MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Thanks David. I was looking for a cover version of Norwegian Wood like that. The choir singing gives the song a certain lightness. I had found another cover version on a church organ. Actually a nice idea, but the organist took forever to find the appropriate keys and foot pedals when performing it. Maybe he always plays like that, maybe he should have trained the piece more often. Actually a pity.
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Hi Jung,
thanks for sharing the interesting video. “Rubber Soul” and also “Revolver” are the more unremarkable, the less noticed LP’s of the Beatles. I started my Beatles career with the red and the blue album. Probably like so many other Beatles fans of my generation, although the two albums are just art products. “Best of albums” from a time in which the Beatles no longer existed. “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” were well known by the movies. But “Rubber Soul” and also “Revolver” somehow always led a shadowy existence. Unjustly, in my opinion. My absolute favorite tracks on the album “Rubber Soul” are “Norwegian Wood”, “Nowhere Man”, “Girl” and “In My Life”. Especially as a teenager I often felt like Nowhere Man. Sometimes also as Fool on the Hill. Sometimes both at the same time. Ah yes, puberty… ????.
PS: It is also interesting to see how the different bands influenced each other in the 60s. What I never really understood: why were new albums created (and remixed) once again for the US market and why weren’t the original albums just released in US? Marketing (once again boosting sales)? Example “With the Beatles” (UK) and “Meet the Beatles” (US).
PPS: Since Norwegian Wood should be well known, I was looking for an interesting cover version. There are many of them. Unfortunately, many of them aren’t very good either. This piano interpretation is still quite original (there isn’t a cover version of Mona and Lisa yet, or did I miss something?)
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A little mind game: If the Beatles did get a record deal with Decca Record, and the producers in charge liked the Latin flavor so much that the Beatles’ music moved further in that direction, how might their music have evolved? Maybe like this?
(no, no not meant seriously, but still an interesting thought) ????
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The following Beatles song also has a slight Latin touch. “Till there was you”, was originally written by Meredith Willson in 1950 for the Broadway show “The Music Man”. The Beatles version is sung by Paul, who is accompanied by George and John on dueling Spanish-style acoustic classical guitars over a bolero bongo beat by Ringo (…yes I know, there is also this wonderful cover version by Mona & Lisa…).
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South America not only has great music to offer, but also a very varied landscape and a very eventful history. Hardly any continent is as diverse as South America: dry deserts meet colorful rain forests and thundering waterfalls meet lonely high plateaus.
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“Aquarela do Brasil” (Portuguese for Watercolor of Brazil) is a samba tune composed in 1939 by Brazilian composer Ary Barroso. It became internationally known in a shortened form under the English title “Brazil” when Walt Disney used it in his 1942 film “Saludos Amigos”. In 1944, Barroso was nominated for an Oscar for it. In keeping with its popularity, there are also countless cover versions of this song.
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Hi Jung,
greetings from the near future ????
With us, unfortunately, the summer meterologically is already over. But the next summer is sure comming…
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The song was originally composed by Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez, who also wrote the lyrics. She was just 19 years old when the song was recorded and published in 1941. The song became an international hit and a jazz standard. Which brings us to the charme of Latin America. So the Spanish and Portuguese speaking part of America. Actually a topic of it’s own…
Maybe you can also think of beautiful Latin American melodies, or western music that has its origins in the heart of Central or South America?
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“Kiss me a lot” (Besame Mucho), or something like that, sang the Beatles in January 1962 and hoped with the help of this cover version to get a record contract with Decca Record. „Good bye a lot“, or something like that, replied the manager in charge, and unfortunately nothing came of the contract. Why did they choose this Bolero classic? Who knows, maybe it was wanderlust. But that didn’t hurt the Beatles’ career, as we know today.
https://youtu.be/dg48JepkiRo?t=12
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These two guys also want to create some jungle atmosphere:
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Wow Jung and JP. You really have an active wild life in and around your houses. The Pooh Bears in the video look cute, but when I imagine such an animal patting me on the shoulder from behind while I get into my car, well…
The biggest and most dangerous animals I have ever encountered in my garden are the neighbors’ cats. Pampered animals that always walk nicely on the stone border of my flowerbeds, so that their paws don’t get wet or dirty. Real aristocats. Sometimes they stop and look at me with expectant eyes and then slowly plod on.
