QUESTION OF THE DAY with Albert Pritchard. Friday, October 3nd Look for different photos for todays Question Of The Day on both The Beatles Universe and The Beatles Universe-Features Pages. Thank you and enjoy! This song was a hit before it was recorded by a singer who also played at the Concert For George, who like the Beatles got his start as a musician during the British Skiffle Movement of the late 1950s. It was recorded for a show being played on the BBC and was the first time that George sang lead vocal on the BBC. 1) Can you name this song? 2) Can you name the singer that had a hit with it before it was recorded by the Beatles? Answer Tomorrow Same Beatle Time (If Possible) and Station! Yesterdays Question: All four Beatles participated in the first three recording sessions of this song. A saxophone part was recorded which was played by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. This was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul. I was waiting for him in his house. ~ John Lennon Lennon and McCartney laid down all the vocal tracks and added additional sound effects with the help of Mal Evans. George Harrison and Ringo Starr did not participate in this last session. Can you name this song? Answer ... You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) Although eventually released as a Beatles song, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) was nearly released as the A-side of a Plastic Ono Band single. Lennon was determined to have this song and Whats the New Mary Jane (a Beatles outtake from the White Album sessions recorded by Lennon and Yoko Ono with George Harrison in August, 1968) released, and he arranged for Apple to issue both unorthodox songs on a Plastic Ono Band single. On 26 November 1969, four months after Jones drowned in his swimming pool, Lennon edited You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), reducing the length from 6:08 to 4:19, a more suitable length for a single. The Plastic Ono Band single was given an Apple catalogue number (Apples 1002) and British release date (5 December 1969). Apple issued a press release, describing the record as Lennon and Yoko Ono singing and backed by many of the greatest show business names of today which the press believed was a thinly disguised reference to the Beatles. The record was cancelled before it was issued. Three months later, the song was released as the B-side to The Beatles single, Let It Be. The original Plastic Ono Band single catalogue number is visible, though scratched out, in the runout groove of the original British pressings of the Let It Be single. Congratulations to David Sales, Truett Garner, Catherine Frazier, Marcia Maria Pereira Careiro, Jim Martin, Mike Amato, Barb (2 Pages) Rhein Guthrie, Michael Onorato, Jim Martin, John DeRuvo, Milo McGarry, Jeffery A Koenig, Mike Miller, Ian Cole, Rick Bertoldo, Michael Kern, Richard Hunt, Alan Gramkow, Jeffrey Keefe, Jerry Manson, Kenny Miles, Rosanne Donow, Linda Eleanor Rigby Robbins, Roberto Silvestre, Michael Frahme, Marcos Santana and Michael Paresi! Thank you all for playing and commenting.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:46:55 +0000