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Episode #31 – ‘Beatles For Sale – Close to Greatness’

September 2, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

“It’s rip-roaring, infectious stuff, with the accent on beat throughout,” wrote Derek Johnson in the New Musical Express.

“Beatles For Sale is going to sell, sell, sell. It is easily up to standard and will knock out pop fans, rock fans, R&B and Beatles fans,” predicted Melody Maker’s Chris Welch.

Nevertheless, the Fab Four’s fourth album has received mixed reviews down the years, especially when rated within the context of their musical canon. Worked to the bone with film, TV, radio, press and global concert tour assignments, The Beatles were also under pressure to deliver a couple of LPs per year. Unable to sustain the standard set by the all-Lennon-McCartney A Hard Day’s Night, its composers still produced some magnificent work, yet a few mediocre tracks, out-of-tune guitars and uncharacteristically questionable artistic choices gave the finished record an erratic quality that has resulted in divided opinions among listeners—including those discussing it on this show.

Under-appraised and underpraised, Beatles For Sale is put under the microscope for a well-earned reevaluation. And what no one can deny is that even the group’s sub-par output—in the eyes and ears of some—outstrips that of most other artists.

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Episode #30 – ‘Twickenham Mind Games – George Walks, Yoko Wants a Mic’

August 5, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

What John Lennon described as “the most miserable sessions on earth” were recalled by George Harrison as “the low of all time”. Yet, while such statements may have accurately reflected their respective mindsets, they also helped fuel widespread misconceptions about The Beatles’ January ’69 ‘Get Back’ project that evolved into the ‘Let It Be’ film and album.

The fragmented, shoddily-edited Michael Lindsay-Hogg-directed ‘documentary’ has also played a significant role in spreading the negativity, as have certain self-acclaimed experts’ uninformed opinions because of their failure to listen to all of the tapes. For, therein lies a very different, far more rewarding story that will likely be revealed in Peter Jackson’s new version of the movie. Regardless, that’s what Richard Buskin and Allan Kozinn (pinch-hitting for Erik Taros) focus on here: the many ups as well as the downs that took place at Twickenham Film Studios in the run-up to George temporarily quitting the group—and the project then relocating to The Beatles’ own Apple facility.

In so doing, Richard and Allan not only examine the long as well as short-term causes for the disharmony—including the personalities involved and their invariably fascinating, often-enlightening interactions; they also provide a fly-on-the-wall perspective on the thoughts and discussions that helped shape the Fab Four’s still-reverberating artistic decisions.

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Episode #29 – ‘She Loves You—Anatomy of a Song’

July 1, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

Such was the growing British interest surrounding The Beatles by mid-1963 that, on 1st July, fans gathered outside the EMI Studios on Abbey Road where the group was recording both sides of its next single: ‘She Loves You’ and ‘I’ll Get You’.

Since the late-Sixties, ‘She Loves You’ has been short-changed; dismissed by many as just catchy MOR pop compared to the Fab Four’s subsequent, more experimental tracks. In reality, this one was every bit as groundbreaking: a unique, infectious, beautifully-crafted rock belter that saw the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team hit the ball out of the park before, five days later, they and their colleagues accomplished the same inside Studio Two.

‘She Loves You’ was unlike anything that had been heard before—in various ways. So, where did it come from? And what were the ingredients in its creation? Take a deep dive into a true classic.

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Episode #28 – ‘August 29, 1966 – Summer in the City’

June 17, 2019/in Podcast /by Swinging Through The Sixties

While The Beatles were at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, performing their final concert for a paying audience, The Doors were in Hollywood recording their first album, an Englishmen was attempting to sail solo around the world—and many people were marveling at the first photos of that world taken from outer space.

It was a time when adventurers and new technology still captured the public imagination, as reflected in films and TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic—along with a rising interest in social realism and hallucinogens, as expressed on-screen and on record. With parents predating the rock era and popular music having a major impact across the generations, eclectic singles and album charts represented sharply contrasting tastes.

The 1960s were now in full swing and it was an exciting time to be alive—so long as you weren’t among those suffering poverty, persecution or the atrocities of war.

The Music

  • ‘Summer in the City’ – The Lovin’ Spoonful
  • ‘Guantanamera’ – The Sandpipers
  • ‘Summertime’ – Billy Stewart
  • ‘With a Girl Like You’ – The Troggs
  • ‘Black is Black’ – Los Bravos
  • ‘Lovers of the World Unite’ – David and Jonathan
  • ‘We Can’t Go On This Way’ – Teddy and the Pandas
  • ‘Theme from Star Trek’ – Alexander Courage
  • ‘The Man Called Flintstone’ – John McCarthy
  • ‘Theme from The Avengers’ – Laurie Johnson
  • ‘High Wire’ – Edwin Astley
  • ‘Secret Agent Man’ – Johnny Rivers
  • ‘Theme from Mission: Impossible’ – Lalo Schifrin
  • ‘Yesterday’ – The Beatles
  • ‘Eleanor Rigby’ – The Beatles
  • ‘I Want You’ – Bob Dylan
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Episode #27 – ‘Loving The Beatles’

May 7, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

How, when and where did our passion for the Fab Four first get ignited? What form did it take and how has it evolved, personally and professionally? Our friend Mark Lewisohn, the group’s foremost biographer, joins us for an informal chat recorded at Erik’s home studio that provides perspective and reminiscences from both sides of the Atlantic, reaching back more than 55 years to our initial encounters with John, Paul, George and Ringo on TV, radio, record and in print. It’s been a lifelong love story, focusing on not only the music, but also the personalities… and the humour. As such, this episode speaks to fans everywhere.

