Friday, July 25, 2008

PODCAST #16: 30/6/08



Show # 709

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Steve Kernohan

SONGS PLAYED:
Sgt. Pepper's/With A Little Help (4-Track Remix)
I'm Only Sleeping (outfake, rehearsal overlaid released take)
Please Please Me - Aussie Punk Cover
BBC King Lear "Walrus" Excerpt
A Hard Day's Night (Outtake, Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2)
Laughing - David Crosby
Blue Jay Way - Sitar Cover
Within You Without You (Love)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (guitar track excerpt)
You Never Give Me Your Money (Outtake, Alternate Abbey Road)
A Taste Of Honey - Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
With A Little Help From My Friends - Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66
Glad All Over (BBC, As Sweet As You Are)
So How Come (No One Loves Me) (BBC, As Sweet As You Are)
I'll Get You
Boys (Essential Beatles)
Get Back (Complete Rooftop Concert)

A rare visit from (and first appearance here on a podcast of) Steve Kernohan. Lots of Beatle covers, Dicko continues his Classic Beatlegs segment as well as regular appearances of Essential Beatles and On This Day.

Monday, July 21, 2008

PODCAST #15: 23/6/08



Show #708

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Greg Armstrong, Gav Myers

SONGS PLAYED;
Love Me Do
I'm A Loser (Paris '65)
Dear Prudence (Gone Tomorrow Here Today)
Ain't She Sweet
Crippled Inside (31st birthday party tape) - John Lennon & friends
Mrs. Vandebilt (Kiev 14/6/08) - Paul McCartney
Give Peace A Chance (31st birthday party tape) - John Lennon & friends
Till There Was You - Music Man soundtrack version / Peggy Lee / Decca 1/1/62
I Want You (Rough Notes) - The Beatles?
"Hand On The Buns" (Rough Notes) - Paul McCartney & Wings
In My Life - Judy Collins
Girl - George Martin Orchestra
I'll Give You A Ring - Paul McCartney
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - Tim Rose
I Don't Want To Do It (outfake) - George Harrison
I'll Follow The Sun (Kiev 14/6/08) - Paul McCartney

Lots of stuff tonight, news on Ringo's All Starr Band, Shea Stadium closing it's doors, and plenty of segments such as Essential Beatles, Dicko's Classic Beatleg Segment (covering "Rough Notes"), In My Life, Fab Forgeries, and Gav's new segment on rarely aired solo B-sides.

Many thanks to me blog brother (does that sound nerdy or what!) Alfred Daniel for helping me out with editing this show.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

PODCAST #14: 16/6/08



Show #707

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Greg Armstrong, David White

SONGS PLAYED:

Eleanor Rigby
It's Only Love (Anthology 2)
I Feel Fine (NME Poll Winners Concert 15/6/65)
Mrs. Vandebilt (Live in Kiev 15/6/08) - Paul McCartney
Eleanor Rigby - The Zoot
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (BBC "From Us To You" 26/12/63) - Rolf Harris & The Beatles
Ask Me Why (BBC "Here We Go" 15/6/62)
Those Were The Days - John Lennon (Abbey Road Revisited)
The Ballad Of John And Yoko
Cry For A Shadow
Goodbye (outfake) - Paul McCartney
Melbourne ABC Beatles Tour Coverage
Can't Buy Me Love (Melbourne, 17/6/64)
This Boy (Melbourne, 17/6/64)
Melbourne Paul McCartney Interview (ABC TV), 15/6/64
Melbourne Brian Epstien Interview (ABC TV), 15/6/64
Melbourne John Lennon Interview (ABC TV), 15/6/64
Long Tall Sally (Melbourne, 17/6/64)
Things We Said Today
Birthday (Live Knebworth '90) - Paul McCartney

An Australian tour special, marking the 44th anniversary of the '64 tour. Plenty of On This Day tonight, as well as the Australian Beatle Covers segment and a great Fab Forgery.

Monday, July 7, 2008

MANY APOLOGIES!

I've been on tour, finishing records, trying to release records etc so I apologize to all for my tardiness in updating the blog....rest assured all will be business as usual very soon!

In the meantime, check this out, the great Neil Young covering A Day In The Life from the Rock In Rio Festival.


Cheers,
Davey

Friday, June 13, 2008

PODCAST #13: 09/6/08



Show # 706

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, David White, Simon Smith

SONGS PLAYED:

Hippy Hippy Shake (Live in Liverpool, June 1, 2008) - Paul McCartney
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (Something Else, Capitol Box Set 1)
Help! (Instrumental, Turn Me On Dead Man)
And I Love Her (Something Else, Capitol Box Set 1)
Selections from Two Virgins
Something (Live in Liverpool, June 1, 2008) - Paul McCartney
A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance (Live in Liverpool, June 1, 2008) - Paul McCartney
Life Long Passions (Sail Away) - Paul McCartney
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Paperback Writer
Mick Jagger Interview on John Lennon
Too Many Cooks - Mick Jagger/John Lennon
With A Little Help From My Friends - The Graduate
Maybe I'm Amazed (One Hand Clapping Soundtrack) - Paul McCartney
It's All Too Much (Strawberry Fields Forever)

