MLT Club Member David Herrick
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I’m really digging this lovefest concerning my two favorite 60’s groups!
I know I’m always throwing in these little footnotes, but Then I Kissed Her is a reworking of the Phil Spector song Then He Kissed Me, first released by the Crystals in 1963.
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Thanks for posting this interview, John! Lots of interesting ground covered, and Paul was in a very talkative mood.
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Hello, David! Welcome to the ever-growing contingent of Davids in this club. Your description of what makes MLT so groovy is precisely how I feel as well.
I’ve always been a big fan of the city of St. Louis, although I have no particular connection to it. But other than a few stopovers at Lambert in the heyday of TWA, I’ve only visited once, back in 1994, and only for a day. I did all the basic touristy things: went up in the arch, visited the westward expansion museum, and took a ride along the Mississippi, where I saw some boats still in the process of power-washing the structures along the banks that had accumulated mud in the great flood the previous year.
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There was a discussion thread earlier where it was suggested, and generally agreed, that Sweet Lorraine would be hard to make into a “proper” video because everyone has their own mental picture of what the depicted events should look like.
But after seeing this duo session video and their reactions to their own lyrics, I’m envisioning a video where rather than acting out the events, they’re just telling the story around a campfire in the woods, or in a dark room with a single upward-pointing flashlight.
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I’d have to vote for “Bus Stop”. So much silly fun! “Employee of Another Month”!
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I had never thought of a classical piano piece as being a conversation between the two hands, Jung, but that video is an interesting interpretation of that idea. I wonder if Beethoven, or any other classical composers, ever stated that that’s what they were trying to accomplish.
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I’d include myself in the camp of those who’d rather hear Mona’s and Lisa’s vocals than my own, but would also rather hear my own vocals on MLT songs than complete silence.
JP, my inner six-year-old is insisting I point out that that wonderful song is originally from Sesame Street, and comes in two linguistic flavors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhbsb_tkGL0
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That’s a good one, Howard! I’ve still got nearly a decade to go, but there are enough items mentioned in that song for me to construct a Bingo card that I can play as I count down.
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Ah, yes! I bought the red album, but not the blue one. I’ve always been a much bigger fan of their earlier stuff.
I also got the “brown album” (not sure if anyone else calls it that), which has a lot of great tracks:
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Long before it “dawned” on him to form a group, Tony Orlando had a solo top-20 hit in 1961 with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLCrxcF_8L8
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Great topic, Jung, and a great set of songs!
Unfortunately I can’t really contribute much to the discussion. I learned the hit songs from about 1955 to 1973 from “oldies” radio stations, and then went out and bought “greatest hits” and other compilation albums that contained a lot of these songs plus some more that I didn’t know. And in more recent years I’ve expanded my inventory via YouTube.
So in most cases I have no idea what albums my favorite songs are originally from. But I know a lot of veterans of the 60’s music scene can weigh in with some authenticity on this topic.
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Jung, I just watched Mr. Holland’s Opus. Best movie I’ve seen in a long time; thanks so much for recommending it!
There were so many things I could relate to as a teacher: the first-year missteps, the tricky balance between work and home life, the invitations from my students to run off to New York with them (yeah, right…), and the ever-growing realization that teaching is less about what you know and more about how you can inspire.
Also, I noticed in the end credits that one of the songs was written by Julian Lennon.
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I tried to post this one a couple of days ago, but something went wrong and it disappeared into the black hole of “awaiting moderation”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuJUUK-RLs
From Wikipedia: The name “C Moon” was inspired by lyrics in the song “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. McCartney said, “There’s a line in [Wooly Bully] that says, ‘Let’s not be L7.’ Well, L7, it was explained at the time, means a square—put L and 7 together and you get a square… So I thought of the idea of putting a C and a moon together (a half-moon) to get the opposite of a square. So ‘C Moon’ means cool, in other words.”
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Lesley Gore, Spanky McFarlane, Grace Slick, and of course Bev Bivens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbuzEjEHso0
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