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Happy January, folks!
Thanks to all the new sign-ups, and by all means, hip your Beatle pals if they aren’t already. The “why?” is easy – I really enjoy sharing with like-minded fans, and if I am going to put in the time, we might as well try to reach as many people who would enjoy it as possible. Some sixty+ years ago, the world discovered that challenging times could be made a little easier with some Beatles joy, and that hasn’t changed one bit. We can’t manufacture more time, but we can certainly choose how we spend it.
To that end, being January and all, what comes to mind is the 1969 sessions we’ve been commemorating on the show in depth in recent years. I would be curious as to how many people have reached the saturation point on the Get Back/Let It Be stuff….have we had enough or is there more to suss out? I recently came into contact with someone with another take, and am seriously thinking about producing a show on it. For those who can’t get enough of the subject, you can’t do better than our own Dan Rivkin of the They May Be Parted blog, which if you haven’t followed to this point, do check it out.
And for the hardest of the hardcores, check this out: Adambound has long provided one of the best YouTube channels for Beatles-related footage, which he scrupulously collates, curates and re-assembles to provide the most thorough collections of film on virtually anything Beatles caught on camera you can think of. In collaboration with LedZepFilms, he has produced the most complete collection of the Let It Be project footage assembled. For those wishing for a long trip down that rabbit hole, here’s the Twickenham set. (The Apple Studios part is a work in progress.)
Speaking of shared footage, time now for another installment of the Seederman Chronology, part three. This one commences with the 1966 Tokyo shows and ends just before January 1969 with some Beatles covers as performed on TV, providing a good context for how ubiquitous their music was during the 1960s, even when it wasn’t them performing it.
On the day after Thanksgiving, four winners of the Beatles ’64 mono vinyl sets were selected entirely at random. They were:
John Jagler of Watertown, WI
Amy Flanagan of NYC
Michael Roth of Santa Monica, CA, and
Marc Stewart of Vancouver, BC Canada
Here’s Marc with his set.
Congrats to all the winners and it is gratifying in the 21st century to have something – anything – new(ish) from The Beatles under the Christmas tree.
The next podcast will be coming soon – 296 – (yes, it got skipped over for reasons that don’t make sense even to me – let’s put it that way). It’s a conversation with Richard Mills, and if you don’t yet know the name, you probably will. This book is out and another is on its way. Frankly, I don’t yet have a title or theme for the discussion, because it was unclassifiable, but a lot of fun nonetheless. You SATB listeners have not heard the last of him.
Also in the works are several shows on topics ranging from Ringo to US fan mag coverage of The Fabs (can you guess who?) and other stuff I don’t want to reveal just yet.
And then there’s the 300th episode. I have been thinking about staging a group Zoom call with past guests and a few listeners. I can see it erupting into a free-for-all, which personally I quite enjoy but I’m sure you guys can share your thoughts on whether you think it’s a good idea. Anything usable would then get edited into the actual show. Thanks for all the contributions received so far – keep ’em coming if you are so inclined, and they will get used. I’m looking for your thoughts on the show, specifically stand out moments. Getting your contribution in by the 10th would be fab. And gear as well, if I’m being honest.