The Music

  • ‘I’ll Get You’
  • ‘She Loves You’
  • ‘Here There and Everywhere’
  • ‘The Inner Light’
  • ‘Look at Me’
  • ‘The Beatles Movie Medley’
  • ‘All My Loving’
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Episode #26 – ‘Love, Drugs and the Generation Gap – 1967’s New Musical Order’

April 13, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

It was a new age: the young were going to rule the world—well, parts of it. And they were certainly taking hold of the music business… or so they thought.

1967 was a halcyon year in the annals of psychedelic rock and the counterculture movement on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet, high hopes and lofty ambitions were soon brought back down to the earth by the powers-that-still-were. L.A.’s Sunset Strip riots of November ’66 would prove to be a harbinger of things to come. And the British Government banned pirate radio while launching its own rock-oriented, more sanitized broadcast station. So it was that the ‘Summer of Love’ started to fade.

Musician/producer/songwriter Ben Rowling joins Richard Buskin as guest co-host for this episode while Erik Taros participates via the phone. However, Erik’s back in the studio to hear David ‘Mr. Bonzai’ Goggin talk about his own psychedelic West Coast experiences in 1967 – as well as his phenomenal up-close experiences with The Beatles.

The Music

  • ‘We Love the Pirate Stations’ – Trinity
  • ‘Radio One Theme’ – Jimi Hendrix
  • ‘For What It’s Worth’ – Buffalo Springfield
  • ‘I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)’ – The Electric Prunes
  • ‘She’s a Rainbow’/‘We Love You’ – The Rolling Stones
  • ‘Somebody to Love’ – Jefferson Airplane
  • ‘Viola Lee Blues’ – The Grateful Dead
  • ‘Light My Fire’ – The Doors
  • ‘Intruder’ – Big Brother & The Holding Company
  • ‘I Am the Walrus’ – The Beatles
  • ‘Purple Haze’ – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ – Cream
  • ‘The “Fish” Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag’ – Country Joe and the Fish
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Episode #25 – ‘Isn’t It a Pity – The Beatles’ Unrealized Album’.

March 17, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

During a taped business meeting attended by three Beatles and Neil Aspinall while Ringo was away – likely in mid-September ‘69, a month before that in which John would say he wanted “a divorce” from the group – JL remarked, “Alright, let’s move on. We’ll do another album. We’ll all do four songs. How’s that? That’s fair.”

When the others showed no interest, he then said, “Alright, how about a Christmas single? Y’know, we finish it with a Christmas single. I think it’s a great idea — I’m in.”

That changed after John and Yoko performed in Toronto with Eric and Klaus. But what if the others had approved John’s initial suggestion and immediately returned to the studio? Between them they already had enough songs for another LP – songs that would end up being utilized for their own solo projects.

Here are the tracks selected by your co-hosts…

Erik

  • Let It Down
  • Look at Me
  • Another Day
  • Stormy Weather
  • Gimme Some Truth
  • Hear Me Lord
  • Maybe I’m Amazed
  • Oh My Love
  • Art of Dying
  • Child of Nature
  • All Things Must Pass
  • The Back Seat of My Car
  • Isn’t It a Pity
  • Suicide

Richard

  • Gimme Some Truth
  • Maybe I’m Amazed
  • Art of Dying
  • Child of Nature
  • All Things Must Pass
  • Another Day
  • Isn’t It a Pity
  • Oh My Love
  • When Every Song is Sung
  • Every Night
  • Beautiful Girl
  • Look at Me
  • The Back Seat of My Car
  • What is Life

Featuring a recording of ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ by Mark & Rosalie Cunningham, produced for this show.

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Episode #24 – ‘American Music ’63 – The Year Before The Beatles’

January 26, 2019/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

There’s a notion that American popular music was in the doldrums when The Beatles first touched down in New York City. The original rock ‘n’ rollers had either gone soft (Elvis Presley), gone to jail (Chuck Berry), gone into the church (Little Richard), gone with their 13-year-old cousin (Jerry Lee Lewis) or gone from this world (Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran). In their place: a bunch of smiling, clean-cut, parent-friendly twisters and crooners, performing antiseptic pop material for the middle-class white market.

There’s truth to this. But it’s far from the whole truth. The American music charts during the year preceding the ‘British Invasion’ were actually packed with a broad range of artists and eclectic variety of songs—many of them now regarded as solid-gold classics that underscore the ingenuity of their highly talented creators. Some would be swept aside by the coming tidal wave; others would continue to flourish—although in a very different world to that characterizing the first half of the decade.

