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Post by vectisfabber on Dec 21, 2009 12:34:09 GMT -5
I note Ob-la-di Ob-la-da has crept into McCartney's current setlist without comment. I'm amazed it's taken him this long - it's an obvious live performance song.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 21, 2009 13:06:16 GMT -5
It is not my favorite Beatles' song and was ruined for me by Tony Orlando and Dawn who would often close their television show with it and Tony would skip around and sing to the audience and invariably sit in some old salt's lap and sing this to him causing his equally salty wife to chuckle at the thought of another man serenading her old husband. Paul plays it pretty straight. I think he just has his Hofner bass and hugs the mike. No skipping, no dancing, no sitting in old men's laps taking the piss out of them. It seems okay from the grainy TouTube videos, kind of fun. Here is how Ob-la-di Ob-la-da should be done live and even John Lennon would have loved No Doubt's live version: watch how the crowd goes wild, so much more than the old farts at Paul's recent show and both of these were filmed in Germany: No Doubt also uses real horns which sound 100 times better than Wix's old synth playing. For the old folks here like vectis, scousette, sayne and McCabe, here is the famous 60's cover which I had never heard until today(Oh the magic of YouTube!):
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Post by Joseph McCabe on Dec 21, 2009 16:38:31 GMT -5
I've always though Ob La Di was a great song, and could never understand why it's so poorly regarded by so many.
And the cream on top was Paul ballsing up the lyrics in the last stanza - and leaving them in! Serendipity rules ...
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Post by ursamajor on Dec 21, 2009 19:02:53 GMT -5
Obladi-Oblada is Fat Cat and Friends
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Post by winstonoboogie on Dec 21, 2009 20:30:20 GMT -5
Obladi-Oblada is Fat Cat and Friends Explain, please?
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Post by ursamajor on Dec 21, 2009 23:37:16 GMT -5
Obladi-Oblada is Fat Cat and Friends Explain, please? The instrumental theme song to a kids show (Fat Cat and Friends) , played on a toy xylophone.
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