Beatle Mania!!!

If Memory Swerves,™ 'twas on this day in music history (August 21, 1969) that Liverpudlian skiffle band “The Beatle Brothers” called it "a day in the life," packing up their moonshine jugs, accordions, left-handed cigar box fiddles, duffel bags of roadside marijuana and rose-colored granny glasses, before heading off to their respective country estates. ‘Twas quite a journey that the mop-topped "skittish invaders" enjoyed from “Love Me Do” to “Let Me Be.” Originally a pop outfit called “The Quarryman,” the lads tossed out jelly-haired troublemaker Stuart Somebody and shifted to a pure skiffle sound, recording such hits as “My Old Man’s a Dustman,” “My Sister’s a Cherry Tart” and “The Clergyman’s a Weasel.” They ran through a series of band names, calling themselves "The Silver Belt Buckles," then "The Trouser Belt Loops," back to "The Silver Belts," the "The Silver Beats," "The Pickled Beets," back to simply "The Beats," and then in a nod to Manchester's "Crickets," they became "The Beetles” and finally "The Beatle Brothers," after catching Russian trapeze artists "The Flying Karmazov Brothers" on the telly. John, Paul, George and Ringo enjoyed a brief run in America, appearing in a waist-up televised performance at the Old Ed Sullivan Theatre, opening for Captain Darrel Dragon and Toni Tennille at New York's Chez Stadium and then traveling across the country in a Chevy Van on their “Filthy Lucre Tour,” before heading back over the pond and taking permanent residence in “The Cavern.” After their break-up in 1970, drummer Ringo Starkey and his All-Starr Band released a series of successful solo records, whilst the others dabbled in lewd art, fashion design and transcendental meditation. The group briefly reformed as a three-some (pictured) for an appearance at the Old Chicago Amusement Park "Lollapalooza," but, alas, 'twasn't the same after the loss of John Lennon. Happy Anni-hearse-ary™, then, to the dearly departed “Beatle Brothers,” who famously strode 'cross Abbey Road in matching Wellington® boots and wasn’t that a sight to see!