Post by mommybird on Oct 24, 2007 18:15:31 GMT -5
I have always been confused as to who used that name as a pseudonym. I have been getting mixed messages about it for a long time. So, I finally researched it. I read that "Paul" McCartney had used that pseudonym when he produced " The Urban Spaceman " for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
I researched it & this is what I came up with:
Reference Library: Dr. Winston O' Who?
From: "Edward J. Igoe" <ejigoe@ix.netcom.NET>
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Subject: Re: Pseudonyms
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:21:06 -0500
Kevin Chaple wrote:
> I know George used L'Angelo Mysterioso with Cream, John used a whole
> slew of fake names- does anybody know any others? Did Ringo or Paul
> ever use any? And what were all the ones John used?
From my P.N.T.B.P. book:
Which two Beatles contributed to Cream's hit song "Badge"?
George and Ringo both helped writing. For this song, George used the pseudonym "L'Angelo Misterioso" ("Mysterious Angel"). George also used this pseudonym on an August 1969 Jack Bruce album titled "SONGS FOR A TAILOR", when he played guitar on the song "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune". "Badge" first appeared on a February 1969 Cream album titled "GOODBYE", and later on a single, and several "Greatest hits" compilation albums.
Which Beatles appeared on a song titled "If You've Got Love" on Dave Mason's album "IT'S LIKE YOU NEVER LEFT"?
George, under the pseudonym "Son Of Harry".
Which Beatle once used the pseudonym "Mel Torment"?
John, on his song "Scared" from "WALLS AND BRIDGES".
Who used the pseudonyms "Roy Dyke" and "Eddie Clayton" on George's solo album "WONDERWALL MUSIC"?
Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.
Who was Hari Georgeson?
As one might suspect, "Hari Georgeson" was George Harrison. George used this pseudonym on:
The Ravi Shankar album "SHANKAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS" (Acoustic and Electric Guitars, and Autoharp) The Splinter Album "CHINA LIGHT" (Acoustic Guitar and Mandolin). The Splinter songs "Costafine Town" (Bass and Eight String Bass), "Drink All Day" (Six, Twelve String Guitars and Dobro), "Elly-Mae" (Acoustic Guitar), "Gravy Tain" (Guitar), "Haven't Got Time" (Guitar), "Lonely Man" (Guitar), "The Place I Love" (Acoustic and Electric Guitar), "Situation Vacant" (Guitar), "Somebody's City" (Six, Twelve String, and Electric Guitars). The Billy Preston song "That's Life" (Acoustic guitar and Mandolin) from the album "IT'S MY PLEASURE".
George used the pseudonym of "Jai Raj Harisein" while playing percussion on The Splinter songs "Costafine Town", "Drink All Day", "Haven't Got Time", "The Place I Love", "Somebody's City" from the album "THE PLACE I LOVE" (Which he also Produced). As "George H.", Harrison played lead guitar on Billy Preston's album "I WROTE A SIMPLE SONG".
Who were Dr. Winston, and Booker Table and The Maitre D's?
Alias: John Lennon on the song "Beef Jerky", the "B" side of "Whatever Get's You Through The Night". "Whatever Get's You Through The Night" also appeared on John's "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album.
Who was Percy Thrillington, and what connection did he have with The Beatles?
Percy Thrillington (An Irish bandleader) was an alias used by Paul McCartney on an instrumental version of his "RAM" album, released by MPL Productions. *** It seems that this is another pseudonym used by Faul, not Paul.
Who was The Reverend Fred Gherkin?
Another alias used by John Lennon on his song "Bless You" from the "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album. John also used the names "The Reverend Thumbs Gherkin", on the song "Old Dirt Road", and "Dr. Winston O'Ghurkin" on Going Down On Love" from the same album.
Who were "The Siamese Quads"?
This was a humorous nickname Ringo gave The Beatles.
Who was "Beatcomber"?
This is one of the many pen names John Lennon used when writing to and for Liverpool's "Mersey Beat" Magazine. Bill Harry chose the name for John, because he enjoyed the humor of J.B. Morton's "BEACHCOMBER" which was a regular column in The Daily Express.
Who was Kaptain Kundalini?
One more of John Lennon's many pseudonyms, this time on the song "What You Got", the "B" side of "No. 9 Dream". "No. 9 Dream" featured John using the pseudonym "Dr. Dream". Both of these songs appeared on his "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album.
