| Happy Summer Beatle People!
It’s time
for another Beatle Blast from your pals at Beatle Brunch. We hope
you are having a cool summer, staying away from tornadoes, floods
and hurricanes and partying down with The Beatles and Beatle Brunch
every week.
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The Fest in Las Vegas
Hits the Jackpot!
Well the Las Vegas fest is all a blurry memory…all we have
are the great pictures we shot and those that were sent to us, plus
holes in our pockets where “donations” were made to the
various slots and tables in Sin City, and of course, the ever bloated
collection of Beatles’ memorabilia that we wrested home!
 We
met some new Beatle Brunch fans as well, like Jon
Blosdale, the extremely talented artist who has designed
the latest Beatles cartoon art depicting The Beatles Cartoon series
on ABC Saturday Morning television. You can check out Jon’s
work at www.beatlescartoon.com
and pay special attention to this piece, entitled “Penny
Lane”. This framed selection is our current Mind Games
grand prize. We’ll be qualifying winners until the end of August
and awarding this work of art to one lucky Beatle Brunch Listener
… maybe you!
 Joe
Johnson, Tony Perkins, Don E. Gee and our huge Beatle Brunch
family had a FAB time hob-nobbing with Beatles’ royalty, like
Mark and Brett Hudson, Pattie Boyd, Donovan
and many others.
The only thing that could top this extended weekend would be turning
up the Fab-Fun in Chicago the weekend of August 8-10th. We hope
to see all of our Brunch listeners and BBC members there as well.
Joe J will be hosting Beatles Trivia
and Name That Beatle Tune for incredible
Beatles prizes, like DVDs, CDs, signed books, posters, Beatle Brunch
gear and so much more. Make sure you stop by and say hey, so Joe
can put you on our next Beatle Brunch request show.
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My Baby's Request
 Hey
speaking of requests, did you know that Beatle Brunch Club members
are given a secret phone number and email address to make a request
right on the show?
That’s right, you won’t find the number listed on 411
or posted around the net … this number is just for members
of The BBC. In addition, BBC members also get to watch and listen
to “The After Brunch”, an extra segment of Beatle Brunch
plus they can win our monthly BBC drawing of Beatle DVDs and more,
and all new members get a welcome gift … a custom made Beatle
Brunch Club guitar pin (shown here) and a weekend stay at hotel.
Join up and see how for about 7-cents a day, you can be well on
your way to the most exclusive membership this side of the Yellow
Submarine.
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Take a Magical Mystery Tour
You only live once…unless
you’ve joined us on a past Beatle Brunch cruise, in which case,
you’re about to live it up again.
We’re rolling up Royal Caribbean’s
Enchantment of the Seas and heading South around the Florida
Keys to Key West and Cozumel
on August 28-September 1st for
a Fab Brunch Cruise filled with Beatles music from the great Beatles
tribute band, The Return, Mr. Ed Rudy,
who interviewed and got to know The Beatles in 1964 and 65, Miami
Deejay Rick Shaw, plus your host,
Joe Johnson who will tease your
mind with a Beatle Brunch maze of trivia drills, Name That Tune,
Beatles Kareoke, special Beatle presentations, lectures and so much
more.
 Reserve
your space on this cruise before it’s sold out. Only a limited
number of cabins remain and you must book it through our cruise
partner, Cruise One to be included in our group. Tell ‘em you
heard about it on Beatle Brunch! Book online at www.ycruise.com,
or call 877-227-7775. The cruise
departs out of Ft. Lauderdale and returns Labor Day Monday. So come
on! What are you waiting for?
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 Pete
Best
New Release, Haymans Green
The autobiographical CD reflects Pete’s thoughts and feelings
as he takes us from the time he was a Beatle (which included the
famous Hamburg, Germany tour dates, and the BBC, Polydor, Decca,
and EMI recordings), before mysteriously getting fired, to the anguish
of losing the gig and then finding his own way as The Beatles went
on to superstardom.
The eleven tracks recorded by The Pete Best Band are, in essence,
a musical documentary encapsulating Pete’s mind-set and reflections
about those now famous days.
 The
CD will be available September 16th on the Casbah Club label, released
through Lightyear Entertainment and distributed by Caroline/EMI.
For more information, the official Pete Best Band website is www.petebest.com.
And In The End
Well that’s about it for this edition
of The Beatle Brunch Newsletter. We want all of you to become members
of The Beatle Brunch Club and if you are members, please don’t
hesitate to tell us what we can do to make the website better.
