"the best examples of the Beatle decade....."

Happy New Year everyone, its nice to see you all again! Last year was a great one for us here at Culpa Direct, and also for music blogs in general. Its good to be here, and I'm looking forward to another wonderful year.

For my first post of 2007, I chose something that you really don't see every day. Its a rather odd LP from 1971, on the Pickwick label, of Beatles and solo-Beatles covers, and its one of the few Beatle oddities that I did NOT see posted anywhere on the internet in the past year.

The official title of the LP is "Tribe Sing The Creative Genius Of George Harrison, John Lennon, & Paul McCartney", but a more accurate title would have included Yoko Ono among the "creative geniuses", as one of the tracks is a cover of Yoko's "Why" from her 1970 "Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band" LP. I can't be sure, but this just might be the very first instance of a "major" release of a Yoko cover.

So anyway, as it says in the liner notes, "Here, then, are the best examples of the Beatle decade, rocked by the Tribe in brilliant new stereo arrangements".

1 LET IT BE
2 SOMETHING
3 WHY
4 MY SWEET LORD

5 ISN'T IT A PITY
6 JUNK
7 MOTHER
8 MAYBE I'M AMAZED