Here’s a good comparison of groovy British vs. American sounds from 1967, with America having the harder edge.
Category: Beatles
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Johnny Carson, from when the Tonight Show was still in New York, talking about the forthcoming arrival to the city of the Fabulous Foursome.
Hogg Warts
The PBS NewsHour profiles Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
The Fabulous Batles
My eldest sister occasionally likes to remind me that she attended both of the Beatles shows at Shea Stadium. The legendary 1965 concert was held two weeks before Mary Quant’s New York fashion show, where Prue introduced miniskirts to America.
The unprecedented success of the Beatles at Shea Stadium gave promoters the idea that the venue would be good for other acts, as seen in this 1966 poster.
Here’s the batty tale of how Batman followed the Beatles to Shea Stadium, and why Bob Dylan didn’t.
Hooked on Needles
Something I realized rather quickly with CD (and also DVD), is the players are commodities. I have never felt the same personal connection for a disc player the way I always have for my speakers, headphones, receivers, turntables, and phono cartridges. Yes, even phono cartridges.
These are a few of the pickups, as cartridges used to be known, that I remember fondly.
The Pickering V15 came installed on my Garrard 40B turntable, way back in early 1972. Five years later, the Stanton 500 was on the Micro-Trak tonearms of the Russco Cue-Master turntables at the radio station.
The Shure M91ED was purchased to replace the Pickering.
The Audio-Technica AT-13Ea lived on my JVC VL-5 turntable.
Paul and Answer
Listen to “I Dig a Pony” at the 2:00 mark.
For ages I was never entirely certain if the “oooo” and the “ohhh” were both by John. It’s Paul, then John.
John was known for having trouble remembering lyrics, even for songs he had written. As seen here, an assistant was holding a clipboard for John’s reference.
