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."
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 …
Sad news this week (and sadder still, perhaps, as it came
not at all unexpected) that Brian Wilson is being placed in
conservatorship.He is suffering from
dementia.A judge has ruled that he is
unable to manage his own affairs and, in the words of the court, “lacks the
capacity to make his own healthcare decisions.”
Brian’s wife of 28 years,
Melinda, passed away earlier this year.The Beach Boys legend is 81 years old.(kk)
Meanwhile, The Beach Boys Channel has
returned to Sirius XM (Channel 79) … and we’ve also got the Disney+ documentary
coming up later this month (the 24th) ... so the joy that their music has brought so many of us these past 60+ years far outweighs the bittersweet end to their story. (That being said, The Beach Boys ... aka The Mike and Bruce Show ... aka Douche and Bruce ... will be performing here in Elk Grove Village on The 4th of July ... so we've got THAT to look forward to!)
I just started reading the
new book “The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys,” a coffee table “anthology” told of
The Beach Boys’ story, told in their own words. Not off to an especially strong start ... the book is told in The Beach Boys' own words, but appears to have been edited by a 3rd Grader ... I'm hoping things get better as their story moves forward.
Our FH Buddy Spud sends us
a few more recent Beach Boys / Al Jardine details …
What isn’t covered here is
the fact that after Irma joined The Stones on stage for their New Orleans Jazz
Festival performance, Ronnie Wood repaid the favor by taking the stage at
Irma’s midnight gig that same night at a small club in New Orleans!(This girl is 83 years old and still playing
midnight shows!)Oh, the power and magic
of music!(kk)
Meanwhile, The Rolling
Stones continue to “shuffle up” their play list on the new Hackney Diamonds
Tour.(Not sure if it’s quite the HARLEM
Shuffle … but they are keeping things interesting by mixing things up a bit …
and also playing the fan-voted favorite again each show as they’ve done
before.)
When the tour reached
Arizona last week, The Stones added “It’s Only Rock And Roll,” “She’s Cold” and
“Monkey Man” to the set list.(“Monkey
Man” was the “lost track” fans voted as “most wanted to hear.”
I've been seeing LOTS of really good press
for “Revival 69,” the “Live Peace In Toronto” concert film we’ve been telling
you about … nearly unanimous great reviews, stressing the importance and
significance of this event. It opens in theaters next month with home streaming
and dvd plans already in the works.
Harvey Kubernik sent us
the review of the film by Bob Lefsetz, but it's too long to reprint here … if you’d like a copy,
drop me a line and I’ll send it along.(kk)
Here are examples of
the three types of cards I have:
original black and
white, sepia from A Hard Day’s Night, and the final releases in color
As you can see, two of
the sets have printed backs. The black and whites were plain with minimal
markings on the bottom. That apparently meant to me, that I should write a
caption on the back of each black and white card. They are cute. Ramblings of a
pre-teen Beatles fan.
Shelley
Hey, I had them all, too … LOVED
when the color cards came out … but even the earlier ones with their autographs
on them … QUITE the collectible thing for a 10-12 year old Beatles fan!(kk)
And The Beatles have
released a new promotional video on behalf of the rerelease (on Disney+) of
their 1970 film “Let It Be.”(Still
waiting for word as to when the home video version will be released … hopefully
with TONS of extras!!! The Fest For Beatles Fans is predicting a Fall release.)
I was finally able to
watch the restored film last night (going thru some crazy work hours again!) ... and it was really
nice to see it again (although I don’t quite get the cropped screen view … that
couldn’t have been fixed as part of the restoration process?)They’ve also revamped the end credits to
include a nice John and Paul “duet” version of “Oh! Darling,” which was kinda
cool to hear.(Lennon always said “Oh!
Darling” was one of his Paul favorites … and wished he could have sung it.)
The program kicks off with
a nice bit of back and forth between original director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and
Peter Jackson, who used Michael’s footage to create his eight-hour companion
piece, “Get Back,” a couple of years ago.(Jackson’s technology helped revive the now 54 year old “Let It Be”
print … and he also put together the truly amazing video for “Now And Then,”
the “Last Beatles Single,” last year.They mostly just compliment each other’s efforts … but the COMPLETE Get
Back / Let It Be story has finally been told … and we now have nearly ten hours
of documentation of what life was like in Beatleland, circa January of
1969.(kk)
Wait a minute … so far all
of our CURRENT music news includes spotlight features on The Beatles, The Beach
Boys and The Rolling Stones …
What year is it
again???(kk)
OK! I'm going to say
it ...
