Category: Music

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.

© Bizarro Studios

Giving Lori Some ❤️

Every so often, BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the Seventies, now hosted by Shaun Keaveny, surprises me with a song that was a big hit in the UK, but wasn’t in America. Here’s an example.

In 1977, the Alessi Brothers had a #8 hit in England with ‘Oh Lori’. I was working as an AM radio DJ that year, and ‘Oh Lori’ is a song that would have been a perfect fit for the station’s Adult Contemporary format. Nonetheless, it wasn’t on our playlist.

I’ll correct that oversight right now. If the Beach Boys did Jazz, it would sound like this.

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.