MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Love it! “Lampi-Bampi-Booooo!”
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Okay, hear me out on this one: MLT as the Righteous Sisters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnYY9Mw2Fg
Obviously they’re not going to duplicate the voices, but it would be a treat to hear them harmonize in this style, so emotive and yet so precise.
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Count me in on an Australian adventure! Maybe we can all meet up in Adelaide and hang out at some of MLT’s old haunts.
I’m originally from Kentucky, so I guess my animal contributions would be a thoroughbred racehorse and a toothless possum with emphysema.
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Fascinating insights about “Here, There and Everywhere”, Howard! Especially the part about the “preamble”. It made me suddenly realize that Paul begins “Live and Let Die” in exactly the same way.
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Thanks, Howard and Jung, for your encouragement. I’m not really angling for fame and fortune, though. I’d just like to have a nice little song that’s “mine”.
Actually, just a few weeks ago I woke up with a more adult tune in my head that was probably inspired by “Still a Friend of Mine”, in that it had the same mood and the same tempo. But it seems so familiar that I can’t convince myself that it doesn’t already exist.
I realize that parallels McCartney’s story about writing “Yesterday”, but he’s Paul and I’m not!
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“Blowin’ in the Wind” is probably my favorite Dylan song, although my preferred version is the cover by Peter, Paul and Mary because of the soaring harmonies that I’d like to see MLT match or top.
For similar reasons I’d suggest this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNh5870rBkc
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I am NEVER going to be able to get this picture out of my head, Skip! And yet I’m going to contribute to the cognitive dissonance by suggesting that Scooby’s head be replaced with that of Lampi Bampi.
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Thanks, Jung. I just came across this audience recording of the song from an earlier date in the same tour. This probably gives you the best sense of the suddenly electric atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDiusWO9aCo
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I agree, Jung. The powerful instrumentation of “Got To Get You Into My Life” really started a musical movement. I can’t think of a similar song that pre-dates it. You could probably include Blood, Sweat and Tears in your list of bands that tapped into this vein.
McCartney performed this song the first time I saw him in concert in 1990. As it began, the house lights went up and everyone spontaneously stood up and started dancing in place. The sound of the trumpets live gave it an amazing energy that far surpasses what you get from the recording.
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Fascinating! Now that makes me wonder about the Four Seasons song “C’mon Marianne”.
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I think you’re right, Jung. I found another version that samples just one second of each song, and lasts four minutes. I couldn’t even identify a lot of them.
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To be honest, Howard, Neil Young isn’t nearly as annoying to me as Bob Dylan. Young’s voice is too thin for my taste, but at least he’s legitimately trying to sing.
I was lucky enough to see PP&M in concert three times in the 90’s. There was just something magically soothing about them that gave you hope for humanity. I’m still sad that Mary is no longer with us.
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Oh, I thought you were talking about “Four Strong Winds”.
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I’m not finding a Peter, Paul and Mary version of this song on YouTube, Jacki. The Wikipedia entry for “Four Strong Winds” doesn’t list them among the groups that have recorded it either. Are you sure that’s the group? I’d really like to hear their version if it exists.
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Amen to that, Howard. An artist really has to thread the needle (or at least it seems so to me here on the other side of the needle) to come up with a catchy tune that doesn’t remind you of an existing catchy tune. I hold such songwriters in the very highest regard.
I’ve tried several times to write a song when I felt the inspiration, but invariably it ended up merging into some song I already knew. My only successes have been tunes that came to me in a dream and that I still remembered when I woke up, but they tend to be of the type that would be most appropriate for children’s sing-alongs.