PODCAST #12: 02/6/08: Favourite Beatle Songs Poll



Show #705


PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong, David White, Gav Myers


SONGS PLAYED:


#5

I'll Be Back (Gav)

Soldier Of Love (Gary)

I Want To Hold Your Hand (David)

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Graeme)

I Saw Her Standing There (Greg, David's equal #1)


#4

You Can't Do That (Graeme)

Mother Nature's Son (Gav)

Eight Days A Week Anthology 1 (David)

Wait (Gary)

Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Her Majesty (Greg's #4 & #3)


#3

She Said She Said (Gav)

I Am The Walrus (Graeme)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (David)

You Never Give Me Your Money (Gary)


#2

She Loves You (Greg)

Baby You're A Rich Man (Gary)


#1

We Can Work It Out (Gav)

Strawberry Fields Forever (Gary, Gav & Graeme's #2)

Something (Greg)

I'm Only Sleeping (Graeme)

Hey Jude (David's equal #1)


The panel each pick their 5 favourite Beatles tunes and discuss, also reading out many listeners' top 5 entries.


Here below are the top 30 of the 80 songs voted for;


1. Strawberry Fields Forever

2. I Am The Walrus

3. Baby You're A Rich Man

4. Hey Jude

5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

6. Something

7. And Your Bird Can Sing

8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

9. If I Fell

10. Not A Second Time

11. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight

12. Revolution

13. A Day In The Life

14. Here Comes The Sun

15. I'm Only Sleeping

16. She Loves You

17. I Saw Her Standing There

18. Help!

19. Across The Universe

20. You Can't Do That

21. You Never Give Me Your Money

22. The End

23. Hey Bulldog

24. Tomorrow Never Knows

25. Let It Be

26. Things We Said Today

27. I'm A Loser

28. All You Need Is Love

29. Drive My Car

30. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away


And the most popular albums, based on amount of songs voted for per album, discounting the 14 singles and B-sides;


Abbey Road/A Hard Days Night (8 songs each)

Rubber Soul/Revolver (7 songs each)

White Album (6 songs)

Let It Be (5 songs)

Sgt. Pepper/Help (4 songs each)

Please Please Me/Beatles For Sale/Yellow Submarine (3 songs each)

With The Beatles/Magical Mystery Tour (2 songs each)

Anthology 1/Live at the BBC (1 song each)


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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

PODCAST #11: 26/5/08



Show #704

PANEL: Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong, Gav Myers

SONGS PLAYED:

She's A Woman (Anthology 2, Tokyo 30 June 1966)
I Live For You - George Harrison (Through Many Years)
Don't Let Me Down (Glyn Johns Mix)
Yellow Submarine (DESS Yellow Submarine Songtrack Mono)
Remember (outtake) - John Lennon (It's Gonna Be Alright)
Norwogian Weed (This Bird Had Wine) - Go Home Productions
No Other Baby - Paul McCartney
Hear Me Lord - George Harrison (All Things Must Surface)
Back Off Boogaloo - Ringo Starr
Have You Seen My Baby? - Ringo Starr
I Want To Tell You
Beatles Interview Paris (14 Jan 1964)
I Saw Her Standing There (Paris Olympia Jan 1964)
Leave My Kitten Alone (File Under Beatles)
Eric Idle Interview (7:30 Report, ABC Australia)
(Just Like) Starting Over (studio chatter/basic backing track) - John Lennon (A Heart Play)

Many interesting tunes, segments and chat, including more on the recording of Double Fantasy. On This Day features, while Gav profiles the late, great Marc Bolan in his Beatles Guest Guitarists segment. Graeme's classic Beatles boot segment continues in his absence covering "File Under Beatles", and Greg's Fab Forgeries features a hilarious "out-fake" of Norwegian Wood.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

GET YOUR TOP FIVES IN!!!

You only have a few days left people, so email your top 5 Beatles songs now to libbeatles@optusnet.com.au .....

And remember it doesn't neccesarily have to be what you believe to be the 5 best Beatles songs, just your own personal favourites for whatever reason. The show is this coming Monday so hurry!

PODCAST #10: 19/5/08



Show #703

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, David White

SONGS PLAYED:
Don't Bother Me (Takes 11, 12, n13, Unsurpassed Masters)
Leave My Kitten Alone
Dear Prudence (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
I'm Only Sleeping (Take 1, Anthology 2)
For No One
Rain
Every Little Thing (outfake, 20x4)
Help! (outfake, 20x4)
Candle Burns/Peace Of Mind
Maybe I'm Amazed (Wembley 1990)
Sgt Peppers (reprise)
I'm Safe - The Pictures
Inside Out - Traveling Wilburys
Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys
Woman (demo) - John Lennon
Baby You're A Rich Man (DESS Yellow Submarine Mono)

 

PODCAST #9: 12/5/08



Show #702

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Greg Armstrong, David White

SONGS PLAYED:

San Houston Coliseum 1964 Introduction
Don't Bother Me (Alf Bicknell Tapes)
Mr. Moonlight
The Inner Light
Mother (rough mix) - John Lennon (It's Gonna Be Alright)
Remember (outtake) - John Lennon (It's Gonna Be Alright)
Piggies
All Together Now
And Your Bird Can Sing
Something (Take 37 complete, Unsurpassed Masters)
Blackbird
Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7)
I Forgot To Remember To Forget (BBC)
Brainwashed - George Harrison
Cheer Down - George Harrison
Youngblood (BBC)
Indeed I Do - Paul & Linda McCartney (home demo)
Indeed I Do - Paul & Linda McCartney (outfake)
Come And Get It - Paul McCartney & Badfinger (Take 5)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

PODCAST #8: 5/5/08



Show #701

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Gav Myers

SONGS PLAYED:
I'm Only Sleeping
You Never Give Me Your Money
Something (Anthology 3)
Saltwater - Julian Lennon
Goodbye - Mary Hopkin
Step Inside Love - Cilla Black
Cleanup Time - John Lennon
I'm Losing You - John Lennon
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Dr. Robert
Rockestra Theme - Wings
So Glad To See You Again - Wings
Don't Let Me Down

Mainly chat tonight, on various subjects such as Wings and the recording of Double Fantasy, including Jack Douglas' insights on a song he co-wrote with Lennon during the sessions for that album titled "Streets Of Dreams".

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Monday, May 5, 2008

PODCAST #7: 28/4/08 - HAPPY 700th BIRTHDAY!



Show # 700

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong, David White, Gav Myers

SONGS PLAYED:

It Won't Be Long
Baby It's You (Live At The BBC)
Let It Be
First LIBB Introduction, 1992
Free As A Bird
Real Love
Sono il Walrus - Alfred Daniel
Ticket To Ride
Young Boy - Paul McCartney
Thank You Girl (Turn Me On Dead Man)
LIBB Interview with David Glide (Sounds Incorporated)
LIBB Interview with George Harrison 1997
Let It Be -David White
Something - Ted Hamilton
All My Loving
Good Night Let It Be Beatles - Charlie Kneale

Let It Be Beatles turns 700. If you've only just discovered LIBB through the blog, this here podcast is a great abridged history of the show from its nascent beginning as a segment on Melbourne radio station 3WRB in 1992 (a snippet of which you can hear on this podcast) up to today, with many funny stories and highlights including an exclusive interview with George Harrison by former LIBB panel member Andrew Probyn.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

PODCAST # 6: 21/04/08




Show #699

PANEL: Gary Lally, Greg Armstrong, David White

SONGS PLAYED:
All I Gotta Do
I've Got A Feeling (DESS Last Licks Live)
John Lennon Interview Part 1 (June 8 1971, WPLJ New York)
Isolation - John Lennon
Chains
Don't Let Me Down - Lulu
Smile Away - Paul & Linda McCartney
Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings (Melbourne, November 14, 1975)
The Lovely Linda - Paul McCartney
Eat At Home - Paul & Linda McCartney
Calico Skies - Paul McCartney
Lonesome Town - Paul McCartney (Linda Tribute, RAH '99)
John Lennon Interview Part 2 (June 8 1971, WPLJ New York)
Love Me Do (Anthology 1)
It's Only A Northern Song
Taxman
Pepper Inner Groove
You Know What To Do (Outfake)
In My Life - William Oliver
Back In The USSR - Motorhead
John Lennon Interview Part 3 (June 8 1971, WPLJ New York)
You Can't Do That (Hollywood Bowl, August 23, 1964)

A special tribute to Linda McCartney, who passed away 10 years ago almost to the day. Back to plenty of Beatle and solo material tonight, concentrating on segments such as In My Life, On This Day, Maybe I'm Amazed and great new segment Fab Forgeries.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

AS REQUESTED....


Dicko takes McCartney to task over his 80's solo work....

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

PODCAST #5: 14/4/08



Show #698

PANEL: Graeme Dickenson, Greg Armstrong, Gav Myers

SONGS PLAYED:

Flying
It Won't Be Long
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Cry For A Shadow
Real Love (Threetles Overdubs Mix)
Working Class Hero (Australian Censored Edit) - John Lennon
I'll Follow The Sun - 1960 Rehearsal (Anthology Plus)
Watching Rainbows (Watching Rainbows EP)
If I Fell (Hollywood Bowl, 23 August 1964)
If I Fell (Vancouver, 22 August 1964)
Lily The Pink - The Scaffold
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Where Do You Go My Lovely? - Peter Sarstedt
I Feel Fine - Johnny Farnham
Selections from The Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
A Hard Day's Night - Billy Joel
In My Life - Susan Ashton & Gary Chapman
It's Not Too Bad (Strawberry Fields Forever) - Demo Excerpts

Covers and interesting chat aplenty this evening, discussion including "All For Love", the mysterious Threetles song allegedly recorded in 1995, as well as Beatle DVD releases. Dicko takes us through the songs that preceded then displaced the Beatles No. 1 single in Australia in early 1969, and Gav Myers sticks his head in the lion's mouth demonstrating the influence of the Beatles on Billy Joel. All this and another instalment of Sherbet Armstrong's In My Life segment make for another great show...