But we have many birds in the garden. No, not Canadian gray geese Jung. However, these just start again with their flight towards the south (although we still have very summer temperatures here, but the biological clock of the birds is already ticking). I can now more often see larger formations flying quite low over our plot. Their cackling can be heard from afar. Our lawn is regularly perforated by great spotted woodpeckers. They don’t seem to find enough food in the adjacent forest and have specialized in earthworms. Otherwise, lots of blackbirds, sparrows, robins, titmouses and also some exotic birds like wagtails. Four years ago we had a pair of ducks in the garden. They were attracted by the neighbor’s pond. But the neighbor has closed the pond with a thin net, so that the heron can’t catch his Koi carps. So the ducks could not get to the pond. One morning there was a big white egg in the middle of the lawn. Without a nest, unfortunately, no chance. Really a pity.
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A beautiful symbiosis of traditional African music and western ambience:
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Hi Jung, I could imagine that the responsible decision-makers at Decca would have liked to bite the edge of the table with anger afterwards. Why the Beatles were finally not taken, maybe someone here in the forum knows something more precise. I found the following story about it:
The Decca Audition (also known as Decca Sessions or Decca Tapes) were test recordings of the Beatles at the label Decca Records. The Beatles applied for a record contract with these recordings on New Year’s Day 1962. How had it come about? Well, on October 23, 1961, Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers released the single My Bonnie / The Saints. Behind the name Beat Brothers hid the Beatles in the line-up John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best. Through this single, Brian Epstein became aware of the Beatles and attended one of their concerts at the Cavern Club for the first time on November 9, 1961. After further meetings, he officially became the Beatles’ manager on January 24, 1962. Epstein immediately sought audition dates with various record companies. He received a refusal from EMI and then contacted Tony Barrow, who referred him to Mike Smith, an assistant in the A&R department at Decca. Decca was one of the two largest record companies in Britain in the early 1960s, along with EMI. Epstein was able to convince Smith to attend a Beatles concert at the Cavern Club on December 13, 1961. Smith was so impressed by the performance that he scheduled test recordings for January 1, 1962, at 11 a.m.; at that time, New Year’s Day was not yet a public holiday in Great Britain. While Epstein traveled by train, the Beatles, along with their road manager Neil Aspinall, drove from Liverpool to London in a van that was also loaded with their equipment. The trip took about ten hours. Well, as is known, nothing came of it. This refusal is considered one of the biggest mistakes in music history.
(all data without guarantee ????)
PS: I became aware of “Besame Mucho” many years ago when the double LP “The Beatles live at the Star Club” was released. There is also a nice cover version of “Stand by Me”, which John Lennon later re-recorded as part of his solo career. And of course the legendary song “My Bonnie” together with Tony Sheridan. I think young Paul sounds a bit like early Elvis. One of the reasons why I didn’t like songs like „Till there was you“ that much originally. Today I love the earlier songs.
PPS: Jung, were the Beach Boys also influenced by Latin music?
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A very touching story Jung. Yes, I think it is such and similar experiences in life that shape and influence a person in the long term. Talent is something we may have been given at birth, but the motivation and the will to do something is often given to us by those around us. A few encouraging words at the right time, support and backing from people who love us, or simply the smile of a passionate street musician. Thank you for the story of Jonny Hahn. Each of us has in his life his small or maybe big dreams. Often these remain only illusions, because we do not find time to realize them. Yes the everyday life presses. The job, the many small duties of everyday life and and and. How often have you gone to Pike Place Market to hear the street musician? You are already on your way Jung. On your way to your dream of becoming a musician. Play the music for yourself, for your loved ones and your friends. Just have fun with it. You don’t have to be a virtuoso to enjoy your music. You don’t have to become famous to enjoy your playing. That one look and that one smile from one of your listeners will be reward enough to keep you going.
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Hi JP,
thanks for the information. I really like the animated watercolor drawings in this video. It’s very beautiful, when music and video art merge into one. Aesthetically very appealing and it fits really well with the Pink Floyd music. Maybe you should create your own topic about Pink Floyd. You would have one follower already. ????
