MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Here’s how you end it live if you ARE the world’s best whistler:
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Happy birthday to our MLT Club poet laureate!
There once was a poet named Jacki.
For rhyming she has quite a knacki.
In all her addresses
We see she possesses
A talent the rest of us lacki.
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Thank you so much! I frequently have the surprise jukebox going in the background while my eyes and hands are otherwise occupied, so it’s great to be able to have as many songs as possible available in one place.
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Great video, Jung; thanks for posting it! Very interesting to learn the history there. But of course, the guy is disingenuous when he says most of the English-speaking world says “zed”, because most (64%) of the English-speaking world is American.
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“It’s All Been Done” is one of a vanishingly small number of then-new songs I’ve encountered in the last 30 years that I loved from the first time I heard it. Eventually I figured out that it’s because it reminds me of “You Won’t See Me”. So I guess it really HAS all been done.
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And I’ll ride shotgun with a road map!
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Groovy! I’m looking forward to that one-second solo on “How-bell”, as your fans will come to call it.
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This could work, Howard. There’s also cowbell in “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Drive My Car”, “You Can’t Do That”, “Down on the Corner”, “Grazing in the Grass”, and “She’d Rather Be with Me”.
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Well, Jacki, that “talent/skills notwithstanding” clause is a difficult conceptual bump to get over. I can’t imagine what I would want to do until I had actually attempted to learn how to do everything. And even then, I still think I’d just prefer to listen to them.
Realistically, I have a passable deep-ranging singing voice, so maybe I could add some background doo-wop syllables to “Close to You”. And I played clarinet in my junior high school band, so I could take it out of mothballs and work on contributing to “When I’m 64”.
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The Rutles: truly “a legend that will last a lunchtime”!
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I’ll take it! Thanks, Howard.
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You’re so right, Jung and Howard.
For the longest time I just listened to the piano chords on “Imagine” rather than the lyrics, and I came to know it as that song on the radio that sounds like it’s going to be “Let It Be” but then isn’t.
After finally concentrating on the words, I realize that they’re an elegant and poetic distillation of how easy it could be to change the world for the better, at a cost of nothing but changing our attitude toward it.
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When I first familiarized myself with 60’s music in the 80’s, not knowing who did what, I viewed the DC5’s “Because”, Chad & Jeremy’s “A Summer Song”, and Peter & Gordon’s “A World Without Love” as all being variants on the same lovely composition. I’m gratified that MLT has recorded one of them!
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MLT’s version is great, but I’ve long thought that the definitive performance of Winter Wonderland is the one by the first-season cast of Saturday Night Live in 1975, with Garrett Morris singing the lead.
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Lance,
I just figured out the Beatles reference in the title of your post. Clever!