Music was so diverse,
fruitful, and fantastic with so many good choices, not everyone could win a Grammy. Then music crashed and burned and that allowed Kanye, even in his
limited talent, to win.
Shelley
I was surprised and pleased to hear,
when flipping thru the channels last Sunday Morning, Sirius XM's Dave Hoeffel not only counting
down The Top 40 Hits for this week in 1960, but also making numerous references
to WLS switching over to Top 40 Rock And Roll on May 2nd of that
year.It was a MAJOR turning factor in
rock and roll finally being recognized here in The Midwest, albeit four to five
years AFTER the launch really began with the early hits of Elvis Presley, Chuck
Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and his
Comets, and morel
If you’re an XM subscriber, you can
stream the show here:
And speaking of vintage WLS, don’t
forget about the upcoming screening of The Dick Biondi Documentary, later this
month (March 26th) at The Moonlight Theatre in St. Charles, IL …
And THIS is going to be a WHOLE
lotta fun!(We went to this a couple of
years ago, pre-Covid … a very nice gathering for music, food, friends and fans
… and a way to help raise money for the ongoing film costs.)
Save The Date!(kk)
Hello Friends!
Get ready to
rock out! Join us on June 9, 2024, at 2:00 PM for an afternoon of
high-energy music and good vibes at 115 Bourbon Street. Let's sing and dance to
classic tunes of some of the greatest Chicago bands & solo artists, and
enjoy the delicious food, beverages, and retro atmosphere. Just look at this
lineup of amazing talents!
New Colony Six
The Cryan' Shames
Joe Cantafio
Hugo - ELVIS Tribute
Hundred Dollar Quartet
South Side Exiles
Bagshot Row
The Cave Dwellers with Jenny V James
Emceed by WLS Air Talent Scott Childers
Ticket price includes all you can eat buffet, including beer and wine, Silent
and Live Auction, Raffles, Merchandise Table, a Prevue of the Dick Biondi
Movie, and more!
Proceeds will go to release the long awaited film, “The Voice That Rocked
America: The Dick Biondi Story". Bring your Biondi lovin' and music
lovin' family and friends-- tickets available on DickBiondiFilm.com website. See you there!
Great interview with Felix Cavaliere
here (sent in by David Salidor) …
Felix is back out on tour playing
The Rascals’ Greatest Hits … WITH Gene Cornish again!(I’ve also heard rumors of a charity,
fund-raising single being in the works … although I’ve yet to see a formal
announcement.)If this happens to be
true, you may soon be hearing a duet between Felix Cavaliere and Dolly Parton
on a new Felix Cavaliere song, “My Hawaii,” set up to raise money for the
rebuilding after the Maui Fire Disaster last year.Stay tuned for more details.(kk)
And, speaking of David Salidor ...
My first car was a 64 Pontiac/Bonneville!
DIS
Two Cool Chevy Guys
"Got their motors runnin'!
.Headin' out on the Highway!"
Your First New Car - a 1972 Chevy Vega GT!
My First New car - 1964 Chevy Malibu SS!
And Manual Shifts Both!
If they'd had these then, you and I would have probably had one of 'em as part of our Cruisn' Wardrobe!
( Even tho yours was only a three-speed and mine only a four! )
CB!
>>>A competing US version (of
“Yesterday’s Gone”) by The Overlanders also premiers this week at #99.
Peter and Gordon will face similar competition when Bobby Rydell releases HIS
version of "A World Without Love." In BOTH cases, it was the
British artists who won these chart battles. (kk)
Far from being a U.S.
group, the Overlanders were yet another band from England participating in the
British Invasion. They topped the UK chart in 1966 with their version of the
Beatles' "Michelle."
Randy Price
Oops!
I never knew that!!!
The Overlanders had TWO hits here in
Chicago …
While we heard their version of
“Yesterday’s Gone,” it failed to chart.
