I had a recent request from my friend Cara, to share some of The Beatles on the UK BBC Television program Juke Box Jury. So here is an audio recording preceded by some background info about the show: On December 7th 1963, the Beatles gave an afternoon concert at the Empire Theatre in their hometown [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – The Hippy Hippy Shake Live in Liverpool
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. I’ve decided to let this post be in celebration of my trip to Nashville, TN to see Sir Paul tonight. Since he hasn’t been to Nashville since 1974, when he recorded Junior’s Farm and Sally G there with Wings, I was even hoping he might modify his [...]
Stand By Me – John Lennon for Old Grey Whistle Test
In 1975, John Lennon was embroiled in his fight with U.S. Immigration and couldn’t leave the States. He’d been missing England for years, and was having the British Top 10 charts sent to him. Since he could not appear in person, John made a recording in New York for the U.K.’s television program Old Grey [...]
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
From the UK BBC television show Red Alert, this is Lulu helping Paul McCartney promote his (then new) 1999 CD of covers, Run Devil Run, by running through a lively version of this Chuck Berry classic. 4 people think this is FAB! Click here if you change your mind.
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – All You Need Is Love (Our World version)
This week BROW looks back 42 years ago to a very special occasion. On June 25, 1967, the very first live international satellite television production was broadcast. The two and a half hour program called Our World featured performers from nineteen nations, and according to Wikipedia, an estimated 400 million people around the globe watched [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Happy Birthday BROW!
This week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week is special because this is the week that BROW is one year old. The Beatles were always big on birthday celebrations as can be felt through this medley of happy and rare birthday recordings that I have assembled for this week. The medley includes: 1) Whit Monday – [...]



