Welcome to BROW. This week’s feature is one of those pesky b-sides released in the 1970′s. Ringo Starr’s Just A Dream first appeared on the back of his single, ironically titled Wings released in the US on August 25th, 1977 to promote his upcoming album Ringo The 4th released the following month. The track was released again as the b-side to the follow up single Drowning In The Sea Of Love in October 1977 but it was not included on Ringo The 4th, nor has it ever appeared on any album or CD since.

Ringo thought that Ringo was his first true album but unlike the previous three Ringo the 4th had no contributions from any of the other Beatles and the majority of the songs were written by himself with the help of collaborator Vini Poncia. Producer Arif Mardin used the Atlantic Records influence and tried to turn Ringo into a disco/R ‘n’ B artist but the public opinion revealed it’s say on this when both the album and two singles flopped miserably on both sides of the Atlantic.

So Just A Dream is just a forgotten song, until now on BROW.

Ringo the 4th album sleeve, 1977

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Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s BROW. Inside the final days of May 1968, immediately before beginning work on the White Album at EMI, The Beatles gathered at George Harrison’s house in Esher, southwest of London, to routine their latest compositions. This recording of Julia is an example of one of those Esher demos. It is the only Beatles song that John wrote and performed himself without accompaniment from any of the other Beatles. It’s common knowledge that when John was 18, his mother Julia was run over and killed by a drunk off-duty policeman. John dedicated this song to her and to Yoko, whose name in Japanese means ocean child, referenced as a line in the lyrics. Folk artist Donovan Leitch, who was with The Beatles at the Maharishi’s camp in India earlier in 1968 taught Lennon the finger-picking guitar style he uses in the song. This early demo gives us a feel for the magic of this beautiful ballad before it was perfected in the studio.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney in India, 1968

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Once again, it’s time for this week’s BROW. On August 18, 1965, three days after the historical Shea Stadium concert that kicked off their 1965 US tour, The Beatles were cooking down in Georgia for their big show at the Atlanta Stadium, where they once again performed on a baseball diamond. Toward the end of the set, Paul has apparently broken a bass string and John takes it upon himself to ad-lib to the frenzied audience while the situation is rectified. Then the band launches into their new single Help!, which had just been released the previous month to promote the then-new movie we all know and love by the same title. Everything comes off well, other than John’s little vocal flub-up in the second verse. I’m sharing this little piece of history in hopes that you can excuse the fidelity issues, as I don’t think there is a surviving recording of it in any better condition. Enjoy…

Ticket for The Beatles Atlanta gig, August 1965

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This weeks BROW takes us back to the infamous Get Back sessions at Twickenham Film Studios in London on January 9, 1969. Only two days before, an embryonic version of Get Back had been performed for the first time. Now, with energy levels increased by a lunch break, The Beatles decide to bash out a hard series of “Get Back Jams” and what you are hearing is an excerpt from them. At this point Jo-Jo has yet to even be written into the lyrics. Paul improvises various place-names which leads to Puerto Ricans and finally to Pakistanis. This leads to improvising more lyrics about discrimination as these two groups were talked about in the morning paper concerning how too many non-white citizens of the British Empire were living on visas in England and competing for limited job opportunities. Then Mohicans are added to the lyrics. Crazy, huh? Toward the end Paul amuses himself by shouting out the title and groaning as loudly as possible into the microphone. The song had a long way to go but it sounds like they were having fun along the way. In retrospect the Get Back sessions are always talked about as a time when The Beatles were constantly angry with each other but there were some good times in there too.

Paul McCartney, Jan. 1969

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BROW continues this week with a recording that dates back to January 1964 when The Beatles were using a studio in Paris to record Can’t Buy Me Love. In between visits to the studio, Paul put together this early demo called One And One Is Two and recorded it with his own acoustic guitar accompaniment right in one of The Beatles’ hotel rooms. The Beatles never made an official release of the song, but gave it away to The Strangers who put it out on a UK single the following spring. As always the fabs were staying very busy while looking forward to their upcoming first visit to America and wondering if they would catch on. History was in the making.

The Beatles, circa 1964

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