Beatles – Prattling Before the Pratfall

Wayno, No Relation to Waymo

In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.

https://www.bizarro.com/

Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.

https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno

Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.

Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.

After much speculation for a long time, a deluxe reissue of the Beatles album Rubber Soul is on the way. It must be noted that Capitol’s US version of the album, that was not approved by the Beatles, had far greater influence than Parlophone’s UK version.

Hey Beatles/Hey Bingle!

I’m thinking Joe Sinnott probably had Bing Crosby’s Hey Jude/Hey Bing! album in his record collection. 65-year-old Bing covered two Apple label singles from the fall of ’68.

On December 11, 1961, ABC-TV in America broadcast a TV special that Bing had produced in England, in which he performed this humorous rendition of ‘The Sheik of Araby’.

A few weeks later, on January 1, 1962, the Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, recorded their own humorous take of ‘The Sheik of Araby’ at their Decca Records audition.

It Was 59 Years Ago Today

Somebody declared this to be Global Beatles Day.

https://www.thebeatles.com/global-beatles-day-celebrate-25th-june

“All Together Now! Everybody!”

Beatles Rotator

I recently played my big sister’s original American copy of the 1966 Beatles album Revolver.^* It’s in mono, and I was surprised by how good it sounds, considering the damage it endured. Here’s ‘Good Day Sunshine’.

Monitoring the playback with Audacity, I was impressed with how dynamic the sound is. There’s no compression going on here.

For comparison, here is the official online copy of the song.

Looking at the peaks, some loudness compression was apparently added to the recording. The 2009 mono Beatles set reportedly was transferred from the master tapes with dynamic range left intact, so perhaps this is a YouTube effect.