Producing The Beatles
@ptbeatles.bsky.social
A podcast about collaboration, creativity and, of course, the Beatles! Recommended by 9 out of 10 dentists
Seems like someone needs to make their own podcast about Beatles mix variations
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Seems like someone needs to make their own podcast about Beatles mix variations
I started making my podcast for myself and the ten people I figured would want to hear it, in the way I thought that audience would like it. The fact that *twelve* people like it means I’m going to carry on. Who cares about algorithms!
Anyway, as always, I'm just going to keep making the podcast I would want to listen to if I wasn't the one making it, and not worrying about algorithmic downweighting or retention metrics or any of that shit. It's been working for me so far.
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I started making my podcast for myself and the ten people I figured would want to hear it, in the way I thought that audience would like it. The fact that *twelve* people like it means I’m going to carry on. Who cares about algorithms!
As my slideshow reels of Beatles isolated vocals have gone viral over on Instagram, the interactions have been overwhelmingly positive, which is a small miracle considering what often happens when things go into the hundreds of thousands. Let’s call it Beatles magic.
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As my slideshow reels of Beatles isolated vocals have gone viral over on Instagram, the interactions have been overwhelmingly positive, which is a small miracle considering what often happens when things go into the hundreds of thousands. Let’s call it Beatles magic.
So much of what I’ve done has been because various archives let in a curious independent weirdo like me. What little research I did at the BBC Archives (some of it in this latest episode) was incredibly valuable/fascinating. To think that I would now be shut out is absurd.
Thrilled that @marklewisohn.bsky.social has contributed this passionate, personal post to the CST series against the recent BBC Written Archives policy shifts. His cri de couer is directed squarely at those who came up with the changes. Please read and share widely.
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DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
So much of what I’ve done has been because various archives let in a curious independent weirdo like me. What little research I did at the BBC Archives (some of it in this latest episode) was incredibly valuable/fascinating. To think that I would now be shut out is absurd.
As mentioned on the podcast, some promo photos for George Martin's 1962 "Ray Cathode" experiment with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
As mentioned on the podcast, some promo photos for George Martin's 1962 "Ray Cathode" experiment with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
In case you missed it!
Season 2, Episode 1
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
017 Tomorrow Never Knows
Podcast Episode · Producing The Beatles · 11/10/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In case you missed it!
If you enjoyed @elizabethalker on the podcast I can’t say enough good things about her new book, Everything We Do Is Music: How 20th Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, which connects all the dots in such a satisfying way. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Everything We Do Is Music
In 'Everything We Do is Music', Elizabeth Alker highlights the innovators of classical music and their fans and collaborators in pop who challenged the notion t
blackwells.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you enjoyed @elizabethalker on the podcast I can’t say enough good things about her new book, Everything We Do Is Music: How 20th Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, which connects all the dots in such a satisfying way. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Season 2, Episode 1
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
017 Tomorrow Never Knows
Podcast Episode · Producing The Beatles · 11/10/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Season 2, Episode 1
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
Ze new episode, she is up: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
017 Tomorrow Never Knows
Podcast Episode · Producing The Beatles · 11/10/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ze new episode, she is up: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
If you want to listen to the full album straight through, I've uploaded the entire thing to youtube. And it's the stereo mix, so you can get an idea of just how sophisticated George Martin's "sound picture" idea was, even in 1962.
IT'S A SQUARE WORLD (LP, 1962)
With Jason Kruppa @ptbeatles.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Michael Bentine flew solo on this George Martin-produced comedy record, voicing dozens of characters including the Film Extra of the Year, an excitable sports announcer, the (now extinct) Shrdlu and more!
With Jason Kruppa @ptbeatles.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Michael Bentine flew solo on this George Martin-produced comedy record, voicing dozens of characters including the Film Extra of the Year, an excitable sports announcer, the (now extinct) Shrdlu and more!
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you want to listen to the full album straight through, I've uploaded the entire thing to youtube. And it's the stereo mix, so you can get an idea of just how sophisticated George Martin's "sound picture" idea was, even in 1962.
In Our Time was a great place to learn about new things, and it often sent me back to re-examine things I hadn't read in years.
A lovely piece that makes me want to go and listen to In Our Time all the time. (And yes, it does acknowledge Melvyn Bragg isn't perfect.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...
The Soothing British Radio Show That Blew My Mind — and Put Me Right to Sleep
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November 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In Our Time was a great place to learn about new things, and it often sent me back to re-examine things I hadn't read in years.
