It’s My Vinyl !! October 09, 2010

October 9, 2010 - JL's birthday continued: 4am-5am...slipping into vinyl, we feature the "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You" 45 on Swan Records (Capitol turned down the Beatles when offered to them from their sister EMI label in England, Parlophone, so George Martin and Brian Epstein had to shop them onto small indie labels...yes, the Beatles were at one time an Indie Band!  I used two pressings of the single to broadcast the show...one, from my wife, Lois', personal collection, and one from mine, which I believe is counterfeit, because it sounds so damn good! (like it was pressed in the late 1970s).  Both tracks were in mono, and they don't differ that much from the mono version of the US album, The Beatles' Second Album (which was actually their third album because Capitol wouldn't sign them!!!!!!!!).  Other cool stuff includes "Well Baby Please Don't Go" featuring JL, Yoko, and Frank Zappa with the Mothers of Invention.  This track is included on J&Y's Sometime In New York City album.  On vinyl, it was a 2-record set.  Cassette and 8-track versions assigned each volume a separate title and separate catalogue number.  Who knows why?  The LP is SVBB-3392, and the tapes are Sometime In New York City (3393) and Live Jam (3394), but are packaged as one specially priced double album.  The CD deletes two of the live tracks featuring YO on lead vocals (due to time or space?), but likely we can expect those tracks to appear again someday..digitally, we hope...The Live Jam album sleeve resembles The Mothers' Live at The Fillmore East album cover, with John Lennon's hand-written edits on the cover (to resemble the contents of this album, so it's believed to have come from the same concert)   Also, two tracks from The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto 1969, released on Apple prior to the breakup of the Beatles, and featuring JL, YO, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman, and Alan White (drummer for Yes)...the rocker stuff on Side 1 is alot of fun.  Other tracks included Beatles, "Mrs. Lennon" (from Fly), and Ringo.  happy birthday John...