Posted on 08/28/2013 6:03:02 PM PDT by workerbee
Edited on 08/28/2013 6:17:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
When Freda Kelly, just a shy Liverpool teen, signed on to work for a local band with big dreams she had no idea she would soon hold the most coveted secretarial position in the world. While history observes that the Beatles were together for 10 years, Kelly served them for 11
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I was ten years old on the night the Beatles debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show. My whole family watched it. We kids woke up the next morning with something new permanently affixed to our DNA.
I still love the Beatles.
Eight Days a Week doesn't do that for you?
Or how about 'Lovely Rita', or 'Hey Bulldog'? You ain't alive if those tunes don't make you bounce.
Yes, Englishman John Newton wrote the lyrics then, but the music we associate with "AG" today came from a folk hymnal published in the U.S. during the 1820s.
Overrated boy band.
When I get older dropping my pants,
Many years from now,
Will you still be laughing at my antics then
Or calling in the white-coated men?
If I had left my fly at half-mast
Would you call the cops,
Will you arrest me, will you detest me,
When I’m sixty-four?
LOL!! Great lyrics.
Aren’t we all!! :-)
Good grief! At this point, I think I finally got the zipper thing right, just at the part of my life when my brain will probably begin turning to tapioca.
Rats!
Not quite as good as ‘sittin’ on the Ritz’ by Berlin, but catchy.
Heh, couldn’t agree with you more...:)
Woody Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Bob Dylan, and John Fahey were. Meanwhile the British art school crowd were digging old records by Leadbelly, Bukka White, Son House, and Robert Johnson. Today's hipsters? Not so much.
Louis Jordan covered a 1920s song in 1940. It was later a big hit for Little Richard called "Keep A Knockin'" which was later ripped off by Led Zepplin for Rock & Roll Music.
Elvis' Are You Lonesome Tonight had been a hit for Al Jolson (I think he added the spoken interlude) and the song was much older than that.
Blueberry Hill (a hit for Fats Domino) was a 1940 country western song.
The money in music is in publishing and those who own the old songs want to keep making money off of them by encouraging new recordings.
Reminds me of Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove singing "She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah)"
In The London Rock And Roll Show (1972 oldies festival at Wembly Stadium filmed by DA Pennebaker, I think), Mick Jagger said "I wouldn't think anybody would want to come..." to see older bands like Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, Screamin' Lord Sutch, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry.
Full concert on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0l1zxNeKg
When an oldies festival was booked for Toronto not even a month after Woodstock, they were worried that there wouldn't be enough tickets sold so Kim Fowley told them to get a Beatle. I don't think John was the first choice but it was the debut of the Plastic Ono Band. The concert also had Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, the Doors, Alice Cooper. I am not sure if Gene Vincent was a part of this or not.
DA Pennebaker filmed this one as well. Here is Jim Morrison (who's band the Doors had already played at least one other concert with Jerry Lee Lewis) expressing gratitude for getting to share the same stage as the older performers who he grew up on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ewoypJQUI (the film may or may not be from this concert, it certainly is not synced sound).
To the boomers (audiences, not performers!) in 1969, nothing existed prior to the Beatlemania. The career drops of the performers I mentioned was sudden when it happened around the Summer of Love. They were, and then they weren’t, even though Warner Brothers Records under Lenny Waronker, if memory serves, put out great albums by Fats Domino, Little Richard and Everly Brothers, and Chuck Berry returned to Chess for one really good album. None sold, all were forgotten, until the younger performers themselves dragged them out into the spotlight a decade or so later. Think Roy Orbison, or the Everlys’ McCartney written last hit.
England didn't give a fig about copyright extensions (Elvis, Sinatra and others slipped into the PD there) but the holy Cliff Richards and Beatles were about to lapse and SUDDENLY they had to right this wrong. Screw these people.
I was just a kid in the 60s, but I do know the teenagers and young adults of that time had no use for any music that was pre-1964. I think it’s very two-faced of the teenagers of that era to now act like their music is somehow sacred and above criticism. Back in the 60s, Glen Miller was scoffed at. Guess what? The Beatles are more out of date now than Glen Miller was in the 60s. And go to the 50 year Class of 1964 reunions next summer and see how many of them have Pete Seeger records. The 60s kids were duped into believing that a four piece band with three types of instruments could make music as rich and complex as a symphony orchestra. They were sold music on the cheap. OK. But it’s not timeless and sacred.
There are people who won’t move on from Led Zepplin either. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page sure wish they would.
In the press conference for It Might Get Loud (a bonus on the DVD), every question posed to Jimmy Page is “so when is there going to be a new Led Zepplin album?” “When is Led Zepplin going to get back together and tour?”
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