While I fix up the last few details for Monday's new episode, here's something else I cooked up for another song: a stereo vocals-only mix of "Rain." youtu.be/FIHisIbjAaw?...
The Beatles - Rain (stereo vocals only mix)
YouTube video by Producing The Beatles
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November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
While I fix up the last few details for Monday's new episode, here's something else I cooked up for another song: a stereo vocals-only mix of "Rain." youtu.be/FIHisIbjAaw?...
I'll be covering George Martin's comedy recordings in the next couple of months in Season 2 of PTB, but if you want a more expansive look at one of the albums that shows Martin's mastery of the studio pre-Beatles, this installment of Goon Pod is for you!
IT'S A SQUARE WORLD (LP, 1962)
With Jason Kruppa @ptbeatles.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Michael Bentine flew solo on this George Martin-produced comedy record, voicing dozens of characters including the Film Extra of the Year, an excitable sports announcer, the (now extinct) Shrdlu and more!
With Jason Kruppa @ptbeatles.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Michael Bentine flew solo on this George Martin-produced comedy record, voicing dozens of characters including the Film Extra of the Year, an excitable sports announcer, the (now extinct) Shrdlu and more!
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'll be covering George Martin's comedy recordings in the next couple of months in Season 2 of PTB, but if you want a more expansive look at one of the albums that shows Martin's mastery of the studio pre-Beatles, this installment of Goon Pod is for you!
Feels like a good day to announce the new season of Producing the Beatles. S2 E1 will be available Monday, 11/10. Set your podcast clocks! I can't wait to start sharing what I've been working on.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Feels like a good day to announce the new season of Producing the Beatles. S2 E1 will be available Monday, 11/10. Set your podcast clocks! I can't wait to start sharing what I've been working on.
This has been making the rounds the last week or so and I finally watched it last night. What a great little snapshot. I love AHDN so much. youtu.be/r8RmOHXi63g?...
Follow The Beatles - 1964 making of A Hard Day's Night documentary
YouTube video by Derian The Imp
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This has been making the rounds the last week or so and I finally watched it last night. What a great little snapshot. I love AHDN so much. youtu.be/r8RmOHXi63g?...
“When your bird is broken, will it bring you down…”
September 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“When your bird is broken, will it bring you down…”
Me basically writing and researching anything, but especially the episode I’m working on now, which is why it’s taking me so damn long to finish it.
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Me basically writing and researching anything, but especially the episode I’m working on now, which is why it’s taking me so damn long to finish it.
This makes me think of shows like Better Off Ted, Slings and Arrows (Canada), and Sports Night (none of which are really sitcoms but which are all great), where everyone is an intellectual and everyone is also kind of an idiot
Galton and Simpson hit on the perfect formula. You take two people, both of them idiots. One is (usually) slightly younger, thinks of themself as a bit of an intellectual, and has social climbing ambitions. The other is (usually) slightly older, proudly working class, and savvier.
September 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This makes me think of shows like Better Off Ted, Slings and Arrows (Canada), and Sports Night (none of which are really sitcoms but which are all great), where everyone is an intellectual and everyone is also kind of an idiot
Day 7, non-Beatles recordings produced by George Martin
“The End of the World” from Beyond the Fringe, a major landmark in British comedy. GM produced the 1961 original & this re-recording for Broadway in 1962, done the same week he met the Beatles youtu.be/tjEtB3rJB9o?...
“The End of the World” from Beyond the Fringe, a major landmark in British comedy. GM produced the 1961 original & this re-recording for Broadway in 1962, done the same week he met the Beatles youtu.be/tjEtB3rJB9o?...
The End Of The World
YouTube video by Beyond the Fringe - Topic
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Day 7, non-Beatles recordings produced by George Martin
“The End of the World” from Beyond the Fringe, a major landmark in British comedy. GM produced the 1961 original & this re-recording for Broadway in 1962, done the same week he met the Beatles youtu.be/tjEtB3rJB9o?...
“The End of the World” from Beyond the Fringe, a major landmark in British comedy. GM produced the 1961 original & this re-recording for Broadway in 1962, done the same week he met the Beatles youtu.be/tjEtB3rJB9o?...
Day 6, non-Beatles recordings produced by George Martin.
No discussion of Martin’s career is complete without Peter Sellers, and among their many works together this unhinged cover of “She Loves You” is my favorite youtu.be/HqzMqAi_ZXE?...