Featured Tracks:

  • ‘He’s So Fine’ (The Chiffons)
  • ‘Sugar Shack’ (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs)
  • ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ (Peter, Paul and Mary)
  • ‘If I Had a Hammer’ (Trini Lopez)
  • ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’ (Allan Sherman)
  • ‘Pipeline’ (The Chantays)
  • ‘Sukiyaki’ (Kyu Sakamoto)
  • ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’ (Bobby Vee)
  • ‘You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me’ (The Miracles)
  • ‘Pride and Joy’ (Marvin Gaye)
  • ‘Fingertips’ (Little Stevie Wonder)
  • ‘I Will Follow Him’ (Little Peggy March)
  • ‘Louie Louie’ (The Kingsmen)
  • ‘The End of the World’ (Skeeter Davis)
  • ‘Who Do You Love?’ – Ronnie Hawkins
  • ‘Can’t Get Used to Losing You’ (Andy Williams)
  • ‘Sally Go ’Round the Roses’ (The Jaynetts)
  • ‘Devil in Disguise’ (Elvis Presley)
  • ‘In Dreams’ (Roy Orbison)
  • ‘It’s My Party’ (Leslie Gore)
  • ‘Judy’s Turn to Cry’ (Leslie Gore)
  • ‘Walk Like a Man’ (The Four Seasons)
  • ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’ (The Angels)
  • ‘One Fine Day’ (The Chiffons)
  • ‘Wipe Out’ (The Surfaris)
  • ‘Surfin’ U.S.A.’ (The Beach Boys)
  • ‘Another Saturday Night’ (Sam Cooke)
  • ‘On Broadway’ (The Drifters)
  • ‘Ring of Fire’ (Johnny Cash)
  • ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’ (Bob Dylan)
  • ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ (The Crystals)
  • ‘Be My Baby’ (The Ronettes)
  • ‘From Me to You’ (Del Shannon)
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Episode #23 – ‘Multicoloured Mirrors – The Beatles Christmas Records’

December 25, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

At the suggestion of press officer Tony Barrow, The Beatles ended their first year of national fame by thanking the members of their UK fan club with a flexi-disc single containing a specially recorded Christmas message. So began an annual tradition that not only endured as long as they were together, but also mirrored and encapsulated their career: from the innocent fun of 1963 and 1964 to the biting cynicism of 1965, offbeat creativity of 1966, psychedelic surrealism of 1967, disparate contributions of 1968 and complete fragmentation of 1969. What starts off joyous ends up sad, with much of life in between – and guest appearances by George Martin, Mal Evans, Victor Spinetti, Yoko Ono and Tiny Tim.

Featuring:

  • “Christmas Time (Is Here Again)”
  • 1963: “The Beatles’ Christmas Record”
  • 1964: “Another Beatles Christmas Record” + outtakes
  • 1965: “The Beatles’ Third Christmas Record” + outtakes
  • 1966: “The Beatles’ Fourth Christmas Record: Everywhere It’s Christmas” + outtakes
  • 1967: “Christmas Time Is Here Again!”
  • 1968: “The Beatles’ 1968 Christmas Record”
  • 1969: “The Beatles’ Seventh Christmas Record: Happy Christmas 1969”
  • Dora Bryan – “All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle”
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Episode #22: ‘Music That Bleeds – Elvis’s ’68 Comeback Special’.

December 3, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

“There is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back home,” ‘Eye’ magazine’s John Landau commented when reviewing Elvis’s 1968 ‘Comeback Special’. “He sang with the kind of power that people no longer expect of rock ‘n’ roll singers. He moved his body with a lack of pretension and effort that must have made Jim Morrison green with envy.”

Undertaken by the King as a make-or-break project that would either salvage his career or confine it to the backwaters where it currently resided, the show captured him laying everything on the line – vocally and emotionally. This in spite of manager Colonel Tom Parker’s insistence on an NBC Christmas special that might have appealed to only those still brave enough to watch his legendary client’s lousy films.

Director Steve Binder provided the vision, production partner Bones Howe attended to the music, and the result was a small-screen smash that grabbed viewers’ attention right at the start with a menacing close-up, striking Elvii-filled backdrop and a voice that attacked the songs with raw beauty. Topping the ratings, this show and the accompanying album made Elvis musically relevant for the first time in years.

Binder and Howe are among the interviewees in this 50th anniversary tribute to a timeless TV classic, alongside executive producer Bob Finkel, guitarist Scotty Moore, drummer D.J. Fontana and special guest Allen. J. Wiener, author of ‘Channeling Elvis: How Television Saved the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’.

“It was the finest music of his life,” Greil Marcus wrote in his book, ‘Mystery Train’. “If ever there was music that bleeds, this was it.”

Featured tracks:

  • Trouble/Guitar Man
  • Trying to Get to You
  • Heartbreak Hotel
  • Stuck On You
  • A Little Less Conversation
  • When It Rains, It Really Pours
  • I Got a Woman
  • Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  • One Night
  • That’s All Right
  • Let Yourself Go
  • Blue Christmas
  • Memories
  • Saved
  • If I Can Dream
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Episode #21: ‘’The Lennon and McCartney White Albums’ (live at Monmouth University)

November 21, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

This is a new phase STTS episode…

Essential to the concept of the ‘International White Album Symposium’ at Monmouth University, New Jersey, was that we recorded the show in front of an audience, revisiting and merging the much-discussed topics of Episodes #2 and #4 with a couple of our mates: celebrated Beatles author Mark Lewisohn and our resident musicologist Allan Kozinn.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney each contributed 12 songs to the White Album. These could have been justifiably issued as LPs in their own right. And what stunners they would have been; filled with an eclectic array of incredible compositions and unforgettable performances that captured both men—and their bandmates—at the top of their game.

