JOHN FOSTER / BLACK DYKE MILLS BAND - THINGUMYBOB - APPLE 1800 - L.A. PRESSING
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John Foster & Sons Ltd / Black Dyke Mills Band's
"Thingumybob" / "Yellow Submarine" 45 rpm single
with McCartney/Lennon credit!
Up for auction is a Very Good-minus copy of one of the rarest Apple singles. The A-side label is very clean and crisp printing, with minor wear and small printed "LISA" written in blue ball-point pen. The B-side label has a less obtrusive "LISA", but also has a label tear, smaller than 1.5 cm x 2.8 cm (see photo #2) The vinyl has plenty of paper scuffs on both sides, but plays through on my Technics turntable, with no skips. The single also includes an original contemporary stock "Apple" sleeve, NM-, including the printed in USA in the bottom right of the front of the sleeve (which is the side without the curve-cut)
Released on August 26th, 1968, as Apple's first U.S. single, #1800. The song "Thingumybob" was written by Paul McCartney, credited, unusually, as McCartney/Lennon. This record was also produced by Paul McCartney. It was listed in the Beatles Discography sheet (included with early copies of 1962-66 & 1967-1970) without the Black Dyke credit. The Beatles have never released a recorded version of this composition, so this is one of the rarest Beatle-related tracks.
Side A: Thingumybob
Side B: Yellow Submarine
This record was pressed at the Capitol Records Los Angeles plant.
This is a hard to find record and is valued at $200 according to The Price Guide for The Beatles American Records.
About the recording date and its aftermath:
The Black Dyke Mills Band, a brass band from Yorkshire, England, was one of Apple Records' first signings. On this day Paul McCartney recorded them performing the McCartney/Lennon composition Thingumybob, which became their first single for the label.
The recording took place in Saltaire near Bradford, with McCartney producing the session. As well as Thingumybob, the group recorded Yellow Submarine for the single's b-side. While in Yorkshire, McCartney was interviewed by Tony Cliff for the BBC Television programme 'Look North'.
Thingumybob was written as the theme tune to the Yorkshire Television comedy of the same name, which was transmitted from August 1968.McCartney was accompanied to Yorkshire by Apple employees Derek Taylor, Peter Asher and Tony Bramwell, and New Musical Express reporter Alan Smith.
On their return to London they sought to break their journey, and after consulting a map decided to take a detour off the M1 motorway to Harrold, a small village in Bedfordshire which they liked the name of. They visited two pubs in the village – the Oakley Arms and the Magpie – where McCartney premiered The Beatles' "Hey Jude".
While walking through the village they encountered Gordon Mitchell, a resident who was in his garden at Mulberry Lodge in the High Street. They asked Mitchell the way to the river but, having received directions, saw a sign for the Magpie pub and went there instead.
'We wound through Bedfordshire checking off the signs steadily until we reached the village sign. Harrold. Oh it was a joyful sight.It was the village we were supposed to have fought the world wars to defend, for which we would be expected to fight the third when told to, but won't. It was a Miniver hamlet on the Ouse and there were notices telling of the fete next Saturday and a war memorial which made me weep.
Thrushes and blackbirds sang and swallows dived into thatches and a little old mower wheezed as we walked down the only street there was past the inn which was closed and the church which was open nodding to a sandy man with 1930s moustache and khaki shorts as he clipped his hedge and stared at these city people with funny hair and clothes." -- Derek Taylor, As Time Goes By: Living In The Sixties
Having recognised McCartney, Mitchell and his wife Pat decided to also pay a visit to the pub. There they were greeted warmly by the Apple group, and fell into conversation.
"After a while, thoughts were on something to eat. In those days few pubs served food. Pat suggested that she could provide something, so we trooped back to Mulberry Lodge, where she managed to produce a sumptuous meal. Paul showed his humanity by visiting Pat's father, at that time an invalid in bed, and had a long chat with him. He also played a pink piano which was in the room, commenting that he had never seen one which was pink before!We had a lovely evening of conversation and music and food and wine. Our younger daughter, Shuna, produced a child-size guitar, which Paul tuned by putting two coins under the bridge and then proceeded to play in his normal left-handed manner. He played and sang throughout the evening and then told us he had a new song – not yet recorded – called Hey Jude, which he sang several times. Shayne, our other daughter, was so unfazed by what was happening that she retired to bed to read a book!
We had long chats about his life as a pop star and what it was like to be so famous and so well off so early in one's life, and he related some of the difficulties it was creating for him."-- Gordon Mitchell, March 2008
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