Category: Beatles

In One Ear, In the Other

With an apology to the hearing-impaired, headphones are required for this audio recording quiz.

I heard the effect in the recording before he pointed it out, but with the expectation there was a technical problem, I assumed a microphone was out of phase with the other mics. This is his follow-up entry.

DOuG pRATt in high school with a Pioneer SX-440 receiver, Garrard 40B turntable with Shure M91ED cartridge, Pioneer SE-20 headphones, and Realistic MC-1000 speakers.

Practical Matters

After computer graphics took over special effects in movies, the old way came to be called practical effects. Asteroid City has a cornucopia of wonderfully conceived and beautifully detailed models and miniatures.

“Freight Train” in the movie is a Skiffle record from 1957. It was released in England a few months before Paul McCartney joined John Lennon’s Skiffle group, the Quarrymen.

https://youtu.be/FRBRyl9XgrA

The DJ Who Played VJ

Dick Biondi’s family has announced that he died last week, on June 26, at age 90. On February 23, 1963, Biondi was the first American DJ to play a Beatles record, a full year before they came here. Biondi was on WLS in Chicago, home of VJ, the only record label that wanted the Beatles.

https://www.beatle.net/biondi-announcing-please-please-me/

Biondi’s passing will make Sunday’s showing of a new documentary about his life bittersweet.

https://www.dickbiondifilm.com/