Here we review the Lennon and McCartney White Albums, comparing them with each other as well as with the legendary, recently remixed Beatles opus. In comes the warmth and freshness of a live appearance, captured for you by the STTS team. Featured tracks:

  • Birthday
  • I’m So Tired
  • Julia
  • Dear Prudence
  • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  • Back in the U.S.S.R.
  • Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
  • Revolution
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Episode #20: ‘White Heaven – Reviewing The Beatles Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition’

November 8, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

A remixed White Album, the complete stereo Esher Demos, a wide array of high-quality, previously unheard outtakes… and the album in 5.1 surround. Need we say more? Actually, we do, according this historic release the attention and analysis it so richly deserves.

Featured tracks:

  • Helter Skelter (Second Version – take 17)
  • Yer Blues
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  • Blue Moon (Studio Jam)
  • (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care (Studio Jam)
  • Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (Unnunbered Rehearsal)
  • Revolution 1 (Take 18)
  • Good Night (Take 10 with a guitar part from Take 7)
  • Honey Pie (Instrumental Backing Track)
  • Dear Prudence (Esher Demo/Vocal, Guitar and Drums)
  • Let It Be (Unnumbered Rehearsal)
  • I’m So Tired (Take 14)
  • Sour Milk Sear (Esher Demo)
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Episode #19: ‘Geoff Emerick – Channeling The Beatles’ Creativity’

October 9, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

A tribute to the recording engineer whose in-studio innovations helped shape The Beatles’ sound—and alter the course of popular music.

Geoffrey Emerick (born 5th December 1945, died 2nd October 2018) was just 16-years-old when, on 6th June 1962, he joined the EMI Studios on Abbey Road as a tape operator. Two days later, he attended the group’s first recording session with Ringo Starr on drums. He subsequently assisted on a number of sessions, including those for ‘She Loves You’ and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, before replacing Norman Smith as The Beatles’ chief engineer in early 1966 and diving straight into the deep end with the first track committed to tape for their landmark ‘Revolver’ LP: the revolutionary, now-legendary ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. The following year, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ won him his first of four Grammy Awards.

In this episode, Richard, Erik, Allan and Craig examine how, together with producer George Martin, Geoff helped realize The Beatles’ most far-flung creative ambitions. And there is also an enlightening interview with multi-award-winning engineer John Kurlander, who assisted Geoff on the group’s final album, ‘Abbey Road’.

Featured Tracks

  • Tomorrow Never Knows (STTS remix)
  • Yer Blues
  • Good Day Sunshine
  • Good Morning Good Morning
  • Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (STTS remix)
  • I’m Only Sleeping
  • A Day in the Life (STTS remix)
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Episode #18: ‘The Beatles – Politically (In)Correct’

September 12, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

The cripple impersonations, the Nazi salutes, the MBEs (received and returned), the groupies, the ‘Butcher cover’, the ‘bigger than Jesus’ controversy, the drugs, the love anthem, the naked album cover, the politically-charged lyrics, the peace campaign, the erotic artwork… However we slice and dice The Beatles’ story, it’s never boring,. What they said, sang and did still incites heated debates and disagreements five decades later. And what was deemed acceptable or unimportant back in the 1960s is often judged far more harshly today—as well as the other way around. So, diving into this often amusing, sometimes disturbing topic, we appraise things according to not only current mores, but also the era in which they took place—guaranteeing an action-packed episode… and a splendid time for all.

The Music

  • I Saw Her Standing There
  • Day Tripper
  • The Word
  • Girl
  • Run for Your Life
  • Got to Get You into My Life
  • Tomorrow Never Knows
  • Doctor Robert
  • Penny Lane
  • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  • A Day in the Life
  • All You Need is Love
  • Revolution 1
  • Blackbird
  • Piggies
  • No Pakistanis
  • Maggie Mae
  • I’ve Got a Feeling
  • Don’t Let Me Down
  • Give Peace a Chance
  • Come Together
  • You Can’t Do That
  • Across the Universe
  • Piggies
  • Happiness is a Warm Gun
  • Revolution
  • Commonwealth
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Episode #17: ‘The Monkees – Fake or Real?’

August 20, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

They’ve been labeled the Prefab Four, America’s answer to The Beatles; a manufactured group performing songs on TV and in concert that were written by accomplished composers and recorded by crack session musicians. All of which is true—up to a point. Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork boasted assorted pedigrees as actors and/or musicians, and they eventuially exerted greater control over their own career. But, as fast as they became superstars on both sides of the Atlantic, they flamed out, and to this day the debate continues regarding their musical validity and credibility. Which is where Richard, Erik, Allan and Craig enter the picture…

The music featured on this show comprises a wide array of singles, session tapes, outtakes and tracks from the albums ‘The Monkees’ (1966), ‘More of The Monkees’, ‘Headquarters’, ‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.’ (all 1967), ‘The Birds, The Bees and The Monkees’ and ‘Head’ (both 1968).

