRY WILLIAMS — a set suggested by Karen Palmer of Aurora. Aspiring rock & roller Larry Williams was Lloyd Price's valet in 1954 — by 1957 he was Specialty Records' "next Little Richard." John & Paul loved snagging imports of Larry's American discs.

  • Slow Down (Beatles)
  • Bony Maronie (John)
  • Bad Boy (Beatles)
  • She Said Yeah (Paul)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Beatles on the BBC)

JOHN LENNON JOINS ELTON JOHN — "Breakfast" has received many requests to play John's full three-song appearance during Elton's 1974 Thanksgiving night concert at Madison Square Garden. What turned out to be John's last live appearance was the payoff to a bet. Elton — when recording "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" with John for the "Walls & Bridges" LP — told John he had a number one record on his hand, but John disagreed. John's appearance at one of Elton's gigs would be the payoff if the song topped the charts — which, of course, it did. It was backstage at this concert where John was reunited with Yoko after the so-called "lost weekend."

  • Elton introduces John
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night
  • Elton introduces "Lucy"
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
  • John introduces their last song
  • I Saw Her Standing There

SUPER-RARITY: THE MONO "RAM" LP — Paul & Linda McCartney's 1971 "Ram" album had a technical problem: it was mastered in stereo on a tape machine that wasn't tracking correctly. The result is obvious in all the stereo releases, even on CD — if you listen to the stereo tracks in mono, you can hear the tape mistracking. As most of America's rock radio stations were still mono in 1971, it was decided to do a mono remix of the album for U.S. DJ copies only. The quickly-done remix has many differences from the stereo — especially among the vocal and guitar tracks.

  • Too Many People
  • 3 Legs
  • Ram On
  • Dear Boy
  • Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
  • Smile Away
  • Heart Of The Country
  • Monkberry Moon Delight
  • Eat At Home
  • Long-Haired Lady
  • Ram On
  • Back Seat Of My Car

BEATLES BY GEORGE — Mark W. and Tiffany2003 put together this set of their favorite George Harrison Beatles songs.

  • Within You Without You
  • If I Needed Someone (mono mix)
  • Piggies
  • Love You To (long mono version)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic version with complete ending)
  • Don't Bother Me
  • Something (UK single mix)
  • I Need You (mono mix)
  • It's All Too Much (long version from the US DJ advance of "Yellow Submarine Songtrack")
  • You Like Me Too Much (mono mix)
  • Taxman (mono mix of alternate version)
  • Blue Jay Way (mono UK EP mix)
  • Long Long Long (mono mix)
  • Only A Northern Song (original 1967 mix)

Sunday, June 22, 2003

SESSIONS — Long before the "Beatles Anthology" concept, EMI was set to release a compilation of previously-unreleased Beatles tracks called "Sessions." The projected release date of November 2, 1984 passed — seven months later, this article by Rip Rense appeared on the nation's newswires:

There's that sound again: The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Every few years there are reports of "new" Beatles tapes discovered in somebody's garage or basement or back pocket. Most of these stories are like the boy who cried wolf. This time, however, there is evidence that an album is in the works.

EMI, the Fab Four's old British record company, has put together a new Beatles album — not a repackage of singles and album tracks as were "Love Songs" and "Rock 'n' Roll Music, " released in the late '70s.

Titled "Sessions," the new record is a collection of 13 previously unreleased odds and ends ranging from alternate versions of LP cuts to a George Harrison track that didn't make it on the "White Album."

An executive at Capitol Records, an American subsidiary of EMI, said that "Sessions" was set for release last November, but was bumped because of the release of Paul McCartney's "Give My Regards To Broad Street" album.

What's holding up the release now are McCartney's objections to "Sessions" current format. But that's not the end of the story. "We're now discussing the matter with the remaining Beatles and representatives of John Lennon's estate with an aim to releasing an album sometime," said Brian Southall, general manager of public relations for EMI records.

"The format that (EMI) suggested was not acceptable, but one obviously has to start somewhere. And then we move on from there. We move on to other formats now, other suggestions and discussions."

A spokesman for McCartney in London said that "EMI is not throwing you a red herring — I can confirm that discussions are under way. Beyond that, we have nothing to say."

That discussions between EMI and former members of the Beatles (and the Lennon estate) are even taking place is surprising. McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr historically have dismissed the idea of releasing leftover material, saying they issued everything they wanted to.

But now, for the first time, the ex-Beatle with the biggest clout in the matter is publicly not bristling at the idea of releasing old tracks. And, for the first time, EMI records is not only acknowledging that there is enough material for one LP, but that it would be glad to put the album together.

EMI had long acknowledged that it possesses a "few tracks" left over from Beatles recording sessions. In 1980, the company actually planned to release two of them — the Beatles' versions of Johnny Preston's "Leave My Kitten Alone" and Mitch Murray's "How Do You Do It?" — as a single. The plans were canceled after the murder of John Lennon.

Twelve of the thirteen tracks that were edited and mixed for "Sessions" turned up on the anthologies, but we've had so many requests to play the complete "Sessions" LP, here it is — from a pristine advance "approval" copy that found its way to a radio station in Houston in late 1984:
  • Besame Mucho
  • How Do You Do It?
  • One After 909
  • Leave My Kitten Alone
  • That Means A Lot
  • If You've Got Trouble
  • I'm Looking Through You
  • Christmas Time Is Here Again (this track was left off the anthologies, but an alternate mix appeared on some versions of the Free As A Bird single)
  • What's The New Mary Jane?
  • Not Guilty
  • Come And Get It
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
RINGO'S COMING! — Tickets went on sale Saturday for Ringo & His All Starr Band's performance at the Fillmore on August 27th. Here are some highlights from past All Starr Band performances.
  • It Don't Come Easy
  • Back Off Boogaloo
  • No-No Song
  • You're Sixteen
  • Boys
  • Photograph
  • Weight Of The World
  • Withy A Little Help From My Friends
PETER ASHER TURNS 59 TODAY, SO HERE'S A SET OF PETER & GORDON SONGS PENNED BY BEATLES.
  • Nobody I Know (Lennon/McCartney)
  • Paul introduces "I Don't Want To See You Again"
  • I Don't Want To See You Again (Lennon/McCartney)
  • John & George on "A World Without Love"
  • A World Without Love (Lennon/McCartney)
  • Woman (McCartney — as Bernard Webb)

AN INTERVIEW WITH PETE BEST — Pete and his brothers have authored a book called "The Beatles: The True Beginnings," which began with the Bests putting their mother Mo's archives in order. Paul McCartney contributed an interview to the book. Here's a set of Beatles' tracks with Pete Best on drums:

  • Ain't She Sweet
  • Love Me Do
  • Searchin'
  • Cry For A Shadow
  • Money (Decca audition version)
  • My Bonnie (long version)
MORE REQUESTS FOR RARITIES! — "Breakfast" catches up a bit more on its huge backlog of e-mail requests. This time it's requests for "sessions" tracks, in which you hear songs taking shape in the studio.
  • Day Tripper
  • We Can Work It Out
  • This Boy
  • Badfinger Boogie (instrumental origin of With A Little Help From My Friends)
  • Raunchy/Thinking Of Linking ("Threetles" 1994 session)
  • Paperback Writer
  • Strawberry Fields Forever

Chris Farley with Paul McCartney Sunday, June 15, 2003
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THE PAUL McCARTNEY BIRTHDAY SPECIAL — Sir Paul McCartney's 61st birthday is Wednesday, so Breakfast With The Beatles celebrates with a three-hour special spanning his career from 1962 to 2003. Click here for a track listing.

Sunday, June 8, 2003

SHORT CUTS — We've had a lot of requests to repeat this set of very short songs, originally suggested by PepperHead.

RINGO'S FINEST — This set was put together by Dr. Robert; he left the last cut open as "your choice."
  • Rain (Ringo's favorite song)
  • Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (BBC)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever ("Anthology" composite)
  • I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Cry Over You (BBC)
  • I Feel Fine (UK 45 version)
  • A Day In The Life (basic track; Phil Collins' favorite Ringo performance)
  • Everybody's In A Hurry But Me (Old Wave LP; Archer's choice)
THE "ROCK & ROLL MUSIC" LP — The so-called "mismix"

This June 1976 compilation featured remixed versions of many of the Beatles' rockers. The first version of the remix, done by EMI without consulting the fab four, annoyed George Martin so much he went into Capitol studios in Hollywood and remixed the tracks again. Martin's mix was released in the US, but the first pressings in the UK contained the so-called "mismixed" versions. The Mountain has had at least 26 e-mail requests to play the now very rare "first mix" of Rock & Roll Music.

JOHN LENNON REMIXES — Listener Jeff Stavida put together this set of his favorite tracks from the remixed-for-CD versions of Imagine, Live Peace In Toronto, Mind Games and Plastic Ono Band albums.

