With The Beatles Playlists
By scottorourke on Thu, 09/04/2025 - 12:36am
Tonight on With The Beatles
We’re spinning deep into Beatles and solo-Beatles history this week, including:
Ringo’s first-ever session with the Beatles – recording “Love Me Do” and “How Do You Do It”
Celebrating John Lennon’s One to One concerts at Madison Square Garden
Reliving the Anthology excitement
Eric Clapton records that iconic guitar solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
Ringo & the All-Starr Band play their first-ever gig at the Greek Theatre in 1989
Paul & Linda hit #1 with “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”
The Beatles play Philadelphia on tour
Plus — a special guest interview with author & SiriusXM producer Scott G. Shea
Tributes & birthdays: Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, and Gary Wright
New releases, deep cuts, and listener requests!
By scottorourke on Thu, 08/28/2025 - 12:38am
Tonight on With The Beatles
Step back in time with us as we revisit some unforgettable moments in Beatles history!
Highlights include:
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1965)
The Beatles’ final concert (1966)
John Lennon’s One to One concerts
Paul McCartney releases Press to Play
Remembering Brian Epstein
The Beatles meet Elvis (1965)
Ringo wraps up Old Wave sessions
The Beatles meet Bob Dylan (1964)
Birthdays & tributes: Mary McCartney, Steve Holley, Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello and Barbara Bach
Plus: new Beatles-related releases, listener requests, Beatles history, and more musical
By scottorourke on Thu, 08/21/2025 - 12:30am
Join us tonight as we dive deep into Beatles history and beyond:
The final Beatles photo shoot
Ringo quits the band — and they record “Back in the USSR”
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, 1964
New John Lennon Power to the People live box set
Paul’s experimental Liverpool Sound Collage
Rare BBC recordings
Birthdays & tributes to Keith Moon, Vicki Brown, and Don Everly
Plus new releases, history, requests & more gems!
By scottorourke on Thu, 08/14/2025 - 12:37am
Tonight on With The Beatles
Highlights include:
The legendary Shea Stadium concert of 1965
Beatles For Sale sessions
More White Album sessions
A Hard Day’s Night opens in U.S. theaters in 1964
The beginning of Woodstock
Pete Best joins The Beatles in 1960 — and is sacked in 1962
Tributes to Norman Petty & Elvis Presley
Mary Hopkin releases “Those Were The Days” on Apple Records
A new announcement from the Lennon camp about a possible live box set
A Paul McCartney song trending on TikTok
New Beatles-related releases, history, listener requests & more gems!
By scottorourke on Thu, 08/07/2025 - 12:31am
TONIGHT on With The Beatles
Tune in for another magical mystery journey through Beatles history — packed with rare gems, milestones, new music, and listener requests!
This Week’s Highlights:
• The Beatles record “Not Guilty” during the White Album sessions
• The release of Revolver
• Paul announces Wings in 1971
• John begins Double Fantasy sessions
• Classic BBC recordings
• Abbey Road album photoshoot
• Fresh Beatles-connected releases: Pete Ham, Elvis rehearsing “Something,” Russ Spiegel, JJ Heller, and the New York Festival of Song
Plus: Deep cuts, surprises, and your requests — all woven together in true Beatle style.
By scottorourke on Thu, 07/31/2025 - 12:29am
Tonights show
Beatles Era Highlights:
• “Hey Jude” takes shape in the studio
• Help! movie premieres
• Ringo’s believed first Cavern appearance (1958)
• Concert for Bangladesh rocks Madison Square Garden
• Lennon & Ono connect with Jack Douglas
• Beatles-related BBC sessions and gems
• A Sam Phillips tribute
Plus: listener requests, soulful covers, and deep tracks you didn’t know you needed.
By scottorourke on Thu, 07/24/2025 - 12:30am
Tonights episode is packed with deep Beatles history, rare recordings, and fresh new sounds:
Paul McCartney records Come and Get It — later handed to Badfinger
George lays down “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
BBC Sessions from 1963
Paul’s CHOBA B CCCP (Russian rock & roll album)
Ringo’s first All-Starr Band tour (1989)
Remembering Connie Francis
Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
Revisiting the Sgt. Pepper movie & soundtrack (1978)
Beatles scout islands in Greece (1967)
A full set of Beatles/Solo sequel songs
New music from Pete Ham, The Get Right Band, Kaiak, and NY Festival of Song feat. Theo Hoffman
Plus listener requests, rare gems, and more!
By scottorourke on Thu, 07/17/2025 - 12:33am
Tonight on With The Beatles – Midnight EST on WUSB.fm
This week’s episode is packed with birthdays, Beatles history, and heartfelt tributes.
