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Post by bunnypanda on Jul 15, 2004 19:37:06 GMT -5
How many of you like The Beatles? I have loved The Beatles since I was 14. My favourite Beatle is George though I seem to like A LOT of Paul's songs and I think John is VERY CUTE in many ways (even making "Revolution #9" ) and I think Ringo is absolutely adorable. The list of my favourite songs is going to be too long but today I sang "Martha My Dear" all day long ;D
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Post by texasgal on Jul 15, 2004 20:39:10 GMT -5
Hey Bunnypanda, I'm right there with you.
I'll never forget watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show when they debuted in USA. I was 13 years old. The Ed Sullivan Show was a very long-running variety show and was pretty much an American institution. Ed Sullivan was always broadcast live from NYC on Sunday night. When I went back to school Monday morning all the kids were so excited. The teachers could hardly get us settled down for anything.
Hard to believe the show was televized in black & white. I think the only TV shows available in color in 1964 were Bonanza and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
Oh, and George Harrison was my fave Beatle too.
OK, enough of my rambling reminiscing...
Two favorite Beatles songs that pop immediately to mind are: "In My Life," and "Fool On The Hill."
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Post by itsanowenthing on Jul 15, 2004 20:41:57 GMT -5
OMG! I soooooooo love The Beatles. John is my favorite. I always thought he was so cute. Then George. And I would list my favorite songs but I can't narrow them down to a small enough list. But some of my favorites are In My Life Hey Jude While My Guitar Gently Weeps Don't Bring Me Down Back in the USSR Fool on the Hill Penny Lane Revolution Obla di obla da Strawberry Fields Forever Day In The Life Ok...I'll stop now.
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Post by bunnypanda on Jul 15, 2004 23:07:01 GMT -5
Not many people at my age recognize Ed Sullivan but I do ;D The Beatles were SO CUTE on the Ed Sullivan Show and for the whole time they were in the US!!! I am also one of the few people at my age who know how cute Cilla Black was Talking about black & white TV, I read that the movie The Magical Mystery Tour wasn't a success hugely due to the fact that many viewers saw it on their black & white TVs. Now that is really understandable Ah girls, I LOVE "Fool on the Hill" too!!! And I LOVE all the songs you listed but I also love the weird ones like... Why Don't We Do IT in the Road Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey Wild Honey Pie Her Majesty ...Aren't these songs just so mad and good?! But right now I am singing softly "Here, There and Everywhere". AH they are GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by itsanowenthing on Jul 16, 2004 19:56:41 GMT -5
I really love Rocky Raccoon too. There's just something about it.
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Post by hurltomato on Jul 16, 2004 20:03:19 GMT -5
Baby You Can Drive My Car (says it all).., but does that include the Wilson Porsches? I mean true love does include the actual vehicular control of the love object's"tool" if true love is actually involved doesn't it? Sorry gals I can't just give the keys to my Ford truck to just anybody... HT
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Post by bunnypanda on Jul 18, 2004 17:08:06 GMT -5
I know what you mean about "something" about "Rocky Raccoon". And...working for peanuts is all very fine...but I can show you a better time ;D I remember that song being slightly shocking as I listened to it as a 14-year-old. ...I mean the lyrics are realistic and surrealistic at the same time Don't forget the other shocking ones like... Eleanor Rigby Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Maxwell's Silver Hammer I Me Mine But today I am singing the saner "Across the Universe"... Which movie do you like better, "A Hard Day's Night" or "Help!"? I like "Help!" better at the moment but I used to like "A Hard Day's Night" better. I think you can see more of The Beatles as hot boys in "A Hard Day's Night" but "Help!" is funnier in a "British sense of humour" way.
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Post by itsanowenthing on Jul 18, 2004 18:58:53 GMT -5
I like Help best because I really love British humor. It's very dry & that's kind of my humor too. Of course I absolutely love Yellow Submarine. My son is 15 & he saw it for the first time last year. He loved it. He thought it was so cool. I'm sooooo proud of my little boy. LOL What is your favorite album? I think I listen to my Sgt Pepper album more than any of the others. I love so many songs from that album. "Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head. Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead."
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Post by Remi on Jul 18, 2004 19:05:01 GMT -5
When I was about 10, I stumbled on my parent's "Revolver" album. I listened to that album over and over again, scratches and pops be damned. My favorites on that album were "Eleanor Rigby" and "Got To Get You Into My Life". I guess that is my favorite album because of it's sentimental value.