  • Intuition (Mind Games)
  • How Do You Sleep? (Imagine)
  • Cold Turkey (Live Peace In Toronto)
  • Isolation (Plastic Ono Band)
  • Meat City (Mind Games)
  • Crippled Inside (Imagine)
  • I Found Out (Plastic Ono Band)

Sunday, June 1, 2003
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Sunday, May 25, 2003
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PAUL IN EUROPE — AND ON FILM

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND — REMEMBERING GEORGE & JOHN

GEORGE:

  • Abandoned Love (unreleased Dylan cover)
  • George: becoming a songwriter
  • Don't Bother Me (basic track)
  • Living In The Material World (long version)
  • George: doesn't look back or forward
  • Blow Away (long version)
  • Savoy Truffle (mono mix)
  • Miss O'Dell (B-side)
  • Party Seacombe (Wonderwall soundtrack)
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (with Carl Perkins & friends)
  • Blue Suede Shoes (with Carl Perkins & friends)
  • George's sore throat (1964)
  • Devil In Her Heart (stereo version)
  • If I Needed Someone (mono mix)
  • Never Get Over You
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (complete acoustic version)
  • For You Blue (live in Baltimore)
  • George: life on Earth
  • Art Of Dying (long mono version)
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
  • Pirate Song (Rutland Weekend Television)
  • Red Lady Too (Wonderwall soundtrack)
  • Murray the K: advice on calling girls
  • I Need You (mono mix)
JOHN:
  • Gimme Some Truth (long version)
  • John reads a fan letter
  • I Gotta Find My Baby (BBC)
  • Imagine (live acoustic version)
  • Remember (2000 remix)
  • John: on meeting Chuck Berry
  • Johnny B. Goode (with Chuck Berry on The Mike Douglas Show)
  • Watching The Wheels (alternate live studio take)
  • Hollywood Bowl fan obsessed with John
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Hollywood Bowl)
  • John: Joint In The Woods commercial
  • Norwegian Wood (early version)
  • Yer Blues (mono mix)
  • George Martin: backwards tracks in Rain
  • Rain (alternate stereo mix)
  • Steel & Glass (original vinyl mix)
  • John: his Aunt Mimi
  • It's So Hard (on The Mike Douglas Show)
  • Yuck & Yono (from Christmas fan club disc)
  • Ballad Of John & Yoko (mono DJ mix)
  • John Sinclair (on The Dick Cavett Show)
  • John: adding radio effects to I Am The Walrus
  • I Am The Walrus (US single with extra bar in the middle)
  • Love (Dutch 45)
  • John: weather forecast
  • Well (John & Yoko with Frank Zappa)

Sunday, May 18, 2003
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INTERVIEW: PAUL IN EUROPE

Traveling Wilburys
THE TRAVELING WILBURYS — Their catalogue — small as it is — remains out of print. "Breakfast" has gotten a seemingly endless amount of e-mails asking for a special feature on the TWs, so here it is!

    WILBURY FACTS:
    1. The supergroup began in 1988 when George and Jeff Lynne asked Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison to collaborate on a B-side for George's "When We Was Fab" single. Their first song, "Handle With Care," was taken from a sticker on a crate George spotted in Dylan's garage, where they wrote and recorded the demo.
    2. "Handle With Care" was such a strong song, the quintet decided to secretly record an album under assumed names.
    3. Who's who?
      • Nelson/Spike - George Harrison
      • Charlie T. Jr./Muddy - Tom Petty
      • Lefty - Roy Orbison
      • Lucky/Boo - Bob Dylan
      • Otis/Clayton - Jeff Lynne
    4. George came up with the name "Wilburys," based on the nickname for technical glitches that had popped up during his recording sessions for "Cloud Nine."
    5. Bob Dylan came up with the "traveling" part; the original name was going to be the Trembling Wilburys.
    6. Derek Taylor came up with the concept of a group made up of half-brothers born to a traveling salesman. Taylor commissioned Michael Palin to create the full story for the liner notes.
    7. Had Roy Orbison not died shortly after the release of the first album, the TWs would have toured.
    8. Del Shannon was to replace Roy Orbison in the TWs, but suffered from depression and committed suicide. George & Tom had nicknamed him Larry Wilbury, as in Hats Off To Larry.
    9. The second album, without a fifth Wilbury, was named "Vol. 3" to honor the "Vol. 2" with Shannon that was never to be realized.
  • Jacob Dylan on meeting Tom Petty at a Wilburys session
  • Handle With Care (12" version)
  • Nelson Wilbury's holiday message
  • Dirty World (with 'Trembling' Wilbury lyric)
  • Rattled
  • Last Night
  • Not Alone Anymore
  • Congratulations
  • George on Bob Dylan
  • Jeff Lynne on working with his idols
  • Heading For The Light
  • Margarita
  • Tweeter & The Monkey Man
  • End Of The Line (12" version)
  • Barbara Orbison on the loss of Roy
  • Nobody's Child (with Del Shannon, charity 45)
  • Runaway (with Del Shannon, B-side of She's My Baby in the UK)
  • Walk Away (Del Shannon with Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty & George)
  • Maxine (Jeff, Tom & George's demo for Del)
  • Where Were You Last Night?
  • She's My Baby
  • Inside Out
  • The Devil's Been Busy
  • Seven Deadly Sins
  • Poor House
  • Tom Petty on George's favorite TW song
  • If You Belonged To Me
  • Cool Dry Place
  • New Blue Moon (instrumental version, from B-side of Wilbury Twist)
  • You Took My Breath Away
  • Wilbury Twist
  • Tom Petty on meeting Jacob Dylan as a kid at the first TW session, then having him induct the Heartbreakers into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
MORE RARITIES BY REQUEST — "Breakfast With The Beatles" does some more catching up with a huge list of requests for individual rarities, out-takes & hard-to-find versions of songs.
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (alternate stereo mix with complete "having" lyric)
  • You Never Give Me Yor Money (basic track with jam ending)
  • Run For Your Life (alternate mono with doubled vocals)
  • Rocky Raccoon (alternate stereo mix)
  • Help (US mono LP version)
  • You're Gonna Lose That Girl (alternate version from acetate)
  • I'll Get You (BBC version)
  • Simple As That/Paul (charity EP)

Sunday, May 4, 2003
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THE BEATLES LIVE IN PARIS — One of the cleanest live recordings of the fab four was taken directly from the public address amplifier onto a reel tape. The original reel of this June 1965 performance was loaned to "Breakfast" by its owner, collector Andre Oulette.

LOST SONGS OF LENNON & McCARTNEY — This new compilation album by Pierson, Parker & Janovitz (Kate, Graham & Bill) features new versions of the songs the Beatles "gave away" to other groups. Johnny Society & Robin Zander make guest appearances.
  • Kate Pierson/ I'm In Love (originally recorded by the Foremost in 1963)
  • Bill Janovitz/I'll Keep You Satisfied (recorded by Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas in 1963)
  • Graham Parker/One & One Is Two (a UK hit for the Strangers in '64)
  • Johnny Society/I'll Be On My Way (recorded by Kramer in 1963)
  • Bill Janovitz/A World Without Love (hit for Peter & Gordon in 1964)
THE MONO SGT. PEPPER — We've had many e-mail requests to track through the original mono mix of the "Sgt. Pepper" LP, so if you are Pepperland, John Sacks, Lydia Tedeschi, PepperHead, Huron910 or one of the other dozen people who wanted to hear these alternate mixes, this was your day!

JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE & RINGO COVER THE TUNES THEY GREW UP WITH — This set is comprised from many one-off requests for solo Beatle covers of older tunes; thanks to Chuck Sallen, Reynolds34, Judy Griss, Penny, Larry Cortez, BeatleGroove and ThunderOfBoulder.

  • John/Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey)
  • Paul/Hi Heel Sneakers (Tommy Tucker, Jerry Lee Lewis & The Everly Brothers recorded this one)
  • George/Got My Mind Set On You (long version) (written by Rudy Clark; a hit for James Ray)
  • John/Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong's hit)
  • Paul/I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday (Fats Domino)
  • George/I Really Love You (rare European 45 mix of this Stereos cover)
  • John/Rip It Up/Ready Teddy (famous Little Richard medley)
  • Ringo/Hey Baby (Bruce Channell)
  • George, Paul & Ringo/Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bill Monroe & His Hillbillies song popularized by Elvis Presley)
  • Bony Maronie (Larry 'Bad Boy' Williams)
DON'T MISS THIS SET! — This set of "don't" songs was suggested by Amy Reinwold of Broomfield.
  • Don't Bother Me
  • Don't Let Me Down
  • Don't Ever Change
  • Don't Be Cruel/Ringo
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore/Paul
  • Don't Let Me Wait Too Long/George
  • I Don't Wanna Face It/John
  • I Don't Want To Spoil The Party

Sunday, April 27, 2003
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BEATLES' FOLK ROCK — suggested by Jim Brewer, 45RPMdude and Chuck Stayley.

