Beatles – Prattling Before the Pratfall

Video on Demand

A few days ago, I received this missive in the DogRat mailbox:

Hi Doug — I came across your January 29, 2009 post “Category Crossover: Colbert meets McCartney.” You had captured the Paul McCartney appearance on The Colbert Report yourself and posted it as ColbertMcCartney.flv.

I’ve been trying to find that particular interview, which seems to have disappeared when Comedy Central removed the old Colbert archive. By any chance do you still have your FLV file or the original recording? I’d be enormously grateful just to be able to watch it again.

Thanks!

Daniel

My reply:

Hi Daniel,

That file wasn’t transferred when I switched to Bluehost in 2010. It should be on a backup hard drive here. I’ll look for it.

Ideally, I kept the original AVI capture format, but I didn’t always do that when storage was a lot more expensive than it is now. If not AVI, the greatly reduced FLV Flash Video file should be in there. Assuming I find either one of them, I’ll convert it to MP4 and make it available online.

I’ll get back to you in a couple of days.

Thanks,

Doug

I found the FLV file and converted it to MP4. The first ten seconds are blank, then the video kicks in and all is well. Here you go, Daniel!

Day Tripper: Toke 1

I haven’t decided yet which package of the Rubber Soul reissue to get. In this preview track, John and Paul giggle their way through a practice session.

Wayno, No Relation to Waymo

In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.

https://www.bizarro.com/

Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.

https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno

Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.

Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.

Plastic Heal

After much speculation for a long time, a deluxe reissue of the Beatles album Rubber Soul is on the way. It must be noted that Capitol’s US version of the album, that was not approved by the Beatles, had far greater influence than Parlophone’s UK version.

Hey Beatles/Hey Bingle!

I’m thinking Joe Sinnott probably had Bing Crosby’s Hey Jude/Hey Bing! album in his record collection. 65-year-old Bing covered two Apple label singles from the fall of ’68.

On December 11, 1961, ABC-TV in America broadcast a TV special that Bing had produced in England, in which he performed this humorous rendition of ‘The Sheik of Araby’.

A few weeks later, on January 1, 1962, the Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, recorded their own humorous take of ‘The Sheik of Araby’ at their Decca Records audition.