Meanwhile, their follow-up single,
the VERY catchy “Don’t It Make You Feel Good,” made The Top Ten here in
Chi-Town, peaking at #7 on The WLS Silver Dollar Survey … and at #6 on the Top
Tunes Of Greater Chicago Chart.(kk)
>>>Taylor Swift set a new Billboard
record … by achieving The Top 14 Songs on their Hot 100 Chart.Have you seen the video (with Post Malone)
for her latest #1 Hit, “Fortnight,” the 12th Hot 100 #1 Hit of
her career? (kk)
So radio is all over
"Fortnight," right? No … they're still playing "Cruel
Summer," which is almost a year old. What's wrong with them?
Ed Erxleben
Admitting that I don’t listen at all
to what today passes as Top 40, I just figured Taylor Swift was ALL over the
radio … featuring tracks from throughout her career.When all fourteen tracks of a brand new album
earn enough sales, airplay, downloads and streaming, I figure SOMEBODY must be
playing them.(Sorry, this just
reinforces my lack of faith in how the charts are compiled today.A Top 14 Hit that then disappears after 2 or
3 weeks?That ain’t the way I remember
Top 40 Radio!!!)kk
Look for a new Lindsey Buckingham
box set this summer …
It was just learned that John Barbata, drummer for The Turtles during their biggest hit-making years, has died, possibly as early as May 8th of last week. (John joined the group just in time to drum on their biggest chart hit "Happy Together" in 1967.)
After The Turtles, he was recruited to drum for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, which he did for several years ... before moving behind the skins for Jefferson Airplane (and Jefferson Starship) until a serious car accident (in which he broke his neck, arm and jaw) knocked him out of commission.
Once he recovered, he became a top LA session drummer, appearing on recordings by Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Rivers and The Everly Brothers among others.
No cause, place or exact date of death has been announced yet as I type this ... but his death has been confirmed by reliable sources. He was 79.
Speaking of CSNY, Graham Nash is going to take another
lap around the concert pool …
He hits the road in August … with
Judy Collins joining him in several cities.
The complete tour list is below:
Graham Nash 2024 Tour
August 3rd—Boulder, CO— Chautauqua
August 4th—Fort Collins, CO—Washington’s
August 6th—Denver, CO—Botanic Gardens
August 7th—Boulder, CO—Chautauqua
August 9th—Omaha, NE—Holland Center
August 10th—Salina, KS—The Stiefel Theatre
August 13th—Des Moines, IA—Hoyt Sherman Place
August 14th—Milwaukee, WI—The Pabst Theater
August 16th—Minneapolis, MN—Pantages Theatre
August 17th—Bayfield, WI—Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua
August 18th—Fish Creek, WI—Door Community Auditorium
August 20th—Kalamazoo, MI—Kalamazoo State Theatre
August 21th—Royal Oak, MI—Royal Oak Music Hall
August 23rd—Kent, OH—The Kent Stage
August 24th—Hammondsport, NY—Point of the Bluff Concert Pavilion
August 26th—Ocean City, NJ—Ocean City Music Pier
August 27th—Harrisburg, PA—Whitaker Center
August 29th—Charlton, MA—The Pavilion at Tree House Brewing
August 30th—Rockport, MA—Shalin Liu Performance Center
September 28th and 29th—Collingswood, NJ—Scottish Rite Auditorium*
October 1st—New York, NY—Carnegie Hall*
October 3rd—Boston, MA—Shubert Theatre*
October 4th—Northampton, MA—Academy of Music
October 6th—Albany, NY—The Egg Hart Theatre
October 8th—Quebec City, QC—Palais Montcalm (Raoul-Jobin Hall)
October 9th—Ottawa, ON—National Arts Centre
October 10th—Burlington, VT—The Flynn
October 12th—Ithaca, NY—State Theatre*
October 15th—Evanston, IL—Cahn Auditorium
October 16th—Evanston, IL—Cahn Auditorium
October 17th—St. Louis, MO—The Pageant
October 19th—Morgantown, WV—Metropolitan Theatre
October 20th—Athens, OH—Ohio Univ. Templeton-Blackburn
Alumni Memorial Auditorium
October 22nd—Hopewell, VA—The Beacon Theatre
October 23rd, 25th and 26th—Vienna, VA—The Barns at Wolf
Trap *with special
guest Judy Collins
FH Reader Mike Wolstein reminds us that
it’s been fifty years since Steely Dan first warned Rikki not to lose that number ...
