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To: AZamericonnie; All
Just a few weeks ago on the night that commemorated the 50th year since The Beatles debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show, I believe it was spel_grammer_an_punct_polise who expected I would be doing a Beatles tribute that week. I told him It Won't Be Long. I was doing a blues thing with Walter Trout and John Mayall that weekend and followed that with an all Kinks Juke the next week. Last weekend, I got through the best of Fleetwood Mac, so finally, before that five decade agone February passes from our memories I'm making good on my 50 years of being a Beatle fan. Tonight & tomorrow we be *"Pickin' on The Beatles".

* No Beatles were harmed in the making of this mash-up.


Presents:


Disco Beatles Medley
~ Stars on 45 ~







28 posted on 02/28/2014 6:26:31 PM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Drumbo; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; MS.BEHAVIN; left that other site
ROCKUMENTARY: MARCH 1, 1965

Where were you? I was a junior at a third-rate Catholic prep school in New Jersey that had pretensions to being first-rate. But it was the year I earned my first dollar, although not in the way anyone would have approved.

The assignment was to write analyses of political cartoons. I’d just finished my virgin political effort with the Goldwater campaign, and my political defloration on Election Day 1964 was as painful as anything I had yet experienced – ROTC boot camp was yet five years in the future. I knew the major cartoonists, their political agendas, and I could interpret anything to the depth required. I could even go into detail on the work of the brilliant but obnoxiously liberal Herbert Block of the Washington Post. Most of my classmates couldn’t, and they turned to me for help. I charged them. I charged even more when they asked me to write up the interpretation for them. I probably would have been expelled had I been caught, but I knew how to disguise my writing style, and my work earned me a couple hundred dollars. This is called putting conservative principles to work in a liberal manner.

So what were you up to?

Cue the Rockumentary theme!

San Remo Golden Strings: “Festival Time”

This band was Motown’s Funk Brothers backed with pickup musicians from the Detroit Symphony.

#10 – Roger Miller: “King of the Road”

Roger was the caffeine addicted genius of Country music, and he was one of the great entertainers of the genre. Ask anybody about Roger’s output, and this is the first song everyone names.

Roger Miller: “King of the Road”

30 posted on 02/28/2014 6:28:07 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Drumbo

Good evening, Drumbo, and thanks for spinning The Beatles tunes for the troops to enjoy. ((HUGS))


57 posted on 02/28/2014 6:57:20 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Drumbo

Thank you, ‘Bo!

You have added two more phrases to my vocabulary as it relates to, “borrowed/stole/tribute/ripped-off”! Now I can say, “borrowed/stole/tribute/ripped-off/mash-up/pickin’ on”!

Have you anymore tid-bits for me?

LOL


231 posted on 03/01/2014 11:30:56 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: Drumbo
Thank you for "Pickin' on The Beatles"

Drumbo! *Hugs*

355 posted on 03/01/2014 5:37:32 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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