MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Ah, someone after my own heart!
When I wrote my screed a few weeks ago about sound-alike songs, I was going to include “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”, but first I checked Wikipedia for antecedents and found that it was set to the tune of “Stewball”, which actually dates back to the 1700’s.
The song I was going to compare it to, though, was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rahTKCeBZ2M
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Ah, my very favorite pre-Beatles pop song, performed by my very favorite Beatles group! A nice tribute to baby George.
Gerry Goffin and Carole King were an amazing songwriting team: “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”, “Take Good Care of My Baby”, “The Loco-Motion”, “Go Away Little Girl”, “Up on the Roof”, “One Fine Day”, “I’m Into Something Good”, “Just Once in My Life”, “Pleasant Valley Sunday”, etc.
In one of the Beatle interviews posted here recently, Paul said that in the beginning they were trying to be the next Goffin and King.
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Top three originals: Sweet Lorraine, Still a Friend of Mine, I Wanna Kiss You.
Top three non-Beatles covers: Bus Stop, God Only Knows, A World Without Love.
This list can vary a little for me too, but I usually have to stop and listen when any of these pops up on the jukebox.
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Well, they’ve already covered my trifecta of If I Fell / When I’m 64 / Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, which is what lured me into this club in the first place.
But if I were to extend it to a hexafecta, I’d love to hear how they’d interpret a diverse set like From Me to You / Norwegian Wood / Back in the USSR .
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Well, when I was a kid there was this sheep at school who used to make me give him my lunch money or he’d bleat me up. (Sorry…)
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This song came out while I was in college and enrolled in third-semester German. I found a printed copy of the lyrics (not easy to do in pre-Internet days) and brought them into class, and the professor guided us through a translation.
I think Jung mentioned this song in the “singing in German” thread. I agree, Howard, that it would be interesting to hear what an MLT version would sound like. I imagine that they would want to rework the arrangement quite a bit.
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I once found an entire album by Napoleon XIV (pictured in the attached video). All the “songs” were based on the same psycho schtick. This is the only other one that I really liked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xMhiT_PXc
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Apparently you’re not the only one who got sick of it, Howard. According to Wikipedia, “in 2012 Bilk said that, after fifty years, he was ‘fed up’ with playing his most famous tune, ‘Stranger on the Shore’.”
The first time I heard of Acker Bilk was when I was browsing through a record store in the 80’s and found (and purchased) this album:
Also according to Wikipedia, which is seemingly the source of everything I know, in 1965 Bilk released a recording of “Mona Lisa”.
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I didn’t know that, Howard! As many times as I’ve heard this song, I’ve never seen a picture of the group.
Here’s what I learned from Wikipedia. The founder of the group was a hairdresser, and the drummer was his salon assistant. Her name was Honey Lantree, and the group got its name because as part of her job… Honey combs!
Unfortunately she passed away just last December.
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It has always amazed me that this anachronistic song became such a big hit. According to Wikipedia, it topped the U.S. charts for three weeks out of four, with the off-week being won by “Good Vibrations”. Strange times…
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Same here, Jacki. I was a little young for the humor, although I went back years later and watched a lot of episodes. One of the greatest ensemble casts of all time!
Andy Kaufman died in 1984, unless you believe the conspiracy theorists.
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I’m with you on this one, Jacki. Same with Bob Dylan: I love a lot of his songs, but only on the condition that he’s not the one singing them!
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That one’s understandable, Jacki. Even with a great sound system and perfect hearing, you just don’t expect words like “Kodachrome” and “Nikon” to figure prominently in a song. Back in the day I provisionally decided, without listening too carefully, that he was saying “goin’ home”.
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In this context it would just mean a group of three songs.
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My first experience with ABBA’s music, before I knew who they were, was through the easy-listening format radio station that my parents listened to, which included “Fernando” and “The Winner Takes It All” in their playlist. When I learned much later that the latter was written shortly after Bjorn and Agnetha’s divorce, it became very poignant.