Where are Fleetwood
Mac’s Albatross and Love Sculpture’s Sabre Dance?
Have these great
tracks really been forgotten?
Yours faithfully,
Peter Carman
(An instrumentalist
fan)
You
have to keep in mind that this list is made up of two parts …
The
first list shows the overall popularity and chart success of these records at
the time of their release … and “Albatross” and “Sabre Dance” just never racked
up the necessary numbers to make this list.(“Albatross” only peaked at #98 nationally and didn’t even make
Billboard’s Hot 100 List … while “Sabre Dance” didn’t chart at all.)You had to earn the chart points to make this
list.
While
I wouldn’t consider these tracks necessarily forgotten … although they didn’t
make our Readers’ Favorites list either which was based exclusively on readers’
votes … I do remember “Albatross” getting quite a few votes … just not enough
to make the list.(I remember hearing it
here in Chicago back in the day … but it hasn’t had the staying power to remain
in any kind of rotation on classic rock radio.“Sabre Dance” even less.
However,
you might be happy to know that when we polled our readers to determine THE TOP
3333 MOST ESSENTIAL CLASSIC ROCK SONGS OF ALL TIME, “Albatross” DID make the
list (it came in at #3192, again, not a very impressive showing!) while Love
Sculpture once again failed to get recognized.You’ve simply got to appeal to the masses to make these lists … and
unfortunately, these two tracks didn’t … or at least not long term anyway.(kk)
Kent,
Many
thanks for the prompt reply.
Reading
between the lines, it appears that we are on different continents.
So a
genuine complaint is therefore in order, as your site does not state or even
infer, that your poll is a USA only survey. Or did I miss that?
The
outcome is totally different on this side of the pond in the UK.
Albatross
was a No 1 Hit and Sabre Dance a No 5 in our charts over here.
It's
sad that there aren’t more instrumentals in the charts no matter where we are
in the world.
Peter
Forgotten Hits is read all over the world (and even
translated to multiple languages) … but when we run a poll like that, we can’t
control who does or doesn’t respond, (The poll was open to ALL readers … all we do is tabulate the results of
those who responded.)
Taking nothing away from either track, they just didn’t make
the cut … but I agree, familiarity was probably a very big factor.
Just curious … do you still hear these tracks a lot in
England? (kk)
Sammy did a GREAT Forgotten Hits / Super Chart show this
past week …
You can listen to it (and many more from the archives) here:
Two
tracks he played this week that I really enjoyed hearing were “Gonna Get Along
Without You Now” by Skeeter Davis and “Soul Serenade” by King Curtis … not your
standard radiofare by any stretch.
We’re
featuring them today, too.And be sure
to check out Sammy’s show!(kk)
Dennis
Thompson, the last surviving founding member and the original drummer for
MC5,died on Thursday (May 9, 2024).His death comes a month after suffering a
heart attack … and just a month after the announcement that MC5 were finally
being inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (albeit in The Musical Excellence
Category.)Earlier this year, the band’s
guitarist and vocalist, Wayne Kramer, also passed away.Both men were 75.(kk)
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there reading this today ...
Now
here on this Very Special Day is Mother Buell’s Favorite Son with this historical Forgotten Hit Movie perspective …
It’s
Mother’s Day and fortunately expectations about a Mother’s Role in the Family have
changed dramatically over the last century.
From
sometime around a hundred years or so ago, when it was common that many
families overly depended on and basically expected that a Mother take care of many
of their daily needs and chores, Buster Keaton and Big Joe showed, much to the
chagrin of Moms everywhere, how a couple of
Bachelors using only their ingenuity would have
to manage by themselves in the attached 3-minute
film, “What is a Home Without a
Mother?”
CB
( which stands for “Child-like Boy!” )
From
Timmy, here’s This Week’s Clip of the Week …
I knew all along we
were trespassing in an alternate universe.
Cindy
und Bert – Der Hund von Baskerville
Am I the only one here who's feeling a little bit paranoid after seeing this?!?! (kk)
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