Featured Tracks:

  • (Theme from) The Monkees
  • Mary, Mary
  • Goin’ Down
  • (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  • Cuddly Toy
  • Daydream Believer
  • Your Auntie Grizelda
  • Ladies Aid Society
  • Saturday’s Child
  • Papa Gene’s Blues
  • Take a Giant Step
  • Last Train to Clarksville
  • I Wanna Be Free
  • She
  • When Love Comes Knockin’ (at Your Door)
  • Sometime in the Morning
  • The Day We Fall in Love
  • Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)
  • Laugh
  • I’m a Believer
  • Gonna Buy Me a Dog
  • For Pete’s Sake
  • Randy Scouse Git
  • Shades of Gray
  • A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You
  • Salesman
  • The Door into Summer
  • Words
  • What Am I Doing Hangin’ ’Round?
  • Star Collector
  • Love is Only Sleeping
  • Peter Percival Patterson’s Pet Pig Porky
  • Valleri
  • Ditty Diego – War Chant
  • Pleasant Valley Sunday
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Episode #16: ‘The Beatles’ Superstarr Drummer’

July 27, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

Rock-solid and understated, subtle yet ballsy, inventive and full of feel—these are just some of the descriptions that have been applied to the artistry and iconic, highly influential drumming of Sir Richard Starkey, M.B.E. Now, hot on the heels of Ringo’s 78th birthday, Richard, Erik, Allan, and Craig analyse and appraise his Beatles-related contributions behind the kit—both onstage and in the studio—while discussing his musical evolution, comparing him to his contemporaries, and assessing if he was indeed the man best suited to drum for the world’s greatest rock group.

Featured tracks:

  • Rain
  • Long Tall Sally
  • I Call Your Name
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand
  • She Loves You
  • Ticket to Ride
  • Please Please Me
  • Thank You Girl
  • I Feel Fine
  • You Can’t Do That
  • You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
  • A Day in the Life
  • Long Long Long
  • The End
  • Good Morning Good Morning
  • Here Comes the Sun
  • I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
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Episode #15: ‘An Acidic SMiLE’

July 5, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

Arguably the most famous of all unfinished albums, at the center of an infamous showdown between Brian Wilson and his fellow Beach Boys, SMiLE was envisaged as a means of elevating the standard pop opus to unprecedented artistic heights. Commercial considerations, a copious intake of drugs and Brian’s rapidly deteriorating mental health put paid to that—especially after he heard The Beatles’ landmark Sgt. Pepper. For years it was alleged that he had destroyed the session tapes, yet these eventually emerged intact and a rejuvenated Brian has since performed the entire set live. So, how would SMiLE have fared if released as intended at the start of 1967? And what kind of impact might it have had on the contemporary music scene? Erik, Richard, Allan and Craig dive into this intriguing, part-tragic, ultimately inspirational topic along with special guest John Anderson, the Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated director of numerous films featuring Brian, The Beach Boys and assorted other rock luminaries.

Check out John’s credits here: http://www.thisisandersonproductions.com/AboutUs.html

Featured tracks:

  • Our Prayer/Gee
  • Heroes and Villains
  • Do You Like Worms? (Roll Plymouth Rock)
  • I’m In Great Shape/Barnyard
  • You Are My Sunshine/Old Master Painter
  • Cabin Essence
  • Wonderful
  • Look (Song for Children)
  • Child is Father of the Man
  • Surf’s Up
  • I Wanna Be Around/Workshop
  • Vega-tables
  • Holidays
  • Wind Chimes
  • Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow
  • Love to Say Dada (In Blue Hawaii)
  • Good Vibrations

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Episode #14: ‘Jesus and the Mob – The Beatles in the Windy City’

June 17, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

The Beatles played five shows in Chicago between 1964 and 1966—more than any other American city—and there was no little drama: from the total hysteria of their first gig at the International Amphitheater and staying at a Mob-run hotel during their second visit to kicking off their third and final tour with press conferences defending John’s “more popular than Jesus” remarks.

Re-live the excitement of those years via live Windy City performances by the Fab Four and on-the-spot interviews with fans, deejays, reporters, a concert promoter and a security guard, as well as the analysis of special guest Chuck Gunderson, author of the definitive two-volume ‘Some Fun Tonight! The Backstage Story of How The Beatles Rocked America: The Historic Tours of 1964 – 1966’.

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Episode #13: ‘Swinging Decade Guilty Pleasures’

May 27, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

The things we loved back in the 1960s that we’re now embarrassed about, as well as the things we still love from the 1960s that we should be embarrassed about: the music, movies, TV shows, products, fashions, you name it.

