MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Anyone remember this very short-lived Happy Days spinoff? It was terrible, but the theme song was pretty catchy.
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Okay, here’s one I’ve always liked. It just screams late-70’s exuberance. Both versions (seasons 1 and 2) are included here, if you have the patience.
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I have to say I’m having difficulty deconvolving my favorite themes from my favorite shows. For me the theme is a signal to my brain that the show is about to start, and I can’t cleanly separate my thoughts about the two. That being said, pretty much everything listed so far would probably be on my list as well.
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If you’re a big fan of the early days of rock and roll, you probably won’t do better than the soundtrack of American Graffiti.
Here’s a song that became a hit for Ringo years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frVy-uLz1XY&list=PLCubXHRlW2x4pu3OL7dMX-6T22X0l1qyz
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Less than an hour from now Lucy will make its closest approach to its first target: a 0.7 km diameter asteroid called Dinkinesh. If I see a picture posted, I’ll add it here.
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Here are the milestone predictions for the next month or so:
I’m a Believer: 800,000 views on November 2nd
Can’t Buy Me Love: 1,000,000 views on November 3rd
Revolution: 1,000,000 views on December 9th
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Here are the figures for October. All data are averaged over the period from October 1st through October 31st, except for Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma, which is for just the last five days.
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 4.95 (-0.81)
2) She Loves You: C = 3.76 (+0.06)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 3.27 (-0.59)
4) Here Comes the Sun: C = 3.00 (-1.25)
5) Drive My Car (2012): C = 2.50 (-1.63)
6) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 2.49 (+0.34)
7) You Can’t Do That: C = 2.25 (-0.56)
8) She’s a Woman: C = 1.64 (+0.08)
9) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 1.64 (-0.12)
10) Paint it Black: C = 1.64 (-0.18)
11) Nowhere Man: C = 1.60 (-0.25)
12) If I Fell: C = 1.51 (-0.03)
13) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.29 (+0.10)
14) Day Tripper: C = 1.23 (-0.28)
15) Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma: C = 1.17 (new)
16) Till There Was You: C = 1.12 (-0.07)
17) Africa: C = 1.11 (-0.05)
18) This Boy: C = 1.11 (-0.11)
19) I’m a Believer: C = 1.08 (-0.20)
20) Vincent: C = 1.04 (+0.11)
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views per day:
1) She Loves You: V = 1834 (+30)
2) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 1744 (-296)
3) Drive My Car (2012): V = 1295 (-843)
4) Here Comes the Sun: V = 1234 (-515)
5) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 1060 (+145)
6) You Can’t Do That: V = 1034 (-257)
7) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 1031 (-187)
8) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 811 (-57)
9) Nowhere Man: V = 714 (-110)
10) If I Fell: V = 681 (-15)
11) Paint it Black: V = 646 (-74)
12) Till There Was You: V = 592 (-38)
13) She’s a Woman: V = 585 (+29)
14) Day Tripper: V = 537 (-123)
15) Tell Me Why: V = 490 (-110)
16) In My Life: V = 476 (-97)
17) This Boy: V = 471 (-49)
18) Please Please Me: V = 456 (-46)
19) San Francisco: V = 449 (-105)
20) I’m a Believer: V = 431 (-82)
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Looks like another down month overall. However, we have a brand new champion song as She Loves You has taken over the top spot in views. The newest entry, Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma, just missed out on the top 20 at V = 430.
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I’ve actually only seen excerpts from the film, but the soundtrack is a tour de force of hit songs from the late 50’s and early 60’s in the U.S.
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Wow! Once when I was nine years old I spent the night at my best friend’s house, and his parents let us stay up all night. Around midnight we turned on the TV and found Alice Cooper performing this very song. I’m still recovering from the shock.
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I guess it is, Chris. Funny, since I had never heard of a sampler back then, I just described it the way I would have at that time.
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I hadn’t heard that one, Tim, but I am familiar with Cow Patti. Clever, funny stuff!
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I remember this one, Tim! As an eight-year-old boy at the time, I was happy to see subject matter in a song that I could relate to.
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No, Juergen, I could never play a keyboard “properly”. The best I could do was play four notes at a time, usually one-finger melodies and three-finger chords. All the fancy functions on the Casio were just curiosities for me, and it never even occurred to me to use them simultaneously with the keyboard. I think it was a hand-me-down from a sibling, as I don’t recall actually buying it.
I had a Bontempi electric organ in the late 70’s. There was nothing electronic about it, though. The electricity was just used to blow air through it, so I guess it functioned sort of like an accordion.
The coolest feature I ever had on a keyboard was a condenser microphone that allowed you to input your own short sound, and then the different keys played that sound at different speeds. (I think that was a Casio SK-1, also a hand-me-down.) I could input stupid stuff like belching, or something rapid like snapping my fingers, which turned into a buzz when cycled back on itself.
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I had a Casio MT-40 back in the day. So much fun!
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I remember Da Da Da. It was big here in the U.S. in 1984 while my high school pen pal from France was visiting me. The song had already come and gone in Europe by that point, and he was exasperated at having to endure it again. I never knew the backstory; that’s very interesting!
