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Ep. 108 | BeatleFest 2022 (A Very Special Untitled Beatles Field Trip)
Since 1974, Beatlefest aka The Fest For Beatle Fans has been a safe space for Beatle nerds, kooks and sniffers to gather, celebrate and inhale everything fab. On this magically mysterious tour, Tony spends two days reporting to T.J. from the 2022 festival in Chicago. Posing as a journalist, Tony asks the hardest-hitting questions in order to get to the bottom of this whole “Beatles” thing. Such as:
📸 How many tambourines were used by the people under the stairs jam band? The correct guess wins an autographed 8x10 glossy of the Ringo look-a-like guy!
🦸🏻♂️ Why didn’t Billy J Kramer or Chris O’Dell participate in the Beatles LARPing experiment?
🧼 How much should a Young & The Restless LP in fair condition retail for? (Yes T.J., it’s a first pressing.)
Hear snippets from Mark Lewisohn, Michael-Lindsey Hogg, Laurence Juber, Terri Hemmert, and other beautiful Beatle people.
Plus, a new segment called Nerking, in which The Untitled Beatles Podcast interviews regular working people about The Beatles in the workplace.
A splendid time is guaranteed for some!
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Ep. 107b | 70s Solo Beatles B-Sides (Paul & John)
Don’t know about the future - that’s anybody’s guess - but exclusive b-sides are, shamefully, a thing of the past. Well, in our opinionation, the solo Fabs all released some killer exclusive-to-45 b-sides. And in part two of 70’s solo B-sides, we look at 397 Macca tracks, and maybe show some love to sixth Beatle Yoko and her husband gah can’t think of his name rn!
Obligatorily, the Side Two’s tackle these topics:
🇯🇲 Which Raggae legend do you prefer: (Thunder) Bob Majerle or Spaggy?
🏴 What does Tony think of Paul’s classic, Scotland-only album, “Bagpipes Of Peace”?
🇺🇸 Did Witchy Woman In The City Sally G Please Come Home For Christmas On The Border Victim Of Love Doolin Dalton? #Desperingo
File this episode under personal taste, or if you’re an HR manager, personnel taste. Like and subscribe, and join us on Facebook and Discord to be the first to hear about special upcoming programming and the Season 2 Premiere of “Twitch & Shout”! “Shake it up Casey, now!” - first draft, “Casey At The Bat”.
Ep. 107a | 70s Solo B-Sides Part 1 (Ringo & George)
Untitled Beatles Fans, What’s Happening!!! Hey, hey hey! (#StanleyClarke) Which Doobie yoobie is b-sides the point. And b-sides, today’s show is Solo 70’s B-Sides that weren’t married to an LP; from the absolute classics (“Blindman”, “I Don’t Care Anymore”,) to the hated-by-real-fans missteps (“Daytime Nighttime Suffering”, “Move Over Ms. L”). In this episode, the Off White T’s focus on Flingo & George (Tuesdays, on BBC1), and also consider:
🎸 Are The Byrds really “just alright” with Jesus?
🍆 Should Tony be concerned about his #ThrobbingGristle?
❄️ How come that lib Ringo didn’t call his classic “Chachi-Chachi”?
As George once said, we had a B-sides podcast episode to make, ladies and gentlemen. And we made two. Come back next week for the thrillington (angry Chicago voice: DAT’S NOT A B-SIDE) conclusion of solo 70’s B-Sides from John and an old estranged fiancée called Paul.
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Ep. 106 | Fantasy Solo Set Lists
Here at the Untitled Beatles Podcast, we have more than only fans. Not only fans like #OnlyFans, we’re old AF and don’t exactly know what that is. (Casey might. Damn millennial…)
But we’re fortunate to have fans who contribute to the vibe and content of our show. And in this episode, we salute many of our contributing listeners, including one Young Chosso (Thursdays on CBS), who provides the impetus for our topic: Fantasy Beatles Concert Set Lists, or FCBSL for the acronym-heads or AH’ers….
Tony and T.J. create fantasy tour set-lists for John, Paul, George, and Ringo - tho sadly not Jimmie, the famous third and (not Pete) Best Beatle. Along the way, the Two T’s consider other deep n’ nerdy Beatles topics, like:
☝️ Should the Bloody Beatles White Album, shut up, only have had songs from the far more adventurous “Beatles 1”?
🐻 You’re looking at the Fridge (not Danimal), he’s a rookie, he may be large, why’s Tony dressed like a cookie?
👚 When Ringo takes off his Caveman blouse, does he get blisters on his dingers?
Whether you like your fantasy Fab concerts at Soldier Field or a maternity ward in DuPage County (future home of Da Bears) come take a Magical Fantasy Liverpool Oratoritour with us!
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Ep. 105 | Twitch & Shout with Electrical Audio’s Greg Norman
Everyone knows that Sgt Pepper was recorded on a Tascam Portastudio 4-Track cassette recorder, but how many people know how to fix it after it eats your Ringo the 4th tape?
That’s why The Untitled Beatles Podcast invited Greg Norman - an engineer at Chicago’s Electrical Audio recording studios - to gab all things technically fab with T.J. and Tony on our semi-irregular video program “Twitch & Shout”!
Remixed and remastered for audiophile delinquents, they’ll touch on Get Back, Glyn Johns micing techniques, and Greg’s visit to Abbey Road. Plus all the important inquiries you’ve come to expect, such as:
🎤 Did Magic Alex win those tiny vocal microphones used at Apple Studios on The Price Is Right?
