MLT Club Member David Herrick
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When I was in college I hatched a plan to get rich by forming a band called Much Much More, and then suing K-Tel Records for falsely claiming that our songs were on their albums.
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Well, Jacki, as you like to say, that’s my new thing learned for today. I never would have guessed.
Funny, as a kid I always assumed she was the one humming the closing theme for the show. It turns out it was Ja’Net DuBois from Good Times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJe0q7og6ek
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I was going to try to wait it out (and grow it out) a little longer, but I finally got a haircut a couple of weeks ago for the first time since January. The numbers are going up in the U.S., and I was afraid that everything might be shut down again by the time I was involuntarily snacking on my hair on a windy day.
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Jacki, are you talking about the same Marla Gibbs who played Florence, the maid on The Jeffersons?
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You’ve got to wonder what Bach might have thought of his work being played on the banjo. I don’t think the banjo was even known in Europe in his time.
I’m going to take a stab at answering your question, Jung. The difference is… one string.
As with many things, my first exposure to banjo music came from Sesame Street. I mostly remember this clip for the mind-blowing (to a five-year-old) demonstration of video editing, but the audio is pretty cool too. I just looked it up, and the name of the song is The Pony Express, a version of which was included (later) on the Deliverance soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqyHzVVPx0g
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Hey, I suggested Deep Purple too a while back! Great Davids think alike.
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Hello, David (from a fellow David), and welcome to the club!
At first I doubted that you were actually from Canada, seeing as how statistically improbable it would be to have so many Canadian members. But you’ve already apologized twice for something rather innocuous, so I believe you now.
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Here’s another Beatles rarity I came across recently that’s kind of a hoot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGo9zHHrGM
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That’s a very interesting variety show video, Jung. I can’t help but think that half of the audience was there just to see the Beatles, and the other half was there for the establishment song-and-dance numbers. There’s a pretty heavy contrast between those two elements.
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I’ve seen performances by a couple of Beatles tribute bands who were dressed the part. I have to say that I didn’t go there to pretend I was hearing a Beatles concert, but to pretend I was seeing one. And as long as I sat toward the back and squinted a little, I wasn’t disappointed.
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Just to clarify, Jung, the Beatles didn’t write that song, although they were the first to record it. George Martin acquired it from songwriter Mitch Murray. He was also the producer for Gerry and the Pacemakers, and ultimately decided to offer their version for release.
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Ah, Gerry and the Pacemakers! I actually got into them via the Beatles. One of the first Beatle recordings I heard after being introduced to them in “A Hard Day’s Night” was their rendition of “How Do You Do It?”, which I absolutely loved. That song ultimately became a hit for Gerry and the Pacemakers, but George Martin gave it consideration as the Beatles’ first single in place of “Love Me Do”. I only found out much later that it was never officially released at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6RTrNLrrv4
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“I’d like to be a hairdresser… or two. I’d like to be two hairdressers.” (Barry Wom, of the Rutles)
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Virgin Records sounds like a great place to be, Jung. I’ve never been to a record store with ancillaries like that.
I remember a couple of the places I used to go had a copy of literally the thickest book I’ve ever seen. It was an alphabetized catalog of the titles of seemingly every record ever released, along with the facts and figures needed to order each one. Several times I tried to stump the catalog by thinking of one of the most obscure songs or albums I knew, but I never won.
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Thanks for the stories! I really miss passing the time at those niche record stores. You never knew what treasures might await you as you flipped through the album covers.
Here’s a posthumous photo of Poo-Bah Records:
As you walked up to it you felt like you were paying a visit to grandma’s house, but once you were inside there were a lot more treats than just hard candy.
