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Breakdown of Beatles and More
There are a total of 42 songs on the three Beatles and More CDs. Exactly 21 are songs that were recorded by The Beatles and exactly 21 are credited to Lennon/McCartney. If you break it down further, 11 were written mostly by McCartney, 9 were written mostly by Lennon and Day Tripper is a co-write often credited as more John than Paul. So we’ll go with 11-10, McCartney. But wait- A World Without Love isn’t a Beatles song so it goes back to 10-10 on Beatles songs. I knew the Twins would show no preference between John and Paul. There is only one George Harrison song in their catalog but it’s their most downloaded song- While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Of The Beatles 27 #1’s, the Twins have only covered 3: Can’t Buy Me Love, Day Tripper and Yesterday. Well, 4 if you want to include Please Please Me. which was celebrated as a number #1 at the time but Cashbox went out of business and is no longer taken into consideration. Day Tripper was only a #1 in the UK and Yesterday was only a #1 in the US so Can’t Buy Me Love is the only #1 in both of those countries.
They have covered a number of Beatles classics: Guitar, Blackbird, In My Life, Drive My Car, I Saw her Standing There- that were not hits. They have also covered a number of deep album cuts that only Beatles fans are aware of (of course that’s almost everybody!) I’ll Be back, Glass Onion, Hey Bulldog, This Boy).
As for their other covers- they have mostly stayed away from solo singers and done mostly songs by bands: The Rolling Stones, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Kinks, The Zombies. Buffalo Springfield and Cream are a few of the bands they have covered. With the exception of You’ve Really Got Me, Time of the Season and For What It’s Worth, they’ve generally shied away from the very biggest hits: Hey Jude, Satisfaction,Good Vibrations, Light My Fire, Do You Believe in Magic, Sunshine of My Love are the biggest hits by the bands they’ve covered that they’ve chosen not to do. -
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Now what rhymes with tangerine? Why tambourine of course and I immediately thought of the Lemon Pipers’ psychedelic, bubble gum hit from 1967/8, ‘Green Tambourine’!
Now how does ‘Green Tanjerine’ or ‘Tanjerine Dream’ sound for an album title? It would be nice to keep that sweet ‘Orange’ flavour/colour achieving mass saturation!
Now how I’d love to see a NLT cover of this. Apologies in advance for the poor video quality.
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Well I never thought I’d think this until MLTs last release included their cover of ‘White Room’. How do you think they’d manage Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Dylan’s ‘All Along the Watchtower’? Even Dylan started using this version in his live concerts following its release! That would really need to be a studio attempt along the lines of ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ perhaps.
Also, there is a great cover by Nena of the Rolling Stones 1967 hit ‘She’s A Rainbow’ that would be a nice psychedilic option. Would require Rudolf’s assistance on keyboards though. Unfortunately the YouTube video has been blocked in my country, but may be available in yours. The link below is the original Stones version and I think you’ll appreciate the graphics. The second link is to an unusual version of ‘The Last Time’ by Nena.
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By the way, there’s an awesome video of Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’. Of course you’d know the song was written by Grace Slick, who first performed it with her previous band ‘the Great Society’, which she left in 1966.
Slick: “I took acid and listened to Miles Davis’s ‘Sketches of Spain’ album for 24 hours straight until it burned into my brain”.
She based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s books ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’. She claimed the song was directed at parents, rather than children.
“Tell ‘em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call ……… Call Alice When she was just small!”
Slick: “They’d read us all these stories where you’d take some kind of chemical and have a great adventure.” “‘Alice in Wonderland’ is blatant: she gets literally high, too big for the room, while the caterpillar sits on a psychedilic mushroom smoking opium.”
”White Rabbit” was a defining song of 1967’s “Summer of Love”, when anti-war hippies from around the world converged in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood. Slick said “The music I came up with was based on a slow Spanish march or bolero that builds in intensity.”
Slick: “I identified with Alice. I was a product of ‘50s America in Palm Alto, California, where women were housewives with short hair and everything was highly regulated.” “I went from the planned, bland ‘50s to the world of being in a rock band without looking back.” “It was my Alice moment, heading down the hole. “White Rabbit” seemed like an appropriate title.”
I think that the ML Twins are still in their Fab Four Beatelesque period and not quite ready for a ‘White Rabbit’ just yet. Maybe we should keep this post from them somehow. What do you think?
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I’m sure the twins could do an awesome ‘White Rabbit’ and would love to see it, psychedelic colours and all. I was only half serious about keeping it from them.
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