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This is Part I of a two part episode as host Paul Romanuk talks with the multiple award winning Canadian writer and arranger of commercial music, Robert Armes, about George Martin's incredible contributions to The Beatles' work as an arranger and orchestrator. In his prime, Robert worked with the cream of Canadian session players to bring his compositions to life - commercial jingles, television themes, movie music and music for big events and theatre. He's also written hundreds of songs of his own. You can find out more about him here and listen to some of his music here.
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Veteran Canadian session drummer, and longtime drummer with The Gordon Lightfoot Band, Barry Keane talks about some of his favourite Ringo Starr drum moments. Barry also shares some stories, with host Paul Romanuk, about what it was like to be on the drum stool behind Canadian musical giant Gordon Lightfoot for almost 50 years.
Find out what The Lightfoot Band is up to here.
The homepage for this podcast is romycast.com
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Canadian Beatles Historian Piers Hemmingsen talks with host Paul Romanuk about the band's Canadian history and a few of The Beatles tunes that mean the most to him. Piers also discusses his definitive account of The Beatles early days in Canada: The Beatles In Canada: The Origins of Beatlemania, and, also, his upcoming companion volume to that book, The Beatles In Canada: The Evolution, 1964 to 1970.
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In this "break from the normal format" episode, host Paul Romanuk talks with songwriter and musician Drew Arnott (of the 1980s Canadian band Strange Advance) about The Beatles' use of the Mellotron, a cutting edge instrument in the 1960s.
Catch up with Drew and Strange Advance at their website: strangeadvance.com
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This is the 2nd of a two part episode with Edmonton-based music creator Jay Sparrow talking with host Paul Romanuk about a couple of sides of The Beatles‘ 1968 masterpiece The Beatles (aka The White Album). This is a two-part episode. The previous episode covered Side One. This episode covers Side Three.
You can find out more about Jay Sparrow at his webpage. He also has a YouTube channel.You can also find him on Insta and FB.
Hey! Be sure to check out his great new album Hard Eight, wherever you stream your music.
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Series Four of The Walrus Was Paul podcast kicks off with Edmonton-based music creator Jay Sparrow talking with host Paul Romanuk about a couple of sides of The Beatles' 1968 masterpiece The Beatles (aka The White Album). This is a two-part episode. This episode covers Side One and the next episode will centre on Side Three.
You can find out more about Jay Sparrow at his webpage. He also has a YouTube channel.
Check out his great new album Hard 8, wherever you stream your music.
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It's been 60 years since the release of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night movie and the ensuing soundtrack. It was released in the summer of 1964 and was a huge hit. Of course, the music was also a huge hit. In fact, the movie had made a profit even before it was released because United Artists (the producers of the movie and, importantly, holders of the soundtrack rights) had advance orders of over 2-million in the U.S. alone for the soundtrack album.
In that spirit, I'm re-releasing an episode from January of 2021 that I did with musician and producer Tim Bovaconti. Tim's a great guy and a very much in demand player on the Canadian music scene. His love of The Beatles and their music shines through in his words. Enjoy.
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Jim Cuddy and Colin Cripps of Blue Rodeo join host Paul Romanuk to talk about some of their favourite Beatles vocal performances. This is Part II of a two-part episode.This is the last episode of Series 3 of The Walrus Was Paul.
EPISODE NOTES:
Here is Jim and Colin's virtual album of some of their favourite Beatles vocal performances:
SIDE A
Love Me Do
This Boy
Baby's In Black
If I Needed Someone
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
SIDE B
Helter Skelter
Oh! Darling
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Long And Winding Road
Let It Be
Here is a link to the playlist on Tidal
-you can find out about all things Jim Cuddy at his website: jimcuddy.com
-Colin Cripps did a very good solo record in 2013 called Stormy Northern Days. Here's where you can listen to it.
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Jim Cuddy and Colin Cripps of Blue Rodeo join host Paul Romanuk to talk about some of their favourite Beatles vocal performances. This is Part I of a two-part episode.
