Loki, God of Mischief (Thursday 16 November 2023)

It was too grey and grim to walk into Calne for the next picture in my mini-series, so instead I drove over to Trowbridge to get a portrait of a certain cat. Here he is avidly watching an animal programme on the TV.

L.
Thursday 16.11.2023 (2000 hr)

Blip #3997 (#3747 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #202/265 + #088/100 Extras
Day #4983 (1178 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3137 (#2977 + 160 in archived blips)

C's Cats series
Cats series
Macro series

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 M4/3 compact with flash

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Beatles - Love Me Do (2023 Mix) ('Ringo' version, recorded 4 September 1962, EMI Studios, London)
One of the draws of the new 2023 edition of the Beatles' Red Album compilation, while I am still in Beatle Nerd mode, is the newly demixed and remixed stereo versions of early Beatles records from an era were mono was dominant, and where stereo mixes were available they were very rudimentary, often with vocals occupying one channel and everything else in the other, making them sound very strange if listened to binaurally, i.e. on headphones. Indeed two tracks had never been issued in true stereo before, Love Me Do and She Loves You.
Love Me Do has an interesting history as they attempted it at their first visit to Abbey Road on 6 June 1962, when they were auditioning for the record label and their drummer was Pete Best. That version saw the light of day when Anthology 1 was released. They tried 15 takes of it on their second session, by which time Pete Best had been replaced by Ringo Starr, but George Martin wasn't happy with the drums so on the third session, on 11 September, a session drummer was hired and Ringo was left just rattling a tambourine.
This was the version that made it onto the album Please Please Me and all re-pressings of the single. However, the first copies of the debut single, those with a red Parlophone label, were mis-pressed using the earlier Ringo version. That master was then destroyed, so when the Ringo version was needed for an album compilation it had to be mastered from red labelled vinyl pressings, one from the National Music Library and one from the BBC Gramophone Library (where I used to work).
Thanks to Peter Jackson's Machine-Assisted Learning (MAL) process (not to be confused with AI) for this new release any surface noise has been more or less eliminated, the vocals and instruments cleaned up, and a true stereo 'picture' created.
A later version with Ringo back on drums was recorded by the BBC and was broadcast on 23 July 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles on the radio Light Programme, and can be found on the anthology Live At The BBC.

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