MLT Club Member David Herrick
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It will never be considered a proper Christmas carol, but this song opened an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2006, and I’ve loved it ever since:
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Hey, Lynn. I’m actually not on Facebook, and I can barely find the time to process the YouTube stats once a month. (It’s a labor of love, though.) I had no idea that the Facebook views were much greater in number than the YouTube views. Is that true for most MLT videos?
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I remember this cartoon! I had a 45 of what I think was the same recording, but with the background vocals a little higher in the mix. It was one of my favorite “adult” Christmas songs when I was a kid.
I always used to wonder why the background vocalists were going “broom, broom, broom”. I guess mangers can get a little messy.
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Great topic, Jung!
I’ve mentioned this one a couple of times before, but the single most important album in my life was Fonzie’s Favorites. Yes, I bought it when I was eleven years old simply because it had a big picture of the Fonz on the front, but it was my first real introduction to non-children’s music (pre-Beatles rock and roll), and I listened to it over and over until I felt I was living in the late 50’s / early 60’s . And it was a natural bridge to the Beatles-era stuff that I discovered several years later.
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Some projections for the next month or so based on the latest figures:
Nowhere Man: 600,000 views on Dec. 7th
Twist and Shout: 800,000 views on Dec. 7th
The Wide, Wide Land: 200,000 views on Dec. 10th
Drive My Car (2021): 100,000 views on Dec. 12th
Imagine: 500,000 views on Dec. 15th
I Wanna Kiss You: 200,000 views on Dec. 17th
Two of Us: 700,000 views on Dec. 18th
Sound of Silence: 400,000 views on Dec. 19th
House of the Rising Sun: 300,000 views on Dec. 20th
Revolution: 800,000 views on Dec. 25th
Please Mr. Postman / Wipeout overtakes Wish You Were Here on Dec. 27th
Yesterday: 500,000 views on Dec. 27th
When I’m Sixty-Four: 3,000,000 views on Dec. 28th
Stuck in the Middle With You: 200,000 views on Dec. 30th
Money (That’s What I Want): 400,000 views on Jan. 1st
Close to You: 200,000 views on Jan. 2nd
Sweet Lorraine: 200,000 views on Jan. 9th
Kinda neat that four different MLT originals may all hit 200,000 within five weeks of each other!
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Here are the numbers for November. The data are taken over the period from November 6th through December 3rd, except for I’m Looking Through You, which is averaged over just the last five days of that interval.
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipeout: C = 9.40 (+0.98)
2) Drive My Car (2012): C = 8.03 (+3.81)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 7.00 (+2.20)
4) I’m Looking Through You: C = 6.32 (new)
5) Wish You Were Here: C = 4.50 (+0.24)
6) MonaLisa Twins Interview 2016: C = 3.93 (+2.32)
7) Sound of Silence: C = 3.62 (+0.50)
8) Stuck in the Middle With You: C = 3.53 (-0.28)
9) Nowhere Man: C = 3.42 (+1.53)
10) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 2.98 (+0.94)
11) If I Fell: C = 2.70 (+1.09)
12) Lola: C = 2.59 (+0.82)
13) You Can’t Do That: C = 2.51 (+0.50)
14) Africa: C = 2.47 (+0.64)
15) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 2.34 (+0.65)
16) I Bought Myself a Politician: C = 2.31 (-2.44)
17) I’m a Believer: C = 1.81 (+0.39)
18) I’ll Follow the Sun: C = 1.72 (+0.48)
19) Till There Was You: C = 1.70 (+0.49)
20) This Boy: C = 1.69 (+0.53)
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views per day:
1) Drive My Car (2012): V = 4154 (+1969)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipeout: V = 3316 (+348)
3) I’m Looking Through You: V = 3121 (new)
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 2206 (+692)
5) Sound of Silence: V = 1526 (+211)
6) Nowhere Man: V = 1523 (+681)
7) Stuck in the Middle With You: V = 1401 (-109)
8) Wish You Were Here: V = 1332 (+71)
9) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 1267 (+398)
10) If I Fell: V = 1219 (+489)
11) You Can’t Do That: V = 1155 (+230)
12) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 1155 (+322)
13) Till There Was You: V = 895 (+260)
14) I Bought Myself a Politician: V = 891 (-939)
15) Lola: V = 810 (+255)
16) Lazy Sunday Afternoon: V = 753 (-258)
17) You’re Going to Lose That Girl: V = 744 (+177)
18) Africa: V = 732 (+189)
19) I’m a Believer: V = 725 (+157)
20) This Boy: V = 719 (+226)
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So it looks like the numbers have largely recovered from their October slump! Only three of the top 20 videos have dropped in viewership, and they’re all among the most recent, so that’s to be expected.
It will be interesting to see if any of the Christmas-themed videos experience a surge this month. I’ll compare the December data to November next month and report on any upticks.
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Bill, if you’re taking I-77 to Charlotte, you’ll be passing within 50 miles of me. When you reach Statesville, turn to your left and wave!
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Hi, Bill.
23 people? Holy cow!
This year my wife and I did something different for Thanksgiving. Instead of visiting relatives, we drove 4.5 hours to Charleston, South Carolina and spent a couple of days just beach walking (too cold to stand still!) and eating and shopping.
We thought we’d have to forego Thanksgiving dinner, but there was a restaurant open right next to our hotel that was serving a special hot sandwich containing turkey, onion straws, mashed potatoes, and cranberry glaze. It was surprisingly good!
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For the past week, I’m Looking Through You has C = 12.2 and V = 6009. It looks like it’s going to be very highly ranked in the new top 20 lists coming up next weekend.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all club members who celebrate the holiday, and to all who just think it’s a cool idea to reserve a day in the middle of the work week for sitting down at a big table and stuffing your face with carbs.
I’m surprised that a bigger deal wasn’t made of the fact that this was the 400th anniversary of the first American Thanksgiving. I guess if they don’t drill a date into your head in history class, it doesn’t ring a bell later. Except for the dinner bell!
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Perhaps Einstein’s statement could be translated as “and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” (Hey, that would make a great song lyric!)
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Interesting, Juergen! I wouldn’t mind living in one of those castles.
In my high school German class we learned that Schloss translated as lock: we read a story in which a girl put a Fahrradschloss on her bicycle. Then I was surprised to learn the next year in college that it also means castle. Is there a connection between the two meanings, such as a castle being a dwelling that locks out the rest of the world?
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CTW is the Children’s Television Workshop, the parent company of Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and a few other educational shows.
Here’s a sample from Schoolhouse Rock. Trivia item: this song includes the first time I ever heard the Beatles mentioned by name!
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Jacki, I remember we chatted a while back about our shared TV heritage from our childhood. I don’t remember The Friendly Giant and Mr. Dress-up; I’m guessing they were Canadian?
Did you ever see the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons in Canada? They contained very catchy songs for kids about several academic subjects: multiplication, grammar, history, and science.
With apologies to Sesame Street, which started the ball rolling, I thought The Electric Company was CTW’s most impressive show. And watching it later as an adult, I was amazed to realize how much effort, both in front of and behind the camera, was put into education disguised as entertainment.
I didn’t know about the Elizabeth Montgomery / Lizzie Borden connection. Fascinating!
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Thanks for posting that video, Jung! That’s actually the first time I’ve ever SEEN the group that recorded what many consider to be the definitive doo-wop song. I love the synchronized low-energy dance moves that characterized live performances in that genre.
Here is what was my very favorite track off that album. The “bah-bah-bah” lead-in to the final verse just floored me. You may know that Herman’s Hermits had a hit with their own cover of this song:
