Breakfast With The Beatles: Recent Episodes
Port Broadcasting
Resident Beatles’ fanatic Cha-Chi Loprete hosts this fab four two-hour program from 10am – 12pm featuring interviews, Beatles history, Beatles giveaways and lots of Beatles music including rarities, live recordings and the spoken word of John, Paul, George and Ringo. Working in Boston radio for over 25 years has given Cha-Chi the rare opportunity to meet and interview many in the Beatles inner circle. In addition to interviewing Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr severals times each, he also interviewed George Harrison during his Traveling Wilbury days, George Martin, Yoko Ono, Cynthia & Julian Lennon, Patti Boyd, Pete Best, Denny Laine, Peter Brown, May Pang, Pauline Sutcliff and many others.
Sept 19th: BWTB Summertime of Beatle Albums Sides
Side 1 Songs, Pictures and Stories of The Fabulous Beatles
Aug 29th: BWTB Summertime of Beatle Album Sides: Featuring Side 1 Paul McCartney’s Ram in Mono.
Part 4 of our 4-part exclusive interview with Pete Shotton
Aug 22st: BWTB Summertime of Beatle Album Sides: Featuring Side 1 of Please Please Me
Part 3 of our 4-part exclusive interview with Pete Shotton
Aug 15th: BWTB Summertime of Beatle Album Sides: Featuring Side 1 of Sgt Pepper
Part 2 of our 4-part exclusive interview with Pete Shotton
June 27th: We Kick off our BWTB Summertime of Beatles’ Album Sides! Today we track Side 1 of Meet The Beatles in Capitol Records mono
May 30th – Ringo had many hits in the early 70’s thanks to his Beatle bandmates. We’ll play some of those hits from his solo catalogue
May 23rd – Extra tracks from the Paul McCartney Solo Catalogue including recorded tracks from Wings recorded at the Boston Garden on May 22nd, 1976.
May 9th - Extra tracks and alternate versions of songs from The Beatles’ “Let It Be” album, released on this day in 1970 in the UK
April 25th We’ll play extra tracks from the newly released John Lennon Plastic Ono Band Deluxe Box Set.
April 18th John reunites with his long lost dad this month back in 1964. We’ll tell Fred Lennon’s story and hear the song he released “That’s My Life”.
April 11th We celebrate Julian Lennon’s Birthday with songs written about Julian and we’ll track Julian’s biggest hits!
March 28th: John Lennon produced the Harry Nilsson “PussyCats” album on this day, we’ll feature songs John wrote specifically for that album!
March 21st: Featuring extra tracks and stories from The Beatles first album in the UK “Please Please Me” released this week I963!
Feb 14th – It’s our Breakfast With The Beatles Valentine’s Day Show! We’ll play lots of Beatles and solo Beatles Love Songs!
Feb 7th – The Beatles Arrived in America this week in 1964. We will hear news coverage and clips from The Beatles first ever performance on the The Ed Sullivan Show!
Jan 24th It is our Beatles outtake show! The vast majority of the show will feature alternate versions and Beatle and solo Beatle outtakes!
Jan 17th This week in 1967 The Beatles began work on “A Day In The Life”! We’ll dissect the recording and go in between the grooves for the real story
Jan 10th We celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass Box Set
Dec 27th We’ll hear the 1969 Beatles Fan Club Christmas Message to their fans as well as more Beatles Christmas classics; including Ringo singing ‘Little Drummer Boy’!
Dec 20th - We will hear the Christmas Classic ‘The Christmas Song’ sung by Paul McCartney, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer performed by Ringo and The Beatles 1968 Fan Club Christmas Message!
We’ll hear vintage radio spots highlighting the release of the John Lennon ‘Double Fantasy’ album plus we’ll hear the 1966 Beatles Fan Club Christmas Message!
Dec 6th - We will hear vintage PSA’s recorded by Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson and others for the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, recorded in 1981 in response to John Lennon’s murder at the hands of a crazed gunman.
Nov 29th – John Lennon joined Elton John onstage at Madison Square Garden on Nov 28th in 1974 to pay off a bet. We’ll hear vintage audio from that evening and exactly what that bet was!
Nov 22st – Remastered songs, alternate versions and outtakes from The White Album, released in America this week in 1968
Back on November 17th 1968, George Harrison made a special appearance on The Smothers Brothers TV show. We’ll air that audio on the show!
Nov 8th - The Beatles comment on all this “Election Business” in a rare interview from 1964.
Oct 25th – Behind the scenes of The Beatles receiving their MBE Awards this week in 1969