LENNON LIVE — we've had lots of requests for John's live performances, including these from OhnoOno, Karl Stickler, Mary Ferguson, Russ Williams and others.
  • Yer Blues (with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell)
  • Cold Turkey (London)
  • Imagine (New York City)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Toronto)
  • Come Together (New York City)
  • It's So Hard (Mike Douglas Show)
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night (with Elton John, New York City)
INSIDE THE YELLOW SUBMARINE — "Breakfast With The Beatles" focuses on the making of the Beatles' animated classic, with comments from Dr. Robert "Dr. Bob" Hieronimus, author of "Inside The Yellow Submarine," George Martin and George Harrison.
  • Dr. Bob: the look of the Beatles' characters was created by Heinz Edelman
  • Film clip: The plight of Old Fred
  • Yellow Submarine (single version)
  • George Harrison: Dhani found out he was Beatle because of "Yellow Submarine"
  • Hey Bulldog ('99 remix)
  • Dr. Bob: why the "Hey Bulldog" sequence was cut from the U.S. release
  • Eleanor Rigby ('99 remix)
  • Love You To ('99 remix)
  • Dr. Bob: Al Brodax had done the low-budget U.S. Beatles cartoons, so why was the movie so high-quality?
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ('99 remix)
  • Film clip: music magic
  • Think For Yourself ('99 remix)
  • Pepperland Suite/George Martin
  • George Martin: working with director George Dunning on scoring the film
  • Dr. Bob: Why the artists and crew worked so hard under such adverse conditions
  • Film clip: nothing is Beatleproof
  • Baby You're A Rich Man ('99 remix)
  • Film clip: John & his alter-ego
  • Nowhere Man ('99 remix)
  • Sgt. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends ('99 remix)
  • Only A Northern Song ('99 remix)
  • It's All Too Much (unreleased long version of the '99 remix)
  • Dr. Bob: The Beatles ignored the movie project until they realized it was going to be a great film
  • Film clip: the Beatles live-action appearance in the film
  • All Together Now ('99 remix)
  • Film clip: the main Meanie's confession
  • All You Need Is Love (single mix)
Audio
click for audio excerptGordon Miller in London, last Tuesday morning
McCARTNEY LIVE — Judging by all the suggestions we get, Paul fans just can't get enough of hearing him live. Denver's Gordon Miller is an example — he saw Paul's shows in Denver and San Jose, California last year, then, earlier this week, he caught two of Paul's performances in London at Earls Court.
  • Birthday (Tripping The Live Fantastic)
  • Drive My Car (Paul Is Live)
  • Hi Hi Hi (Wings Over America)
  • Every Night (Back In The World)
ROCKABILLY ROOTS — On November 10th, we did a set like this with the Beatles' rhythm & blues roots, suggested by Chuck Seamus of Boulder. Since then, "Breakfast" has been asked several times for a set of rockabilly originals, followed by the Beatles' versions.
  • Matchbox/Carl Perkins, The Beatles
  • Words Of Love/Buddy Holly, The Beatles
  • Act Naturally/Buck Owens, The Beatles
  • Ain't She Sweet/Gene Vincent, The Beatles (the song dates back to the '20s but the Beatles have said their 1961 version was influenced by Vincent's)
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Carl Perkins, The Beatles

Sunday, April 20, 2003

SONGS LEFT OFF THE "BACK IN THE U.S" CD — These four cuts are included on the European version of Paul's double-CD, "Back In The World."

A DOLL'S HOUSE — different mixes/versions of songs from the "White Album," culled from various advance acetates given to radio stations and Beatle friends in 1968.
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey (alternate vocals)
  • Piggies (different intro & sound effects, different harpsichord & strings)
  • Back In The USSR (alternate vocal mix & lead guitar)
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (acoustic version)
  • Dear Prudence (different vocal mix, different ending)
  • Savoy Truffle (more Leslie effects on vocals)
  • I'm So Tired (includes "distant guitar" in the mix and a harmony vocal from Paul)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (at 5:15, the longest known version)
  • Sexy Sadie (:20 longer than released version)
MERSEYBEAT — Cheryl Windmere e-mailed: "I'd like to hear some of the other groups that were popular in Liverpool after the Beatles made it in the early sixties."
  • MOJOS/Everything's Alright
  • RORY STORM & THE HURRICANES/America (this is the group from which the Beatles pinched Ringo)
  • GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS/It's Gonna Be Alright
  • BIG THREE/Some Other Guy
  • SCAFFOLD/Thank U Veddy Much (this band included Paul's brother, Mike McGear)
  • SWINGIN' BLUE JEANS/You're No Good
  • WHISTLING JACK SMITH/I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman
  • SEARCHERS/Have You Ever Loved Somebody?
  • MERSEYS/Sorrow
THE AMERICAN "RARITIES" ALBUM — Released in 1980, the Capitol version of "Rarities" featured some contrived cuts, versions previously not released on Capitol LPs and a handful of true rarities. "Rarities" has never been issued on CD. Thanks to Steve Kramer of Aurora for the suggestion.
  • Love Me Do (original UK single version with Ringo on drums)
  • Misery (first stereo release on Capitol)
  • There's A Place (first stereo release on Capitol)
  • Sie Liebt Dich (stereo version)
  • And I Love Her (stereo version with longer ending from the German Mystery Tour LP)
  • Help! (mono single version with alternate vocals)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (UK stereo version)
  • I Am The Walrus (longer-intro European stereo version with extra-bar middle from US single edited in)
  • Penny Lane (European stereo version with U.S. DJ horn tag edited on)
  • Helter Skelter (mono mix from U.K. White Album)
  • Don't Pass Me By (mono mix from U.K. White Album)
  • The Inner Light (flip of Lady Madonna, original mono mix)
  • Across The Universe (World Wildlife Fund version, now on Past Masters 2)
  • You Know My Name (flip of Let It Be, now on Past Masters 2)
  • Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove (this had been left off the American LP)
BEATLE GIRLS — Lynne Allen, BeatleZap and Kramer909 are among those who suggested this set.
  • Anna
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie
  • Carol
  • Michelle
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Suzy Parker
  • Clarabella
  • Peggy Sue/John
  • Lawdy Miss Clawdy/Paul
  • Soft-Hearted Hana/George
  • Lovely Rita

Sunday, April 13, 2003

THE FIRST VERSIONS OF SONGS THE BEATLES DID TWICE — submitted by Maria Axelrod of Littleton

Garry McGee's 'Band On The Run'
[WAV AUDIO CLIP] Interview with GARRY McGEE — author of BAND ON THE RUN — a new, comprehensive biography and reference book on the Wings era, plus a set of Wings tracks:
  • Band On The Run
  • Soily
  • Deliver Your Children
  • Coming Up
BEATLE SOUND-A-LIKES — compiled from various e-mail suggestions
  • George Harrison: the Rutles
  • Piggy In The Middle/Rutles
  • I Just Want To Touch You/Utopia
  • In My Own Time/Bee Gees
  • Baby Blue/Badfinger
  • Lullabye/Grapefruit
  • Message From The Country/Move
  • Lies/Knickerbockers
  • Nevertheless/Rutles
BEATLES SONGS USED IN TV ADS — suggested by Denise & Jim Harper
  • George Harrison: why the Beatles' version of Revolution was used in the Nike ad
  • Revolution (Nike)
  • Getting Better (Philips Electronics)
  • Help! (Ford)
  • When I'm 64 (All State Insurance)
  • Taxman (H & R Block)
  • Simple Life Leisure Suits jingle/Ringo (with Harry Nilsson & John Lennon on background vocals)
[MP3 AUDIO CLIP] Interview with RINGO STARR on the new LET IT BE and RINGO RAMA
  • Elizabeth Reigns
  • Ringo: deciding to make a new album
  • Never Without You (with Eric Clapton)
  • Ringo: working with Willie Nelson
  • Write One For Me (with Willie Nelson)
  • Ringo: summer tour ... and what if he were a guitar player?
  • I Really Love Her (Ringo Rama bonus cut — Ringo on all instruments & vocals)
YELLOW SUBMARINE MONO MIXES — LovelyRita909 asked if there was ever a mono release of the original LP because she was interested in mono versions of the four original songs. "Breakfast" tracked down a German mono copy, cleaned up the pops & crackles, and aired the four cuts in question:
  • Only A Northern Song
  • All Together Now
  • Hey Bulldog
  • It's All Too Much
GEORGE HARRISON ON GUITAR, LITERALLY — songs about guitars, suggested by Riffmeister
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Singing Guitar Blues
  • Wah Wah
  • This Guitar Can't Keep From Crying

Sunday, April 6, 2003

PAUL, GEORGE & RINGO — jamming at George's home in the summer of 1994, as featured in the bonus DVD in "The Beatles Anthology."

BEATLES' STORY SONGS — suggested by Margaret Wheeler of Littleton.
  • Rocky Raccoon
  • The Ballad Of John & Yoko
  • She's Leaving Home
  • No Reply (stereo mix)
  • Eleanor Rigby
COLLABORATIONS — suggested by "IAmTheEggman."
  • Back On My Feet/Paul with Elvis Costello
  • Sour Milk Sea/Jackie Lomax with George, Paul & Ringo
  • Solid Gold/Keith Moon & Ringo
  • Power Boogie/Elephant's Memory with John & Yoko
  • Waiting For The Band/Nicky Hopkins with George
CARL PERKINS COVERS — after our feature with Carl, George, Ringo & friends two weeks ago, John Hittman suggested this set. It's especially timely this week, with the announcement on Friday that Paul's MPL Communications had acquired the publishing rights to the Perkins catalogue.
  • Sure To Fall/Beatles (Decca sessions)
  • Matchbox/Beatles
  • Honey Don't/Beatles (alternate BBC version with John on the lead vocal)
  • Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Beatles (stereo mix)
  • Blue Suede Shoes/Plastic Ono Band
  • Movie Magg/Paul
BEATLE KIDS — This set of Beatles' offspring was suggested by Richard via e-mail.
  • Dig It (excerpt)/Beatles with Heather Eastman McCartney
  • Bang On The Drum All Day/Ringo's All-Starr Band with Zak Starkey
  • A Horse To The Water/Jools Holland with George & Dhani Harrison (Dhani & George co-wrote the song)
  • Back In The Sunshine Again/Paul McCartney with James McCartney on lead guitar
  • Ruby Tuesday/Julian Lennon
  • It's Alright/Sean Ono Lennon
Magical Mystery Tour EP
MONO MYSTERY TOUR — We've had dozens of requests to replay the original vinyl British mono Magical Mystery Tour EP.
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • Your Mother Should Know
  • I Am The Walrus
  • The Fool On The Hill
  • Flying
  • Blue Jay Way
NIXED REMIXES — Declan Harris wanted to hear the two songs that got remixed in 1999 for the aborted Abbey Road 30th Anniversary project, which was dropped in favor of remastering the "Yellow Submarine Song Track" CD.
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy) (with Billy Preston's organ solos restored to the mix)
  • Here Comes The Sun (with George Harrison's lead vocal in the "center channel" and extra synthesizer parts and percussion)
MORE COLLABORATIONS — this set of "rare John & Paul collaborations" came to us from "MomAndKids" in Brighton.
  • Fame/David Bowie with John
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/The Silkie (Paul & John produce, Paul & George provide guitar & percussion)
  • My Bonnie/Tony Sheridan with the Beatles
  • My Dark Hour/Steve Miller Band (Paul co-wrote and performs bass & harmony vocals)
  • Angel Of Love/Black Knights (with a support vocal from John)
  • We Love You/Rolling Stones (John & Paul on backing vocals)
  • Bluebirds Over The Mountain/Beach Boys (Paul on bass & lead guitar)
  • Subterranian Homesick Blues/Nilsson & John
  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Lads/Rolf Harris with the Beatles
  • Mellow Yellow/Donovan (Paul performs bass & a backing vocal)
  • Seaside Woman/Suzy & The Red Stripes (aka Linda McCartney with lots of contributions from Paul)
  • Elevator/Grapefruit (John is rumored to provide rhythm guitar & background vocals but most experts say it isn't true)

