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Picking up where we left off (259: Sgt. Pepper Olympiad ), lecturer/professor Gary Wenstrup and I resume the Olympiad series with a pair of releases featuring film score music, the 1967 Magical Mystery Tour EP/album and 1969’s Yellow Submarine release. Owing to the unique issues, with the latter representing only four new Beatle songs and the former being a six-song double 7″ set, we got creative with the tracks reviewed.
Previous installments can be found here.
Gary Wenstrup’s site is here.
Looking forward to hearing this. For me and, I suspect, other UK listeners, the track listing on the album version of Magical Mystery Tour remains disconcerting. Your Mother Should Know ought to follow the title track, as per the EP, thus giving you two uptempo songs in a row and creating a sense of wellbeing …
I’m a long-time fan of this podcast. I registered here mostly to comment that “See how they run” is from Three Blind Mice. I wasn’t sure whether the comment about not “attaching meaning” to the line means Mr. Wenstrup is unfamiliar with it or just that he doesn’t understand why Paul would be quoting it. I always considered it to be a fun quote from a nursery rhyme and admired the way it was used in different ways, to refer to (I assume) children running and stockings running.
Anyway, thanks for all you do with this podcast. I’ve been a huge Beatles fan going back to hearing them in kindergarten in 1964. I appreciate all I’ve learned and all the opinions I’ve heard here.
-Scott