Posted on 11/10/2005 1:08:51 PM PST by Junior
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Beatle Paul McCartney is to broadcast live into space from a U.S. concert to two astronauts circling the globe.
He will play "Good Day Sunshine" and one of his latest songs, "English Tea," to NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev who are on an international space station 220 miles above the earth.
McCartney, who will be singing into space Saturday from Anaheim, California via NASA television, got the idea when he discovered that the crew of the spaceship Discovery were treated to a burst of "Good Day Sunshine" in August as a wake-up call from Mission Control.
"I was extremely proud to find out that one of my songs was played for the crew of Discovery this summer. In our concert we hope to repay the favor," he said in a statement.
Oh yeah I forgot The Beatles, Paul Mc Cartney and WINGS were no talent musicians, SINCE we have the greats like Brittney Spears, 50 cent and Justin Timberlake...
KLAATO BARADA NICHTO!!!
Here is a link to an mp3 of that song as well.
I just played half of it from your link.
The cats both abruptly left the room.
:) Oh I see...You are correct..I like Mc Cartney and I am just sorry Michael Jacson won't give him back his Song collection!
Yeah, he's okay, but should this be imposed on the sensibilities of space aliens that might inadvertently be caught in the radio beam?
I don't understand where Yoko Ono comes in the discussion of the enormous, underappreciated talents of Paul McCartney? I mean, he's not married to her any more! Let's discuss the one legged chick instead.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a
You leave me no choice: I'm now removing my mind's eye with a melon baller.
Gathor: "It was bad enough that you send pornography out on EVERYTHING that leaves your solar system, but beaming this hippie crap at us was the last straw!"
The captain's inimitable version might be on this album:
Spy Magazines 'Soft, Safe and Sanitized', Rhino CD
The Kingston Trio covers 'Louie, Louie' on it, and they have a number of other mismatched performers (Paul Anka & 'Imagine' maybe)
http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/song/song023.htm
America and Capt & Tennile didn't really do this song justice. The writer/performer, Willis Alan Ramsey--actually his one and only album's very good. A lot of people have covered the songs.
Your cats will abruptly leave the state if you turn up the speakers and play "Don't worry Kyoko."
Can you please speak to the nice animal cruelty officers who just showed up at my door?
As much as I've enjoyed the Yoko links...I think a truly bad song has to have truly wretched lyrics...not just stunts.
"Muskrat Love" measures up...as does "Honey:"
See the tree how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big.
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it
' Was just a twig.
The the first snow came
And she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die.
Came runnin' in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
I laughed till cried.
She was always young at heart
Kind a dumb and kind a smart
And I loved her so.
I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all christmas eve
Two years ago.
And it would sure embarrass her
when I came home from working late
'Cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'.
Over some sad and silly late late show:
And Honey I miss you and I'm being good
And I'd loveto be with you if only I could.
She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck.
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck.
I came home unexpectedly
And found her crying needlessly
In the middle of the day
And it was in the early spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away.
And Honey I miss you and I'm being good . . .
Yes
one day while I wasn't home
While she was there and all alone
The angels came.
Now all I have is memories
Of Honey and I wake up nights
And call her name.
Now my life's an empty stage
Where Honey lived and Honey played
And love grew up.
A small cloud passes over head
And cries down in the flower bed
That Honey loved.
See the tree how big it's grown
. . .
I always loved the "kinda dumb and kinda smart" line....
Why not "Back in the USSR" for the "Rooskie"?
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