Sunday, March 30, 2003
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THE ANTHOLOGY CDs REVISITED — To celebrate the forthcoming release of "The Beatles Anthology" on DVD, "Breakfast With The Beatles" revisted the three audio CD double-sets, along with clips of Archer's 1995 interviews with Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr, plus archival clips of George.

Highlights from Volume 1, Disc 1:

Highlights from Volume 1, Disc 2:
  • John: rattle your jewelry.
  • Twist & Shout
  • The Beatles with Morcambe & Wise.
  • Moonlight Bay
  • Boys
  • Shout
  • Leave My Kitten Alone
  • Eight Days A Week
Highlights from Volume 2, Disc 1:
  • Ringo & Paul on recording "Real Love"
  • Real Love
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
  • That Means A Lot
  • Help!
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Got To Get You Into My Life
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Rock & Roll Music
  • Yellow Submarine (this track was removed from the "Anthology 2" lineup shortly before its release, but turned up on some editions of the "Real Love" CD single)
Highlights from Volume 2, Disc 2:
  • Paul: he, Ringo & George were all veggies at the "Anthology" sessions.
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
  • Penny Lane
  • Only A Northern Song
  • Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
  • Sgt. Pepper Reprise
  • Hello Goodbye
  • Lady Madonna
Highlights from Volume 3, Disc 1:
  • Paul: what shocks him about watching the old footage in "The Beatles Anthology."
  • Piggies
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  • Blackbird
  • Hey Jude
  • Not Guilty
  • Glass Onion
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Highlights from Volume 3, Disc 2:
  • Paul & George: offers for a Beatles reunion tour in 1995.
  • I've Got A Feeling
  • Two Of Us
  • Rip It Up
  • Shake, Rattle & Roll
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • Paul: the influence of Buddy Holly.
  • Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
  • Get Back
  • Something
  • I Me Mine
  • The End
  • Paul: on "The Beatles Anthology" setting the record straight.

Sunday, March 23, 2003
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ROCKABILLY SESSION — Carl Perkins celebrated his 30th year in rock & roll in 1985 with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds and others. These cuts come from an audio CD released to radio stations at the time.

WAR & PEACE — suggested by Sonia Brach.
  • Tug Of War/Paul McCartney
  • Give Peace A Chance/John Lennon
  • How I Won The War/Ken Thorne With John Lennon & Cast
  • Tug Of Peace/Paul McCartney
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)/George Harrison
  • Freedom/Paul McCartney
SHORT CUTS — very short Beatles songs, submitted by PepperHead
  • Can You Take Me Back?
  • Sgt. Pepper Reprise
  • Wild Honey Pie
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Maggie Mae
  • Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
  • The Walk
  • Pop Go The Beatles
  • Pepper Inner Groove
  • Her Majesty
  • Side By Side
LONG CUTS — long and longer-than-available Beatles songs, submitted by Frank R., Ginny DeKalb, NowhereMan, Jingo, Lt. Pepper and other listeners.
  • It's All Too Much (extra-verse version from advance copy of the 1999 "Yellow Submarine" reissue)
  • Twelve-Bar Original (long version; it was edited on "Anthology")
  • Eleanor Rigby (long version from the "Broad Street" sessions)
  • Isn't It A Pity? (long version)
  • (Just Like) Starting Over (longer version from advance copy)
  • You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (complete version; it was edited on "Anthology")
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (long version from acetate)
  • Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds (long version from acetate)
  • Dizzy Miss Lizzie (long edit & alternate stereo mix)
  • Got My Mind Set On You (longer version from advance copy)
  • Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty/Polythene Pam/Bathroom Window (complete medley from acetate)

"DA BEATLES GOT DA BLUES" — submitted by Curtis Chambers of Aurora

  • Blues Machine/Beatles
  • Sue Me, Sue You Blues/George
  • Singing The Blues/Paul
  • P2 Vatican Blues/George
  • Singing Guitar Blues/Beatles
  • Yer Blues/Beatles

Sunday, March 16, 2003

WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD? — set idea by Sheryl Werner.

OFFBEAT BEATLE COVERS — some hard-to-find covers submitted by Joshua G., fabfannie, BeatleHead, Ollie Jenkins and Beatle Burt. The first cut is one of many tracks by National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Steven King for which we've received requests. Tracking him down at KingOfGuitar.com, we discovered that he's done no less than six CDs of solo acoustic Beatles covers!

  • Fixing A Hole/Steven King
  • Not A Second Time/Robert Palmer
  • Gimme Some Truth/Sam Phillips
  • Dear Prudence/Carpet Frogs
  • Rain/Todd Rundgren

BEATLES AROUND THE WORLD — ImagineMan suggested this set of performances from around the globe.

  • Come Together/John (New York City)
  • Twist & Shout/Beatles (Hollywood)
  • John Lennon Medley/Paul McCartney (Liverpool)
  • I'm A Loser/Beatles (Paris)
  • Taxman/George (Osaka)
  • Boys/Ringo (Montreaux)
  • You Can't Do That (Melbourne)
  • Penny Lane/Paul (Boulder)

MORE ANIMAL SONGS — Last week's special one-hour set for the Dumb Friends League telethon featured songs about animals. Here are more from e-mail requests ... including a few rare versions.

  • And Your Bird Can Sing (longer, alternate mix)
  • I Am The Walrus (basic track)
  • Bye Bye Blackbird/Ringo
  • Cold Turkey/John
  • Ram On/Paul & Linda
  • Too Much Monkey Business/Beatles
  • Single Pigeon/Paul
  • Dark Horse/George (acoustic demo acetate)
  • Wildlife/Wings (introduced by Paul)
  • Martha My Dear/Beatles (stereo vinyl mix)

RARE B-SIDES — "I have a selfish reason for submitting this set idea," writes Emil LaBlanc of Denver. "I always see these rare B-sides in collectors' lists, but I've never heard any of them, except for a couple of them on 'Breakfast With The Beatles.'"

It's not selfish, Emil — you're sharing this cool set with lots of Beatles fans!

  • Miss O'Dell/George (B-side of Give Me Love [Give Me Peace On Earth])
  • The Mess/Wings (B-side of My Love)
  • Meat City/John (B-side of Mind Games; an alternate mix with the backwards obscenity replaced with a backwards voice saying "check the album")
  • Down & Out/Ringo (B-side of Photograph)
  • Rainclouds/Paul McCartney (B-side of Ebony & Ivory)
  • Move Over Ms. L/John (B-side of Stand By Me)
  • Deep Blue/George (B-side of Bangla Desh)
  • Looking For You/Paul (B-side of some issues of The World Tonight; lineup: Paul McCartney, Jeff Lynne & Ringo Starr)
  • Don't Be Cruel/Ringo (B-side of some issues of The Weight Of The World)
  • Lay His Head/George (B-side of Got My Mind Set On You)
  • Runaway/Traveling Wilburys (B-side to UK single of She's My Baby)
  • Zig Zag/George (B-side of When We Was Fab)

Sunday, March 9, 2003

A preview of Ringo's new studio album, "Ringo Rama"

MORE MONOMANIA!
More alternate mono mixes, gleaned from e-mail requests:

  • Helter Skelter (alternate vocals and drums; no fade-back)
  • Too Many People (single mix)
  • Yellow Submarine (single mix)
  • What Is Life (DJ mono mix)
  • I Will (solo lead vocal open)
  • Yesterday (US single mix)
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (alternate organ & loop effects)
  • Jet (mono edit/mix from advance DJ single)
  • I Am The Walrus (US single with extra bar)
  • Your Mother Should Know (alternate vocals and added phase effect)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (US mono version with backwards guitar in different places)
  • Slow Down (US single mix)
  • I Call Your Name (alternate vocals and percussion)
  • Get Back (UK mono single)
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand (single mix)
  • Listen To What The Man Said (advance DJ mono mix with complete ending)
  • My Sweet Lord (DJ advance mono mix, with different background vocals)
  • Tomorrow Never Knows (alternate loop and guitar effects)
  • We Can Work It Out (single mix)
  • Strawberry Fields Forever (single mix)
  • Eleanor Rigby (single mix)
  • Within You Without You (alternate orchestration & percussion)
  • Day Tripper (single mix)

ANIMAL SONGS:

  • Living In A Pet Shop/Ringo Starr
  • Rocky Racoon/Beatles
  • Leave My Kitten Alone/Beatles
  • Hound Dog/John Lennon
  • Scouse The Mouse/Ringo Starr
  • Blackbird/Beatles
  • Piggies/Beatles
  • Ode To A Koala Bear/Paul McCartney
  • Hey Bulldog/Beatles
  • Horse To The Water/Jools Holland & George Harrison
  • All You Horseriders/Paul McCartney
  • Octopus' Garden/Beatles
  • Three Cool Cats/Beatles
  • Three Legs/Paul & Linda McCartney
  • Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey/Beatles

Sunday, March 2, 2003

"Breakfast" talked with financier Ralph Whitworth and his wife, CNN senior VP Wendy Walker Whitworth, about Paul McCartney's surprise private concert for her 50th birthday.

MONOMANIA!

We've had so many requests to play various alternate mono mixes, we squeezed as many as we could into three hours:

Sunday, February 23, 2003

A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE'S SOLO CAREER ... to commemorate what would have been his 60th Birthday.

    SKIING
    GAT KIRWANI
    ROLL IT OVER/Eric Clapton & George Harrison
    IF NOT FOR YOU/Bob Dylan & George Harrison
    George: writing with Dylan
    I'D HAVE YOU ANYTIME
    George: the "Spectorization" of All Things Must Pass
    WAH WAH
    George: two versions of "Pity"
    ISN'T IT A PITY?
    George: "Johnny's Birthday"
    IT'S JOHNNY'S BIRTHDAY
    WHAT IS LIFE?
    Richard Porter interview (see below)
    APPLE SCRUFFS
    BANGLA DESH
    MY SWEET LORD (live at the Concert For Bangla Desh)
    GIVE ME LOVE (GIVE ME PEACE ON EARTH)
    LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
    George: hopes John, Paul & Ringo got something out of meditation
    SPEED ON (with Nicky Hopkins)
    DARK HORSE (acoustic demo)
    THIS GUITAR CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING
    PIRATE SONG (from Rutland Weekend Television)
    George: The Rutles and Python-type comedy
    CRACKERBOX PALACE
    NOT GUILTY
    BLOW AWAY
    SAT SINGING (unreleased; from 1981 DJ advance)
    George: on record companies rejecting material
    BLOOD FROM A CLONE
    I DON'T WANT TO DO IT (from Porky's III; written by Dylan)
    WAKE UP MY LOVE
    George: gossip in the media
    DEVIL'S RADIO
    Tom Petty: George's favorite Wilburys song
    IF YOU BELONGED TO ME/Traveling Wilburys
    THAT KIND OF WOMAN/Eric Clapton & George Harrison
    IF I NEEDED SOMEONE (live in Japan)
    A LONG TIME GONE (with ELO)
    HORSE TO THE WATER (with Jools Holland)
    George: safe in his garden
    ANY ROAD
    NEVER WITHOUT YOU/Ringo Starr & Eric Clapton (from the forthcoming "Ringo Rama" CD)

Richard Porter, Beatles-in-London tour guide and author of the newly-updated "Official Abbey Road Cafe Guide To The Beatles London," shared some interesting stories about spots in London where "Harrison history" occured:
  • The restaurant where "Help!" was filmed and George saw and heard the sitar for the first time.
  • George's quip to George Martin when Martin asked the band at their audition session if there was anything they didn't like: "I don't like your tie!"
  • George playing a tape of "Apple Scruffs" for the Scruffs themselves at Apple.
For information on Richard's book or world-famous London-area Beatles tours, visit BeatlesNews.com.

Click here Hear Richard Porter on the Apple Scruffs. (RealAudioฎ)

Sunday, February 16, 2003

"THE BEATLES AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL" is the only non-compilation #1 Beatles album not to be issued on CD. It was the only authorized live Beatles album, released in 1977. It combines 1964 and 1965 performances, recorded on a crude 3-track machine. The Beatles' performances were somewhat impaired by the fact that they couldn't hear themselves — the same "bowl" acoustics that projected their sound to the audience also amplified the screaming that came back to them. But the LP captures Beatlemania — the fab four and their over-excited audiences — in fairly decent stereo sound. We've played pieces of "Hollywood Bowl" and have received many requests to play the whole LP. The Mountain goes one better and plays a never-issued 1983 digital touchup which includes one extra cut!

PRODUCED BY PAUL — A set of tracks produced by Paul McCartney for other artists, courtesy of Penny L. (Lane?) of Franktown.
  • Liverpool Lou/The Scaffold
  • Urban Spaceman/Bonzo Dog Band (lead singer Neil Innes went on to become a Rutle)
  • Six O'Clock/Ringo Starr (long version from the U.S. DJ copy of "Ringo")
  • Have You Got Problems?/Mike McGear
  • Goodbye/Mary Hopkin
BEATLES SONGS THAT REFERENCE OTHER BEATLES SONGS — suggested by MarianneFab4Fan.
  • Savoy Truffle (mentions "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da")
  • All Those Years Ago (mentions "All You Need Is Love")
  • All You Need Is Love (mentions "Yesterday" and "She Loves You")
  • How Do You Sleep? (references "Sgt. Pepper," "Yesterday" and "Another Day")
  • Glass Onion (references to "Strawberry Fields," "I Am The Walrus," "Fool On The Hill," "Lady Madonna," "Fixing A Hole")
INTERVIEW WITH JORIE GRACEN. Jorie's the photographer/author of "Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There," which has been issued in paperback. The book contains over 200 photos of Paul from 1976 to modern days, and contains stories from fans who have had the chance to meet him.

Click here Hear the interview in RealAudio.

SIR PAULY'S GIRLS — that's the title Bryan Goetz of Boulder gives to this set, suggesting a 6-song batch of Paul McCartney vocals on songs with female names in the titles.

  • Lucille
  • Lovely Rita
  • The Lovely Linda
  • Michelle
  • Helen Wheels
  • Sally G
THE "HEY JUDE" ALBUM — This contrived U.S. album, released in February 1970 between "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be," collected all the Capitol A- and B-sides which had not yet been on Capitol LPs, spanning from 1964's "Can't Buy Me Love/I Should Have Known Better" to 1969's "Ballad Of John & Yoko/Old Brown Shoe." Several of the tracks, such as "Hey Jude," "Revolution," and "Lady Madonna" appeared in stereo for the first time on this LP. The album was originally going to be titled "The Beatles Again," but Capitol decided to cash in on the enormous hit "Hey Jude." First pressings, on the Apple label, show the title "Hey Jude" on the LP cover, but read "The Beatles Again" on the label. We've had many requests to play the whole album, so here goes:
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • I Should Have Known Better
  • Paperback Writer
  • Rain
  • Lady Madonna
  • Revolution
  • Hey Jude
  • Old Brown Shoe
  • Don't Let Me Down
  • The Ballad Of John & Yoko
ELTON AND JOHN — EJMania suggests a set of collaborations between Elton John & John Lennon
  • Whatever Gets You Through The Night/John Lennon with Elton John
  • One Day At A Time/Elton John with John Lennon (B-side of Elton's version of "Lucy")
  • I Saw Her Standing There/Madison Square Garden rehearsal tape

Sunday, February 9, 2003
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DOIN' EACH OTHER — a set suggested by Jim Stock of Broomfield

The Beatles on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
IT WAS 39 YEARS AGO TODAY — The Beatles' debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" — February 9, 1964
  • Tom Petty comments on the impact of the broadcast.
  • Ed Sullivan's first intro
  • All My Loving
  • 'Til There Was You
  • She Loves You
  • Ed Sullivan's second intro
  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT — a "songs & film clips" set suggested by BeatleHank and John Cregan.
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Clip: Paul, asked about his father
  • I Should Have Known Better
  • Clip: man in the train coach
  • If I Fell
  • Clip: George disses Susan the teen queen
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
  • Clip: "How did you find America?"
  • And I Love Her
  • Clip: "You Can't Do That" footage, which was edited out of the film
  • Clip: Ringo's inferiority complex
  • Tell Me Why
  • Clip: those haircuts
  • Ringo's Theme
  • Clip: surging with girls!
  • Can't Buy Me Love
John Lennon Museum
TOP 10 LENNON SOLO SONGS — among 1500 fans from all over the world who voted in December for a poll by the John Lennon Museum in Yono, Japan.
  1. Imagine
  2. Power To The People
  3. Give Peace A Chance
  4. (Just Like) Starting Over
  5. Cold Turkey
  6. Whatever Gets You Through The Night
  7. Give Me Some Truth
  8. Watching The Wheels
  9. Mind Games
  10. Instant Karma
COVERS BY COLLINS — suggested by Beatles & Phil Collins fan Jered from Littleton.
  • Tomorrow Never Knows (from "Face Value")
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (from "George Martin: In My Life")
MATERIAL WORLD PREVIEW — "Songs From The Material World; A Tribute To George Harrison" will be released February 25 to commemorate what would have been George's 60th birthday. A preview:
  • Dave Davies comments on his contribution.
  • Dave Davies/Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
  • Masters Of Reality/Devil's Radio
  • Marc Ford & The Sinners/I Me Mine
  • Todd Rundgren comments on playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
  • Todd Rundgren/While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Big Head Todd & The Monsters/Within You Without You
RARE PAUL McCARTNEY B-SIDES — as requested by Jenna from Ft. Collins, who's rigged up a special FM antenna so she can pull in "Breakfast With The Beatles" and The Mountain.
  • Back On My Feet (flip of UK "Once Upon A Long Ago")
  • Daytime Nighttime Suffering (flip of "Goodnight Tonight")
  • I'll Give You A Ring (flip of "Take It Away")
  • Country Dreamer (flip of "Helen Wheels")

Sunday, February 2, 2003

A MORNING-AFTER SPECIAL: BREAKFAST WITH THE ROLLING STONES! — The morning after the Stones rocked the Pepsi Center, 99.5 The Mountain brought you a 3-hour retrospective of their 40-year career. Click here for a track listing.

Sunday, January 26, 2003
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Nine sets suggested by listeners:

FOOD
(suggested by Jim Stenner)

BUDDY HOLLY COVERS
(suggested by Fabman)

  • That'll Be The Day
  • Peggy Sue
  • Rave On
  • Crying, Waiting, Hoping
  • Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
  • Words Of Love

BIRDS
"Breakfast" did a short set of bird tunes last fall, inspired by the fact that Lucy the Cockatiel grooved to the Beatles each Sunday morning on The Mountain. We've received so many more suggestions since then, here's a bigger bird set:
  • And Your Bird Can Sing
  • Surprise, Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
  • Bluebird
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Cold Turkey
  • Free As A Bird (long version)
  • Blackbird
  • Bye, Bye Blackbird

SOLO SONGS FROM "BACK IN THE U.S."
(No worrying about the order of the Lennon-McCartney credit here — these are Paul songs from the 2002 tour, as suggested by Rita Perez)

  • Band On The Run
  • Jet
  • Maybe I'm Amazed
  • Coming Up
  • Live & Let Die
  • Here Today

NOT SO PEACEFUL
(BeatleDude910 writes: "John, Paul and George have repeatedly been credited with writing songs of peace and love, but, as in real life, they also on occasion touched on themes of violence. I'd like to submit this set of songs reflecting 'the other side,' not to promote violence, just to show the balance in their works.")

  • The Hold Up
  • Oh Woman Oh Why
  • Run For Your Life
  • Maxwell's Silver Hammer

RINGO BY GEORGE
(Songs written by George for Ringo, suggested by Mary Plante)

  • You & Me (Babe) (cowritten with Mal Evans)
  • Wrack My Brain
  • Sunshine Life For Me
  • Photograph (cowritten with Ringo)

BEATLE-WRITTEN BIG-SCREEN MOVIE THEMES OF THE '60S
(suggested by Jim & Pam)

  • A Hard Day's Night
  • Help!
  • Love In The Open Air (Theme from "The Family Way")
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Wonderwall To Be Here (Theme from "Wonderwall")
  • Let It Be

REFERENCES TO THE BEATLES IN SOLO SONGS
(suggested by Carol Steinbrenner)

  • Flaming Pie
  • God
  • Early 1970
  • When We Was Fab

FLYING
(suggested by SarahBeatle)

  • Flying
  • Flying Hour
  • Flying To My Home

Sunday, January 19, 2003

THE BRITISH PARLOPHONE & APPLE SINGLES — 1962-1978

  1. Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You — October 1962
  2. Please Please Me/Ask Me Why — January 1963
  3. From Me To You/Thank You Girl — April 1963
  4. She Loves You/I'll Get You — August 1963
  5. I Want To Hold Your Hand/This Boy — November 1963
  6. Can't Buy Me Love/You Can't Do That — March 1964
  7. A Hard Day's Night/Things We Said Today — July 1964
  8. I Feel Fine/She's A Woman — November 1964
  9. Ticket To Ride/Yes It Is — April 1965
  10. Help!/I'm Down — July 1965
  11. We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper — December 1965
  12. Paperback Writer/Rain — June 1966
  13. Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby — August 1966
  14. Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane — February 1967
  15. All You Need Is Love/Baby You're A Rich Man — July 1967
  16. Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus — November 1967
  17. Lady Madonna/The Inner Light — March 1968
  18. Hey Jude/Revolution — August 1968
  19. Get Back/Don't Let Me Down — April 1969
  20. The Ballad Of John And Yoko/Old Brown Shoe — May 1969
  21. Something/Come Together — October 1969
  22. Let It Be/You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) — March 1970
  23. Yesterday/I Should Have Known Better — March 1976
  24. Back In The U.S.S.R./Twist and Shout — June 1976
  25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/A Day In The Life — September 1978

Sunday, January 12, 2003

GET BACK — With the seizure of the stolen Get Back tapes, "Breakfast With The Beatles" featured a couple of segments on those recordings (using many which were made available to radio people in the late '60s). "Breakfast" played alternate versions of "Get Back," "I've Got A Feeling," "Two Of Us," "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues," "For You Blue," "Oh! Darling," "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window," "Don't Let Me Down," "Rip It Up," "Shake, Rattle & Roll," "Blue Suede Shoes" and "The Long & Winding Road."

HEEBIE BEE GEES — With the death of Maurice Gibb over the weekend, The Mountain played two songs that were popular when the Bee Gees were still being played on "underground" FM rock radio — long before they turned into a disco machine. "In My Own Time" and Maurice's "I Close My Eyes" came from "The Bee Gees 1st," released in 1967. Those tracks were exemplary of the Beatles' influence on the teenaged Brothers Gibb.

GEORGE HARRISON OUT & ABOUT — A set of songs involving Beatle George prior to his solo years:

HARRISON REMASTERS — a preview of the digital remasters of George's post-"All Things Must Pass" Apple recordings from 1973-1975:
  • Don't Let Me Wait
  • Dark Horse
  • Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
  • Miss O'Dell
  • Living In The Material World
  • Bangla Desh
  • Sue You, Sue Me Blues
LENNON-McCARTNEY SONGS NOT RECORDED BY THE BEATLES — songs the fab four gave to other artists but did not intend to release themselves.
  • One & One Is Two (the Beatles' acetate demo)
  • A World Without Love/Peter & Gordon (introduced by John Lennon)
  • I'll Keep You Satisfied/Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
  • Woman/Peter & Gordon
  • It's For You/Cilla Black (introduced by Paul McCartney)
  • Come & Get It/Badfinger
  • Cat Call/The Chris Barber Band
  • Bad To Me (the Beatles' acetate demo)
  • Penina/Carlos Mendes
  • Goodbye/Mary Hopkin
  • I Don't Want To See You Again/Peter & Gordon (introduced by Paul McCartney)
  • I'll Be On My Way/Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
CRAZY COVERS — a set of the more interesting Beatles' covers The Mountain has been asked to dig up. Listen for many more in future editions of "Breakfast With The Beatles," too.
  • Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite/Big Daddy
  • One After 909/Willie Nelson
  • Eleanor Rigby/The Four Tops
  • Get Back/Rod Stewart
  • I'll Cry Instead/Joe Cocker

Sunday, January 5, 2003

In the course of playing the American Beatles albums over several episodes last year, "Breakfast With The Beatles" chose the mono versions because they sounded better on radio — more attention was paid to the mono mixes in the middle '60s; they were considered the definitive versions. But we've had many requests to play the American stereo mixes, especially the albums from the "middle period."

Listening to the albums "Help!" through "Sgt. Pepper" today, the American stereo mixes are warmer-sounding than their current CD counterparts, with much less reverb and, at times, much more stereo separation. However, some cuts, like the fake stereo mixes of "Ticket To Ride" and "And Your Bird Can Sing," sound atrocious — but for those who grew up with the stereo versions of the vinyl LPs, they're quite friendly and familiar.

For America's version of the "Help!" album, Capitol's stripped away seven of its fourteen songs and replaced them with five instrumentals by Ken Thorne from the score of the film. Two of the deleted songs were moved to "Rubber Soul," three had already been released two months earlier on the "Beatles VI" album, and the remaining two — "Yesterday" and "Act Naturally" — were paired on a single and eventually put on the "Yesterday... And Today" concoction. Among the seven Beatles song on "Help!" are suprisingly clean versions of "The Night Before," "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" and "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away." The LP opens with a version of the title song that's preceded by a spoof of "The James Bond Theme" from the film score.

U.S. 'Rubber Soul' LP
Capitol Records lobbed four songs off of "Rubber Soul" and replaced them with "I've Just Seen A Face" and "It's Only Love" from the British "Help!" album. The American stereo "Rubber Soul" contains two revered alternate versions — a mix of "The Word" with John's lead vocal doubled, plus a version of "I'm Looking Through You" with a false start. Producer George Martin thought "Rubber Soul" marked the beginning of album rock.

"Yesterday... And Today" was a contrived album, made up of cuts from various British LPs and singles. It came out in June of 1966 — two months before "Revolver." Capitol was demanding new material, so EMI in London begrudgingly shipped them early mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping," "Dr. Robert," and "And Your Bird Can Sing." Only a mono mix of "Bird" was available at the time, so the stereo "Yesterday... And Today" LP contained a fake stereo version. On the other side of the coin, "Yesterday... And Today" contains the best stereo mixes of "We Can Work It Out" and "Day Tripper" — they don't have the excessive reverb we hear on today's "Past Masters Volume 2." "Yesterday... And Today" was rounded out by the four cuts Capitol had cut from "Rubber Soul," plus the "Yesterday"/"Act Naturally" single. The infamous withdrawn butcher cover was rumored to be a reaction to Capitol's butchering of Beatles albums, but John Lennon later said that was just a coincidence — they were working with a trendy photographer who was helping them appear less cute.

