Behka’s Breakfast with The Beatles Recap: Week of January 6

I'm a big fan of the good old Beatles band.  And since I have a radio show, I've been playin em.  Here's the rundown of what I've been spinning this week.  I’ve been doing a segment at the beginning of the morning show to play some Beatles every day.  However, I know some of you out there aren’t exactly early birds – 6:00 a.m. is pretty dang early, after all. And some of you might have caught the end of a song or just missed it, and so I thought I’d post some audio and videos of the songs I used each day, and I’ll tell you what I know about em here, too.

On Monday and Tuesday, I was home sick.

I think it's best to just leave it at that.  Not too much detail needed.  It was gross.

On my return on Wednesday, I played "If I Needed Someone".

This is one of those songs that George Harrison wrote for this middle period.  He felt like the albums Rubber Soul and Revolver were the most positive working experiences.  This song is another one of the tunes that made the group realize that they weren't doing as well live as they had been; the harmonies on this track were hard to replicate without the help of earpieces and headphones like we have today.

On Thursday, I played some of the medley off of Abbey Road.

I played "Sun King", "Mean Mr Mustard", "Polythene Pam", and "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window".   These were all unfinished songs that were intended to be fleshed out, but were ultimately abandoned for one reason or another.  When time came to make the album, Paul McCartney wanted to put them together  into a bigger medley.  John Lennon was not a big fan of "studio tricks" so one half of the album, the first was a compromise to please John, and the second half was to please Paul.

On Friday, I played the studio version of "Don't Let Me Down".

Multiple versions of "Don't Let Me Down" were recorded by the Beatles during the tumultuous Get Back/Let it Be recording sessions. The version recorded on 28 January 1969 was released as a b-side to the single "Get Back", recorded the same day. "Get Back" reached number one and "Don't Let Me Down" reached number thirty five.

They performed "Don't Let Me Down" twice during their rooftop concert of 30 January 1969, one of which was included in the Let It Be film, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. When the "Get Back" project was revisited, Phil Spector dropped "Don't Let Me Down" from the Let It Be album.

Let me know if there's a song you wanna hear next week!

Beatle-ly yours,

Behka