68 A Bad Year for Good Music IV. George Martin
Show 68 was a celebration and a fast trip through the musical career of George Martin, the ‘fifth Beatle’
A man who became the head of the Parlophone label when it was EMI’s second string and turned it around with a wide range of artists, chief of which were The Beatles. A musician too, who played keyboards on all the early Beatles tracks, and wrote, arranged and conducted orchestral accompaniment, as well as film scores and other works.
Preshow was from the stash, where we have reached F – in this case Focus and Free.
Postshow contained tracks cut from the main show for time – there’s a lot of George Martin out there for you still to discover.
It has been suggested that a History of The Beatles might be well accepted – what do you think?
Preshow
| Anonymus | Focus | In And Out Of Focus | 1970 |
| House Of The King | Focus | In And Out Of Focus | 1970 |
| Round Goes The Gossip | Focus | Focus III | 1973 |
| Sylvia | Focus | Focus III | 1973 |
| Elspeth Of Nottingham | Focus | Focus III | 1973 |
| Fire And Water | Free | Fire and Water | 1970 |
| The Stealer | Free | Highway | 1970 |
| My Brother Jake | Free | single | 1971 |
The Show
| You’re Driving Me Crazy | The Temperance Seven | single | 1961 |
| Hole In The Ground | Bernard Cribbins | single | 1962 |
| Sun Arise | Rolf Harris | single | 1962 |
| Time Beat + Waltz in Orbit | Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin.) | single | 1962 |
| How Do You Do It | Gerry and the Pacemakers | Single | 1963 |
| Please Please Me | The Beatles | Please Please Me | 1963 |
| I Want To Hold Your Hand | The Beatles | single | 1963 |
| A Hard Day’s Night | The Beatles | A Hard Day’s Night (July 64) | 1964 |
| Eight Days A Week | The Beatles | Beatles For Sale (December 64) | 1964 |
| Ill Wind | Flanders And Swann | At The Drop Of Another Hat | 1964 |
| In My Life | The Beatles | Rubber Soul (December 65) | 1965 |
| Ticket To Ride | The Beatles | Help! (August 65) | 1965 |
| Yesterday | The Beatles | Help! (August 65) | 1965 |
| Eleanor Rigby | The Beatles | Revolver | 1966 |
| Tomorrow Never Knows. | The Beatles | Revolver | 1966 |
| Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 |
| Fixing A Hole | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 |
| Lovely Rita | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 |
| Penny Lane | The Beatles | single | 1967 |
| Strawberry Fields Forever | The Beatles | single | 1967 |
| While My Guitar Gently Weeps | The Beatles | The Beatles [White Album] | 1968 |
| Here Comes The Sun | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
| Something | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
| Hymn to Him | Mahavishnu Orchestra | Apocalypse | 1974 |
| The Road To Venezuela | Stackridge | Pinafore Days | 1974 |
| Blue Wind | Jeff Beck | Wired | 1976 |
| Baby Loves To Rock | Cheap Trick | All Shook Up | 1980 |
Postshow
| Right Said Fred | Bernard Cribbins | single | 1962 |
| Love Me Do | The Beatles | Please Please Me | 1963 |
| The Gas-Man Cometh | Flanders And Swann | At The Drop Of Another Hat | 1964 |
| Norwegian Wood | The Beatles | Rubber Soul | 1965 |
| Yellow Submarine | The Beatles | Revolver | 1966 |
| Martha My Dear | The Beatles | The Beatles [White Album] | 1968 |
| Maxwell’s Silver Hammer | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
| Dangerous Bacon | Stackridge | Pinafore Days | 1974 |
| Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Jeff Beck | Wired | 1976 |
| Pasadena | The Temperance Seven | single | 1961 |