American 'Revolver' album with a sticker promoting 'Yellow Submarine' and 'Eleanor Rigby'
The American "Revolver" LP remained true to its British counterpart, with the exception of the songs that had already been released on "Yesterday... And Today." This reduced "Revolver" from fourteen cuts to eleven. The vinyl mix is noticably different from today's CD in places, especially on "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Love You To." "Got To Get You Into My life" sounds especially soulful dampened by vinyl's sonic limitations. Paul McCartney says the "Revolver" album was originally going to be recorded in Memphis, but the production costs were too high.

With "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," the American LP track lineup was the same as the British — except that Capitol chose not to place audio in the inner groove of side two. Comparing vinyl versions, the American "Pepper" LP had better fidelity than the British version, especially in the high frequency range. Vocal mixes on the U.S. vinyl version are considerably different on "Getting Better," "She's Leaving Home," and "Good Morning Good Morning." Producer George Martin — often credited with being the driving creative force in the "Pepper" sound, humbly maintains that he was just carrying out the Beatles' wild ideas.

For an essay on reasons to release the U.S. albums on CD, click here.

Sunday, December 29, 2002

Best Of "Breakfast With The Beatles" — A tribute to John Lennon. No narration — just three hours of interview clips and his music, tracking John's life from the late '50s to 1980. [502 of 621 e-mail voters selected this episode as the best in 2002.]

Wednesday, December 25, 2002

"The Beatles Chronicles," from 9 AM to 6 PM Christmas Day, part of The Mountain's commercial-free "Christmas With The Beatles" — 24 hours of the fab four which started at 6 PM Christmas Eve. Click here for a track listing.

Sunday, December 22, 2002

The Beatles at Christmastime — Their fan club flexi-disc Christmas messages and the music they had out at Christmastime from 1963-1969 from the original vinyl.

1963 — Although radio was abuzz with "I Want To Hold Your Hand," the single and the accompanying "Meet The Beatles" LP wouldn't be in U.S. stores until after Christmas. In England, on the heels of the hit single "From Me To You," official fan club members received their first holiday flexi-disc, "The Beatles Christmas Record." It had been recorded during the session for "I Want To Hold Your Hand."

1964 — The "A Hard Day's Night" LP was at #7 (it had spent 4 weeks at #1); "The Beatles Story," a rather lame double-LP documentary was at #8. The hit single was "I Feel Fine"/"She's A Woman."

1965 - "Rubber Soul" was released December 6th and would go on to top the LP charts for 6 weeks. "Help!" was the #11 LP at Christmas (it had spent 9 weeks at #1) and "Beatles VI" was still hanging on at #54. The hit single at Christmas was "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper."

1966 - The post-touring and elusive fab four had no singles on the U.S. charts at Christmas, but "Revolver" was on the LP charts at #11 (it had spent 6 weeks at #1).

1967 - "Sgt. Pepper" was at #3 and "Magical Mystery Tour" at #4 on the LP charts. The hit single at Christmas was "Hello Goodbye"/"I Am The Walrus."

1968 - The double-LP "The Beatles" (The White Album) had been released December 11th and would go on to spend 9 weeks at #1. The "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" 45 was still #11 after 9 weeks at #1.

1969 - "Abbey Road" was the #1 LP (one of 11 weeks it would spend at the top of the LP charts) and the singles chart included "Something"/"Come Together" at #6; The Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" was in its 6th week on the singles chart at #35.

Plus a set of solo holiday tunes:

Sunday, December 15, 2002

At the suggestion of Jim Carroll, beatlfreak110, Sherry Clarke, jpgrfan4life and others, "Breakfast With The Beatles" brought you three hours of live Beatles and solo Beatles.

Sunday, December 8, 2002

We lost John Lennon on this date in 1980, so "Breakfast With The Beatles" opened with some rarities, including John, David Peel and Archer singing "Give Peace A Chance" in John & Yoko's apartment in 1972, plus alternate versons of "Love," "Out Of The Blue," "Woman," "Hold On," "Imagine" and "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," along with Paul's "Here Today." Incorporated were clips of Michael Moore discussing obtaining the rights to "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" for the soundtrack of "Bowling For Columbine" and Paul McCartney speaking with Archer on the last words Paul exchanged with John. "Breakfast" closed the show with the original recording of "Give Peace A Chance."

Rare mono American B-sides:  We had many requests to play these after featuring the U.S. A-sides on November 3rd, so "Breakfast" put together the best of the Beatles' mono-mixed flip sides from "I'll Get You" through "Revolution" — plus the rare mono DJ mix of "Got To Get You Into My Life," which was the B-side of the 1976 "Helter Skelter" 45.

Ringo Starr guest appearances:  "Breakfast" had featured George, John & Paul doing guest shots on other peoples' records and nearly two dozen listeners e-mailed ideas for a Ringo compilation. The two sets included:

We lost Roy Orbison on December 6th, 1998 and, of course, George a year ago November 29th, so The Mountain featured a set of Traveling Wilburys tunes. Tom Petty introduced the first cut — George's favorite Wilburys song:
  • "If You Belonged To Me"
  • "Handle With Care"
  • "Wilbury Twist"
  • "Rattled"
  • "End Of The Line" (12-inch version)

Sunday, December 1, 2002
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"Breakfast With The Beatles" received over a hundred e-mails asking for the "long versions" of many Beatles & solo songs. Well, here they were — long versions of:

Sunday, November 24, 2002
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A three-hour tribute to George Harrison, tracking his career through recordings and interview clips — including many rarities.

Sunday, November 17, 2002

"Breakfast With The Beatles" played George Harrison's "Brainwashed" CD — along with clips from his last interview.

The Official U.K. Charts Company surveyed 190,000 Britons, asking them their favorite #1 songs of the past 50 years. John Lennon, George Harrison and the Beatles took 17 places on the list, so "Breakfast With The Beatles" played them from the original UK vinyl singles, including a rare DJ edit of "Hey Jude." (By the way, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was #1.)

As suggested by Ed Dumas of Denver and "ringogirl4ever," a set of Beatles songs that feature Ringo, from "Boys" through "Octopus' Garden," including alternate versions of "I Wanna Be Your Man" and "With A Little Help From My Friends." Interspersed were some vintage news clips about Ringo.

Bonus cut: another preview from Paul McCartney's forthcoming "Back In The U.S." album — "Let Me Roll It."

Sunday, November 10, 2002

A preview of Paul's new "Back In The U.S." album — "Breakfast With The Beatles" featured 13 cuts from the live 2-CD set, plus clips of Archer's interview with Paul McCartney regarding his U.S. tour. The 35-cut CD will be released November 26th.

"Rhythm & Beatles" — suggested by Chip Seamus of Boulder — featured back-to-back comparisons of the rhythm & blues tracks that the Beatles covered:

"rockingrandma" suggested a set of acoustic-based Beatles:

  • "I'm Looking Through You" (long intro version)
  • "I'll Be Back"
  • "Help!" (acoustic mix)
  • "I'll Follow The Sun"
  • "Norwegian Wood" (version 1)
  • "I Will"
  • "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
  • "Blackbird"
  • "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (complete acoustic version)

Denise Keller suggested the Mountain dig up "Lullabye" by Grapefruit for a set of John Lennon guest appearances. The set included:

  • "Lullabye" (background vocal, guitar, with Grapefruit)
  • "I Saw Her Standing There" (with Elton John at Madison Square Garden)
  • "Fame" (with David Bowie)
  • "Well" (with Frank Zappa & The Mothers)
  • "We Love You" (vocal with Paul, with the Rolling Stones)
  • "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (vocal with Harry Nilsson)

Sunday, November 3, 2002

The American A-sides: the original mixes of most of the original U.S. singles — from the uncut 1962 version of "My Bonnie" by Tony Sheridan through "Hey Jude" — plus, just for laughs, the worst non-album single ever:  "The Beatles Movie Medley" from 1982.

The digital remix of John Lennon's remixed Mind Games album will be issued Tuesday, November 5th. "Breakfast" played the entire album, including the three home-recorded bonus cuts.

"Breakfast" played Paul's radio commercial for an Oregon ballot measure which would require labeling of genetically modified foods.

In 1999, a project was begun to create a 30th anniversary edition of "Abbey Road." After two tracks were remixed, it was abandoned in favor of work on the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack." The two remixes — "Here Comes The Sun" and "Octopus' Garden" were featured.

McCartney fan Jeff Donovan saw Sir Paul last weekend in Vegas and called in with a report on his concert. Paul wrapped the American leg of his tour this past week in Arizona and wraps the entire tour next week in Japan. The "Back In The U.S." TV special airs November 27th on channel 7 at 8PM; the CD and DVD are out on the 26th. "Breakfast" played Paul's performance of "Michelle" from his 1993 appearance in Boulder.

George's "Stuck Inside A Cloud" was issued to The Mountain on Tuesday — "Breakfast" closed the show with it for those who may not have had a chance to catch it. "Brainwashed" will be released November 19th.

Sunday, October 27, 2002

A preview of George Harrison's forthcoming "Brainwashed" CD: Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison explained why George's music should be heard — plus clips from the album, which will be released November 19th.

