Beatles in Japanese

On the December 8th show I played a bunch of covers of Beatles songs that featured John Lennon on vocals. The two songs for which I received questions from callers concerned the Indian cover (actually Cornershop from their best-selling record) and the Japanese cover. The Japanese cover came from an interesting compilation called From Liverpool to Tokyo. It was a gift from b-chan, the hostess of the show Nippon Music Champ -- www.nipponmusicchamp.com -- on Album 88 in Atlanta (Georgia State University -- my previous grad school -- you can't hear Album 88 over the Web, but if you ever pass through northern Georgia, I highly recommend you listen to it). The compilation itself is outstanding and made me feel better despite the depressing week -- especially the cover of "I'm Down" (which has the singer fulfilling the stereotype and screaming "How can you raff!?", which of course made me raff quite a bit) and the cover of "Back in the USSR" (done in a blues style as opposed to the Beach Boys homage of the original). Snag it if you can find it.