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Friday, March 23, 2012
The Beatles: Don't Let Me Down
Although credited to Lennon and McCartney, today’s Friday Flipside was a John Lennon composition that was written as a love song to Yoko Ono. Credited on the single to The Beatles with Billy Preston, “Don’t Let Me Down” was the “B” side to “Get Back” – another tune that featured Billy Preston. Preston is playing an electric piano on this cut.
Both songs were recorded on January 28, 1969 with “Get Back” charting at #1 and “Don’t Let Me Down,” which garnered significant airplay, peaked at 35. Two days after recording the studio version, the band re-recorded the on their roof top session that appeared in the film “Let it Be.”
Associate Provost and Professor of Mass Communication at Alderson Broaddus University and an adjunct faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University.
Graduate of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Southern New Hampshire University, Kentucky Christian University and Mountain State University.
Dissertation on institutional rebranding (see newriver.net) was the 2009 international winner of the Alice L. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Higher Education Advancement and was the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration.
Placed as a winner in five Active Industry Research Contemporary Hit Radio "Pick the Hits" competitions from 1983 through 1987. Each competition had 31 winners. Placed 2nd (1st among radio participants), 6th, 10th (twice), and 21st in the five competitions.
Awarded 14 gold & platinum records and an international sales award from various record companies. Winner of 30 Public Relations awards.
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