#The Cyrkle

[affiches-concerts]

The Cyrkle, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1967.

[krispyweiss]

Pete Best Band with the Cyrkle at Valley Dale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, July 28, 2024

Pete Best says his four-show American swing is designed to take audiences “back to the days I played with four guys named John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe.”

That it did. Though the crystal chandeliers that hung from the ceiling of Columbus, Ohio’s 1920s-era Valley Dale Ballroom likely didn’t remind Best of the dingy U.K. and European clubs in which he put the backbeat in the Beatles from 1960-’62.

Best made the comment after his eponymous Band’s opening salvo of “Rock and Roll Music,” “What I’d Say,” “One after 909” and “Chains,” which were played on a stage bookended by screens that showed images of the Best-era Beatles together on- and off-stage.

It was the one time on July 28 the 82-year-old, black-clad Best would emerge from behind his white Gretsch drum set, from which he, alongside brother Roag on an adjacent kit, drove the all-Liverpudlian quintet though 23 songs and 90 minutes of authentically rendered, pre-Fab Beatles music.

Recreating Beatles tracks is a ridiculously difficult proposition, as Best’s tour mates, the Cyrkle, demonstrated during their hourlong opening set. The Brian Epstein-managed group, which has two members remaining from the lineup that played on the Fabs’ ’66 tour, offered such selections as “If I Needed Someone,” “Eight Days a Week” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps;” numbers by the Ides of March (“Vehicle”) and Ohio Express (“Chewy Chewy”); and its own two hits, “Turn Down Day” and “Red Rubber Ball.” The musicianship was shaky; the set list often beyond the Cyrkle’s grasp, particularly on the Beatles songs and McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.”

But where the Cyrkle stumbled, the PBB soared, reigniting a 60-plus-year-old jumble of energy on Beatles numbers both mostly forgotten (the Lennon-Harrison instrumental “Cry for a Shadow,” Lennon-McCartney’s “Hello Little Girl”) and still-beloved as with “P.S. I Love You” and “I Saw Her Standing There.”

Best’s wisdom lay in his sticking with his era and avoiding songs with which he wasn’t involved. Tony Flynn, who proved his Britishness by praising the virtues of Olive Garden’s Italian food, was particularly adept on throat-shredding numbers such as “Please Mr. Postman” and “Mr. Moonlight,” yet softer fare, including “Besame Mucho,” “Till There was You” and “Like Dreamers Do” fared just as well, sounding right at home in America in 2024.

And by the time the Pete Best Band said cheerio with the pairing of “Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey,” fans could only be grateful Best returned to music in the 1980s and continues to share the fruits of his truncated career with Beatlemaniacs who are better off for his musical generosity.

Sound Bites still isn’t sure what he expected from Best. But it surely wasn’t an exceptional gig such as this.

Pete Best Band setlist: “Rock and Roll Music;” “What I’d Say;” “One after 909;” “Chains;” “Please Mr. Postman;” “Hello Little Girl;” “Mr. Moonlight;” “P.S. I Love You;” “Roll over Beethoven;” “Besame Mucho;” “Cry for a Shadow;” “Till there Was You;” “Slow Down;” “Money (That’s What I Want);” “Like Dreamers Do;” “Ain’t She Sweet;” “My Bonnie;” “Lucille;” “Memphis, Tennessee;” “Some other Guy;” “I Saw Her Standing There;” “Twist and Shout;” “Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey”

Grade card: Pete Best Band with the Cyrkle at Valley Dale Ballroom - 7/28/24 - A/C-

7/29/24

[fancycolours]

DON DANNEMANN and TOM DAWES of THE CYRKLE recording the song "Red Rubber Ball" at Columbia Studios, NYC. (Circa 1966.)

[boxwright]

The Cyrkle - Don Dannemann

[black-rose-666]

Tańczyła w cyrku

Uwielbiała ten klimat występów

I atmosferę która tam panowała

Miała dusze artystki

I swym optymizmem innych zarażała

[yesdoihaveto]

The Cyrkle / Red Rubber Ball / Columbia

[power-chords]

The story's in the past with nothin' to recall I've got my life to live and I don't need you at all The roller-coaster ride we took is nearly at an end I bought my ticket with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend

[howardhawkshollywoodmusic]

43 Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle debuted May 66 and peaked at number two, scoring 1000 points.

