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I wanted to chime in regarding the restored version of "Let It Be', after watching it last night. I read you also caught it as well.
I don't understand your comment about "the cropped screen view." I think it was exactly the way it was released in 1970, as far as the ratio aspect goes, so in my mind (which is subject to evaluation) no cropping occurred at all. The restoration visual was perfectly done & same with the audio.
I'm first in line with you waiting for a DVD package release.
Can't wait for that Beach Boy thing coming up on Dis-plus, for two reasons:
I wanna see it because I love the BB's, but also so I can cancel Dis-plus after that.
Timmy
I’ll admit that we keep Disney+ running MOSTLY for the grand kids … who watch it incessantly … but the channel of late has really geared their music content to our baby boomer generation. Heck, I even watched the Taylor Swift concert … well, the first 30 minutes anyway!!! The heavy Star Wars and Marvel content probably brings in MOST of their viewers … they are by far the most expensive streaming service out there … but I know I’ll watch “Let It Be” again before the DVD release … and probably this new Beach Boys documentary a time or two as well. (kk)
I found this interesting …
Original “Let It Be” Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg addresses the “fight” between Paul and George in the original film … a scene that is believed to have been a big factor in keeping the film out of circulation all these years.
Lindsay-Hogg points out that "Nothing was going to be in the picture that they didn't want. They never commented on that. They took that exchange as like many other exchanges they'd had over the years … but, of course, since they'd broken up a month before [the film's release], everyone was looking for little bits of sharp metal on the sand to think why they'd broken up."
In the scene, Paul mentions that George should play something a different way … it was HIS song and he had his own ideas as to how it should sound. McCartney even references the time during the recording of The Beatles’ all-time biggest “Hey Jude” George wanted to play guitar throughout the song, echoing McCartney’s vocal … and Paul felt the song didn’t need it and that it shouldn’t be there. (This was a HUGE stickler point for McCartney for many years and came up in several interviews at the time.)
During one point in the film … a sequence that probably really only lasts a minute ... Paul and George disagree as to how something should be played … and Paul takes the approach of “Just try it like this” … but then goes on to say that “I always feel like I’m annoying you” (which he probably was.)
George, who, don’t forget, walked out during these sessions at one point and disappeared for a few days, responds "I'll play, you know, whatever you want me to play, or I won't play at all if you don't want me to play. Whatever it is that will please you … I'll do it."
Catch the full story here: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-mccartney-harrison-fight-let-it-be/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ugh&utm_term=UCR%20New%20Smart%20List
And, speaking of Timmy, readers were diggin’ his video contribution in Sunday’s Comments …
Forgotten Hits Presents!
Cindy und Bert with their Big Hit Recording - "Der Hund von Baskerville!"
Wow. Those German Singing Artists really knew how to rock out in their music videos in the late 1960s - early 1970s, didn't they?!
Stiff?! Nah!
>>>Am I the only one here who's feeling a little bit paranoid after seeing this?!?! (kk)
HA! I got it!
Karl Booll
re: "Der Hund von Baskerville!"
Wow, nobody having any fun here!!! … but obviously the intent of a song stemming from a horror movie. It also brings out to me, as I listen to the words, that translating songs from their original languages is not always a direct hit. Keeping rhyme and syllabic content can mean changing the words so that it fits the melody. Although, in this case, the lyrics are pretty dry to begin with.
By the way, I LOVED Chuck’s Mother’s Day Tribute …
CHUCK, I LOVE IT!!
Shelley
Scroll back to see it if you missed it the first time around. (kk)
From Harvey Kubernik …
On this day in music history … 5-12-1967 sees the releases of the Jimi Hendrix Experience LP "Are You Experienced?" (UK edition, Track Records). It was later distributed in North America by the Reprise label.
I checked my Forgotten Hits posting for the 50th anniversary of May 12, 1967, and didn’t see this listed … shame on me … but I DID find this “Music-versary” posting from Sirius XM that I thought was worth sharing …
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
5/13/64 – Comedian / Late Night Talk Show Host Stephen Colbert is born