EPISODE NOTES:
Here is Jim and Colin's virtual album of some of their favourite Beatles vocal performances:
SIDE A
Love Me Do
This Boy
Baby's In Black
If I Needed Someone
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
SIDE B
Helter Skelter
Oh! Darling
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Long And Winding Road
Let It Be
Here is a link to the playlist on Tidal
-you can find out about all things Jim Cuddy at his website: jimcuddy.com
-Colin Cripps is a massive guitar head. Look for him on Insta, where he regularly posts pictures of guitars in his collection. Here's an interview he did with the website 300Guitars.com about some of the guitars he has.
-we talk about the 30th anniversary and the making of the spectacular Blue Rodeo album Five Days In July. Here's a CBC interview with Jim where he talks in a little more detail about the making of the record.
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In this annual Christmas Episode, host Paul Romanuk digs into a song that is well on the way (if it isn't already) to being a traditional Christmas season standard: the 1971 John Lennon/Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band song Happy Xmas (War Is Over).
EPISODE NOTES:
-The song was inspired by and grew out of John & Yoko's 1969 global billboard peace campaign. Here is a photo (from NYC) of one of the billboards they had put up in 12 major cities around the world.
-The producer of the song, Phil Spector, produced a Christmas album in 1963 called A Christmas Gift To You, which I talk about in the episode. Here's the story behind that album.
-Here's the original 45 sleeve for the song.
-Here's an original pressing, which was on green vinyl, featuring the John & Yoko morphing faces label.
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It's 58 years this week since the release of The Beatles 1965 album Rubber Soul; so we dig back into The Walrus Was Paul archives to bring you a conversation host Paul Romanuk had with superstar Canadian singer/songwriter Jim Cuddy and Blue Rodeo bandmate Colin Cripps back in 2020 about what an influential album Rubber Soul was (and still is).
EPISODE NOTES:
-we'll be periodically re-releasing some classic episodes from the TWWP archive that have been hidden away for a few years. This is an episode you might have missed along the way. Even if you didn't, it's worth another listen.
-all things Jim Cuddy can be found at his website jimcuddy.com
-likewise, catch up with what Colin Cripps is up to at his website colincripps.com
-both of these fantastic players mostly ply their trade with iconic Canadian band Blue Rodeo.Their website is bluerodeo.com
-here's a good piece from The Guardian from 2015 and the 50th anniversary of Rubber Soul
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Terry O'Reilly is an internationally recognised expert on marketing and advertising and hosts a well known podcast on the subject: Under The Influence. In this special episode, Terry speaks with host Paul Romanuk about how The Beatles changed the face of marketing and promotion in the world of pop music.
EPISODE NOTES:
-you can find out all about Terry O'Reilly and his excellent podcast on marketing and advertising, Under The Influence, at his website - terryoreilly.ca
-Terry was the co-founder and editor of the successful Beatles collector magazine Beatlology. You can order back issues at the website: beatlology.com
-we talk about memorabilia from the Apple Records era and how unique and valuable some items are. Here is a link to a page featuring some of those items. Some cool stuff (and you can still find some of it on eBay).
-The Beatles were among the first to use promotional films (known now as music videos) to market new singles. One of the most well known was the promo film for Hey Jude. Here's a link to a piece on The Paul McCartney Project website talking about making the film.
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Montreal singer and songwriter Max Comeau returns to talk with host Paul Romanuk about Side Two of 1973's Paul McCartney & Wings album Red Rose Speedway. Also talk about Max's latest album, a collection of jazz-influenced McCartney covers called Play McCartney.
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Montreal singer/songwriter Max Comeau talks with host Paul Romanuk about the 1973 Paul McCartney & Wings album Red Rose Speedway.
EPISODE NOTES:
-the best place to find info on Max is his Bandcamp page. He's pretty thorough on there, with lots of notes and factoids about many of the songs as well as lyrics.
-here is a Rolling Stone magazine review from 1973 on Red Rose Speedway. It's generally quite favourable.
-an interesting discussion on the album on the excellent Steve Hoffman Music Forum
-here's a link to the obit that ran in The Guardian on Wings guitarist Henry McCullough. As we discuss in the episode, McCullough's guitar solo on My Love was one of his finest.
