Being a neophyte, I quickly obtained the Red and Blue complication albums. Naively I thought this was ALL of the Beatles songs. I’m so glad that wasn’t true.
As I hid in my small bedroom and started listening and
relistening, I was amazed by how many songs I vaguely knew or remembered from
years ago. I was excited those faded memories
could be refreshed and categorized into the world I was creating called The
Beatles.
I had a little cassette recorder and copied the Red and Blue albums onto tapes. I then took the tapes and recorder to the basement where I had a dart board. I could listen to the tapes ad nauseum and sing along without bothering the rest of the family.
My best friend joined me and we memorized the lyrics and
practiced our dart skills. We must have done that day after day for a couple of years. To this
day, I can identify a Beatles tone from a short snippet and a lot of background
noise. As you can imagine, the sound quality of that little recorder wasn't very
good.
AH
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