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Roy Orbison toured Britain in the summer of 1963 with a much younger but lesser-known band second on the bill.

John Lennon later recalled:

We were selling records [in the UK] but we were still second on the bill, and one of our first big tours was second on the bill to Roy Orbison. It was pretty hard to keep up with that man. He really put on a show; well, they all did, but Orbison had that fantastic voice.  

That fantastic voice -- a three octave range.

More from the Wiki regarding that summer of '63 tour:

Orbison's first meeting with John Lennon was awkward because Orbison was overwhelmed with the amount of advertising devoted to The Beatles when Orbison was supposed to headline the show. Beatlemania, however, was taking hold and Orbison accepted that he was not quite the main draw, so he decided to go first on stage. On opening night, the audience reacted intensely toward Orbison's ballads, as he finished with 'In Dreams'. 

Philip Norman, a Beatles biographer, later wrote: 'As Orbison performed, chinless and tragic, The Beatles stood in the wings, wondering how they would dare to follow him'. After demanding Orbison play for double the time he was scheduled, the audience then screamed for a fifteenth encore, which Lennon and Paul McCartney refused to allow by holding Orbison back from re-entering the stage.

Years later, a reviewer distilled the essence of In Dreams, including a sublime reference to Orbison's superior vocal range:

Echoes of ranchera music offer bittersweet counterpoint from the lulling intro, through the aching verses to a finish that just seems to evaporate.

Listen again and try not to think of Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper.

"Against “Sgt. Pepper”: The Beatles classic made pop seem male, nerdy and “important” — and that wasn’t a good thing"

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"Mikal Gilmore of Rolling Stone called the album "a central touchstone for the 1960s" and "an exemplar for a generation that was forging new ideals."

"Sgt. Pepper's," you see, is the album that marked the shift in rock music away from the grubby fingers of the teenybopper crowd and into the hushed halls of Great Art. It was the transition album that turned rock from a debased music for ponytailed fans twisting the night away to music for grown men whose tastes are far too refined to worry about whether a pop song has a beat you can dance to.

"Sgt. Pepper's" was the point when rock stopped being the music of girls and started being the music of men.

"'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' was the album that made it possible and intelligible for people to say that a rock ’n’ roll album had changed music," writes Jack Hamilton for Slate, explaining why this album tends to rate above all others in the annals of pop music.

But during all this celebration, I'd like to take the time to pour one out for teenyboppers, who always get there first and all too rarely get the credit for it. In fact, the fate of the teenybopper is to watch her music get sneered at, right up until it gets taken away and turned into a respectable art form that it's OK for grown men to like."

https://www.salon.com/2017/05/29/against-sgt-pepper-the-beatles-classic-made-pop-seem-male-nerdy-and-important-and-that-wasnt-a-good-thing/

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This post was inspired by Dust Bunny Queen, who elsewhere expressed an interest in the mobile life style. So I was going to post the original song, but realized that I'd already done that back here. Listening again, I wished to more clearly hear bassist John Entwhistle. I found this brilliant version with the vocals and guitars factored out. It's just Moon and Entwhistle -- the two on the right in the photo.

Years ago, I remarked that The Who and The Beatles were missing complimentary pieces, meaning that Moon and Entwhistle were sort of like the remaining two Beatles, Paul and Ringo. Ron, the commenter, suggested that the remaining 4 should get together and call themselves The Whotles: Paul, Ringo, Pete, and Roger.

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It was symbolic: 'If we ever get out of here … All I need is a pint a day' … [In the Beatles] we'd started off as just kids really, who loved our music and wanted to earn a bob or two so we could get a guitar and get a nice car. It was very simple ambitions at first. But then, you know, as it went on it became business meetings and all of that … So there was a feeling of 'if we ever get out of here', yeah. And I did. – Paul McCartney

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We said, "Goodbye."

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Overheard:

Meade said..."I think you're being alarmist about beer and only posted that to dig at Haz." 

Why, chickelit? Because he brags about taking male hormone supplements?
And what is with all these descendants of German immigrants? You are, what — third? fourth? fifth generation? When the hell are you going to give up the hyphen and become just plain "American"? All I ever hear is das Vaterland! das Vaterland! 

Come on, volks. Gott im Himmel!
It's over, meiner Jungs. 

November 2, 2014 at 9:34 PM

Meade, va' fa' un culo!

Watch the videos for the old fotos of The Beatles from die Lederjahre (the leather years).