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In the second part of a two-part conversation, country artist Raquel Cole talks with host Paul Romanuk about Side Two of The Beatles 1969 #1 album Abbey Road. Lots of talk about Raquel's songs and songwriting as well.
EPISODE NOTES:
-find out what Raquel is up to at her website
-Raquel talks about her solo work, but also about her work with a trio, The Woods. Here's a link to one of their videos.
-here is a 1969 review of Abbey Road from The Guardian newspaper by critic Geoffrey Cannon. In it he refers to Abbey Road as "a slight matter. The Beatles have lost the desire to touch us." Hmm. That didn't age well, did it?
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Country music star Raquel Cole talks with host Paul Romanuk about The Beatles' 1969 #1 album Abbey Road. Also, lots of talk about her excellent songwriting.
EPISODE NOTES:
-find out about all things Raquel Cole at her fine, splashy, website.
-here's an article from 2020 from Raquel's hometown paper in Vernon, BC, about "hoping to make her hometown proud with some big opportunities."
-Raquel, who is from Vernon, now calls Nashville her home. It is the epicentre of the country music world and she seems to fit right in. She talks about the move to Nashville in this piece.
-found this, very cool, recording of a 1969 interview that George Harrison did with music writer Ritchie York. George goes through Abbey Road track-by-track. It's a great listen.
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Part II of host Paul Romanuk's conversation with musician and singer/songwriter James Clark (aka James Clark Institute) about The Beatles' 1969 album Yellow Submarine.
EPISODE NOTES:
-you can find out about James and his band, James Clark Institute right here.
-Side Two of Yellow Submarine consisted of The Beatles' brilliant producer and arranger George Martin's score for the animated film. Here's a look at George Martin and his work. I also highly recommend Kenneth Womack's two outstanding books on Martin and his life and work: Maximum Volume (Vol I) and Sound Pictures (Vol II). Both are widely available.
-here's the cover artwork for Yellow Submarine
-here's the cover artwork for James Clark Institute's The Colour Of Happy
-here's the excellent video The James Clark Institute did for their song Marcella Never Got The News (directed by Sean Ryan). Hey, watch for the "Beatle like" false ending to the song.
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Songwriter and singer James Clark talks with host Paul Romanuk about The Beatles' 1969 soundtrack album for the animated film Yellow Submarine.
EPISODE NOTES
-you can find out about James and his band, James Clark Institute, at their website
-here's a good BBC article on the animated film that went with the album and how it resonates on so many different levels and is, in the eyes of many, a cult classic
-we talk about one of James Clark Institute's songs - Marcella Never Got The News. The song is about a 1959 float plane crash in Saskatchewan, in which the pilot died and the plane was never found. That is, until July of 2018, when the wreck was discovered at the bottom of a lake. On the same day the discovery was made, the wife of the deceased pilot passed away. She died before getting news of the finding. The song is based on a book, Into The Mist, by Victoria Hetherington. Here's a CBC article that fills in some details.
-we talk about The Beatles song Hey Bulldog. It was an interesting song that The Beatles were filmed, in the studio, creating and recording. There are very few films of them actually working in the studio. Here's a link to some of the film clips from that day.
-speaking of films of The Beatles working, here's a link to the short BBC film on the creation of the song All You Need Is Love for the Our World worldwide television broadcast of June, 1967, where the song was premiered.
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Newfoundland based, Canadian, singer/songwriter Chris Picco talks with host Paul Romanuk about 1964's Beatles For Sale album. This is the second part of a two-part episode.
SHOW NOTES:
-Chris has a really good new record out called Split Down The Middle, and you can find out more about Chris and the record at his website.
-we talk about a song Chris wrote and put out on his first EP (2004's The Passenger). The song is called Wood 'N Steel. Good luck finding the EP. Here's the link to it on Discogs
-we talk about the creative group Perfect Day, who have done almost all of Chris' album artwork as well as that of The Long Distance Runners. Here's a link to their website, where you can see some examples of their great work. Here's the artwork for The Long Distance Runners album Elements (it was nominated for a Juno Award in 2016). Here's the artwork for Chris' EP The Beach, which I thought was pretty cool as well.
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