Friday, December 08, 2006

Beatle-sploitation special, December 8, 2006

This show was part of a day-long Beatles tribute/deconstruction staged by Luxuria Music on December 8th. I had the pleasure of being joined in the studio by the amazing Steve Stanley, who brought along some incredible records.

Here's what went down over the course of three hours:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

[please download the files before listening]

Here's the playlist:

Andy Zax:

The Brothers Four, Revolution
The Four Freshmen, Lady Madonna
Bill Cosby, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Browning Bryant, Yesterday
The Tijuana Sound, The Ballad of John & Yoko
National Lampoon, Magical Misery Tour
The Kings Singers, Strawberry Fields Forever
Allan Sherman, Pop Hates The Beatles
Peter Sellers, A Hard Day's Night
Dionne Warwick, We Can Work It Out
The Durham Ox Singers, Revolution 9
Paul Frees (as Charlie Chan), Let It Be
Anita Kerr Singers, All You Need Is Love
Kozmon, Yoko & John
Electronic Concept Orchestra, Penny Lane
The Bagels, Meet The Bagels singing I Want To Hold Your Hair
The Bagels, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)
Big Ben Banjo Band, Norwegian Wood/Rain/Nowhere Man
Kathy McCord, I'm Leaving Home
Marilyn Michaels, Got To Get You Into My Life
Terry Knight, Saint Paul

Steve Stanley:

Keith Green, Sgt. Pepper's Epitaph
The California Poppy Pickers, Yellow Submarine
The Justice Department, Let John & Yoko Stay
The People, Come Back Beatles
Toothpick Tommy & The Truckers, Bip Bop
The Mystery Tour, The Ballad Of Paul
Billy Shears & The All-Americans, Brother Paul
Rainbo (Sissy Spacek), John You Went Too Far This Time
Gershon Kingsley, Nowhere Man
The Ronnie Cole Trio, My Sweet Lord
Roger Nichols Trio, I'll Be Back
Vic Lewis Orchestra, Come And Get It
Tina Ferra, R is for Ringo
The Bantams, Ticket To Ride
The Hard Times, Here There and Everywhere
Kings Road, Mother

Andy Zax sound collage featuring:

John Oswald, Btls
John Lennon, Tower Records ad
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, John & Yoko
John Lennon, "Lennon Remembers" interview
John Lennon, 1979 diary tape
Casey Kasem, Letter From Elena
The Wild Honey Singers, That Would Be Something
John Andrews Tartaglia, Within You Without You
John Andrews Tartaglia, I Am the Walrus
801, Tomorrow Never Knows
Yoko Ono, Mind Train


Andy Zax/Steve Stanley:

Charter Sound Series Vol. 5 for Concert Band, Portrait of Lennon/McCartney(A Hard Day's Night, And I Love Her, Day Tripper, Hey Jude)
John Lennon, Thrifty Drug ads
"Switched-On Beatles", Strawberry Fields Forever
The Good Ship Lollipop, Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Jackie & Roy, Fixing A Hole
The Vulcanes [David Axelrod], Liverpool
The Fall, A Day In The Life

1 comment:

yatrecords said...

Where did you find a copy of the Toothpick Tommy 45? I co-produced that, along with Dave King and Bill Campbell, Herb Newman put it out and credited himself as producer on the early copies, I objected, so he made another pressing crediting us by our first names,
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