Hello dear listeners. You are listening to Vinyl-O-Matic. I am your host, Your Old Pal Will. In this episode we are well and truly underway with albums that begin with the letter B. And as things would have it, many of those album titles also include the composer and or artists. Thanks to those of you who participated in last week's listener challenge. Subscribers to the Amplifier newsletter will find the link in this week's transmission. Our challenge for this week? Top 3 Beatles songs as covered by other artists. You can leave a comment in the show notes for this episode which can be found at vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e06 or reply to the Vinyl-O-Matic Amplifier newsletter. And so, without much further ado, I hope you like Bartók.

We're back! We just heard Bela Bartók's Dance Suite as performed by the L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 1964. Bartók composed this piece in 1923 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the union of the cities Buda and Pest. And now, more Bartok... don't worry, it's a shorter movement.

Yup, more Mack the Knife, this time as performed by former Lawrence Welk saxophonist Pete Fountain and his Jazz Group, live from the Bateau Lounge in 1960. Prior to that, we had the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra with their performance of Bartók's Second Suite for Orchestra, Op 4: Comodo from 1959. And now for something completely different.

Now that was a pretty fun rollercoaster ride. At the top of that last set, we started things off with Bauhaus and their follow up single to Bela Lugosi's Dead called Dark Entries. This is from a 4AD compilation release from 1983. The perfect follow up to Bauhaus, why Bay City Rollers of course. I went with the hit, instead of the gruesome retread of Be My Baby, so you're welcome. Things got frantic with Afrika Bambaata & the Soul Sonic Force bringing us Frantic Situation from the volume one of the original soundtrack to 1984's  Beat Street. Interested listeners can dig through the Vinyl-O-Matic archive for the Movie of the Month episode about Beat Street. It's actually a pretty decent film for the time, with the possible except the big finale number. Anywho we closed out that set with The Beat and perhaps one of the best leadoff tracks ever Rock and Roll Girl from their self-titled 1979 debut album. It's so hard to only play one song from that killer album. Next up, I hope you like The Beatles.

That was a four-fer from the Fab Four. We started things off with I'm So Tired, which I'm sure many of you are at this point of shelter-in-place. That, of course, is from what is commonly referred to as The White Album, but surprise is self-titled from 1968. We followed that up with another common theme from shelter-in-place... "Money" from The Beatles Second Album which was actually their 3rd US release. That was followed up with some more fun with numbers: Eight Days a Week from their 1965 release Beatles VI. Evidently, none of the Beatles really cared for that song. And finally, because I love a good loser song, we heard I'm a Loser from Beatles '65. Boy those kids sure did work hard.
All right, that pretty much wraps things up for this episode. If you have any questions or comments or just want to drop me a line, power up your email service and fire to will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. Show notes, RSS feeds, archived episodes and sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic Amplifier can be found at vinylomatic(dot)com. When next we meet, we will continue our foray through album titles that begin with the letter B as in Bravo. Join me, won't you?