Behind the Scenes at “I Love Lucy”.

Ever wonder what it might have been like to be in the audience at an “I Love Lucy” filming? Here is some show footage juxtaposed with 8mm film shot during the recording. Some fascinating insight to what the studio audience saw.

Brian Wilson’s Gift to Glenn Campbell

A great story and a terrific, little-heard very early Glen Campbell record from 1965. Written and produced by Brian Wilson. A great read and a great listen. Enjoy.

This Week’s Best of Mental Floss:

15 fateful facts about Gilligan’s Island. Obscure song lyrics explained. Six famous jingles written by Barry Manilow.

More 1966 Keener summer gold.

Billy Stewart’s updated version of George Gershwin’s “Summertime”. This one really brings back some memories of that summer to me.

The Beatles Isolated Vocal Tracks from Abby Road:

Via Tom Caswell’s Blog:

The Abbey Road Medley, one of the greatest musical pieces ever put together. Fantastic, sublime, exceptional, mind blowing, stunning: all words that can be used to describe it. Never before or since has another band done something so extraordinary as what The Beatles did on Abbey Road but it just got a whole lot better with this isolated vocal track from the entire Medley.

With the music stripped away you’re able to hear the power of the vocals in their raw and isolated state but also backing vocals and double tracked vocals as well. In some cases you can hear Paul or John talk between verses or sentences which are completely inaudible in the final studio version. This is one of those isolated tracks that just needs to be heard: