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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 26, 2013 22:17:03 GMT -5
Man, GLEE is cutting edge. The gay kid Kurt just made up to his boyfriend with "Got To Get You Into My Life." The handicapped boy is secretly seeing the cheerleader to "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away." And Kurt's boyfriend wants to enlist all the rival glee clubs, including the deaf school, in a show of solidarity to propose marriage to Kurt by "Help!" The Beatles music lives and all high school kids are going to see how hip the Fabs are! Win-win Apple! To quote two songs where Sting sings:
I want my I want my I want my Let it Be
Can't Stand Cant stand can't stand this show called Glee
Not so fast Mike, I read above that you recognize that episodes like this on GLEE help keep Beatles music alive with younger people. I just discovered that we can purchase these covers on iTunes! Hey Deb, I liked the straight scenes too but there were fewer of them. The "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" was used in a hetero scene for once as that song has since the mid-60's been associated with poor tormented Brian Epstein.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 26, 2013 22:23:27 GMT -5
Most popular Glee songs on iTunes are Yesterday, Let it Be and Here Comes the Sun.
What is it with these young kids and Here Comes the Sun? It's the best selling Beatle song by the Beatles ever on iTunes.
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 27, 2013 0:11:00 GMT -5
Most popular Glee songs on iTunes are Yesterday, Let it Be and Here Comes the Sun. What is it with these young kids and Here Comes the Sun? It's the best selling Beatle song by the Beatles ever on iTunes. That is kind of heartening, "Here Comes The Sun" being an iTunes best seller. I suspect there were 1,000,000 new Beatles fans created tonight thanks to GLEE.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Sept 27, 2013 5:49:19 GMT -5
Unlike John, I don't think I can watch this show just for the gay bits. Yeah, what's up with that? I'm only going by JSD's descriptions here as I never watch GLEE (from the way JSD's posts read, it sounds more like 'GAY'). I only recall one time being forced into watching this show in 2010 when I was dating a woman and it was one of her favorites so I watched it one night with her. I opted to watch the new Michael J. Fox Show instead, and that sucked, too. I don't care what anyone thinks, as I am a proud old fart who prefers to watch DVDs of older, better shows. (Though in addition to THE ODD COUPLE, I LOVE LUCY, ALL IN THE FAMILY, SANFORD AND SON and THE HONEYMOONERS I also watch DVDs of more recent fare like THE SOPRANOS and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM). Back to GLEE -- I do agree that it probably helped younger viewers become more in tune with The Beatles. However, is it only going to contribute to The Beatles' current reputation as a soft, sappy "boy band" ?
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Sept 27, 2013 5:54:27 GMT -5
The One to One evening show is the real show from 1972- what can legally be holding this up? Were the tapes lost? Some showed up on Anthology. It's actually been said that there will be a new upgrade for these shows coming soon to DVD, including the evening performance. That's a good thing, but frankly even as a John Fan I have never been thrilled with these performances. But alas, it's all we have. All I expect is for you folks to spend more time ripping Macca a new one, when and if he marginalizes John.
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Post by mikev on Sept 27, 2013 6:47:55 GMT -5
The One to One evening show is the real show from 1972- what can legally be holding this up? Were the tapes lost? Some showed up on Anthology. It's actually been said that there will be a new upgrade for these shows coming soon to DVD, including the evening performance. That's a good thing, but frankly even as a John Fan I have never been thrilled with these performances. But alas, it's all we have. Initially, the heavy sax playing of Elephant's Memory didn't bother me much, as I generally like sax, but now after listening to John's Long Tall Sally, it does sort of stick out like a sore thumb on some songs, and was very prominent in this concert. The Beatlemania group I recently saw, duplicated this arrangement when they performed Imagine, probably to more reflect the known live versions that to imitate the studio cut, similar to most Beatle tribute groups doing the Paul George doo wah bit on Revolution to reflect the "quasi-live" performance video (unfortunately cut in half by dialogue on Anthology. But the evening show is tighter, so it is better than what we have now.
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Post by mikev on Sept 27, 2013 6:50:17 GMT -5
To quote two songs where Sting sings:
I want my I want my I want my Let it Be
Can't Stand Cant stand can't stand this show called Glee
Not so fast Mike, I read above that you recognize that episodes like this on GLEE help keep Beatles music alive with younger people. Well John, I did say that, but that doesn't mean I like the show. I'm also inconsistent with the "I want my Let it Be", as I've said more recently- I want the performances released- could care less about the banter and Mal pushing equipment around Paul and Ringo who just fell out of bed. I dunno, maybe I just felt like plugging Sting...
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 27, 2013 9:45:02 GMT -5
It's actually been said that there will be a new upgrade for these shows coming soon to DVD, including the evening performance. That's a good thing, but frankly even as a John Fan I have never been thrilled with these performances. But alas, it's all we have. Initially, the heavy sax playing of Elephant's Memory didn't bother me much, as I generally like sax, but now after listening to John's Long Tall Sally, it does sort of stick out like a sore thumb on some songs, and was very prominent in this concert. The Beatlemania group I recently saw, duplicated this arrangement when they performed Imagine, probably to more reflect the known live versions that to imitate the studio cut, similar to most Beatle tribute groups doing the Paul George doo wah bit on Revolution to reflect the "quasi-live" performance video (unfortunately cut in half by dialogue on Anthology. But the evening show is tighter, so it is better than what we have now. I think Elephants Memory is a big reason why I developed an aversion to horns in Rock and Roll! Yet I discovered The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street and watched as Bruce Springsteen has now put an entire horn section in his band as no one man could replace Clarence "Big Man" Clemmons and last year I saw Kool and The Gang who opened for Van Halen. Horns used right kick ass! That's why the all but certain fake horns in Paul's new "Spew" kills me!
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 27, 2013 9:50:47 GMT -5
Not so fast Mike, I read above that you recognize that episodes like this on GLEE help keep Beatles music alive with younger people. Well John, I did say that, but that doesn't mean I like the show. I'm also inconsistent with the "I want my Let it Be", as I've said more recently- I want the performances released- could care less about the banter and Mal pushing equipment around Paul and Ringo who just fell out of bed. I dunno, maybe I just felt like plugging Sting... I missed that LIB dilemma! GLEE is excellent for an hour's worth of quality family television watching. Questions raised by biting social issues explored in the show can be addressed right there by parents. I suspect that there were a lot of instances last night where parents(or grandparents) were singing along to the Beatle songs and their teenage kids were observing that thinking, "Man that is cool!"
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Post by scousette on Sept 27, 2013 10:44:41 GMT -5
Most popular Glee songs on iTunes are Yesterday, Let it Be and Here Comes the Sun. What is it with these young kids and Here Comes the Sun? It's the best selling Beatle song by the Beatles ever on iTunes. New McCartney story: "George and I were at Eric Clapton's, sitting in the garden..."
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 27, 2013 11:45:51 GMT -5
Most popular Glee songs on iTunes are Yesterday, Let it Be and Here Comes the Sun. What is it with these young kids and Here Comes the Sun? It's the best selling Beatle song by the Beatles ever on iTunes. New McCartney story: "George and I were at Eric Clapton's, sitting in the garden..." I hope Coach misses this! I think it is so fab that HCTS has done so well on iTunes! Go Dark Horse! I read Simon Leng's book and suddenly some of George's solo music I hadn't really gotten into became life affirming for me! Sometimes even us rabid fans need to be lead to the hidden gems.
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Post by scousette on Sept 27, 2013 11:59:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's great that a George song is way up there in iTunes sales. Yay, Hari!
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 27, 2013 16:45:43 GMT -5
Questions raised by biting social issues .... Yeah, I thought it bit in spots. But seriously, they did pretty good with the songs. I think the musical director must have really worked with them to keep them close to the Beatles' versions. There were no overdone rock and roll posturing or exaggerated drama. I think kids will like these and then hear the Beatles versions and like them even better. Remember Across the Universe? The Glee songs were better done, in my opinion.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 27, 2013 16:57:31 GMT -5
Bono on Letterman last night talked about how "the Beatles were great students of Rogers and Hammerstein and all those..., and you wonder about those Beatle songs, how'd they write them, those extraordinary chord progressions. They learned a lot from musical theater and we did too".
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Post by Panther on Sept 28, 2013 21:30:22 GMT -5
Bono on Letterman last night talked about how "the Beatles were great students of Rogers and Hammerstein and all those..., and you wonder about those Beatle songs, how'd they write them, those extraordinary chord progressions. They learned a lot from musical theater and we did too". I've been a U2 fan for 25 years and Bono is a talented and smart guy, but he talks endless shit. U2 learned absolutely nothing from musical theater. Absurd comment.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 29, 2013 0:07:33 GMT -5
Bono on Letterman last night talked about how "the Beatles were great students of Rogers and Hammerstein and all those..., and you wonder about those Beatle songs, how'd they write them, those extraordinary chord progressions. They learned a lot from musical theater and we did too". I've been a U2 fan for 25 years and Bono is a talented and smart guy, but he talks endless shit. U2 learned absolutely nothing from musical theater. Absurd comment. They were talking about the Broadway musical Spider-man that Bono and the Edge wrote the music for, so maybe there was some basis for saying they were influenced by all those Broadway/show tune writers from the past. I know nothing about the show, so I couldn't say if there was any truth in the comment.
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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 29, 2013 4:26:33 GMT -5
I have a friend who saw it a couple of weeks ago. I'll find his comments and post them. They were mostly not good, even without touching on the show's tendency to -literally - cripple its cast members.
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Post by mikev on Sept 29, 2013 13:33:21 GMT -5
I've been a U2 fan for 25 years and Bono is a talented and smart guy, but he talks endless shit. U2 learned absolutely nothing from musical theater. Absurd comment. They were talking about the Broadway musical Spider-man that Bono and the Edge wrote the music for, so maybe there was some basis for saying they were influenced by all those Broadway/show tune writers from the past. I know nothing about the show, so I couldn't say if there was any truth in the comment. They also wrote theme music for the Val Kilmer or George Clooney Batman film, whichever one had Robin in it I think.
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Post by coachbk on Sept 30, 2013 12:56:14 GMT -5
New McCartney story: "George and I were at Eric Clapton's, sitting in the garden..." I hope Coach misses this! I think it is so fab that HCTS has done so well on iTunes! Go Dark Horse! I read Simon Leng's book and suddenly some of George's solo music I hadn't really gotten into became life affirming for me! Sometimes even us rabid fans need to be lead to the hidden gems. Not sure what you are hoping I miss? And not sure why? Please elaborate.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 3, 2013 22:28:03 GMT -5
Beatle reference in mega-hit comedy The Big Bang Theory: Amy Farrah Fowler and Howard Wolowitz are paired together for a scavenger hunt and Howard hands Amy his iPod and asks her to pick the music(rather than listen to her "likes" in life) and Amy, scouring the choices says, "Beatles, boring; Eminem, scary; hmm Neil Diamond, all right!"
Amy and Howie blow off the scavenger hunt and spend the rest of the episode singing wildly to Neil and finally ending up in a karaoke bar doing old Neil!
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Oct 3, 2013 23:02:54 GMT -5
Beatle reference in mega-hit comedy The Big Bang Theory: Amy Farrah Fowler and Howard Wolowitz are paired together for a scavenger hunt and Howard hands Amy his iPod and asks her to pick the music(rather than listen to her "likes" in life) and Amy, scouring the choices says, "Beatles, boring; Eminem, scary; hmm Neil Diamond, all right!" Amy and Howie blow off the scavenger hunt and spend the rest of the episode singing wildly to Neil and finally ending up in a karaoke bar doing old Neil! I've heard from a reliable source that the actors who play Howard, Leonard and Amy are Beatles fans. Howard especially.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 3, 2013 23:42:31 GMT -5
Beatle reference in mega-hit comedy The Big Bang Theory: Amy Farrah Fowler and Howard Wolowitz are paired together for a scavenger hunt and Howard hands Amy his iPod and asks her to pick the music(rather than listen to her "likes" in life) and Amy, scouring the choices says, "Beatles, boring; Eminem, scary; hmm Neil Diamond, all right!" Amy and Howie blow off the scavenger hunt and spend the rest of the episode singing wildly to Neil and finally ending up in a karaoke bar doing old Neil! I've heard from a reliable source that the actors who play Howard, Leonard and Amy are Beatles fans. Howard especially. I don't doubt it. I think they did a "Yoko" joke a few seasons ago like one of the girlfriends was breaking up the guys but I could be wrong on that. It might be in this Thread many pages ago. That 70's Show had the iconic Wings Over America poster hanging in the basement, best visible during the dope smoking scenes. The old Paul and the lovely Linda would have loved that!
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Post by debjorgo on Oct 5, 2013 11:55:53 GMT -5
Justin Long on Craig Ferguson last night, "...she hates fart humor. I could hardly.... It's like someone who hates the Beatles".
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Post by debjorgo on Oct 6, 2013 18:02:48 GMT -5
On Letterman from the other night, the same night as Yoko Ono, Dave introduced Ariel Tweto and Paul played the Beatles' Flying. I thought they played Flying because her name is Arial and Flying was once called Aerial Tour Instrumental but she is on the Discovery Channel's show Flying Wild Alaska.
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Post by debjorgo on Oct 12, 2013 16:21:10 GMT -5
Paul has the number 1 story on Yahoo news, "I just fell out of bed and it was there". Stories about how some of the Beatles songs were written.
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Post by debjorgo on Oct 20, 2013 14:20:35 GMT -5
I'm just now dubbing down the iHeart Radio show from a while back. The girls from Super Fun Night were on and Rebel, the heavy set blonde one, said "We saw Paul McCartney back stage, and I went up to him and was like, Hmm, I want some of that Beatlejuice". One of the other girls said "You know, if you say that three times, he'll come". Rain followed with "Good to know!"
Justin Timberlake said "The honor to be on the same stage that one of the Beatles has been on but the fact it's the same night and it's actually Paul McCartney.... It's kind of, kind of surreal."
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Post by debjorgo on Nov 10, 2013 21:15:17 GMT -5
The JFK anniversary and Beatles arrival was a story tonight on 60 Minutes. Although I might chalk this up as nostalgia.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Nov 11, 2013 0:39:51 GMT -5
The JFK anniversary and Beatles arrival was a story tonight on 60 Minutes. Although I might chalk this up as nostalgia. Al Sussman's forthcoming book addresses that topic.
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 11, 2013 10:29:12 GMT -5
The JFK anniversary and Beatles arrival was a story tonight on 60 Minutes. Although I might chalk this up as nostalgia. Al Sussman's forthcoming book addresses that topic. What do you First Generation Beatle fans think as to the JFK assassination and Beatles arrival? I have read some writers who think that was a huge connection for kids mourning a younger President but other writers point out that The Beatles' initial target American audience was largely pre-teens and early teenagers who have always been more apolitical so it would not have been such a big connection. Older high school and college kids were not in that very first wave of U.S. Beatles fans and they were the youth in a funk over the assassination. I was just under 13 months old on the assassination and just over 15 months old for first Ed Sullivan!
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 11, 2013 10:54:14 GMT -5
What do you First Generation Beatle fans think as to the JFK assassination and Beatles arrival? I have read some writers who think that was a huge connection for kids mourning a younger President but other writers point out that The Beatles' initial target American audience was largely pre-teens and early teenagers who have always been more apolitical so it would not have been such a big connection. Older high school and college kids were not in that very first wave of U.S. Beatles fans and they were the youth in a funk over the assassination. I was just under 13 months old on the assassination and just over 15 months old for first Ed Sullivan! I was 19 months old when JFK was killed. I do think the country was in a depression after that, and it was a factor in the Beatles' popularity in 1964.
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