It Was Fifty Years Ago Today

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

I really thought you would go with, "It was 50 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play."

Though it was a definite reference, that album was released June 1, 1967. Twenty years before would be, of course, 1947, so today's today (not yesterday) would be closing in on 67 years ago, or three more than when it's 64.

Don't know if that's fixing a hole in the logic, as it's looking through a glass onion.

(Oh, and Beyonce's a walrus.)

[tsolomon]

Watched them on Ed Sullivan and really didn't get it at the time. It was Top 40 and Motown on the AM radio for me. It took awhile for me get into the Beatles and start buying their albums. Probably bought a couple of 45s first.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

I really thought you would go with, "It was 50 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play."

This is what I was going to post when I started reading the thread, and then there it was. You scare me, Adam.

I wasn't old enough to get the Sullivan show...but I lived in Detroit as a kid and was a huge Motown fan....yet the first song I remember in my life was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".

[14holestogie]

I am old enough and remember it all.

Starting buying records after seeing them at age 10 to listen and learn.
My oldest brother started a band shortly after. I'd beat on the drummer's drums until my brother would come home and beat on me.
Dreamed up ways to purchase my own drum set at age 13. Been playing for the 46 years since that.
Started me on cd's when they finally came out in the late 80's.
Have you heard McCartney's latest? He's still got it.

Yup, they had no effect on me.

[AdamJoshua]

Originally Posted by icehog3

This is what I was going to post when I started reading the thread, and then there it was. You scare me, Adam.

Well then either they don't get us, or we don't get "the point of this post".

Though I wasn't around then I love reading about them and watching the old documentaries on them, the one produced by Ed Sullivan's company is one of my favorites, showing the helicopter ride to Flushing Meadows and the ride in the armored van to Shea Stadium is unreal.

The old photos of the streets packed with people, hundreds of signs, the hotel they stayed at literally got mail sacks full of fan mail for weeks after they had left. Just mind blowing the reaction they caused every where they went.

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by tsolomon

Watched them on Ed Sullivan and really didn't get it at the time.

I must confess I didn't either, but that does not mean I did not witness the phenomenon known as Beatlemania. And THAT was my whole point. You may not have noticed, but I neither praised nor condemned The Beatles and/or their music. All I did was note an historical occurrence, one I felt that those who were not there do not appreciate.

Seems I was right.

[tsolomon]

Originally Posted by The Poet

I must confess I didn't either, but that does not mean I did not witness the phenomenon known as Beatlemania. And THAT was my whole point. You may not have noticed, but I neither praised nor condemned The Beatles and/or their music. All I did was note an historical occurrence, one I felt that those who were not there do not appreciate.

Seems I was right.

My wife and I talked about this last night and what we remember the most was the screaming fans which were mainly women, both of us were 10 years old at the time. We did watch the special last night and it was very enjoyable and well done.

[AdamJoshua]

Originally Posted by tsolomon

My wife and I talked about this last night and what we remember the most was the screaming fans which were mainly women, both of us were 10 years old at the time. We did watch the special last night and it was very enjoyable and well done.

I was quite surprised at what great job CBS did, there was a lot of room to really screw this up and they nailed it, a couple minor things but that was just related to certain artists and their renditions, nothing to do with the telecast. Wish Julian Lennon had been there to do a song, that would have been cool, guess the building wasn't big enough for him and Yoko, but at least they let her sit in the same row as Paul.

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by tsolomon

My wife and I talked about this last night and what we remember the most was the screaming fans which were mainly women, both of us were 10 years old at the time. We did watch the special last night and it was very enjoyable and well done.

Yes, all those screaming teenage girls was likely the main reason I didn't get it at the time. I was slightly older than you then, and wondered what all the hysteria was for.

I had no definite plans to watch the show last night, but did tune in for the opening . . . and got hooked, watching the entire 2 1/2 hours. It was one of the most enjoyable sessions of "extended" TV viewing I've had in a while, and I too thought it was very well executed. But it seems others do not hold the same opinion. Today the story is all these so-called Beatles fans being outraged at Katy Perry for modifying the lyrics to Yesterday to accurately reflect her gender, changing "I'm not half the MAN" to "half the GIRL" and "Why SHE had to go" to "Why HE". How totally ridiculous. This is a song, not some sacred text, and considering how many thousands of times this standard has been covered officially (not counting the untold millions of times it's been sung "off the books") it is inconceivable she's the first to do so. I found her performance to be one of the most moving last night, and am not ashamed to admit it brought this jaded old man to the brink of tears.

(And no, I do not consider myself a Katy Perry fan, though I hold no disdain for her either, and am not defending her out of some sense of loyalty.)

Odd as it sounds, the actual "original" lyrics to this song were "Scrambled eggs/Oh, my baby how I love your legs". Do you really think this "heresy" bothered Sir Paul one tiny bit? Sheesh. So get over your damn selves, Twitter trolls.

[RevSmoke]

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

I really thought you would go with, "It was 50 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play."



Mike is just upset we aren't celebrating some Beyonce milestone, he'll get over it.

Originally Posted by The Poet

Though it was a definite reference, that album was released June 1, 1967. Twenty years before would be, of course, 1947, so today's today (not yesterday) would be closing in on 67 years ago, or three more than when it's 64.

Don't know if that's fixing a hole in the logic, as it's looking through a glass onion.

(Oh, and Beyonce's a walrus.)

As you said some would not get it...


....if the shoe fits.

You missed the whole point of his post.

Lived through it. Still listen to the albums - eve on 33 rpm sometimes, for nostalgics sake.

[RevSmoke]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

As you said some would not get it...


....if the shoe fits.

You missed the whole point of his post.

Lived through it. Still listen to the albums - eve on 33 rpm sometimes, for nostalgics sake.

Hate auto correct on IPad.