Who was Billy Martin?
Paul McCartney used this name to book studio time while secretly working on his first solo album "McCARTNEY". *** Faul again
Who was John O'Cean?
Another John Lennon alias, taken from the English translation of Yoko's name: "Ocean Child". John used the name while appearing on Yoko's album "FEELING THE SPACE".
What group consisted of Johnny Silver, Paul Ramon, Carl Harrison, Stu DeStael, and Tommy Moore?
Except for Moore, these were stage names used by The Silver Beatles while touring Scotland May 20-28, 1960 with Johnny Gentile. George's name "Carl" was in honor of one of his guitar heroes, Carl Perkins. Stu Sutcliffe, an artist in his own right, took the last name of a famous painter. Nicholas deStael, who also coincidentally died early in life. Paul used the pseudonym "Paul Ramon" here, and again when he played drums, bass guitar, and sang backing vocals on the song "My Dark Hour" by The Steve Miller Band. "My Dark Hour" appeared on Miller's album "BRAVE NEW WORLD" and on an American single on June 6, 1969. John later vehemently denied ever using the name "Johnny Silver", but other members still claim it's true.
Who was Apollo C. Vermouth?
Paul McCartney used this name when he made an appearance as producer of a song titled "I'm The Urban Spaceman" by The "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band". Paul also used the name when producing a song on which Ringo played drums, titled "New Day" by Apple artist Jackie Lomax. "I'm The Urban Spaceman" appeared on The "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band" albums "PROGRESSIVE HEAVIES", and "THE BEAST OF THE BONZOS" appearing on the Liberty (UK) and IMPERIAL (US) record labels. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band also appeared in the Beatle film "MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR" as the musical accompaniment for the stripper scene.
Who was Richie Snare?
This was an alias used by Ringo Starr on Harry Nilsson's album "SON OF SCHMILSSON". George Harrison also appeared on the album, playing slide guitar on the song "You're Breakin' My Heart" using the pseudonym George Harrysong.
Who was Dwarf McDougal?
John used this name on his "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album. The name refers to the Bob Dylan style of guitar playing John used on some of the tracks. Dwarf was the name of Dylan's music company, while McDougal was the name of the street Dylan's Greenwich Village apartment was on.
-Ed Igoe
www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/pseudonyms.html
[edit] Urban Spaceman and beyond
They had a hit single in 1968 with "I'm the Urban Spaceman" produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the collective pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth". The Beatles were great fans of the group and featured them performing the song "Death Cab for Cutie" in their film Magical Mystery Tour. The anarchic twelve bar blues "Trouser Press" — featuring a solo by Roger Ruskin Spear on a genuine trouser press he had fitted with a pickup — gave its name to an American anglophiliac rock magazine Trouser Press. "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" lampooned the British blues boom, and tap dancer/drummer "Legs" Larry Smith was an onstage hit with his lubricious dancing. Many of their songs parodied parochial suburban British attitudes, notably "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" on the album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (a euphemism for an outside toilet, still common in the United Kingdom at the time).
In 1969 they released the album Keynsham (1969) and also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival. Keynsham is a small town near Bristol in south-west England. The name of the album was almost certainly derived from an advertisement on Radio Luxemburg for a dubious method of forecasting results for football matches (and using these results in football pools). In the advertisement, which was of great length preventing the youthful listeners to the only legal English language station transmitting pop music, the improbably named Horace Batchelor, inventor of 'the amazing Infra Draw method' would drone interminably, repeatedly spelling the name of the town where he lived, and to which the gullible presumably sent money.
The Bonzos toured the United States with The Who and also appeared at the Fillmore East with The Kinks. Intro'd as a "warm-up act" for the real show, the Bonzos rushed out and did a series of frenetic calisthenics. True to the dada spirit, Stanshall performed a mock striptease and Roger Ruskin Spear, with a platoon of robots (including one that sang "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" while actually blowing bubbles), did whatever he did without regard for what the rest of the band was doing. As for "The Canyons of Your Mind", it featured such an incredibly bad guitar solo it drove audiences to open-mouthed delight.
Whilst the group formally disbanded in 1970, their record company compelled them to reunite to record a final album titled Let's Make Up And Be Friendly recorded in 1971 and released in 1972.
One of the Bonzos' song titles, "Cool Britannia", was revived as a media label for late 1990s United Kingdom under Tony Blair (oblivious to the patently satirical intent of the original song).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo_Dah_Band
It seems to me that it was Faul, not Paul, who made up that pseudonym.
I researched it & this is what I came up with:
Reference Library: Dr. Winston O' Who?
From: "Edward J. Igoe" <ejigoe@ix.netcom.NET>
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Subject: Re: Pseudonyms
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:21:06 -0500
Kevin Chaple wrote:
> I know George used L'Angelo Mysterioso with Cream, John used a whole
> slew of fake names- does anybody know any others? Did Ringo or Paul
> ever use any? And what were all the ones John used?
From my P.N.T.B.P. book:
Which two Beatles contributed to Cream's hit song "Badge"?
George and Ringo both helped writing. For this song, George used the pseudonym "L'Angelo Misterioso" ("Mysterious Angel"). George also used this pseudonym on an August 1969 Jack Bruce album titled "SONGS FOR A TAILOR", when he played guitar on the song "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune". "Badge" first appeared on a February 1969 Cream album titled "GOODBYE", and later on a single, and several "Greatest hits" compilation albums.
Which Beatles appeared on a song titled "If You've Got Love" on Dave Mason's album "IT'S LIKE YOU NEVER LEFT"?
George, under the pseudonym "Son Of Harry".
Which Beatle once used the pseudonym "Mel Torment"?
John, on his song "Scared" from "WALLS AND BRIDGES".
Who used the pseudonyms "Roy Dyke" and "Eddie Clayton" on George's solo album "WONDERWALL MUSIC"?
Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.
Who was Hari Georgeson?
As one might suspect, "Hari Georgeson" was George Harrison. George used this pseudonym on:
The Ravi Shankar album "SHANKAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS" (Acoustic and Electric Guitars, and Autoharp) The Splinter Album "CHINA LIGHT" (Acoustic Guitar and Mandolin). The Splinter songs "Costafine Town" (Bass and Eight String Bass), "Drink All Day" (Six, Twelve String Guitars and Dobro), "Elly-Mae" (Acoustic Guitar), "Gravy Tain" (Guitar), "Haven't Got Time" (Guitar), "Lonely Man" (Guitar), "The Place I Love" (Acoustic and Electric Guitar), "Situation Vacant" (Guitar), "Somebody's City" (Six, Twelve String, and Electric Guitars). The Billy Preston song "That's Life" (Acoustic guitar and Mandolin) from the album "IT'S MY PLEASURE".
George used the pseudonym of "Jai Raj Harisein" while playing percussion on The Splinter songs "Costafine Town", "Drink All Day", "Haven't Got Time", "The Place I Love", "Somebody's City" from the album "THE PLACE I LOVE" (Which he also Produced). As "George H.", Harrison played lead guitar on Billy Preston's album "I WROTE A SIMPLE SONG".
Who were Dr. Winston, and Booker Table and The Maitre D's?
Alias: John Lennon on the song "Beef Jerky", the "B" side of "Whatever Get's You Through The Night". "Whatever Get's You Through The Night" also appeared on John's "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album.
Who was Percy Thrillington, and what connection did he have with The Beatles?
Percy Thrillington (An Irish bandleader) was an alias used by Paul McCartney on an instrumental version of his "RAM" album, released by MPL Productions. *** It seems that this is another pseudonym used by Faul, not Paul.
Who was The Reverend Fred Gherkin?
Another alias used by John Lennon on his song "Bless You" from the "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album. John also used the names "The Reverend Thumbs Gherkin", on the song "Old Dirt Road", and "Dr. Winston O'Ghurkin" on Going Down On Love" from the same album.
Who were "The Siamese Quads"?
This was a humorous nickname Ringo gave The Beatles.
Who was "Beatcomber"?
This is one of the many pen names John Lennon used when writing to and for Liverpool's "Mersey Beat" Magazine. Bill Harry chose the name for John, because he enjoyed the humor of J.B. Morton's "BEACHCOMBER" which was a regular column in The Daily Express.
Who was Kaptain Kundalini?
One more of John Lennon's many pseudonyms, this time on the song "What You Got", the "B" side of "No. 9 Dream". "No. 9 Dream" featured John using the pseudonym "Dr. Dream". Both of these songs appeared on his "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album.
Who was Billy Martin?
Paul McCartney used this name to book studio time while secretly working on his first solo album "McCARTNEY". *** Faul again
Who was John O'Cean?
