But can I get it on vinyl? And the Blue and Red Greatest Hits Albums? On Blue and Red transparent Vinyl? And was the White Album on White Vinyl? Always wondered that one. Gotta google it I guess.

[I can answer this one. Yes, back in the late 70s, they released very limited vinyl editions of the red and blue albums on red and blue vinyl -- and, even better, the white album on white vinyl.

I own a copy of the white-vinyl white album, and it's cooler than cool. So it DOES exist. -- David B.-eatlemaniac]

You lucky dog you!

(I wrote a much better comment, but I had a comment submission error, even when I know I had the text right, and so I lost it all, even when I hit back - So it goes - maybe next time - far too tired now, and I need to get some sleep!)

Reminder to self: Always compose comments in an e-mail window and then be sure to send them to one self, so they won't just vaporize. If only I could do that more. I also lost a bunch of comments/replies to Diane (Your Diane) just several hours earlier tonight, that time because lovely old AOL crashed, and those were in e-mail windows - but they don't auto-save, so until I send them, they are but little more than shadows of what will be. (More or less stole that line from Dickens!)

And don't even get me started on the time in 1989 when I used a friends MAC to write a 20 page Intro to Management 601 paper, the night before it was due, and I was not good with computers yet, I didn't even own my own, and I never saved as I went along, and he hit the wrong button on the A/V power strip timer, and it all went bye-bye, and I was already a good 11-12 pages in, so actually over the hump and seeing light at the end of the tunnel, and then, just a whole lotta tunnel. Let's just say I got that A on borrowed time and not many professors today would have been so kind as to give me an extra day or two extension!

[We all have computer horror stories about what was and wasn't saved. My favorite is making a floppy disc backup of a book I'd been working on for years, on the history of the TV miniseries, only to have both it and my computer go up in smoke, literally, when my house was hit by lightning. -- David B.]

Hi David, I enjoy your pieces on fresh air and was happily surprised to hear of your Beatles admiration when you did the Sgt. Pepper piece. I was hoping you would review the remastered set on fresh air. I understand they had to go with a rock critic's take. I remember in college looking through microfilms of old Rolling Stones and remember Ed Ward's negative review of Abbey Road. I was wondering what you thought of Ed Ward's piece and what you think of the remastered set. Thank you. By the way, I also own a white vinyl white album.

Michael Fernbach

[Michael -- Funny. I had to read the intro to Ed's piece, where he admits to not having a single Beatles album or CD in his house before the review copy of the remastered box set arrived. I read that line with as much disdain as possible, but I like that Ed, whose vintage rock and blues history pieces are fabulous, grudgingly came around to enjoying the music more.

As for my take on the remasters, my stereo set hasn't arrived yet -- but I'm halfway through the mono mixes, and love them.

Oh, and when the "Fresh Air" producers selected a song to play after the piece, I geeked out by talking to the control room, playing "Name That Tune" as soon as I heard it.

"That's 'Flying.' The only Beatles track crediting all four band members as composers. Appeared on the "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack -- which was released as an LP in the States, but only as an EP in England. And 'Flying' was one of only two recorded Beatles intstrumentals -- the other being 'Cry for a Shadow," from their Hamburg days."

It was about that time their eyes glazed over... -- David B.]

Thanks for the response. And of course Cry is the only Lennon-Harrison composition. Though off the top of my head I believe Dig It is credited to all four even though it's just some John improv. And let us not forget the instrumental 12 Bar Blues which is on Anthology but never officially released. I'm also waiting on the stereo set. Got through most of the mono. Was familiar with the major differences already on specific songs but still sounds great though not much of a difference in the first couple of albums which were already in mono. I like Ed Ward's pieces but you have to wonder at a rock historian who doesn't own a single Beatles album. C'mon!