The group formed in Easton, PA., and had six chart entries 1966-67. Their follow-up, Turn Down Day, was their only other single to make the top 40, peaking at 16.

[tomdirensselaer]

Marilyn Lange was Playboy POM for May 1974 and POY for 1975. She was briefly married to Jeffrey Pelosi, drummer in 1960s rock band "The Cyrkle." In the fourth round of the 1976 NASL draft, she was drafted by the Chicago Sting. Although she had played soccer in high school, it was a publicity stunt to make use of her ample physical assets (38DDD-24-36) as opposed to her athletic talents.

[fancycolours]

The Cyrkle

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Don Dannemann (1944-) The Cyrkle - lead vocals and rhythm guitar Songs: "Red Rubber Ball," "Turn-Down Day" Propaganda: none

Roy Orbison (1936-1988) solo Songs: "Crying," "Oh, Pretty Woman" Propaganda: none

[alrightbuckaroo]

spotify shuffle(d)

rule: shuffle your on repeat ten times and share the firs ten songs that play. thank you for the tags @ambiguouspenny, @reyesstrand, @heartstringsduet and @bonheur-cafe!

Andrew in Drag by The Magnetic Fields

Cannock Chase by Labi Siffre

Rush (feat. PinkPantheress & Hyunjin of Stray Kids) by Troye Sivan

Hunger of the Pine by alt-J

Waltz (Better Than Fine) by Fiona Apple

Money by Lola Young

The Visit (She Was Here) by The Cyrkle

Keep it Simple by Raleigh Ritchie

Freak by Shygirl

Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl by Broken Social Scene

I think everyone I know has been tagged already but if not, take this open tag and use it to your heart's content! <3

[nityarawal]

5/6/2024

Infinity 8's

Afternoon Songs

Sunset 

Looking At Tahquitz

Sunset

King Of The Mountain

Watchin' What He

Sees

Sunset

Incense Burning

Satya 

Agarbatti

Shrinivas

Sugandhalaya

Nag Champa

California

Meditation

Scents

Satya

Sai Baba

Cleansing Your Aura

Or Making Room

For Tantra

Yoga

Satya

Sai Baba

Nag Champas

Scents Of Yesteryears

Beatles Kids'

Campfire Songs

Yogi Potlucks

Flying On Foam

Magic Doug Henning

Tricks

San Francisco Weekends

Flights

Camping At The Harbors

Beach Boys

Potlucks

Donovan

Flyers

Red Rubber Ball

Reunions

Sun's Setting

Going Round

"The Cyrkle,"

Looking For Traffic 

Songs

Looking For Everyone

I've Ever Known

And Loved

Wonderin' When

You'll Come Along

Soulmates

Infinity 8's 

An Imprint

On You

Soulmates

Twinflames

Infinity 8's

Eternity

Turns

Back

On Her Self

Eternity

Turns Back

On Her

Self

Totality

Eternity

Infinity 8's

Peace,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

[piscataquacryptid]

Thanks to @mistressaccost for the tag!

Here are the first 10 songs that came up on my "on repeat" playlist...

"You're Not the Only One I Know" by The Sundays (absolute banger)

"Sunrise" by Simply Red

"All In My Head" by NEIL FRANCES

"Holding Back the Years" by Simply Red (baffled by the preponderance of Simply Red but okay)

"Sonne" by Rammstein

"The Dream" by Still Corners

"Romantic Lover" by Eyedress

"The Visit (She Was Here)" by The Cyrkle (almost swerved off the road when I tried to Shazam this one off the radio)

"Wandering Star" by Empire of the Sun

"alife" by Slowdive

I tag @frailmail @ladymarcosplay and @caer-solace :)

[typewriter-worries]

All the songs that end in 2 👀

Oh fun! Get ready for a barrage of random songs that'll take you across time.

2. The Greatest by Raleigh Ritchie

12. Love Theme From Chinatown by Jerry Goldsmith

22. The Visit (She Was Here) by The Cyrkle

32. Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes

42. Why Should I Be Sad - Britney Spears

52. Volkiano - Remi Wolf

62. Broken-Hearted Man - Spiral Starecase

72. Let's Stay Together - Al Green

82. Paris, Texas by Lana Del Rey

92. Freak - Shygirl

A little all over the place but that's what made this year so fun!