😱 Was that Sally Draper screaming on the rooftop before Paul thanks Mo?
🃏 What’s Steve Albini like? Do you think he would like my band? Can you give him our demo tape?
For optimal audio quality, you’ll want to listen to this episode thru an EMI TG12345 recording console (or equivalent).
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Ep. 104 | Deep Dish: The Early Beatles (1965)
Jolly what! Jolly when? Jolly where?
Jolly here at the Untitled Beatles Podcast!
This week Tony and T.J. get their jollies with a deep dish of Capitol’s 1965 release, The Early Beatles. After an overview of VeeJay’s smash-n-grab 1964 discography, the bad boy-oy-oys delve into the cave of the Fab’s first post-Cavernous recordings. Inside, their musings echo about:
🎓 Who sang Twist and Shout best: The Isley Brothers, John Lennon, or aging Grand Lakes University student Thornton Melon?
👵🏻 If The Beatles = The Golden Girls, does that mean Pete Best = Coco, the housekeeper who only appeared in the pilot?
🍯 A taste of honey may be much sweeter than wine, but can it compete with the dynamite taste of Colt 45 malt liquor?
And if you’re in the West Des Moines area be sure to enjoy the Maytag Burger at the Drake Diner healthy low salt chicken at Kenny Rogers’s Roasters. Teacher says we must jolly what.
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Ep. 103 | 2022 All-Star Beatle Batting Orders
It’s obvious that The Beatles first love was music. But their fabbest love was for the American sport of baseball, with its electrifying foul balls, nail-biting bunts, and contemplative rain delays. And that’s why this week, T.J. and Tony have each compiled a major league set of fab tunes to compete against one another in this All-Star Beatle Batting Order Midsommer Classic.
This Week in Untitled Beatles Baseball:
👎🏻 After a severe brow-beating from Cubs manager Lee Elia, is pinch drummer Jimmie Nicol getting sent down to the minors?
🍀 Did superstitious T.J.’s “8-Track Only” fast cause him to make a crucial Sgt. Pepper fielding error?
🐯 Should Tony "Bullethead" Mendoza have gotten ejected for trying to doctor the “Bungalow Bill”?
Plus another edition of Star’s Search!
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Ep. 102b | Deep Dish: Beatles ‘65 (1964) Part 2
We couldn’t leave this kitten alone! It’s the chilling conclusion to our deep dish of Beatles ‘65 (aka Beatles ‘LXV). This time our absolutely gabulous hosts inquire:
🍳 On “She’s A Woman” does Ringo play a chocalho, a cylindrical shaker, or a traditional British breakfast?
🎹 Could T.J. Shanoff’s Gliss Forensics one day be used to solve fab crimes?
✊ With regards to the American Beatles catalog, did Dave Dexter Jr. remaster or remasturbate?
Plus another edition of “What Was Up Geoff Emerick’s Ass?” All that and a bag of bubble and squeak!
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Ep. 102a | Deep Dish: Beatles ‘65 (1964) Part 1
Most rock historians agree that The Beatles were ahead of their time, as evidenced by their impressive entrance at the Royal Command Performance via jetpack. In fact, the lads from Liverpool were so ahead of their time, they released an album in 1964 called Beatles ’65 (!!!). And boy did it age them, judging from their sullen publicity photos, maturing songwriting, and Wurther’s Original hard candies thrown at them on stage. As the Rutles would later say, "Ouch!"
This week T.J. and Tony deep dish another curious LP in their long forgotten American discography - Beatles ’65 - an album that has nothing to do whatsoever with The Beatles in 1965. It causes one to ponder:
📱Is it possible John Lennon owned the world’s first mobile cellular telephone?
🎡Could T.J. get carnival work guessing when Beatles LPs were pressed?
👃🏻If Ringo Starr was a scratch ’n’ sniff sticker, what would he smell like? #BeatleSniffer
So don something black, have a good cry for yourself, and let the phone ring endlessly, because the Untitled Beatles Podcast is just beginning to talk about The Beatles in ’65.*
*’64 (But by the time we finish talking about this album it will be 1965)
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Ep. 101b | Deep Dish: The Music of 1982 Part 2
Summer of ‘59 is a classic Macca b-side. 1967 was the frigid Summer of Gloves. The summer of ‘69 was when you got your first real g string. But only 1982 was the Summer of Producer Casey, and some of Tony & T.J.‘s most formative, favorite hits, blasting off from WLS-FM, young B96, and Downtown Records & Tapes.
And in our continued look at the (you can do) magic of 1982, upon the year’s 40th anniversary, we talk about those great tunes, many more Beatles-related releases, and other “Brady Brides”-worthy madcap hijinks, like:
🎸Zeppelin rocked okay, but could they touch Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry?
📺 OK fans of Weird Al originals: “This Is The Life” or “That Boy Could Dance”?
🏍 Is the Cadillac Foxes take on “Gloria (feat. Erik Estrada)” from the punk rock episode of “CHiPs” the definitive version?
If E.T. hadn’t pulled a #hegone, probably from all those damn Reese’s Pieces or from getting water on him after midnight (buzzer sfx), they’d phone bone for our deep dish part II (#eyeeye) of the last official year before the 80’s began: 1982!
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