The musical content on this show includes:

  • Ian Bernard – ‘Inquistive Tango’ (theme from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
  • Bikini Beach cast – ‘Bikini Beach’
  • Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs – ‘Wooly Bully’
  • Elvis Presley – ‘Kissin’ Cousins’
  • The Flintstones – ‘The Way-Outs’
  • The Jetsons – ‘Jet Screamer’
  • Gary Miller – ‘Aqua Marina’
  • The Flower Pot Men – ‘Let’s Go to San Francisco’
  • Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch – ‘The Legend of Xanadu’
  • Paper Dolls – ‘Something Here in My Heart’
  • The Glitterhouse – ‘Barbarella’
  • Elvis Presley – ‘Wolf Call’
  • Ricky Nelson – ‘Hello Mary Lou’
  • Napoleon XIV – ‘They’re Coming to Take Me Away’
  • Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs – ‘Little Red Riding Hood’
  • The Royal Guardsmen – ‘Snoopy vs. the Red Baron’
  • The Swingin’ Medallions – ‘Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)’
  • Sopwith Camel – ‘Hello Hello’
  • The T-Bones – ‘No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)’
  • Tony Hatch/Wings –Crossroads theme
  • Ann-Margret – ‘Bye Bye Birdie’
  • Doris Day – ‘Move Over Darling’
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Episode #12: ‘Beatles U.S. vs. Beatles U.K.’

May 3, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital
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Episode #11: ‘Murder, Mayhem, Music and Movies – The 1st Week of April ’68’

April 9, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

Even by the standards of the 1960s, it was quite a week: the murder of peaceful-protest civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., resulting riots across the U.S.A., multilateral talk of a ceasefire in the Vietnam war, the fall of Czechoslovakia’s communist government as part of the pro-democracy movement’s ‘Prague Spring,’ the appointment of Pierre Trudeau as Canadian Prime Minister, the release of movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, and a wide array of now-classic chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic.

Among this episode’s musical attractions:

  • Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’
  • The Beatles’ ‘Lady Madonna’
  • Elvis Presley’s ‘Guitar Man’
  • The Move’s ‘Fire Brigade’
  • Aretha Franklin’s ‘Sweet Sweet Baby (Since You’ve Been Gone)’
  • Donovan’s ‘Jennifer Juniper’
  • Otis Redding’s ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay’
  • The Lemon Pipers’ ‘Green Tambourine’
  • James Brown’s ‘I Got the Feelin’’
  • Bobby Goldsboro’s ‘Honey’
  • The Monkees’ ‘Valleri’
  • Cliff Richard’s ‘Congratulations’
  • The Delfonics’ ‘La-La (Means I Love You)’
  • Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Dance to the Music’
  • Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’
  • Cilla Black’s ‘Step Inside Love’
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Episode #10: ‘The Psychedelic Sound’

March 26, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

What elements make up a psychedelic song-be it rock, pop or folk, British or American, East or West Coast? 1960s artists didn’t categorize the music. They were just pushing the envelope-lyrically, musically, technologically-while ingesting the necessary chemicals. So, differentiating between the authentic, borderline and phony is a largely subjective topic, as revealed in this episode’s acid-drenched discussion between Richard, Erik, Allan and Craig. And there’s also a brief cameo by Donovan.

The featured tracks include:

  • ‘2000 Light Years from Home’ – The Rolling Stones
  • ‘Eight Miles High’ – The Byrds
  • ‘All Along the Watchtower’ – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • ‘It’s All Too Much’ – The Beatles
  • ‘Psychotic Reaction’ – Count Five
  • ‘Mind Flowers’ – Ultimate Spinach
  • ‘Hole in My Shoe’ – Traffic
  • ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’ – Status Quo
  • ‘Magic Potion’ – The Open Mind
  • ‘Time Has Come Today’ – The Chambers Brothers
  • ‘Incense and Peppermints’ – Strawberry Alarm Clock
  • ‘Itchycoo Park’ – The Small Faces
  • ‘Astronomy Domine’ – Pink Floyd
  • ‘White Rabbit’ – Jefferson Airplane
  • ‘I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)’ – The Electric Prunes
  • ‘1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)’ – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • ‘My White Bicycle’ – Tomorrow
  • ‘A Very Cellular Song’ – The Incredible String Band
  • ‘Witches Hat’ – The Incredible String Band
  • ‘Porpoise Song’ – The Monkees
  • ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’ – Donovan
  • ‘Good Vibrations’ – The Beach Boys
  • ‘Third Stone from the Sun’ – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ – Jimi Hendrix
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Episode #9: ‘The Trip: from Rubber Soul to Revolver – How LSD Impacted The Beatles’.

March 12, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

“I don’t see too much difference between Rubber Soul and Revolver,” George said in the ‘Beatles Anthology’ documentary. “To me, they could be Volume One and Volume Two.”

Many might think he should have paired Revolver with Sgt. Pepper. But, bearing in mind that George wasn’t nearly as involved with Pepper, let’s view things from his perspective…

In August 1965, John and George took acid intentionally for the first time, together with Ringo. In October and November, The Beatles recorded Rubber Soul. The following month, 10 days after the album’s release, a day after the end of the group’s final UK tour, Paul took LSD for the first time (with Guinness heir Tara Browne). Less than four months later, the Revolver sessions began.

Very different albums, but within just five months of one another: ‘Volume One’ shortly after three Beatles had dropped acid; ‘Volume Two’ after Paul had done so.