We have just added the video version of The
AfterBrunch, so you can see and hear Joe J tell you more
about this week’s show. We are still working on, testing and
refining our Beatle Brunch Live Chat
Page. As soon as we get our software where it can handle all the
“wings” needed to chat around the world, we’ll activate
that feature on the BBC.
Meanwhile, please join up, get your friends to join and be a part
of the fastest growing Beatles community on the net. Remember, all
BBC members get a nice introductory Brunch Gift,
which retails for more than your membership cost, so you’re
ahead before you even join.
The Beatle Brunch
Club:
It’s getting better all the time …
thanks to you.
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Have a great summer!
We hope to see you on board the Labor Day Cruise, in Chicago or
inside the BBC very soon! So cheers from the Beatle Brunch Gang
- Joe Johnson, Don E. Gee, Bob River, Tony Perkins, Rob &
Deb, Tom Frangione, Tom Fontaine, Anthony Parisi, Bill “Mr.
Beatle” Haack and the rest of our Brunch family.
 All
You Need Is Love.
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LIVE
CHAT WITH
PETE BEST
BBC members will be invited to join in a live, intimate chat
with the one and only, !
Listen to Beatle Brunch for more details and stay in touch
with the website. On that evening Pete will be at The Casbah’s
Computer Café to personally answer BBC’ers for
a full 45 minute Live Chat. And that will happen ONLY on Joe
Johnson’s Beatle Brunch Club! We hope you’ll be
there with all your questions. Look for a new Live Chat every
month on The BBC. Ready to join now?
It's
Wonderful To Be Here.
It's Certainly
A Thrill
On The BBC!
Many of you have expressed your appreciation of the site's
new features, but some of you haven't. We're not mind readers,
you know. Please tell us ... Say, Say Say, good or bad, it'll
help us make it better. Please send your comments to, Donnie@BrunchRadio.com
It won't be long before you belong to the coolest Beatles
Community in the world! We thank you for your support.
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to our new interactive site.
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Read the
today, oh
boy!
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Have you
seen the Page
Lately? Watch cool Beatle videos and get our Guitar Hero,
Jim Blue’s Beatle guitar lesson. Send him a note
with a riff you want to learn
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See and
hear Joe Johnson’s “”
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Take The Magical
Tour, the ultimate Beatles trivia challenge
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Call The
BBC Private phone line with your e-mail address and phone
number to record a personal song
and we may select yours to air on The Brunch.
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Post
your messages on The
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Participate
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Beatle Brunch would like to congratulate
Lee O'Leary,
Lee’s membership in the BBC led him to write a very nice
letter (you can read it on the Letters Page on The BBC) and
we do appreciate it. His family listens to The Brunch in Manitowoc,
Wisconsin (we hear they make great icemakers there) on .
Hey Lee - are you planning to
take the family to Mexico or The Caribbean for your holiday
3 day/2 night travel package? I'm sure the hotel is big enough.
Groucho Marx once said to a woman who had 10 kids that he
likes a good cigar, but he takes it out of his mouth once
in a while.
Anyway, you won the DVD, “”.
Anyone can win IF they’re a BBC Member.
Nancy
Hunter Wins The Labor Day Weekend Beatle Brunch Cruise!
Nancy was the Mind Games winner from April and she writes
this letter:
I am from Columbus, Indiana and used to listen to Beatle
Bruch on station 104.9 but they haven't had it on for some
time and I can't find it anywhere. I really miss it. If you
know of a local station that plays it, let me know!
I'm so excited about the cruise! I've never been on one before.
It's especially exciting having ALL Beatle fans on board!
Thank you so much!
Nancy
BEATLE NEWS
There’s some new Beatles news this summer as well. We
all enjoyed seeing
a few weeks ago. Those of us in our group agreed that this
ASB was the most powerful yet, and we really enjoyed hearing
The Average White Band songs that Hamish Stuart played plus,
what a thrill hearing Gary Wright tell the story of how he
wrote “Dream Weaver” after a story George told him.
As for ,
he’s played some monumental shows in the past few months,
most notably, ”.
Our own
was there and reported that Shea shook like a subway station
when Paul joined Billy on stage for several Beatle numbers,
finally closing down the joint with “”.
What a night!
Imagine
“owning” Abbey Road instead of Park Place or Boardwalk,
and marching around the game in a strawberry?
Look for Beatles Monopoly at www.thefest.com.
The news reports say that all of the songs have been digitally
re-mastered, which leads us to believe that a deal with i-tunes
has been struck.
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