Birthdays: Dion, Linda Ronstadt, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, and Martha Reeves
Tribute to Brian Clarke – the brilliant painter behind several Paul McCartney album covers
Tribute to Johnny Winter – blues legend who brought fire to rock ‘n’ roll
Celebrating Yellow Submarine (1968)
BBC sessions from 1963–64
Highlights from With The Beatles and White Album sessions
Remembering Julia Lennon (1958)
Wings hits #1 in 1975
Ringo & the All Starrs play Montreux (1992)
New music from Pete Ham, Chris Cheek, and Mantra of the Cosmos
Plus: listener requests, Beatles gems & more!
By scottorourke on Thu, 07/10/2025 - 12:38am
Tonight’s With The Beatles celebrates Ringo Starr’s birthday with 3 packed hours of:
Ringo’s Big Birthday Set
Songs written for, by, or with Ringo
His iconic drumming moments
Fan-favorite solo tracks
And a special request segment just for Ringo love!
Historic Moments
July 6, 1957 – The day John met Paul
Rare Quarrymen recordings from the early years
More Abbey Road sessions and behind-the-scenes stories
The Live Set
Solo Beatles performing live with Ringo connections
Songs from the legends they looked up to — in honor of History of Rock ’n’ Roll Day (July 7)
Something New Segment
Pete Ham (Badfinger) – newly released demos
Chris Cheek – jazzy cover of “From Me to You”
Sije Nergaard – a gorgeous take on “Here, There and Everywhere”
Plus:
Listener requests
Beatles songs gifted to or made famous by Ringo
Cool facts and moments you may not have heard before!
By scottorourke on Thu, 07/03/2025 - 12:37am
Tonight's highlights:
• 1966 Budokan performance
• Abbey Road & Imagine sessions
• George Harrison hits #1 over Wings in 1973
• Beatles-era Hammond Organ spotlight
Something New Segment:
• Emily Linge – Eleanor Rigby
• Pete Ham (Badfinger) – Acoustic gems
• Thor – Back in the U.S.S.R.
Tributes: Brian Jones, Bill Withers & Mo Foster
Plus your requests and hidden gems!
By scottorourke on Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:27am
Tonight’s Highlights:
• Lennon & McCartney write “She Loves You”
• George Harrison produces “Sour Milk Sea”
• The Beatles record “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide…”
• Ringo begins work on Beaucoups of Blues
• A Hard Day’s Night released in the U.S.
• Wings Over America hits #1
• Rare BBC performances
• “All You Need Is Love” — Our World anniversary
Something New Segment:
• Pete Ham (Badfinger) – acoustic demos
• Emily Linge – “Eleanor Rigby”
• Marc Travis Coldfield – “Helter Skelter”
Tributes:
• Carly Simon & Bruce Johnston birthdays
• Beatles covers by Michael Jackson
• Remembering George Michael
• Honoring Mick Ralphs, co-writer of “Flying Hour” with George
• Elvis’ final concert — with a Beatles nod
By scottorourke on Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:30am
Hello fellow Beatles fans!
“They say it’s your birthday, and it’s my birthday too, yeah!”
Tonight on With The Beatles, we’re celebrating the legendary Paul McCartney’s birthday! Join us at midnight as we spin classic tunes from Sir Paul’s incredible catalog—we're gonna have some fun tonight!
But that’s not all…
We’re also honoring the late, great Brian Wilson, who shares a close enough birthday with Paul. We’ll dedicate an entire hour to exploring the deep and beautiful connections between The Beatles and The Beach Boys—don’t miss this tribute to two of pop music’s greatest minds. It’s going to be nothing but “Fun, Fun, Fun!”
Plus:
Beatles history
New releases
Your requests
By scottorourke on Thu, 06/12/2025 - 12:19am
Tonights show we’ll talk about the Beatles getting MBEs from the Queen, some recording sessions that took place this week from the Help, and White Album sessions, we’ll talk about Paul playing with The Boss in Liverpool, Johns final performance in the famous Red Jump Suit and Ringo and The All Starrs hitting the road, we also pay tribute to Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Plus we have more history, new releases, and more fun gems.
By scottorourke on Thu, 06/05/2025 - 12:13am
Tonight on With the Beatles we’ll highlight sessions from 1962, 1964 and some more White Album Sessions. In edition we have some major birthdays and passings such as the 5th Beatle Billy Preston, Tom Evans from Badfinger, Gordon Waller from Peter and Gordon, and Wings member Jimmy McCulloch. Plus that’s not all, we still have history, new releases, some requests and much more.
By scottorourke on Thu, 05/29/2025 - 12:15am
Tonight’s show well highlight some Esher Demos that were demoed by the Beatles but eventually released on later solo albums, and the beginning of the sessions of the White Album, plus we’ll look at sessions from George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and John Lennon’s Imagine album. In edition to some birthdays, some history, some requests and much more!
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