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1965's "See My Friends" was the first song that had a sort of mystical quality to it. It's also proto-psychedelia. And it was influential. According to the Wiki, Pete Townshend said at the time:

See My Friends' was the next time I pricked up my ears and thought, 'God, he's done it again. He's invented something new.' That was the first reasonable use of the drone—far, far better than anything the Beatles did and far, far earlier. It was a European sound rather than an Eastern sound but with a strong, legitimate Eastern influence which had its roots in European folk music. link

The drone sound that runs through the record was accidental -- much like the sound of the guitar in 1964's "You Really Got Me."

Ray Davies explains:

I played the song for the first time to my two sisters in Muswell Hill, using this beaten-up 12-string Framus guitar. It had a great quality, but when I played it in the studio, I got too close to the mike, and it started to feed back. And that provided the drone that ran through the record. I remember Shel Talmy saying "we'll never get all this sound on there, so I'll compress the shit out of it.' It ended up a mixture of my stupidity, Shel's opportunism and engineer Bob Auger's technical ability. I'm not sure it's a great song, but it's a great record.

In a widely quoted statement by Barry Fantoni:

I remember it vividly and still think it's a remarkable pop song. I was with the Beatles the evening that they actually sat around listening to it on a gramophone, saying 'You know this guitar thing sounds like a sitar. We must get one of those.'

Six months later, The Beatles released "Norwegian Wood."

50 Years Ago To The Day...

...December 26, 1963, was the day Capitol Records released The Beatles' song "I Want To Hold Your Hand" along with "I Saw Her Standing There" as a single 45 RPM in the US.

Ever wonder who those NYC girls going crazy on the Ed Sullivan show in February of 1964 were? They weren't imported from England where The Beatles were already throbbing hearts; they were girls savvy enough to have heard and bought that first release, driving "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to #1 less than a month later.

The Beatles: We're More Popular Than The Big O Now

Fifty years ago this month, The Beatles released their first vinyl in the US.  I Want To Hold Your Hand charted by mid-January, and by February it reached number 1.  A week later, on February 9, 1964, they played The Ed Sullivan Show. You know the rest.

Golden Slumbers

I kneaded pasta dough and put it under its bowl to rest and when I did in that moment a tune played in memory, "Hush little darling don't you cry, Daddy's gonna sing you a lullaby." So that's what I wrote when I posted the photos. But I wasn't sure of the words. It was a faint memory. Very faint. I wasn't sure at all. It sounds like rock. So I looked.

And I couldn't find it. All kind of stuff comes up. A rap song, a couple of those, I listened to those, actually, the 'buy you a mocking bird' and other extravagant bribes song, a lot of different things on YouTube, nothing close, and then finally at length after several searches about the 4th search, 4th page of Google results I saw the word Beatles and I knew it was them.

[beatles lullaby]

Man, what a song. I did not realize how fantastic this song is. Oh my goodness. I have been underestimating this group all along. Once I heard it and listened it blew me away. You probably think it's trite. I don't.

The lyrics are more excellent than I recalled. This is good stuff. And while I'm being blown away and crediting them for touching poetry I notice  they ripped it off from Thomas Dekker 1572 - 1632

Quite a long time ago. Like Shakespeare.

So no wonder it's classy. They spoke like that then.

And the whole time I read it, I saw it too and thought, man, that's really beautiful. Touching and beautiful.

There are variations of the poem and the song. I chose "kiss your eyes" and "smiles await you," one of the versions I saw, not "fill your eyes," and "smiles awake you." Other variations in the song as well. This is what the poem looks like. Only the first part. I adore these words.

Golden slumber kiss your eyes

Smiles await you when you rise. Sleep pretty baby do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby

"Sing" is the same as "song" in this dictionary. I would draw a "V" up my throat and make a ligature with "song" to indicate I am vocalizing it. Also, "lullaby" is a ligature of "song + sleep" not "song + baby" as you might imagine, but if you did that you'd be understood. Sing is flappy so with "sing" and "lullaby" next to each other it looks a bit flap-happy. The dictionary wasn't assembled with this sentence in mind, so it looks choppy.  He has a very big baby it seems, probably a rambunctious boy who needs a good tumble to get to sleep, he does an exaggerated "baby." My "cry" is one-handed tear trail and I shift my jaw back and forth like it's loose and broken, my "cry" is funny.  "Rise" means "wake up" not raise something up, nor build, nor rise like the sun, nor pop-up, the opposite of disappear, so I just used "rise." And "eyes" is done with a "V" one motion, both eyes, not one finger pointing to each eye individually. The same as you would spell "pizza with a single two-fingers "z" not two separate single-finger "z's." This dictionary has "eye" so I photoshopped his arm to the other eye. Actually, you would put the "kiss" on the "eye, " Just show it. "Golden" is very close to "California." And "when" is the same as "about." After all that, still, isn't it beautiful?

Cares you know not
Therefore sleep,
While over you a watch I'll keep.
Sleep, Pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.