MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Coincidentally, just a couple of days ago I came across this impressive old cover of Blackbird by a vocal group consisting of four sisters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-TD6yerNQk
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This is fun! Avoiding the temptation to just look them up:
I Am the Walrus – The Beatles
And Your Bird Can Sing – The Beatles
Rocky Raccoon – The Beatles
Bluebird – Paul McCartney
Gonna Buy Me a Dog – The Monkees
The Porpoise Song – The Monkees
What’s New, Pussycat? – Tom Jones
Crazy Horses – The Osmonds
Bird Dog – The Everly Brothers
Running Bear – Johnny Preston
Snake in the Grass – Dave Dee et al.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens
Tiger – Fabian
Spiders and Snakes – Jim Stafford
The Birds and the Bees – Jewel Akens
Rockin’ Robin – Bobby Day
Muskrat Love – The Captain and Tennille
Honky Cat – Elton John
Night Owl Cafe – John Sebastian
Disco Duck – Rick Dees
Pretty Flamingo – Manfred Mann
I Go Ape – Neil Sedaka
Snowbird – Anne Murray
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I agree, John. I just checked Wikipedia, and in addition to his own hits from mostly the late 50’s he also wrote for or with people like Frank Sinatra, Buddy Holly, and Michael Jackson. -
Just to give credit where it’s due, Puppy Love was originally a hit for Paul Anka.
Donny and Marie had a morning talk show in the late 90’s, and one day Paul Anka made an appearance. Donny asked him if he had any hard feelings about Donny scoring a hit with his old song, and Paul said, “Are you kidding? The royalties from your recording put my kids through college!”
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Jung, according to Wikipedia, David Seville himself provided the voices of all three chipmunks. It also says that he recorded the vocals at exactly half-speed, which makes sense because he’d just be singing in the same key but one octave lower. The instrumental parts were recorded separately and not altered.
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I had a Chipmunks album as a kid. We had a fairly old record player, so I was able to play it at half-speed (16 RPM), and it sounded pretty close to “normal” that way.
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Welcome to the club, Lynn!
My only visit to Nebraska was two years ago, when I drove across it on I-80 as part of a cross-country trip. It was mid-May, so I had the smell of fresh manure as my constant travelling companion. Talk about catching the wind…
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Wait, I think I’ve figured it out (as if anyone cares). The “replies” number for each forum is the total number of replies to the original posts, not including the original posts themselves. I think this column used to be called “posts”, and included the original ones. So to get the total number of posts we now have to add the five “topics” numbers to the five “replies” numbers. Tricky, but my calculator has seen worse.
So now we can count down to 10,000 replies.
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Joe,
In the “introduce yourself” forum, scroll down to the bottom where it says “create new topic”, and type your post there. Then it will show as a new entry rather than as a reply to someone else.
By the way, welcome to the club!
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Jung, as far as titles go, the Beatles recorded “Not a Second Time” and “Any Time at All”. There was also an instrumental piece in the Yellow Submarine film called “Sea of Time”.
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Jung, I’m amazed at that song that the Bee Gees wrote at such a young age! I can easily picture Buddy Holly singing it.
This is not intended as a knock against Enya, but just an observation: every song she sings makes me sleepy. Her style reminds me of what ambient sounds feel like in the last second or two before you doze off.
If we can expand the topic a little to include movies, there is a terrific but little-known film from 1979 called “Time After Time”. The writing, acting, and direction are all superb, more than making up for the absurd premise: H.G. Wells invents a working time machine, and his friend, who is secretly Jack the Ripper, uses it to escape the police and ends up in modern-day San Francisco (where the machine is on display in a museum).
Here’s one of my favorite scenes, from the moment when H.G. first locates Jack after his escape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvYoTPlTwpE
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To supplement Howard’s extensive list, I’ll note that the Monkees recorded their fair share of “time” songs as well.
In the 60’s there was “No Time” (not the Guess Who song), “Looking for the Good Times”, and “Pillow Time”.
Their 2016 album included “Good Times” (apparently they finally found what they were looking for), “Gotta Give it Time”, and “I Was There (and I’m Told I Had a Good Time)”.
And finally, their 2018 Christmas album featured a cover of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”.
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Great Seneca video, Jung! Color me stoic.
I can think of a few songs with “time” in the title, but as far as songs dealing with time and the passage thereof as the primary subject matter, all I can come up with immediately is “In the Year 2525”, which is one of the most depressing songs I know.
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I’ve heard “Rain”, but I’ve never seen them perform or lip-sync it before. I was wondering what they were going to do during the backwards part at the end. Love how John has this “I didn’t do my homework” look as he fakes his way through the reversed lyrics.
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Yes, very impressive!
