The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out

Ooft. I know that feeling! After my first hip replacement, the day I made it down the end of the street was, well, such an achievement. Exhausting and emotional like you say. Round the block next!

Photo advert/article from She magazine September 1962. The photograph shows a man sat playing a baby Wurlitzer keyboard which is sat in the boot of a car. A woman and a man look on.

I WANT A CAR BOOT KEYBOARD

YouTube video by Deirdre The Beatles - Take Good Care Of My Baby (2024 Stereo Fan Remix)

Relevant Beatles link for this episode - the Decca audition version of Take Good Care Of My Baby with lovely George vocal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ2F...

And this is the lasting legacy of The Allisons! Still, even this short bit of background music (from an advert I'd long forgotten until Tim shared it, in classic @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social style!) probably netted them both a decent bit of publishing royalties!

NME Headline BOBBY VEE declares war on fuddy-duddies and bossy girls

NME Headline Elvis goes 'Wild' and a photograph of Elvis and Tuesday Weld. Inset headline Elvis Reads NME to Learn About Fans.

NME Banner reading Eurovision song contest report, photograph of The Allisons and headline from Disc magazine reading Daddy-o in storm of TV test where father of John Allison reveals they aren't brothers.

Series 4 continues!

We're into the first of our review of the NME charts number ones, with The Allisons, Elvis* and Bobby Vee.

Listen, share, tell a friend.

*Elvis's back!

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A screen shot of the next episode of the Big 60s Sort Out podcast episode schedule release on the 13th October at 1am called 'NME Chart Ep 1'

I loved every episdoe of it! Right from the start, so, IMO it doesn't get better, it starts great and stays that way throughout, but thats the great thing about opinions, we are all entitled to them! (Within reason). G

Which is exactly why we here at Big Sort HQ like it! Garry is a massive Alien fan and loves to have anything set around that ‘world’ and Paul loves overly complicated slow Sci-Fi series*

(*although Foundation is taking that a bit far)

A screen shot of the next episode of the Big 60s Sort Out podcast episode schedule release on the 13th October at 1am called 'NME Chart Ep 1'

No, other direction. Maybe I’ll go there later!

Five string banjo headstock

Neck join and drum of the Quarrymen banjo

An interesting instrument in its own right… nicely restored/maintained. I’ve never seen a five string banjo with the fifth string fed through the neck from the headstock rather than on a side peg!

Unfortunately I wasn’t part of the tour group today, but everyone seemed to be having a marvellous time!

Five string banjo in display case at Strawberry Fields

…but also their newest instrument donation - the Quarrymen banjo, as played by Rod Davis and donated by its current owner Ashley Davie.

A fantastic piece of musical history, as played by John when he’d break one of his own strings at gigs!

Photograph of a wall of pictures arranged as a mosaic to make the face of John Lennon

Strawberry Field was unveiling not only their wonderful photomosaic wall today on @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social’s birthday (are you on there?)…

Guess where I’ve been this morning…

(P)

Ah yes, that famous vinyl retailer!

It's kind of insane how records are infiltrating so much again - becoming a hugely fashionable thing. Only a couple of years ago the Books Stall that visits our work was mainly that - books - now boxes of records are taking over.

Sadly not. I shall have to use my own!

Paul from Big Sort holding up vinyl copies McCartney’s Press To Play and Ringo’s Rotogravure.

I suppose there comes a time in every Beatles fan’s life where they find themselves buying Press To Play and Rotogravure on record. My time is now! (P)

I should have answered, "Because MUSIC is brilliant and changes and enhances life in a million ways, also we're teaching people how to use the technology that affects you every time you watch a film, use your phone, put on the TV, switch on a radio... (and it's all taught in context as well)"

And reminds me of when I taught Music Technology in a college, one of the more senior lecturers from a different discipline could not understand WHY. She'd characterise it as 'playing guitars and that' and do a stupid air-strum gesture. I'm still mad about it now, years later!

Could happen!

Not just yet! That'll be coming along in the new year... we've quite a few orders of business to attend to first!

Photograph of the Beatles in 1967 taken from the NME. The headline pasted on the photograph reads BEATLES Have They Gone Too Far?

Recording for the next block of episodes for the ongoing epic that is Series 4, The Big Sixties Sort Out, begins today!

We'll be back soon.

The Big Beatles Sort Out: The Beatles Cartoon I join Paul and Garry Abbott on The Big Beatles Sort Out for a chat about the long-forgotten animated adventures of the Fab Four.

For three years in the mid-sixties, The Beatles had their own cartoon series - from the same team who went on to make Yellow Submarine - and now everyone pretends it doesn't exist. So I joined Paul and Garry on @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social for a chat about it...

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Black and white photograph of the Allerton Oak. A 500 year old tree with branches supported by steel beams.

The Allerton Oak in Calderstones Park, Liverpool.

Enjoying our @bigsort.bsky.social pod excursion to watch @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social live! I wonder if this many people would turn up if we ever did a live show? (Maybe if all of them came and brought a friend?)

YouTube video by Rock Band Stems The Beatles - Fixing A Hole - Isolated Guitar Solo

Gosh, I love this silly fizzy guitar tone so much! (P)

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If you haven't caught up with our 'between proper bits' episodes, you've got a little time. We'll be back recording soon for the next phase of Season 4!

Hear what we got up to in Hamburg here. Hear here. Hear hear!

Don't be confused, pals. We've shortened our Bluesky handle to just @bigsort.bsky.social for ease of telling people about it.

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For those who might not know, I'm part of a small community station called Noisebox Radio. We play music you know, music you might not and music you haven't heard for ages. If you've never tried it, tonight is an excellent time to start - not least of all because I'm on at 8pm. :) noiseboxradio.com