George Harrison guest appearances, as suggested by "FabFourFan" via e-mail. The sets included:

Kenny Everett's "White Album" preview from 1968, featuring his interview with John Lennon and longer versions of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Sexy Sadie" from advance lacquers.

"A Hard Day's Night" and "Beatles For Sale" in stereo. (The Beatles' first four Parlophone albums are still issued in mono on CD.)

Sunday, October 20, 2002

Paul McCartney discussed his American tour with Archer as the first hour was dedicated to live Paul tracks. Paul's "Back In The U.S." CD will be released November 26th. The accompanying TV special will air on ABC-7 November 27th at 8 pm Mountain Time.

The making of "Rubber Soul" — including session recordings of the Beatles creating "I'm Looking Through You," "Run For Your Life," "Think For Yourself" and "Norwegian Wood." Also included:  comments from Paul on "Michelle," John on "Nowhere Man" and Sir George Martin commenting that "Rubber Soul" marked the beginning of album rock.

Commemorating Tom Petty's 50th birthday and the 1988 release of the first Traveling Wilburys album, a TW set: "Handle With Care," "Dirty World," "End Of The Line" and a demo version of "Maxine."

Radio oddities: sought-after Beatles & solo rarites issued only to radio stations, including the "Adult Contemporary Mix" of "Free As A Bird," and the advance DJ versions of "Penny Lane," "Got My Mind Set On You" and "Band On The Run," plus the longer doubled-guitar version of "Taxman" from the Capitol mono DJ copy of "Revolver."

Inspired by Mike Casey's way-cool Chuck Berry set for Berry's 76th birthday on Friday Oct. 18th, a set of fab Berry covers, including John with Berry on "The Mike Douglas Show" doing "Johnny B. Goode," Paul McCartney with "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," John's take on "Sweet Little Sixteen," and the Beatles performing "Roll Over Beethoven" live.

Sunday, October 13, 2002

The original "Get Back" album: With news that the "Let It Be" album is being stripped of Phil Spector's wall of sound for a future release, "Breakfast With The Beatles" gave listeners a preview of what it may sound like by tracking the album in its original form. The "Get Back" album was shelved in 1969. It was supposed to serve as a soundtrack for the "Get Back" TV film, documenting the Beatles jamming and working on new songs, climaxed by an unannounced live performance on the rooftop of Apple. As the TV film was shelved, so was its soundtrack. To fulfill a contractual obligaton, the film evolved into the theatrical feature "Let It Be." The album was handed over to legendary girl-group producer Phil Spector, who edited and extended material , and overdubbed chroruses and strings on some of them . The resulting "Let It Be" album detroyed the concept that the album would represent "the warmth and freshness of a live performance," as declared on the original liner notes for the "Get Back" LP. Shortly after the release of "Abbey Road" in late 1969, some Capitol Records reps slipped acetate copies of the "Get Back" album to several major-market FM rock stations. The version of "Get Back" heard on this episode of "Breakfast With The Beatles" comes directly from one of those acetates.

Also featured:

The original Capitol album "Beatles VI."

Paul McCartney guest appearances — a set of tunes by other artists on which Paul McCartney has appeared, as suggested by "WalrusMan" in Broomfield:

Highlights from George Harrison's now out-of-print "Live In Japan" album.

Sunday, October 6, 2002

A tribute to John Lennon, with no narration — just three hours of interview clips and his music, tracking his life from the late '50s to 1980.

Sunday, September 29, 2002

"Revolver:"  the album that was the transition between folk-rock "Rubber Soul" and psychedelic "Sgt. Pepper." Paul explained how he brought tape loops to the "Tomorrow Never Knows" session and how he came up with the name "Eleanor Rigby." Rarities included alternate versions and/or mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping," "She Said She Said," "Dr. Robert," "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Here, There & Everywhere."

A Ringo set included "I Call Your Name," which he recorded with Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Jeff Lynne and Jim Keltner for a televised John Lennon tribute.

A set of "Beatles By George" — Harrison Beatles songs, put together by Georgiana Thorne of Broomfield — including a long version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

A Beatles covers set, from e-mail and phone suggestions:

"Live At Hollywood Bowl:"  although a chart-topper in the U.S. and U.K., this album has never been released on CD — even though a digital master was prepared in the '80s. "Breakfast" played the restored version of what was once side one of the LP. Side two, which contains an extra song, will be played in a future edition.

Sunday, September 22, 2002

Elvis covers: As John's "Hound Dog" and Paul's "All Shook Up" will be appearing on the "Tribute To The King" compilation in October, John B. of Boulder suggested a set of Elvis covers. It included those two tracks, plus Beatles' BBC takes of "That's Alright Mama" and "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry Over You," Ringo's "Don't Be Cruel" and George with Eric Clapton, Ringo and Carl Perkins performing "Blue Suede Shoes."

Sgt. Pepper: A track-by-track showcase of their masterpiece from the original vinyl — including comments from John, Paul and producer George Martin. An early take of "Badfinger Boogie," the instrumental which evolved into "With A Little Help From My Friends," was also featured, as well as an unreleased stereo version of the original "Only A Northern Song," recorded during the "Pepper" sessions.

The '90s: As suggested by several "Breakfast With The Beatles" fans, a set of their '90s remixes: "Free As A Bird (long version)," "Real Love" and "Grow Old With Me" (orchestrated by George Martin) — plus "Free Now" from Paul's "Liverpool Sound Collage."

Sunday, September 15, 2002
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The Vinyl EPs:

EPs (short for "Extended Play") were 7" vinyl records, usually containing four cuts at 45 RPM. In England, they were a very popular way of obtaining four album cuts or four unique tracks without shelling out the price of an album. In fact, "Magical Mystery Tour" in the U.K. was originally not an album — it was a double EP. EPs were not hugely popular in the U.S. — Capitol gave up after issuing two. These rare EPs — including two 33 RPM EPs from Mexico with rare mixes of late Beatles' songs — made up the bulk of this episode of "Breakfast With The Beatles." Also featured were vinyl versions of some later EPs, such as "Baby It's You," "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love," which featured tracks not available on albums. Click here to see images of some of the rarest EPs featured on this episode.

Sunday, September 8, 2002
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A set of songs that mention animals, suggested by Audrey from Englewood, including "Leave My Kitten Alone," "Three Legs," "Blackbird," "I Am The Walrus," and demo versions of "Dark Horse" and "Cold Turkey."

The "Get Back/Let It Be" sessions, with special guest Alan Parsons:

The segment opened with George Harrison's 1969 comment that the original concept was a "Get Back" TV special; the concept soured when it was made into a film and Phil Spector added massive overdubs to the "real" Beatles. Parsons explained how the Beatles were distracted by the camera and film crews, and shared many outtakes from the sessions, including a "Get Back" recording in which they break down and call him names. Other goodies included "Third Man Theme," "Blues Machine" and the pure, original version of "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues," which had been re-tracked for the unreleased "Sessions" collection and eventually turned up in its adulterated form on "Anthology III." Parsons shared unreleased audio of Peter Sellers joking with John and Ringo on the set. Billy Preston commented on how he hooked up with the Beatles.

The American "'Yesterday ... And Today!'" vinyl LP played in its entirety, at the request of Richard Detz of Denver. Should the U.S. albums be re-released? Click here for the argument in favor.

A solo set, closing with Paul McCartney's appearance on Saturday Night Live's "Chris Farley Show" and a live performance of "Hey Jude."

Sunday, September 1, 2002
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Salute to soundtrack songs:

"A Hard Day's Night" — including alternate United Artists versions of "And I Love Her" and "I'll Cry Instead."

"Help!" — including commercials for the film, the American mono version of "Help!" with the James Bond-like intro and alternate versions of "You're Going To Lose That Girl" & "Ticket To Ride."

"Magical Mystery Tour" — alternate versons of "Blue Jay Way" and "Flying," plus the "Magical Mystery Tour" reprise. Paul talks with Archer about the film's initial failure and subsequent cult status.

"Yellow Submarine" — snippets from the film, plus a comment from George on how his son Dhani found out Dad was a Beatle — through the "Yellow Submarine" movie. Rarities include the long version of "It's All Too Much" and an alternate mix of "Yellow Submarine."

Bonus set: Paul McCartney, including rare B-sides and "Flaming Pie" as performed on "Oprah."

Sunday, August 25, 2002

"The Beatles' Second Album" — the original Capitol LP in its entirety. Should the U.S. albums be re-released? Click here for the argument in favor.

"The White Album" — comments from George, Ringo, John, Paul and George Martin on the double-album sessions and tensions in the group at the time. Rarities included the unreleased long version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," various mono mixes, and alternate versions of "Piggies," "I'm So Tired" and "Revolution." Also: an excerpt of Kenny Everett's famous interview during the early stages of the sessions.

John Lennon set — including long versions of "Rock & Roll People" and "(Just Like) Starting Over," plus the Dutch 45 version of "Love" and "It's So Hard" performed on The Mike Douglas Show.

Sunday, August 18, 2002

Premiere episode:

The Beatles invade the U.S. — clips from their first U.S. visit, plus performances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," with reminiscences by Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.

"Meet The Beatles" — the first U.S. Capitol album in its entirety. Should the U.S. albums be re-released? Click here for the argument in favor.

Guest Alan Parsons — an insider's look at the "Abbey Road" sessions: how sound effects were made, plus anecdotes on several production techniques pioneered on the album.

Solo set — goodies from Paul, John, George and a sampling from the new Ringo/All-Starrs album.