No discussion of Martin’s career is complete without Peter Sellers, and among their many works together this unhinged cover of “She Loves You” is my favorite youtu.be/HqzMqAi_ZXE?...
PETER SELLERS She Loves You
YouTube video by Ed Heffelfinger
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Day 6, non-Beatles recordings produced by George Martin.
No discussion of Martin’s career is complete without Peter Sellers, and among their many works together this unhinged cover of “She Loves You” is my favorite youtu.be/HqzMqAi_ZXE?...
No discussion of Martin’s career is complete without Peter Sellers, and among their many works together this unhinged cover of “She Loves You” is my favorite youtu.be/HqzMqAi_ZXE?...
Day 5 of non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin
Charlie Drake’s silly 1961 international hit “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back,” again featuring effects to create a bit of a “sound picture” as Martin would later call it youtu.be/mRniKsa5kls?...
Charlie Drake’s silly 1961 international hit “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back,” again featuring effects to create a bit of a “sound picture” as Martin would later call it youtu.be/mRniKsa5kls?...
My Boomerang Won't Come Back
YouTube video by Charlie Drake - Topic
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Day 5 of non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin
Charlie Drake’s silly 1961 international hit “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back,” again featuring effects to create a bit of a “sound picture” as Martin would later call it youtu.be/mRniKsa5kls?...
Charlie Drake’s silly 1961 international hit “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back,” again featuring effects to create a bit of a “sound picture” as Martin would later call it youtu.be/mRniKsa5kls?...
Day 4 of non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin. “Right Said Fred” by Bernard Cribbins, full of expertly timed sound effects, which were cut in after the main recording was done. youtu.be/r5XX9LX2es4?...
'RIGHT SAID FRED' - BERNARD CRIBBINS 1960s Animated Video
YouTube video by TaggleElgate
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September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Day 4 of non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin. “Right Said Fred” by Bernard Cribbins, full of expertly timed sound effects, which were cut in after the main recording was done. youtu.be/r5XX9LX2es4?...
DAY 3: non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin you should hear:
Changing gears with “Fundamentally Yours” by Stackridge from The Man in the Bowler Hat (1974), an album full of sharp lyrical turns and smart arrangements that deserved a much larger audience than it found. youtu.be/2TCCTL1Uv8E?...
Changing gears with “Fundamentally Yours” by Stackridge from The Man in the Bowler Hat (1974), an album full of sharp lyrical turns and smart arrangements that deserved a much larger audience than it found. youtu.be/2TCCTL1Uv8E?...
Fundamentally Yours
YouTube video by Stackridge - Topic
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
DAY 3: non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin you should hear:
Changing gears with “Fundamentally Yours” by Stackridge from The Man in the Bowler Hat (1974), an album full of sharp lyrical turns and smart arrangements that deserved a much larger audience than it found. youtu.be/2TCCTL1Uv8E?...
Changing gears with “Fundamentally Yours” by Stackridge from The Man in the Bowler Hat (1974), an album full of sharp lyrical turns and smart arrangements that deserved a much larger audience than it found. youtu.be/2TCCTL1Uv8E?...
Day 2 of non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin that you should hear: The Vipers Skiffle Group - Don’t You Rock Me Daddy-O
In Lonnie Donegan’s wake, every recording manager had a skiffle group and The Vipers were George Martin’s. This was UK #10 in 1956
youtu.be/b974X44XhTE?...
In Lonnie Donegan’s wake, every recording manager had a skiffle group and The Vipers were George Martin’s. This was UK #10 in 1956
youtu.be/b974X44XhTE?...
The Vipers Skiffle Group - Don`t You Rock Me Daddy-O ( 1957 )
YouTube video by GoldenOldiesOn45RPM
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Day 2 of non-Beatles songs produced by George Martin that you should hear: The Vipers Skiffle Group - Don’t You Rock Me Daddy-O
In Lonnie Donegan’s wake, every recording manager had a skiffle group and The Vipers were George Martin’s. This was UK #10 in 1956
youtu.be/b974X44XhTE?...
In Lonnie Donegan’s wake, every recording manager had a skiffle group and The Vipers were George Martin’s. This was UK #10 in 1956
youtu.be/b974X44XhTE?...
Haaaaands across the water (water)
Heads across the sky
Heads across the sky
September 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Haaaaands across the water (water)
Heads across the sky
Heads across the sky