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As I have mentioned, being an older American, I am partial to hearing The Beatles from the Capitol releases. As some of you know, for years American AM radio stations played a promotional copy version of “Penny Lane” which featured a piccolo trumpet in the outtro. For years this version was not available until the release of Capitol’s Rarities and although it was also include on the Sgt. Pepper’s Super Deluxe sets, that recording somehow sounds horrible by comparison to Rarities.
So even though the great majority of my life, I have heard “Penny Lane” without the trumpet flourish ending on Magical Mystery Tour for example, there is still a void, having experienced the alternate ending. I should create a Super Deluxe MMT from my vinyl copy and include the Rarities version of PL just for fun.
And the reverse is true with the ending of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. I do not care for the repeated “never could see any other way” loop, which is now commonplace with cd releases.
I have recorded my vinyl Capitol release to cd, imported it to to iTunes, and listen to that version at times because I find the U.K. versions so annoying.
 

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I have been watching the documentary film Let It Be. I think I first watched Let It Be from vhs tape in the 80’s. It was a little hard to access for a long time. Sometime in the 90’s, I made a poor tape to tape copy. It was the best we could do at the time. I cannot even remember if copy protection was a thing then but all I cared was that I had a copy.
For Beatles fans of course the film Let It Be is still interesting when compared to the much, much longer film Get Back. Just a few scenes appear in Let It Be that do not appear in Get Back but Get Back has so much more information and storytelling and song performances.

It always depressed me to watch Let It Be knowing that, no matter how well they seemed to get along at times here, it was truly beginning to end. When I listen to the album Let It Be, it is never quite as meaningful until I watch the documentary. The rooftop concert in the film is fantastic and also another moment that fills us with hope.
 

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I have been watching the documentary film Let It Be. I think I first watched Let It Be from vhs tape in the 80’s. It was a little hard to access for a long time. Sometime in the 90’s, I made a poor tape to tape copy. It was the best we could do at the time. I cannot even remember if copy protection was a thing then but all I cared was that I had a copy.
For Beatles fans of course the film Let It Be is still interesting when compared to the much, much longer film Get Back. Just a few scenes appear in Let It Be that do not appear in Get Back but Get Back has so much more information and storytelling and song performances.

It always depressed me to watch Let It Be knowing that, no matter how well they seemed to get along at times here, it was truly beginning to end. When I listen to the album Let It Be, it is never quite as meaningful until I watch the documentary. The rooftop concert in the film is fantastic and also another moment that fills us with hope.
I saw the movie at the theatre (Yelllow Submarine too) as a 12 year old kid at the time, and I bet I teared up a bit. And at the time, I probably thought this was the end of Rock and Roll as we knew it.
 

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I’m only a few weeks into a free trial of satellite radio but I noticed on The Beatles channel, they sometimes show art work along with the song being played and that sometimes album covers from the American releases are being used.

They played “And I Love Her” and featured the Something New album cover, “Rain”, showing Hey Jude album cover, and even “Boys”, showing The Early Beatles album cover as examples I noticed recently.

Adding to the controversy, the more common artwork from Yesterday… And Today was displayed while “Drive My Car” was played. I wonder if they ever display “the butcher cover” when playing “Dr. Robert” or “And Your Bird Can Sing”. With the garbage quality of audio compression, I doubt those two will sound any different anyway.
 

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I’m only a few weeks into a free trial of satellite radio but I noticed on The Beatles channel, they sometimes show art work along with the song being played and that sometimes album covers from the American releases are being used.

They played “And I Love Her” and featured the Something New album cover, “Rain”, showing Hey Jude album cover, and even “Boys”, showing The Early Beatles album cover as examples I noticed recently.

Adding to the controversy, the more common artwork from Yesterday… And Today was displayed while “Drive My Car” was played. I wonder if they ever display “the butcher cover” when playing “Dr. Robert” or “And Your Bird Can Sing”. With the garbage quality of audio compression, I doubt those two will sound any different anyway.
About 10 years ago my friend who owns a local record shop had 2 copies of the Beatles Yesterday and Today 'Butcher' cover lp....they were opened 'second state' with the replacement covers glued/stuck over the original artwork....he sold them then for $400 each. He had peeled one partially off to show people. I dont know if he ever played them in his shop. I hear they go for more money these days.
 

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That’s what I listened to earlier today. A Capitol stereo copy of Yesterday and Today “butcher cover” in absolutely horrible condition, both record and record jacket, which I recorded to cd for convenience.
I sometimes lust for a clean copy of the Capitol version because of the way they choose a different duophonic mix on some of the songs but not all of the songs. But I’m still at a point where I enjoy what I have and don’t chase many things I do not.
 

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I listened to Sirius XM Beatles Channel on my drive this morning. All you mere casual Beatles stop reading now.
As mentioned earlier, The Beatles Channel often displays related album artwork along with the songs playing and sometimes the album artwork is from an American release. For example this morning I heard “Don’t Let Me Down”, which of course was a B side of a single release but in the U.S. it can be also found on Hey Jude. This was the album artwork displayed while the song was being played. Great!
They also played “And Your Bird Can Sing”, displaying the cover of Revolver. But they also played “She’s Leaving Home” and chose to display their generic The Beatles Channel display instead of the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s and I cannot forgive them.
 

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