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* In September 1968, the Black Dyke Mills Band released a single on The Beatles’ Apple Records label. The A-side was an instrumental composed by Lennon–McCartney called "Thingumybob" (the theme to a Yorkshire Television sitcom of the same name starring Stanley Holloway). The flipside was a brass band instrumental version of another Lennon–McCartney song, "Yellow Submarine". The single was released under the name John Foster & Son Ltd Black Dyke Mills Band, produced by McCartney, and was one of the first four singles issued on the Apple label.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dyke_Band

* В 1968 году Пол Маккартни сочинил музыкальную тему под названием "Thingumybob", специально для еженедельного комедийного телешоу под тем же названием. Он же выступил продюсером записи этой композиции известным духовым оркестром "Black Dyke Mills Band", которая вышла на сингле, только начинавшей набирать обороты, битловской фирмы "Apple".

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* На обратной стороне сингла те же музыканты, под чутким руководством Пола, записали кавер-версию песни "Битлз" - "Yellow Submarine".
Эта пластинка была одним из четырёх первых релизов "Apple".


* Продукция фирмы "Apple" - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records_discography

* The Black Dyke Mills Band, a brass band from Yorkshire, England, was nne of Apple Records' first signings. On this day Paul McCartney recorded them performing the Lennon-McCartney 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. The single, credited to John Foster & Sons Ltd Black Dyke Mills Band, was released as Apple 1800 in the US on 26 August, and in the UK as Apple 4 on 6 September.

He was also 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.

- http://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/06/30/paul-mccartney-records-thingumybob-by-black-dyke...



* Paul recorded The Black Dyke Mills Band in Saltaire, near Bradford, playing one of his own compositions, 'Thingumybob' (which he wrote as the theme tune for a London Weekend Television comedy series of the same name) and 'Yellow Submarine' as a B-side.

- http://www.mccartney2.chat.ru/books/diary/m12_1968.html

* Запись была организована на родине музыкантов брасс-бэнда - в небольшой деревушке Saltaire ( near Shipley ), в округе Bradford, в Западном Йоркшире ( West Yorkshire ).

* Существует целый ряд снимков от 30 июня 1968 года (называются и другие даты), сделанных - то ли на репетиции, то ли на концерте или на самой записи, кто в курсе - проясните ? Эти фото предлагаю собрать в этой теме.

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* English musician, singer, songwriter, and composer Paul McCartney records the Lennon/McCartney composition "Thingumybob" with the Black Dyke Mills Band in Saltaire, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, 30 June 1968.

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Пол и на трубе играет)) Помню когда-то мне попался в руки саксофон. Чтоб просто хоть какой-то звук из него издать мне понадобилось полдня тренировок)) А уж играть ...