Posted on 01/05/2015 12:41:05 PM PST by Red Badger
Those numbers are mind-boggling.
Dre’s money was a one time payout. His share of a multibillion dollar sale of Beats (headphones and maybe some digital audio thing) to Apple.
It seems like Beatles stuff isn't used that often for background music in movies and TV. I guess they don't need the money, but it may mean that when young people imagine the Sixties the Beatles are less prominent than they actually were at the time.
Because they charge an arm and a leg to use it.
#4 I wish TMZ show would open with such a statement when describing either.
Please. There were kids in the 1980’s who didn’the know McCartny was in a band called The Beatles. I well remember it. Thought it was funny. The Beatles broke up 1969, for heaven sakes.
I was in my teens during the late seventies and early eighties. I knew something about Big Band, which was the music of my parents’ generation.
These kids are idiots.
#2 and 14 Here is a list of music stars and their songs from 1915. Whadda mean you haven’t heard of them on the oldies oldies oldies wireless stations?
It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary - Prince’s Orchestra
They had a big hit in 1917 with”The Old Grey Mare”
Alabama Jubilee - Arthur Collins & Byron G Harlan
Oh Come All ye Faithful - John McCormack
Get the whole set of oldies:
http://www.amazon.com/1915-Theyd-Sooner-Sleep-Thistles/dp/B000JLTDYO
Wasn't the Beatles the band he was in before he joined Wings?
#24 Coachella
Is there a cure for that. Those that have probably itch a lot.
One can dream...
You must have some pretty cool girls in your house ;)
Thanks for the reply.
There is no intelligence in Twitter. I’m amazed people use it. Most of it is retreats of what somebody else thought. Waste of time. This is just more proof.
Well, a few of those on that CD of 1915 are indeed well-known standards, like “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” “Down Among the Sheltering Palms,” and “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.” I’d encountered all those and become relatively familiar with them before I was twenty.
Most of the others? Never heard of them. As for the performers? A few familiar names. But, as was commented above somewhat, it’s really not a proper analogy to make between “star” singers, as back in 1915, the overriding musical factor was the tunes/sheet-music, not singers/star-vocalists. People would buy the sheet-music and families would sing together at home on the piano. A few recording figures like John McCormack (opera) and Billy Murray (popular) were pretty well-known in the public sphere, but it was a very different world, pop-culture wise.
Judy, she was a keeper! There was a Mom in my neighborhood, who everyone said looked a lot like her. Naturally, she was popular with all of the Dads, on the block :)
Let me reverse the question. What in the world makes Paul McCartney deserving of such an honor? Hundreds of musicians play better, write better, perform better, and have more overall talent. Why single out that clod?
Well, there is a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode that references Stephen Foster in one of the jokes. A pun on 'Jeanie with the light brown hair'
>>After we hung up, I came to realize he was referencing a song from yesteryear, that my Dad would sometimes sing.
>The funny thing is, my 13 year old daughter would know that (they love “The Harvey Girls”), but would have no idea who Paul McCartney is.
...Sing me a song that was a hit before your mother was born,
Though she was born a long long time ago,
your mother should know, your mother should know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5RK2fKR-rE
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