MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Jacki and Jung, that’s very interesting about French in Canada. I’ve often wondered whether it’s required in schools throughout the country, or just in Quebec. I imagine the number of French speakers you encounter drops off pretty fast as you head west. How often do you happen to overhear someone speaking it where you live? Is it mostly confined to the cities? And if so, do there tend to be French parts of town, or is the population pretty well mixed in?
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That song really surprised me, since the only Kansas City song I knew was the one popularized by Wilbert Harrison. MLT did the Beatles version, which I wasn’t familiar with. I remember Paul recorded the Wilbert Harrison version for his Once Upon a Long Ago EP in 1987, and I guess I just assumed the Beatles had done the same.
Interestingly, despite the very different sound and lyrics, Wikipedia says that they are technically two versions of the same song. Leiber and Stoller wrote the Wilbert Harrison version, and Little Richard created the arrangement that the Beatles worked with, but the writing credit still goes to Leiber and Stoller.
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This is another of my favorite post-Beatle efforts by Paul. Just your basic factory-order happy Paul song that’s fun to bop along with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuJUUK-RLs
From Wikipedia: The name “C Moon” was inspired by lyrics in the song “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. McCartney said, “There’s a line in [Wooly Bully] that says, ‘Let’s not be L7.’ Well, L7, it was explained at the time, means a square—put L and 7 together and you get a square… So I thought of the idea of putting a C and a moon together (a half-moon) to get the opposite of a square. So ‘C Moon’ means cool, in other words.”
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Correct on all counts, JP. I loved that show. Long story, but I once actually got to speak on the phone with the guy that Morgan Freeman is speaking with on the phone in that clip.
I just found that the song “Trying to Live in a Trumpet”, with that same mouse character, is on YouTube.
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I’m with you in that same boat that has sprung a leak, JP. Here’s how desperate I am:
Did you watch The Electric Company when you were a kid? There was a skit and song called “Springing from a Sponge”, in which Luis Avalos (who can’t sing) was dressed up as a mouse and jumping up and down on a sponge next to a kitchen sink.
That’s the only example I can come up with, and of course it’s a completely different meaning of the word spring. Mercifully, it doesn’t seem to be on YouTube.
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Thanks for posting that interview, Jung! It nicely complements the other one. More insights into John’s formative experiences, and cool details about Paul’s relationship with him.
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I think it’s a great idea, Jacki, but I don’t know how much I could contribute. I can strum ukulele chords on a few MLT songs, but I can never make it all the way through without messing up a couple of times. Then again, if there were enough people participating, occasional mistakes by everyone involved might not be very noticeable.
I’d like to hear from Mark, or anyone else who has done this sort of thing, about how you manage to synchronize the sounds when you’re dealing with people thousands of kilometers apart from each other, where the finite speed of light could become a factor. Apparently it works, but I wonder if it requires a lot of rehearsing and fine-tuning before everything meshes.
I’ve gotten quite a bit of experience using Zoom over the past few months, so I should be okay in that regard.
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I hadn’t thought of this song in over 20 years, but it suddenly appeared in my YouTube recommendations list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNg7arOQoVA
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Hi, Tom. According to Wikipedia, Herman’s Hermits’ version came out the year after the Monkees’ version, although that doesn’t necessarily mean they didn’t record it first.
I didn’t know that HH had recorded this song. I just gave it a listen. Interesting!
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Some more that come to mind:
Sunday Morning – Spanky and Our Gang (That’s TWO Sunday songs for that group!)
Never on Sunday – The Chordettes (among many others)
A Sunday Kind of Love – The Del Vikings (among many others)
Friday Man – Bruce Woodley
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Jung, I had always assumed that this was yet another Sunday-themed song by Spanky and Our Gang, so the name Peppermint Rainbow really surprised me. And agreed, that’s the most 60’s-ish group name I’ve ever heard.
I looked up their history and found that they were discovered playing in a club by none other than Mama Cass, who was impressed enough to make some phone calls to move them up to the big time.
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I walked 40 minutes to the grocery this morning to grab a couple of items, and Saturday Night was stuck in my head the whole time. I was finally rescued by the loudspeaker in front of the store, which was blasting some catchy tune that I wasn’t familiar with, and Saturday Night was purged from my brain. But when I left the store ten minutes later, guess what song was coming out of the loudspeaker. Oh, cruel fate!
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JP, for people our age those guys were inescapable. But it’s thanks to them that everyone in our generation knows how to spell Saturday.
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I looked up Saturday’s Child in a book I have about the details of all the Monkees’ recording sessions, and it says the instrumental tracks were recorded on July 9, 1966. It doesn’t clearly establish which version was first, but it does say this:
“Songwriter David Gates produced Davy’s last Colpix session in September ’65 and is the composer of the next song to be taped, ‘Saturday’s Child’. Along with Boyce & Hart’s ‘If You’re Thinkin’ What I’m Thinkin” it will be cut by producer Mickie Most for Herman’s Hermits around this time, hinting that this was one of the demos Most considered when he was approached to produce The Monkees.”