Another John Lennon alias, taken from the English translation of Yoko's name: "Ocean Child". John used the name while appearing on Yoko's album "FEELING THE SPACE".
What group consisted of Johnny Silver, Paul Ramon, Carl Harrison, Stu DeStael, and Tommy Moore?
Except for Moore, these were stage names used by The Silver Beatles while touring Scotland May 20-28, 1960 with Johnny Gentile. George's name "Carl" was in honor of one of his guitar heroes, Carl Perkins. Stu Sutcliffe, an artist in his own right, took the last name of a famous painter. Nicholas deStael, who also coincidentally died early in life. Paul used the pseudonym "Paul Ramon" here, and again when he played drums, bass guitar, and sang backing vocals on the song "My Dark Hour" by The Steve Miller Band. "My Dark Hour" appeared on Miller's album "BRAVE NEW WORLD" and on an American single on June 6, 1969. John later vehemently denied ever using the name "Johnny Silver", but other members still claim it's true.
Who was Apollo C. Vermouth?
Paul McCartney used this name when he made an appearance as producer of a song titled "I'm The Urban Spaceman" by The "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band". Paul also used the name when producing a song on which Ringo played drums, titled "New Day" by Apple artist Jackie Lomax. "I'm The Urban Spaceman" appeared on The "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band" albums "PROGRESSIVE HEAVIES", and "THE BEAST OF THE BONZOS" appearing on the Liberty (UK) and IMPERIAL (US) record labels. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band also appeared in the Beatle film "MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR" as the musical accompaniment for the stripper scene.
Who was Richie Snare?
This was an alias used by Ringo Starr on Harry Nilsson's album "SON OF SCHMILSSON". George Harrison also appeared on the album, playing slide guitar on the song "You're Breakin' My Heart" using the pseudonym George Harrysong.
Who was Dwarf McDougal?
John used this name on his "WALLS AND BRIDGES" album. The name refers to the Bob Dylan style of guitar playing John used on some of the tracks. Dwarf was the name of Dylan's music company, while McDougal was the name of the street Dylan's Greenwich Village apartment was on.
-Ed Igoe
www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/pseudonyms.html
[edit] Urban Spaceman and beyond
They had a hit single in 1968 with "I'm the Urban Spaceman" produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the collective pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth". The Beatles were great fans of the group and featured them performing the song "Death Cab for Cutie" in their film Magical Mystery Tour. The anarchic twelve bar blues "Trouser Press" — featuring a solo by Roger Ruskin Spear on a genuine trouser press he had fitted with a pickup — gave its name to an American anglophiliac rock magazine Trouser Press. "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" lampooned the British blues boom, and tap dancer/drummer "Legs" Larry Smith was an onstage hit with his lubricious dancing. Many of their songs parodied parochial suburban British attitudes, notably "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" on the album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (a euphemism for an outside toilet, still common in the United Kingdom at the time).
In 1969 they released the album Keynsham (1969) and also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival. Keynsham is a small town near Bristol in south-west England. The name of the album was almost certainly derived from an advertisement on Radio Luxemburg for a dubious method of forecasting results for football matches (and using these results in football pools). In the advertisement, which was of great length preventing the youthful listeners to the only legal English language station transmitting pop music, the improbably named Horace Batchelor, inventor of 'the amazing Infra Draw method' would drone interminably, repeatedly spelling the name of the town where he lived, and to which the gullible presumably sent money.
The Bonzos toured the United States with The Who and also appeared at the Fillmore East with The Kinks. Intro'd as a "warm-up act" for the real show, the Bonzos rushed out and did a series of frenetic calisthenics. True to the dada spirit, Stanshall performed a mock striptease and Roger Ruskin Spear, with a platoon of robots (including one that sang "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" while actually blowing bubbles), did whatever he did without regard for what the rest of the band was doing. As for "The Canyons of Your Mind", it featured such an incredibly bad guitar solo it drove audiences to open-mouthed delight.
Whilst the group formally disbanded in 1970, their record company compelled them to reunite to record a final album titled Let's Make Up And Be Friendly recorded in 1971 and released in 1972.
One of the Bonzos' song titles, "Cool Britannia", was revived as a media label for late 1990s United Kingdom under Tony Blair (oblivious to the patently satirical intent of the original song).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo_Dah_Band
It seems to me that it was Faul, not Paul, who made up that pseudonym.