Featuring ear-catching, ultra-rare audio clips, this episode will dive deep into how hallucinogens influenced not only The Beatles’ songwriting and studio techniques during this period of unsurpassed group unity, but also the attitudes and instrumentation evident on record.

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Episode #8: ‘Actors Go Pop (Part 1)’

February 22, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

This show’s just the first installment of a multi-parter because, if you do a little research, you’ll discover that it might be easier to compile a list of famous actors who, back in the 1960s, didn’t record a pop song… or album… or several of them. They were all at it, on both sides of the Atlantic, and some of the results weren’t nearly as bad as you might think. Some were actually quite good while others were at least amusing. Such is the varied selection we have here:

  • Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren, ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ & ‘Bangers and Mash’
  • Richard Chamberlain, ‘Three Stars Will Shine Tonight’
  • Audrey Hepburn, ‘Moon River’
  • William Shatner, ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’
  • Leonard Nimoy, ‘Highly Illogical’
  • Bette Davis & Debbie Burton, ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’
  • Barbara Eden, ‘Bend It’
  • Patrick Macnee & Honor Blackman, ‘Kinky Boots’
  • Lorne Greene, ‘Ringo’
  • Pattie Duke, ‘Say Something Funny’
  • Yaphet Kotto, ‘Have You Dug This Scene’
  • Brigitte Bardot, ‘Harley Davidson’
  • Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’
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Episode #7: ‘Worst Hit Records of the 1960s – Part 1’

February 7, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

Just because a record’s a hit doesn’t mean it’s good. And there are many good records that never achieve chart success. This show focuses on the former: 1960s singles that cracked the top 100 in the U.S. and/or U.K.—in certain cases even topping it—yet which are universally condemned or divide opinions: some people love them, others hate them.

Incorporating several of their own choices with those of listeners, Richard and Erik bravely take a trip through an assortment of Sixties stinkers—ranging from novelty records to artistic blunders—and also recruit the Celebrated Mr. K (Allan Kozinn)  to try figure out what in hell the artists and composers were thinking.

Following are the featured tracks. But this is just the beginning—no way can all of the contenders fit into a single episode…

  • Ray Stevens — Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills
  • Brian Hyland — Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
  • The Trashmen — Surfin’ Bird
  • Jimmy Cross — I Want My Baby Back
  • Freddie and the Dreamers — Do the Freddie
  • Elvis Presley — Do the Clam
  • Mrs. Miller — Downtown/A Lover’s Concerto
  • Sgt. Barry Sadler — The Ballad of the Green Berets
  • Esther and Abi Ofarim — Cinderella Rockefella
  • Senator Bobby — Wild Thing
  • 1910 Fruitgum Company — Simon Says
  • Richard Harris — MacArthur Park
  • Tiny Tim — Tip Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me
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Episode #6: ‘The Beatles – George & Ringo’s White Album’

January 23, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

In this final installment of the STTS ‘White Album’ trilogy, Erik and Richard team up with musician Craig Bartock and musicologist Allan Kozinn to discuss the contributions by The Beatles’ lead guitarist and drummer – as well as what might have been in terms of tracks that didn’t make it onto the album. In so doing, they prove that, between them, the pair would have been capable of creating far more than just an EP!

Once again, Craig doesn’t have a track listing – but the other three do…

Erik

1. It’s All Too Much (long version)

2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

3. Don’t Pass Me By

4. Savoy Truffle

5. Piggies

6. The Inner Light

7. Dehra Dun

8. Circles

9. Not Guilty

10. Sour Milk Sea

11. Long, Long, Long

12. Only a Northern Song

13. Good Night

14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Take 1)

Richard

1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic & electric)

2. Piggies

3. Long, Long, Long

4. Don’t Pass Me By

5. Savoy Truffle

6. Not Guilty

7. Dehra Dun

8. Sour Milk Sea

9. Circles/Only a Northern Song

10. It’s All Too Much (long version)

11. Good Night

Allan

1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2. Piggies

3. Don’t Pass Me By

4. Long, Long, Long

5. Savoy Truffle

6. Circles

7. Only a Northern Song

8. Not Guilty

9. The Inner Light

10. Dehra Dun

11. Sour Milk Sea

12. It’s All Too Much (long version)

13. Good Night

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Episode #5: ‘The Profumo Affair – Sex, Lies… and Beatlemania’

January 7, 2018/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

Pimps, drug dealers, call girls, kinky orgies involving members of the ruling class, a government minister sharing a mistress with a Russian spy, a suicide… and the Prime Minister’s resignation. This was the scandal that rocked Britain in 1963—along with The Beatles simultaneously providing an alternative form of entertainment.

