March 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread - Here It Goes Again

MARCH 22
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The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released on this day in 1963. Play something by or related to one of the Fab Four.

Quite possibly one my oddest records. The story of Dean Reed is one of the more tragic and interesting ones I’ve come across in this hobby. Without diving too much into detail, Dean Reed was originally being prepped to be a teen idol / actor in the late 1950s, didn't quite have the U.S. success that anyone hoped for, but did have success in South America. Spent much of the 60s in South America and a bit in Europe, growing increasingly fond of leftist political theory, and eventually decided to settle in East Germany in 1973. He was known for many things in this time: acting, picking fights with Solzhenitsyn, being imprisoned, getting released thanks to Pablo Neruda, normal things. He also recorded a ton of records, known mostly for his uh...not approved covers of famous American and Western European musicians. Known as the Red Elvis, he was fairly representative of the artistic divide in the Cold War as well as some level of mutual appreciation of the arts. He himself was a conflicted man - a Soviet sympathizer, an American living by choice (for some time at least) in the Soviet Bloc...who sent his taxes every year to the IRS and never gave up his citizenship. His death is still contested: suicide, murder, something else. Unknown officially.

So, I'll spin the one I got today from 1980 which has a five song Beatles medley on it which is both weird and still not the weirdest cut from the record. I'll link the full album with it starting at this Beatles medley - a bit country and twangy but not quite there with backing singers. Not quite the Fab Four but who are?

Edit Note: The two slower songs in the medley are okay, but the fast ones are cheesy Beatles rockabilly and just hard not to smile to at times.



Dean Reed ‎– Rock'n'Roll Country Romantic…

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MARCH 22
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The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released on this day in 1963. Play something by or related to one of the Fab Four.

Quite possibly one my oddest records. The story of Dean Reed is one of the more tragic and interesting ones I’ve come across in this hobby. Without diving too much into detail, Dean Reed was originally being prepped to be a teen idol / actor in the late 1950s, didn't quite have the U.S. success that anyone hoped for, but did have success in South America. Spent much of the 60s in South America and a bit in Europe, growing increasingly fond of leftist political theory, and eventually decided to settle in East Germany in 1973. He was known for many things in this time: acting, picking fights with Solzhenitsyn, being imprisoned, getting released thanks to Pablo Neruda, normal things. He also recorded a ton of records, known mostly for his uh...not approved covers of famous American and Western European musicians. Known as the Red Elvis, he was fairly representative of the artistic divide in the Cold War as well as some level of mutual appreciation of the arts. He himself was a conflicted man - a Soviet sympathizer, an American living by choice (for some time at least) in the Soviet Bloc...who sent his taxes every year to the IRS and never gave up his citizenship. His death is still contested: suicide, murder, something else. Unknown officially.

So, I'll spin the one I got today from 1980 which has a five song Beatles medley on it which is both weird and still not the weirdest cut from the record. I'll link the full album with it starting at this Beatles medley - a bit country and twangy but not quite there with backing singers. Not quite the Fab Four but who are?

Edit Note: The two slower songs in the medley are okay, but the fast ones are cheesy Beatles rockabilly and just hard not to smile to at times.



Dean Reed ‎– Rock'n'Roll Country Romantic…

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He certainly has the 70s Elvis part down. And that cover of "Can't Buy Me Love" was something...
 
MARCH 22
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The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released on this day in 1963. Play something by or related to one of the Fab Four.

This comp is my earliest memory of the Beatles. I remember my sister playing it continually, listening to it still makes me think of her.

The Beatles ~ Love Songs

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MARCH 22
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The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released on this day in 1963. Play something by or related to one of the Fab Four.

The Beatles - Please Please Me

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I had many great albums to choose from but decided to go with the original as it's the newest addition to my Beatles collection!
 
MARCH 21
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Play something with a famous album cover.

Elliott Smith - Figure 8

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MARCH 22
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The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released on this day in 1963. Play something by or related to one of the Fab Four.

Couldn't make up my mind what I wanted to listen to, so settled on this because it's been a while since I played it.

Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram

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For all the concerts I've been to, Paul put on a better show in his seventies than most musicians ever do. So much energy.
 
MARCH 22
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The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released on this day in 1963. Play something by or related to one of the Fab Four.

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

All my Beatles albums have been played, so how about an album that sampled the Beatles back in the brief time when sampling was a glorious free-for-all?

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