Hello Everyone,

I’ve just signed up on the Forum to tell you about this Beatles themed song/video that I’ve just posted on YouTube. I think you might find it interesting.

The song is called Letter From Apple. It was a Folk song that I wrote a long long time ago after my friend and I went to deliver our Demo tape to The Beatles at Apple Records in London.

As you will see by the video, my friend Dave and I are massive Beatles fans and so we thought it would be fun to re-produce the old folk song in a new Beatlesque style. We’ve spent quite a few weekends on this and my son was kind enough to put together a little video to go along with it.

I hope you will enjoy listening to the story and that you will receive it in the same fun and tongue-in-cheek spirit it was created.

http://uk.youtube.com/user/LetterFromApple

If you like it, please share it with anyone else you think would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Stephen

Its great!

Thanks Mellotroniac - glad you like it!

Hi Stephen,

I like it very much. It is a catchy song. Indeed Beatlesque. The slide show is also very good, real 60s!

Spier

Nice stuff.

Thanks to all of you. It took many weeks of work to produce, but it really has made it worthwhile just to have a few nice comments from people.
Stephen

Well done. Does the original 1969 demo tape still exist?

Yes - we still have the original demo tape and rejection letter. Most of the songs are really bad. That’s youthful naivety for you!

Quoted from stephengerrard

Yes - we still have the original demo tape and rejection letter. Most of the songs are really bad. That’s youthful naivety for you!

Oh please share!

No chance! I don't mind the odd person laughing at it, but not a whole public forum

Please?

great song

@Bobber - i'll make you a deal... If I ever get the tape digitized I promise to come back on here and post a few for a laugh.

@TheBeatlesForever - thanks!  

Quoted from stephengerrard

@Bobber - i'll make you a deal... If I ever get the tape digitized I promise to come back on here and post a few for a laugh.

You got a deal!  

Hey Stephen. Nice song. I'm also impressed you got a reply from Apple - the impression I got from Richard DiLello's book was that Apple staff never really bothered going through the thousands of submissions they received every week.

i showed my brother the song to he said it was pretty good to

Both the story and video seem to be well received by the majority of enthusiastic Beatles fans so I've been racking my brains trying to think of other ways to get it exposed to more fans. The only ideas that I have had are to contact the Mathew Street Festival (in Liverpool) or the Hard Days Night Hotel to see if they might want to play it somewhere. Or possibly I could try to find some Beatles related news site or newsletter that might be willing to give it a shout out?

If any of you have any ideas I would really appreciate hearing them?!


@Joe - It's nice to think that we stood out enough to receive a letter. i didn't know that. Thanks!

^Here's an idea! A rooftop concert of you playing the song!

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If any of you have any ideas I would really appreciate hearing them?!

Why not send it to Apple?  

@freakchic9 - Empire State Building has been booked

@ Bobber - That's a good idea. They might find it quite amusing if I can get it to the right person.