Saturday, January 24, 2009

Saturday Morning Cartoon: The Beatles "Penny Lane"


The Beatles "Penny Lane" (1967), directed by Jack Stokes and featuring the voices of Lance Percival and Paul Frees
Read more about The Beatles cartoon here



1 comment:

Johnny Bacardi said...

That's pretty neat, and is actually a kinda clever visualization of that song, better animated than I remember. I watched the Beatles cartoon faithfully as a kid growing up, but for some reason I thought that they never used any songs that were newer than Beatles '65...too bad that they didn't try to get someone that sounded a little more like Lennon to do his voice. Maybe the Fabs would have liked this cartoon a bit better if they had...

Two other things- first, this uses both released endings to "Penny Lane"; the 45 and LP version we all know, and the one with the extra piccolo trumpet part that first saw release on Rarities in 1980. Also, the same people that did this series did much-beloved-by-me Cool McCool, and it shows.