MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Thanks, Jung; that might be it. I found this performance from 1980, and he sounds much better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXm3cL-mjdE&t=1739s
I left LA in May of 1989, so yeah, I guess I just missed you.
It is fun playing the Beatles on the uke. I focus on the happy songs, and the uke is a happy instrument, so it’s usually pretty satisfying.
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Great song! I always assumed that it was from a year or two later than 1964, which underscores your point.
I read that Ray Davies claimed that The Doors “borrowed” the basic riff for “Hello, I Love You” from this song.
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Jung, if you stayed at that Pasadena hotel in the late 80’s, we were probably at most just a few kilometers apart.
I once bought an audio cassette compilation album called Teenage Tragedy, which included all the usual suspects (Teen Angel, Last Kiss, Tell Laura I Love Her, Patches, etc.), plus a live performance of Dead Man’s Curve by Jan Berry sometime after his accident. He missed a few notes, his timing was a little off, and his speech was a bit slurred, but he made it through to generous applause. I would love to know exactly when and where he did this, but I don’t know how I could find out.
Oh, and if I recall correctly, I bought the cassette at Canterbury Records, on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.
The Beatles songs you posted are among my early favorites too. I’ve learned the chords for both on ukulele. Very devious of them to raise the key by half a step in the middle of “And I Love Her”. It sounds nice, but it’s twice as much work to learn how to play it.
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You may already know this, Jacki, but Jan and Dean collaborated quite a bit with Brian Wilson on their songwriting, so the strong resemblance is no accident.
I lived in Pasadena for a couple of years, and even spent some time on Colorado Blvd., but never encountered that little old lady. Given that more than 20 years had passed since the song was written, I rationalized that the grandkids had taken the keys away from her by then.
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One easy way to demonstrate how profoundly pop music changed in 1964 is to compare the top-selling songs of 1965 with those of 1963. I don’t think there is any other two-year period in the history of music in which the sound evolved so quickly.
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Nifty, Jung! The Beach Boys and the Four Seasons are the only American groups I can think of to have hits both before and during the British invasion, which I think really says something about how appealing their sound was.
Hadn’t heard that tune you posted. I didn’t know that any musicians were already waxing nostalgic about early rock-and-roll in 1964!
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What’s the deal with these videos, Jung? First you give us one of the Bee Gees going out with a dog, and now we’ve got Elvis romancing a gray-haired old lady!
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JP, I used to imagine that Both Sides Now had a different title when it was originally released as a single, but it proved to be so popular that the people in marketing replaced the B-side with another pressing of the A-side and reissued it.
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What made Runaway so groovy for me was the prominent use of that synthesizer. I didn’t know that there were synthesizers that pre-dated the Moog, so I listened to the song repeatedly trying to figure out what analog instrument I was hearing, without success.
I just looked up the history of it, and it was invented by the very guy who played it on the track: Max Crook. According to Wikipedia, “he built a monophonic synthesizer, which he called the Musitron, out of a clavioline heavily enhanced with additional resistors, television tubes, and parts from household appliances, old amplifiers, and reel-to-reel tape machines.” He just died twelve days ago.
After Del Shannon passed away, the Traveling Wilburys recorded Runaway in tribute to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPx9bkpkh8
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Jung, I honestly didn’t pay attention to any of the tributes, because at the time I had no interest in any music more recent than the doo-wop era. Fortunately I was less than four years from my great enlightenment.
Dennis’ incident occurred a few months before I began to get into the Beach Boys. I think the first big rock-and-roll death after I became 60’s-literate was Ricky Nelson.
Another one that meant something to me was Del Shannon. I found out about it on the radio as I was driving to attend my first Paul McCartney concert. I bought a souvenir program that had a page with a collage of photos of early rock-and-roll artists… including Del Shannon.
And now I’m reading that Elvis’ grandson just died.
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That’s remarkable, Jung, because I heard about Elvis’ death in much the same way. I was accompanying my dad on an out-of-town business trip, because I loved to travel and he enjoyed having someone to talk with. We were listening to the radio on the way home when they announced what had happened during a news break.
I didn’t hear about John Lennon until the following morning, because in my time zone I was already in bed. But it had no impact on me because, believe it or not, I had never heard of him. (I had heard of the Beatles, but I didn’t know their names or their music.) A lot of my classmates at school were really broken up about it, but it was all lost on me at the time.
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I remember as a kid when it was announced that Elvis was going to do a concert in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky. It was advertised constantly on TV and radio. I was excited because thanks to Happy Days I knew about Elvis and what a big deal he was.
The concert was scheduled for August 23, 1977. But of course we all know what happened on August 16th.
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I just noticed a glitch at the three-minute mark of that cartoon where a couple of seconds are missing. Fortunately I managed to track down a patch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfrJzkpzCyg
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Believe it or not, Jung, Steve Martin has won three Grammy awards for his banjo playing!
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Yeah, me too.