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Post by MAC on Jul 18, 2004 20:20:25 GMT -5
Not that they are in the same class as the "great" Beatles, but I almost brought a Monkees CD today. Had it in my hand and at the last minute I put it down (I'm trying to stick to a budget - Man, it hurts). It's funny, if I brought the CD I probably would have listened to it but just holding it put a smile on my face. I guess that's one of the greatest gifts of music.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 18, 2004 23:06:42 GMT -5
Oooh, please don't ask me for my favorite Beatles album. I used to have them all! They're just too hard to narrow down to the best one. Bunnypanda, your knowledge of 60's pop culture astonishes me. You are The Woman! Cilla Black was a friend of the Beatles from their Cavern days. She had one big hit in the U.S. - "You're My World." It was an awesome song and so was her voice. I was a teen in the 60's and grew up on the first British Invasion music. And of course - growing up in Detroit - I was real proud of the Tamla-Motown artists. Speaking of black & white TVs, Ed Sullivan was b&w, of course. The TV we had at the time was a 1961 Zenith b&w - the best available. It was the old-fashioned kind of TV, the kind with the vacuum tubes. With the vacuum tubes, you had to turn on your TV 5 minutes before your show started because that's how long it took for your TV to warm up. Until it was warmed up, you got no picture and no sound. The tubes were always blowing out and had to be replaced often. Transistors became available in the 60's. Transistor radios had horrible sound, but we thought they were magical because of their portability and because there was no warm-up time. You got instant on/instant off. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had a friendly rivalry. They would try to outdo each other's album covers, but they never released their albums at the same time. They kept a gentleman's agreement to always space out the timing of their album releases. John was always accused that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was a "drug" song. But really he got the idea for the song from his son, Julian. Julian had drawn a picture of a school chum of his - Lucy. I liked both Help and Hard Day's Night equally for different reasons. I liked HDN because it introduced the Beatles on the big screen for us. The cinema erupted in deafening screams on the first scene at the first chord - just as if the Beatles were appearing live. In 1964, movies were still double-features. I think just to torture us, the cinema managers scheduled the other movie to be shown first. For me, the "other" movie was Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. My girlfriend Mary-Lou and I hid out in the girl's bathroom during the time lapse between the movie showtimes so that we could watch HDN again. That meant another screening of SBFSB for us. What a long day that was! ;D I liked Help because it required a little more acting talent from the Beatles - and they duly delivered! MAC, I was a Monkees fan too!
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Post by bunnypanda on Jul 19, 2004 18:00:47 GMT -5
My favourite albums are "Revolver" and "The Beatles" (White Album) though all the other albums are SO good too and I still listen to all of them a lot. Although the fab 4 recorded most of "The Beatles" separately and I prefer the days when they did most things together, I think this album sounds sooo great. O-Thing, it is so cool your son loved Yellow Submarine. I think that movie is cool and funny and very British too. I bet your son knows all or most of The Beatles songs. My 22-year-old sister knows all of their songs even though she can't speak English and she loves the movie "Help!". She loves the part where Paul becomes smaller texasgal, yes I do know a lot about the 60s. My knowledge is rather limited to The Beatles-related things but I can even tell you those numerous things people came up with to claim Paul was dead! I even know Stuart Sutcliffe and Astrid Kirchherr. I even know Pete Best. I'm not sure I know "You're My World" but I can sing some of Cilla's songs. Cilla was so pretty. As you know I am SO into Patti Boyd and Jane Asher too. Have you guys heard the unreleased recordings of Mick Jagger singing with The Beatles? They are SO cute! As you probably know, he was just visiting their studio and did some takes with them. I don't believe John saying he didn't imply LSD with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" but I do believe Julian drew that picture. What do you think? MAC, I know what you mean about the Monkees CD putting a smile on your face. Music can always do that for us. And Remi, some albums and songs have sentimental values to me too. Also I find that I can have a lot to talk about with people from very different backgrounds from mine when I bring up the subjet of music. Btw am I the only one who bought Linda's vegetarian cooking book and tried cooking them? ;D
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Post by itsanowenthing on Jul 20, 2004 16:20:34 GMT -5
MAC - I actually have The Monkees Greatest Hits CD. I was so in love with them when I was growing up. BP - My son loves the Beatles. Of course he hears them all the time since I'm constantly playing them. He actually took my Anthology CD's & I haven't been able to play them myself in months. But I don't mind. It just shows he's got great taste. And yes, I do remember hearing the story about Julian drawing the pic that inspired Lucy In The Sky....What a great song. So visual. Does anyone remember the Sgt. Pepper movie with Peter Frampton & The Bee Gees? I still have the soundtrack to that movie. One of my favorites is Earth Wind & Fires version of Got To Get You Into MY Life & Aerosmith's version of Come Together.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 20, 2004 19:55:07 GMT -5
O-Thing, I remember the movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Earth Wind & Fire, ...and George Burns. Saw it twice because I'm such a big Bee Gees fan, and Barry Gibb was so hot.
I had the Monkees Greatest Hits on vinyl. In fact, I used to have tons of music on vinyl - including all the Beatles albums.! I had to sell all my records, and 12 yrs later I'm still trying to replace everything on CD.
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Post by itsanowenthing on Jul 21, 2004 14:13:29 GMT -5
That sounds like me Texasgal. I had over 100 albums & I sold the majority of them to a collector right before I got married. That was 18 years ago & I still haven't replaced them all. But I'm working on it.
I remember going to see The Bee Gees back in the early 80's. I had such a crush on Barry Gibb. And I also had a huge crush on Peter Frampton, who now, LOL, lives 30 minutes away from me. LOL Small world.
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