Guest Howard
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Well I guess technically speaking they haven’t done a Turtles cover, but they have covered a Dylan song that the Turtles covered. In one of their radio station interviews they recorded “It Ain’t Me Babe”. They did it more Dylan style though (except it was tuneful!). I’d love to hear their take on it Turtle style.
Several Turtles covers have been requested in the Topic: “MLT – Cover Requests”.
By the way Brian, Mona and Lisa know all about Pirate Radio in the sixties and the movie “The Boat That Rocked”. There are photos somewhere of when they actually visited one of the old Pirate Radio boats in dock.
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Peter and Gordon – I Go To Pieces
Now I think this would make for a perfect Duo Session for Mona and Lisa.
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Red Skelton As Deadeye, With Walter Brennan
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Traffic – Paper Sun
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Yes, December is a big month for Mona and Lisa with Christmas and a half birthday too! I’ll have to try and remind people I have a half birthday in June.
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Yes Jacki, her reaction is also Oricekess! LOL!
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I remember the photo of you with your first electric guitar Lisa. How exciting it must have been for a ten year old!
Nice to see the video of you unpacking your new drum kit at Christmas Mona. You are obviously very excited and appreciative. Who’d have thought that from such humble beginnings you would develop the awesome musical career you have?
Thank you for sharing these precious moments with us.
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Welcome to the MLT Club Brian. We all love the MLT here and you won’t find a better club to be a member of. I look forward to your contributions.
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I can’t help thinking what a wonderful duo session Mona and Lisa could make of this song accompanied by nothing more than a guitar and banjo!
Tommy Emmanuel – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
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I haven’t watched the movie, but this is my take.
Most people seem to pronounce it as Rikenbaakar, after the original name of the co founder, Adolph Rickenbacher. However, he subsequently changed his name to Rickenbacker and the record company spells and pronounces the guitar name as Rickenbacker. So it’s not a case of I’ll be bach, but rather, I’ll be back!
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Cracker night was a big thing for us in the sixties. Strange that this tradition developed out of the idea of blowing up the British Parliament. Guy Fawkes night became our cracker night and a good time was had by all. Well not quite all. Animals all over the place were frightened, cowering under beds, hospital casualty wards were full and the local fire brigade had their busiest day of the year.
Every local park had a bonfire and as well as all the crackers, from tomb thumbs to twopenny bungers, (which could blow a child’s finger off), Catherine wheels and jumping jacks, we had expensive skyrockets and it was considered a family tragedy if one was a fizzer.
It doesn’t bear thinking about how some delinquents tortured animals with crackers and frightened little old ladies.
Fortunately, in the 1970s, society came to its senses and cracker night was banned.
However, there are still many festivals during the year where public fireworks displays happen, like Riverfire in my home state and of course, New Years Eve.
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I see you were into blonde and Lisa red, even as cute little eight year olds!
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Well put Brian. My sentiments exactly. They certainly take their art seriously without taking themselves seriously. Their total unpretentiousness is so refreshing in the world of pop music and their self deprecating humour is delightful.
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Thanks for sharing David.
The Congressional Payola Investigations occurred in 1959, after the United States Senate began investigating the payola scandal. Among those thought to have been involved were DJ Alan Freed and television personality Dick Clark.
“Prosecution for payola in the 1950s was in part a reaction of the traditional music establishment against newcomers. Hit radio was a threat to the wages of song-pluggers. Radio hits also threatened old revenue streams; for example, by the middle of the 1940s, three-quarters of the records produced in the USA went into jukeboxes. Still, in the 1950s, independent record companies or music publishers frequently used payola to promote rock and roll on American radio; it promoted cultural diversity and disc jockeys were less inclined to indulge their own personal and racial biases.
Alan Freed, a disc jockey and early supporter of rock and roll (and also widely credited for actually coining the term), had his career and reputation greatly harmed by a payola scandal. Dick Clark’s early career was nearly derailed by a payola scandal, but he avoided trouble by selling his stake in a record company and cooperating with authorities.”
Sadly, Payola issues are still around today.
