For this week's extra-fab edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl, we welcomed back the one 'n' only Bruce Gordon for another installment of Let's Be The Beatles! Bruce believes that the popularity and influence of The Beatles was so vast and pervasive that each and every track the group released in the '60s inspired at least one imitation by another act. These are aren't covers of Beatles songs, but attempts to re-write Beatles songs and pass 'em off as (forgive the expression) Something New--attempts, in effect, to be The Beatles. Nifty concept, right? And it makes for compelling radio.
For Volume 4 of Let's Be The Beatles, Bruce set his sights on the impact of Beatles For Sale, which I regard as the most underrated album in The Beatles' canon. Its American two-for counterparts, Beatles '65 and Beatles VI, were enormously important to me as a young rockin' pop fan, and my affection for them hasn't dimmed a bit over the ensuing decades. In fact, that period of Beatles music starting just before Beatles For Sale (i.e., A Hard Day's Night) through Revolver--mid 1964 through 1966--remains my all-time favorite run of pop music by anyone. So it was a thrill to witness Bruce put a mirror up to Beatles For Sale, and let those reflections sing for themselves. Sort of.
(Plus, it's always a pleasure to see Bruce anyway. We've been fans of his own nonpareil pop music as Mr. Encrypto since the beginning, and his current work as a member of Pop Co-Op has already produced your favorite album of 2017, Four State Solution. Bruce, in the words of The American Beatles: Gabba Gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us! We look forward to Bruce's eventual return to Syracuse for more Let's Be The Beatles!)
This week's show will be available for download soon. In the mean time, you can already grab Bruce's most recent previous TIRnRR/Let's Be The Beatles at http://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2017-03-12.mp3, and you can read up on the concept at http://www.silentbugler.com/Lets_Be_The_Beatles/Contents.htm. But for now? Look below! This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.
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TIRnRR # 866: Let's Be The Beatles Vol. 4: Beatles Fire Sale 3/26/17
THE
BEATLES: No Reply (Apple, Beatles
For Sale)
--
THE
SPONGETONES: Now You're Gone (Black Vinyl, Beat and Torn)
THE
RASPBERRIES: Nobody Knows (Capitol Japan, Fresh Raspberries)
THE
RED BUTTON: Hopes Up (Grimble, She's About To Cross My Mind)
STEREOLAB:
Pack Yr Romantic Mind (Elektra, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements)
THE
BEATLES: I'm a Loser (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
MERRY GO ROUND: A Clown's No Good (Rev-Ola, Listen, Listen: The Definitive
Collection)
LOS
SHAKERS: Hear My Words (EMI, Shakers For You)
COTTON
MATHER: Candy Lilac (Star Apple Kingdom, Death of the Cool)
--
THE
BEATLES: Baby's in Black (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
DAVE CLARK FIVE: I Am On My Own (Epic, I Like It Like That)
THE
MERRY GO ROUND: Gonna Fight the War (Rev-Ola, Listen, Listen: The Definitive
Collection)
BUCK
OWENS: Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass (Omnivore, Buck 'Em!)
THE
BEATLES: Rock And Roll Music (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
SPONGETONES: Here I Go Again (Black Vinyl, Beat and Torn)
LIVERPOOL
ECHO: Another Night Alone (Rev-Ola, Liverpool Echo)
--
THE
BEATLES: I'll Follow the Sun (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
KINKS: So Long (Castle Music, Kinda Kinks)
THE
DAVE CLARK FIVE: ‘Til The Right One Comes Along (Epic, Weekend in London)
THE
BEE GEES: Follow The Wind (Festival, Brilliant From Birth)
THE
FIVE AMERICANS: Now That It’s Over (Sundazed, Western Union)
THE
ZOMBIES: A Love That Never Was (Big Beat, Zombie Heaven)
THE
SPONGETONES: Always Carry On (Black Vinyl, Oh Yeah!)
THE
MOVE: This Time Tomorrow (Repertoire, Looking On bonus track)
--
THE
BEATLES: Mr. Moonlight (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
MOJOS: Forever (See For Miles, Liverpool 1963-1964 Volume 2)
THE
REDCOATS: Love Unreturned (Dionysus, Meet the Redcoats - Finally!)
THE
BEATLES: Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
EASYBEATS: Today (Albert, Volume 3)
BUFFALO
SPRINGFIELD: Leave (Atco, Buffalo Springfield)
--
THE
BEATLES: Eight Days a Week (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
UTOPIA:
That's Not Right (Rhino, Deface the Music)
HUSKER
DÜ: Hate Paper Doll (SST, Flip Your Wig)
BADFINGER:
I’ll Be The One (Capitol, No Dice bonus track)
THE
ROLLING STONES: I’m Free (London, Out of Our Heads)
--
THE
BEATLES: Words of Love (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
CHAD
& JEREMY: A Summer Song (World Artists, Summer's Gone)
THE
TROGGS: I Don’t Know Why (Repertoire, Cellophane bonus track)
STEVE
& THE BOARD: Rosemarie (Ascension, …And the Giggle Eyed Goo)
THE
EASYBEATS: Too Much (Albert, It's 2 Easy)
THE
BEE GEES: Cherry Red (Festival, Brilliant From Birth)
GARY
LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS: 3 Cheers (Liberty, Rhythm of the Rain/Hayride)
--
THE
BEATLES: Honey Don't (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
RASPBERRIES: Goin' Nowhere Tonight (Capitol Japan, Fresh Raspberries)
THE
MERSEYBEATS: It Would Take A Long, Long Time (Bear Family, I Think of You - The
Complete Recordings)
THE
BEATLES: Every Little Thing (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
HOLLIES: Take Your Time (EMI, Would You Believe?)
THE
MERRY GO ROUND: Had to Run Around (Rev-Ola, Listen, Listen: The Definitive
Collection)
--
THE
BEATLES: I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
TWILIGHTS: If She Finds Out (Raven, The Way They Played)
THE
CRYAN' SHAMES: Bits and Pieces (Sundazed, Synthesis bonus track)
THE
MASCOTS: Droopy Drops (Rock-in-Beat, Ellpee)
PINKERTON'S
ASSORTED COLOURS: On A Street Car (Castle Music, Flight Recorder: From
Pinkerton's Assorted Colours to The Flying Machine)
THE
SHAKERS: Won't You Please (Audio Fidelity, Break It All)
CRAZY
HORSE: Outside Lookin’ In (Reprise, At Crooked Lake)
--
THE
BEATLES: What You're Doing (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
THE
DOVERS: What Am I Gonna Do (Rhino, Nuggets Vol. 4)
NRBQ:
That's Alright (Rounder, All Hopped Up)
REVOLVER:
Where You Goin' (PVC, Radio Tokyo Tapes Vol. 3)
THE
BEATLES: Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (Apple, Beatles For Sale)
LOS
WALKERS: Take My Hands and Tell Me (Electro Harmonix, Walking Up Con Los
Walkers)
--
THE
BEAU BRUMMELS: Woman (Sundazed, Volume 2)
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