Among the featured tracks:

‘From Russia with Love’ – Matt Monroe

‘Do You Want to Know a Secret’ – Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas

‘On the Rebound’ – Floyd Cramer

‘Runaway’ – Del Shannon

‘My Bonnie’ – Tony Sheridan & The Beatles

‘You Don’t Know’ – Helen Shapiro

‘Tower of Strength’ – Frankie Vaughan

‘Come Outside’ – Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard

‘Telstar’ – The Tornados

‘All I Do is Dream’ – Mandy Rice-Davies

‘Please Please Me’ – The Beatles

‘Dance On’ – The Shadows

‘Let’s Dance’ – Chris Montez

‘Summer Holiday’ – Cliff Richard

‘The Cruel Sea’ – The Dakotas

‘How Do You Do It’ – Gerry and the Pacemakers

‘From Me to You’ – The Beatles

‘Confessin’ (That I Love You)’ – Frank Ifield

‘(You’re The) Devil in Disguise’ – Elvis Presley

‘She Loves You’ – The Beatles

‘I’ll Get You’ (live) – The Beatles

‘Nothing Has Been Proved’ – Dusty Springfield

PLUS ultra-rare clips of The Beatles performing at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Walthamstow Granada in the spring of 1963.

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Episode #4: ‘The Beatles – Paul McCartney’s White Album’

December 14, 2017/in Podcast /by dsrdigital

In this second instalment of an STTS ‘White Album’ trilogy, Richard and Erik are once again joined by musician Craig Bartock and musicologist Allan Kozinn to discuss an incredibly diverse collection of Paul McCartney tracks; ranging from novelty numbers and classic ballads to proto-grunge head-bangers and timeless rockers.

While Craig’s happy to kick things off with ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ and end with ‘Hey Jude’, his three colleagues have come up with their own track listings…

Richard

  1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
  2. Wild Honey Pie
  3. Mother Nature’s Son
  4. Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
  5. Martha My Dear
  6. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  7. Blackbird
  8. Helter Skelter
  9. I Will
  10. Rocky Raccoon
  11. Honey Pie
  12. Birthday
  13. Hey Jude

Erik

  1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
  2. Blackbird
  3. Jubilee
  4. I Will
  5. Birthday
  6. Can You Take Me Back?
  7. Honey Pie
  8. Helter Skelter
  9. Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
  10. Rocky Raccoon
  11. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  12. Martha My Dear
  13. Heather
  14. Mother Nature’s Son
  15. Hey Jude
  16. Wild Honey Pie

Allan (issuing his version of the album only on vinyl)

Side One

  1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
  2. Mother Nature’s Son
  3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  4. Martha My Dear
  5. Blackbird
  6. Rocky Raccoon
  7. I Will

Side Two

  1. Birthday
  2. Hey Jude
  3. Honey Pie
  4. Wild Honey Pie
  5. Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
  6. Helter Skelter
  7. Junk
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Episode #3: ‘Notable Namechecks in Song’

December 3, 2017/in Podcast /by Swinging Through The Sixties

Not tribute songs. More like honourable mentions. Some made in jest. Some a nod and a wink (nudge-nudge, say no more). All cultural reflections of their era. Listened to and contrasted within their proper context, they tell a fascinating Sixties story, populated with colourful characters and some pretty juicy backstories…

The tracks in this case—The Beatles’ ‘Taxman and Dig It’, Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Free’, Paul Simon’s ‘A Simple Desultory Philippic’, John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band’s ‘Give Peace a Chance’, Donovan Leitch’s ‘Sunny South Kensington’, Dion DiMucci’s ‘Abraham, Martin and John’, Eric Burdon & The Animals’ ‘Monterey’, The Mamas and Papas’ ‘Creeque Alley’, Peter Sarstedt’s ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?’ and Jacqueline Taïeb’s ‘7 Heures du Matin’—reference actors, poets, politicians, fellow musicians and assorted other icons.

These include Brigitte Bardot, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Sophia Loren, Phil Spector, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, The Who, Ravi Shankar, The Rolling Stones, John and Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Elvis Presley, Walt Disney, Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich, Liz Taylor, Lenny Bruce, The Grateful Dead, Pablo Picasso, Mary Quant, Timothy Leary… While the names go on and on, this show about them and the songs in which they’re featured is limited by the boundary of time—but not much else.

So, sit back, crank up the volume and dive into what Donovan’s track describes as “a flip out, skip out, trip out” with Erik Taros and Richard Buskin as your groovin’-era guides…

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Episode #2: ‘The Beatles – John Lennon’s White Album’

November 18, 2017/0 Comments/in Podcast /by Swinging Through The Sixties

Who else but The Beatles could produce multiple landmark albums within a landmark album? While A Hard Day’s Night was the only Fab Four long player to be penned solely by Lennon and McCartney, the ‘White Album’ can be enjoyed and analyzed as either a classic team effort or – in line with John’s recollection of the recording sessions – virtuoso individual outings within the group context.

In this first instalment of an STTS ‘White Album’ trilogy, musician Craig Bartock and musicologist Allan Kozinn join Richard and Erik to delve into the talents, circumstances, mindsets and motivations behind an edgy, experimental, bold and beautiful collection of eclectic John Lennon tracks.

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Episode #1: ‘July 20, 1969 – Something in the Air’

November 3, 2017/0 Comments/in Podcast /by Swinging Through The Sixties

What were The Beatles doing while man was landing on the moon? How did President Nixon prepare for a potential disaster? Why did some viewers assume the whole thing was a hoax? And what prompted the BBC to play a bad-luck song during the broadcast? These and other burning issues are all part of the conversation while co-hosts Erik Taros and Richard Buskin also dive into Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Easy Rider… and Carry on Camping.

Welcome to the ultimate trip…

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