CD Review - Picks on the Beatles - Nokie Edwards

 

REVIEW

Nokie Edwards was an original member of the Ventures recruited as their bass player. He played lead guitar on a number of tracks on their early albums before switching permanently after an agreement with Bob Bogie..

​Nokie passed away in 2018 but this posthumous album 'Picks On The Beatles' has been kept in producer's Ramon "RJ" Jacinto's vault since 1996. The album includes 13 Beatles classics from 1964-1970 plus a version of John Lennon's 'Imagine'.


TRACK LISTING

1. We Can Work It Out 2. Can't Buy Me Love  3. And I Love Her  4.Here, There and Everywhere  5. If I Fell  6. I Will 7 Michelle  8 Eleanor Rigby  9. Help!  10. Norwegian Wood  11. Imagine  12. Yesterday  13. Hey Jude  14 Let It Be

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BEATLES NEWS - Thursday 20th June 2024

Image
PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS : ONE HAND CLAPPING  John-Paul ShiverTreblezine Paul McCartney, that post-Beatles dude who looked like Guy Lafleur? Never made it into the house I grew up in. We had The Beatles in the collection for sure—alongside Al Green, Aretha, Elton, CSNY, Miles, Janis, Jimi, Chaka, and those Stones. But the rents did not have a version of Paul on wax that resembled an ice hockey defenseman. READ MORE “I WAS NEVER REALLY A FAN”: IAN ANDERSON’S FAVOURITE BEATLES ALBUM Lucy Harbron/FarOutMagazine Asking a person for their favourite Beatles album often feels like a deeply personal, deeply intimate question. Taste is so subjective and so tied into individual memories that a favourite album can be a favourite album for a whole host of reasons – not just its musical content or artist value.  READ MORE EXCERPT: INSIDE THE BEATLES’ HISTORIC 1964 AUSTRALASIAN TOUR Conor Lochrie/Rolling Stone This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Beatles‘ historical visit to Australia, which
Read more

BEATLES NEWS - Tuesday 18th June 2024

Image
RINGO STARR LETTER ON JOINING THE BEATLES AND OSCAR WILDE'S SCHOOLBOY POETRY BOOK TO AUCTION Finebooks Magazine An autograph signed letter from Ringo Starr on joining the Beatles and the release of their first single Love Me Do which features the sentence "I got a phone call asking me would I join the Beatles and I said yes" is among the highlights of the July 10 Books and Manuscripts auction at Christie’s London. READ MORE ORIGINAL “BIRTHDAY” LYRICS PART OF NEW BEATLES AUCTION KSHE95 A new collection of memorabilia from The Beatles is now up for auction through ANALOGr.  Coinciding with Paul McCartney’s 82nd birthday on June 18, the new auction includes handwritten original lyrics to The Beatles’ “Birthday,” written on the back of an Apple Studio recording sheet. It even includes chord diagrams helping John Lennon and George Harrison with the guitar parts.  The unique piece of Beatles history has an estimated sale price of between $125,000 and $200,000. READ MORE JOHN LE
Read more

BEATLES NEWS - Monday 17th June 2024

Image
PAUL MCCARTNEY ANNOUNCES UK SHOWS INCLUDING TWO NIGHTS IN MANCHESTER Dianne Bourne / Manchester Evening News Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has announced he is to perform four huge UK tour dates in 2024 in Manchester and London. It will fulfil his promise to perform in the UK again, made at his last show here in 2022.  The music legend announced he is to take his acclaimed Got Back tour out on a world tour last week, and today the first UK dates have been added to his 2024 schedule. READ MORE BEHIND THE ALBUM: THE BEATLES TAKE ANOTHER GIANT LEAP FORWARD WITH ‘RUBBER SOUL’ Jim Beviglia/American Songwriter Some albums have cool stories surrounding their making that garner attention for them. The 1966 Beatles’ album Rubber Soul doesn’t really fall into that category. By all counts, it was the same-old, same-old for the Fab Four when they made the record, squeezing it into their busy schedule and churning out the latest material they’d written. READ MORE WHY PAUL MCCARTNEY WROTE HEY JUD
Read more