Andy Williams and The Carpenters Sing Bacharach/Lennon-McCartney

Almost too good to be true, but here it is!

I'll Never Fall in Love Again/Ticket to Ride

The Beatles Sing Bacharach

Baby It's You

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1968

On the curl: (c) 1968 King Features Subafilms Ltd., Primrose Confectionary Ltd. Siough England

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1968

On the curl: (c) 1968 King Features Subafilms Ltd., Primrose Confectionary Ltd. Siough England

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1968

On the curl: (c) 1968 King Features Subafilms Ltd., Primrose Confectionary Ltd. Siough England

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1968

On the curl: (c) 1968 King Features Subafilms Ltd., Primrose Confectionary Ltd. Siough England

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1960s?

Paul McCartney

Phone photo 2363

It's been a hard night's day

And I've been sleepin' like a cat

It's been a hard night's day

You think you'll sit here? Imagine that!

'Cause I sleep here all day

And then I get up and play

And eat and groom and poop.

Morty Comix # 2483

It was getting really cold, wet, and dark. So Ron, Louise and I raced to film this distribution of Morty Comix # 2483 for the Bezango WA documentary before we all froze to death. The target was the display of the ancient horse-drawn fire engine and the second oldest locomotive in Washington exhibited in McCleary's Beerbower Park. In recent years, this park attraction has been enhanced during the holiday season by festive lights.

Here's a phone photo I took last year of the same site at night. It has a sense of fun and I like it.

So I managed to slip Morty Comix # 2483 into a crack of one of the supporting logs holding up the roof. It used to be this display was out in the open, but sometime in the late 1980s/early 1990s this chain link cage was constructed to protect the relics.  Ron and Louise filmed the whole episode.

After this freezing event we returned to the warm and comfy confines of Steve's Acres of Cats. Ron and Louise conducted another interview with me. Well I hope you come and see me in the movies, then I’ll know that you will plainly see the biggest fool that ever hit the big time, and all I gotta do is act naturally.

It looks like Ron and Louise and I will have at least one more caper in the very near future before their filming is complete.

Morty Comix # 2437

Morty Comix # 2437 was tucked into the back inside jacket flap of a library book, a biography of George Harrison, and then returned to a branch of the Timberland Regional Library.

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Rutles: All You Need is Cash

"I have always thought in the back of my mind, 'Cheese and Onions'
I have always thought that the world was unkind, 'Cheese and Onions'
Do I have to spell it out ? 'C-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S', oh no."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 60]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Magical Mystery Tour

"Good morning Miss Winters Miss Winters Miss Winters."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 70]

Favorite Movie Quotes: A Hard Day's Night

"We know how to behave! We've had lessons."

Steve Charak's Beatles Lists

My friend Steve Charak and I shared an enjoyment of compiling useless information. We also liked the Beatles and seeing if we could stump each other with questions of trivia.

Here are some lists Steve compiled, I'm betting they are from the early 1990s. In the last list, Steve knew I acquired cover versions of the Fab Four and was wondering if I would ever find cover versions of this particular set. I did. Here they are:

You Know My Name, Look Up the Number
Ballard Beatles (Bruce and Joan Chrislip)
Beatles (Anthology)
Micky Saunders
Greg Stomberg

Inner Light
Beatles (Rarities)
Micky Saunders
Soulful Strings
Dan Susnara

Blue Jay Way
Bentmen
Buddha Pest
Ken Clinger (2 versions)
Mike Grossman (2 versions)
Steve Kahn
Lord Sitar
C. Newman
Poets
Micky Saunders
Bud Shank
Squires of the Subterrain

Flying
Beatles (remastered)
Big City Orchestra
Ken Clinger (6 versions)
Joe Goldmark
Mike Grossman
Residents
Micky Saunders
Bud Shank
Shockabilly
Frank Sidebottom
Russ Stedman

Don't Pass Me By
Beatles (Anthology)
Beatles (Rarities)
Contrello
Georgia Satellites
Micky Saunders (2 versions)

Yes It Is
Beatles (Anthology)
Don Henley
In-Sect
Robert Quine and Jody harris
Peter Sellers
Dan Susnara

And Your Bird Can Sing
Ann Dyer & No Good Time Fairies
Beatles (Anthology)
Ray Carmen
Charles River Valley Boys
Food
Jam
Roger Klug
Laxton's Supreme
R. Stevie Moore
Stars On 45
Joemy Wilson (as I recall, Steve Charak himself told me about this one)
Wretched Pinhead Puppets

No Reply
Banda de los Corazones Solitarios
Beatles (Anthology, 2 versions)
Big Ben Banjo Band
Cavemen
Floyd Domino
David Dziubcyzynski
Hollyridge Strings
Last Words
Leeves
Jeff Olson
RRSO Symphony Orchestra
Stars On 45 (3 versions)

Only a Northern Song
Beatles (Anthology)
Empty Set
Micky Saunders (3 versions)

I'll Follow the Sun
Chet Atkins
David Ball
Brothers Four
Floyd Cramer
Floyd Domino
Hollyridge Strings
Glyn Johns
King's Singers
Koppykats
Kit Walker

In addition, here are the least covered Beatle songs I gathered (by Beatle song I mean one they composed and recorded themselves):

All I've Got to Do
Lester Lanin
George Martin

Another Girl
Lester Lanin

Ask Me Why
Beatles (bootleg)
Rosy Beats

Dig It
Beatles (2 bootlegs)
Laibach

Don't Bother Me
Big Ben Banjo Band
I-Tones
Bob Leaper

Dr. Robert
Mike Grossman
Laxton's Superb
Micky Saunders

Hold Me Tight
Baroque Beatles
Rubber Soul
Treasures

I Need You
Bee Gees
Lester Lanin and his Go-Go Getters
Micky Saunders

I'll Get You
Beatles (Anthology)
Big Ben Banjo Band
Leon Young String Chorale

Long Long Long
Moon Flower
Phish
Micky Saunders

Love You To
Bongwater
Don Randi
Micky Saunders

Tell Me What You See
Mike Grossman
Teenage Fanclub

What Goes On
Charles River Valley Boys
Orphan
Micky Saunders

What You're Doing
Lester Lanin
Micky Saunders

When I Get Home
Micky Saunders

You Like Me Too Much
Waikikis

News from the Record

The Record, a periodical from the Washington State University Friends of the Library, had brief articles about the comix collection as well as the Lynn Hansen Beatles collection.

City Limits Gazette # ... (Jan. 1993)

Logo by Chad Woody, an issue top heavy with contributions to the Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic - Andrew Roller - Matt Love - Jeffrey Kipper - "Thad Willis" - Kel Crum - Gary Usher, The Incredible Upsidedowns of Old Man [Gustave] Verbeck by Hank Arakelian, CLG reader profile of Bob Vojtko, Randy Reynaldo on NPR's zine explosion coverage, bad cover versions of You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.

City Limits Gazette # ZZZZZZZerk-gigga-gigga-BOINK! (Dec. 1992)

Logo by Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, Edd Vick sends us Comics F/X leftovers, Lynn Hansen remembers Jane Oliver, Maximum Traffic responds to McJacksonstein, Bil Keane Watch by Randy H. Crawford, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher, how many people are in this thing anyway?, bad cover versions of You Can't Do That, You Like Me Too Much, You Never Give Me Your Money, You Won't See Me, Your Mother Should Know, You're Going to Lose That Girl, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, another Bil Keane Watch.