The Beatles Backyard

[Peter Power Pop]

Merry Christmas Karl. What a treat! And think on this: it will be even better the second time around.

Can confirm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology_(TV_series)

[AnotherSpin]

A very fine album by George Martin. Who could resist Jim Carrey singing I Am the Walrus or Sean Connery's spoken rendition of In My Life?

[AnotherSpin]

A very good album of Beatles songs by the incomparable Roberta Flack.

[Karl Henning]

A very fine album by George Martin. Who could resist Jim Carrey singing I Am the Walrus or Sean Connery's spoken rendition of In My Life?

Very interesting.

[Karl Henning]

As a kind of Intermezzo before I resume the Anthology, last night I re-watched All You Need Is Cash, the at once affectionate and pitiless parody with Eric Idle and Neil Innes playing alter egos of McCartney and Lennon,  respectively, of The Rutles. In the midst of my Beatles-watching, I now see how closely the parody tracks the Anthology. Great fun.

[Kalevala]

A very fine album by George Martin. Who could resist Jim Carrey singing I Am the Walrus or Sean Connery's spoken rendition of In My Life?

That looks like a fun album!

K

[Karl Henning]

Well, I've just wrapped up the extras DVD. The whole journey has been highly gratifying. I feel kind of primed to return to the Peter Jackson Get Back project. 

[Karl Henning]

I've probably posted this before, but:

[Elgarian Redux]

Well, I've just wrapped up the extras DVD. The whole journey has been highly gratifying. I feel kind of primed to return to the Peter Jackson Get Back project.

Excellent. And that will get you pondering how it all started, yet again, and out will come the Anthology once more ... The Beatles are forever with us, no matter what we do.

You know there's a big Anthology book, don't you Karl? See Beatles Anthology book

[Elgarian Redux]

I've probably posted this before, but:

The Third Law of Beatlescience states that that no number of repostings of this information is excessive.

[Elgarian Redux]

I've probably posted this before, but:

I can't sleep, so I'm having a cup of tea, and will tell you a true Now and Then story.

I've been retired from my teaching job (Physics) for more than 20 years, but from time to time I bump into old students of course. Sometimes it can be 30, 40 or even 50 years since I last saw them, so very often they've changed out of all recognition, and while they often recognise me, I may initially have no idea who they are until we get talking and they tell me.

Well (gather around the fire and throw on another log, someone), just over a year ago I was walking along a narrow lane near home, when a car came up from behind, pulled up alongside me, and stopped. The driver (I had no idea who he was) opened his window and shouted out, 'What do you think of it then?'
'Wonderful!' I said.
'I know!', he said.
'What about that guitar solo?' I said.
'Fantastic,' he said. 'Made me cry!'
'Me too'.
We continued in this vein, going on to discuss the exquisite AI video, until I suddenly asked, 'Hang on - who are you?' He told me his name, which I recalled instantly, though he had changed a great deal so I still didn't recognise his face.

I hadn't seen him for more than 40 years, but what left me gobsmacked was that his first impulse was not to swap 'how are you and what have you been doing?' stories, but to discuss our impressions of 'Now and Then' (which had been released a few days earlier), without either of us needing to explain to the other what it was that we were talking about.

I walked home thinking that the incident seemed to justify my entire teaching career.

[Karl Henning]

I walked home thinking that the incident seemed to justify my entire teaching career.

Sweet! Solid, Jackson, even!

[Number Six]

[NOW AND THEN]

I am trying to recall a recent film in which a couple reminisces about this song being "their song", even though the flashback was several years before -- and thus they could not possibly have known this song at the time of the scene. 

I can't remember the film, though. 


ETA: I just thought to wiki the song, and it may be Argylle. A not-very-good movie with a few good performances. 

[Karl Henning]

For @Kalevala especially

[Karl Henning]

For @Kalevala especially

Not an "arrangement" so much as a kind of improvisation upon the source.

[vandermolen]

Ringo was on the TV News this morning promoting a Country and Western album. I won't be rushing out to buy it!

[Kalevala]

Not an "arrangement" so much as a kind of improvisation upon the source.

Thanks, Karl!

K

Ringo was on the TV News this morning promoting a Country and Western album. I won't be rushing out to buy it!

Hmmm...interesting news.

K

[Karl Henning]

Ringo was on the TV News this morning promoting a Country and Western album. I won't be rushing out to buy it!

Oh, you'll wait a week or so, then? 😉

[Szykneij]

Ringo was on the TV News this morning promoting a Country and Western album. I won't be rushing out to buy it!

Not too surprising, I guess, since Ringo seemed to have an affinity for country music. Several of his rare lead vocals with the Beatles were country or had country feels - "Act Naturally", "What Goes On", "Honey Don't", "Don't Pass Me By".

[Karl Henning]

Not too surprising, I guess, since Ringo seemed to have an affinity for country music. Several of his rare lead vocals with the Beatles were country or had country feels - "Act Naturally", "What Goes On", "Honey Don't", "Don't Pass Me By".

For the parody group The Rutles, Neil Innes reflected this by writing "Living in Hope" for Barry Wom: