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Welcome to the club Graham. You’ll enjoy your time here.
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Welcome to the Club Bert. You’ll enjoy being here.
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Hi Robert. Welcome to the Club. I was born close by in Armidale. A very nice area of NSW. A little cold in winter though, up on those tablelands.
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Welcome to the best club on the planet Tim.
I share your feelings for Mona and Lisa. They have definitely breathed new life into so many of my old favourites, and do it in the most beautiful way, and then take it even further with their own fabulous originals.
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Thanks again David. However, I don’t know what happened to my posts explaining the significance of that particular date, which I thought was for educational purposes.
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Yes Thomas. Great example of the Beatles live during their pre studio album period that commenced with “Rubber Soul”. Thanks for sharing.
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Wondering if Jacki is referring to the infant school class of 5W, Thomas?
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Now Lisa, I could not imagine ANYONE game enough (and not mentally challenged) to get bossy with either you or Mona!
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Nice post Leif. Particularly regarding your selection of “Hitch Hike”, from the Rolling Stones album “Out Of Our Heads”, which was their first number one album in the United States. There are many other great blues covers on that album, including “Hitch Hike”, which as you state, the Stones made theirs.
The album was recorded over six months between studios in Chicago (Chess Studios), Los Angeles and London. Six out of 12 for the US version were their own material.
Out of Our Heads became the group’s first number one on the American Billboard 200 album chart; in the UK it charted at number two. The album’s US release largely had mid-1960s soul covers and “classic rock singles” written by the band, including “The Last Time”, “Play with Fire”, and “Satisfaction”, still drew on the band’s R&B and blues roots, but were updated to “a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context.”
Among the soul covers were Marvin Gaye’s “Hitch Hike”, Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me”, and Sam Cooke’s “Good Times”. “I’m All Right” (based on a Bo Diddley sound) showed their 1965 sound at its rawest, and there are a couple of fun, though derivative, bluesy originals in “The Spider and the Fly” and “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man.”
It was the Rolling Stones’ last UK album to rely upon rhythm and blues covers; the forthcoming “Aftermath” was entirely composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
A little known point of interest, Ringo Starr is credited with percussion, piano (on “Satisfaction”), organ (on “Cry to Me”), and harpsichord (on “Play with Fire”).
As for the Bay City Riollers, well it would be nice to see how Mona and Lisa handle Dusty Springfield’s huge hit from the sixties, “I Only Want to Be With You”.
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A belated happy birthday wish from me Jacki. Did you say 52 or five foot two? You would have to be the spring chicken of the MLT Club. May you have many more happy birthdays!
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Well David, Phil Spector was certainly one weird and dangerous dude. A brilliant record producer, but tragically flawed. He married Veronica Bennett, later known as Ronnie Spector, who was the lead singer of the girl group the Ronettes (another group Spector managed and produced). They married in 1968 and adopted a son, Donté Phillip. In their 1974 divorce settlement, she forfeited all future record earnings and surrendered custody of their children. She alleged that this was because Spector threatened to hire a hit man to kill her.
Several music critics maligned Spector’s work on Let It Be; he later attributed this partly to resentment that an American producer appeared to be “taking over” such a popular English band. Lennon defended Spector, telling Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone: “he was given the shittiest load of badly recorded shit, with a lousy feeling toward it, ever. And he made something out of it. He did a great job.” I agree, and it may have never been released without Spector’s involvement.
For Harrison’s multiplatinum album All Things Must Pass (number 1, 1970), Spector provided a cathedral-like sonic ambience, complete with ornate orchestrations and gospel-like choirs. The triple LP yielded two major hits: “My Sweet Lord” (number 1) and “What Is Life” (number 10). That same year, Spector co-produced Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band (number 6), a stark-sounding album devoid of any Wall of Sound extravagance.
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Well David, people don’t like change. There was a similar impact when Dylan went electric. Many of his traditional folk fans were dismayed and couldn’t forgive him. However, he came out with the massive hit “Like a Rolling Stone” and I remember at the time it created more discussion in my social circles than any other musically related event of the time. I believe Dylan created his best albums in the mid to late sixties.
As for the Beatles around the same time, I was initially a Rolling Stones fan and didn’t really get into the Beatles until Sgt. Peppers was released. It was the first new album I ever bought (my previous records had mostly been second hand) and we played it over and over. I remember sitting on the lounge room floor listening to it while reading the lyrics on the cover. It was the first album I remember to have lyrics on the cover.
There was also much discussion amongst Beatles’ fans around the time “Rubber Soul” and “Revolver” were released as it was a departure from their previous style of music.
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Welcome to the best club on the planet Timothy. I live Downunder in Brisbane, Australia. I share your feelings for Mona and Lisa. They have definitely breathed new life into so many of my old favourites, and do it in the most beautiful way, and then take it even further with their own fabulous originals.
You’ll enjoy being a member.
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Hi Jacki. I don’t think Robert will mind me answering on his behalf. Tamworth is on the northern tablelands of NSW, on the Great Dividing Range. Every year the biggest Country Music Festival in Australia is held there.
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Now you definitely weren’t alone here Thomas. I was two years ahead of you in my last year of infant school, in 1963, when I remember having my first reaction to the Beatles, sitting on the steps in the playground, singing:
“She was just 17, you know what I mean, and the way she looked, was way beyond repair, and how could I dance with her mother, when I saw her fall through the floor”.
