Playing around again with posting my own video. Not trying for HD rips or anything fancy. Just want the ability to post an occasional clip of my own choosing when it isn’t conveniently available elsewhere, and to do it as cheaply as possible. Which means not buying an expensive video editing suite. This time around I wanted to see if I could get the 16:9 aspect ratio working.
Joshua knows his Beatles!
John Oliver as Paul McCartney, the equivalent role that Eric Idle played in The Rutles. Further proof that Oliver is, as I have always suspected, Idle’s bastard son!
I missed getting this post done in time for Mother’s Day, but here it is anyway. The “double A-side” single “Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane” was a familiar sound in my house in 1967. Not only was it played frequently on Musicradio 77WABC, one of my sisters had the record. The world had changed quite a lot in the short three years since the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show!
One time when I was playing the record (without permission), my mother stopped and listened. Then she said, “This is the most original and creative music I have ever heard.” Her offhand comment has always stayed with me as a favorite memory. Six months later she threw out my comic books, which is my least favorite memory!
Audio from the original Capitol mono single that my mother heard is below, followed by the restored music videos that were released in HD a couple of years ago.
Here’s something to consider. This is the Strawberry Field Manor that was a fixture for John Lennon when growing up.
Thanks to his Aunt Mimi taking him in after he was abandoned by his parents, John did not have to live there, as it was an orphanage that began accepting boys in the 1950’s. Here is the Dakota Building, where John spent his final years, and where Yoko still lives.
Betty or Veronica?
Mary Ann or Ginger?
Anni-Frid or Agnetha?
Kate or Cindy?
Kristel or Karen?
But like the Scarecrow said…
A book that was assigned reading in high school was “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s,” by Frederick Lewis Allen. I enjoyed it so much that I read it again ten years later.
Last week on Ian Whitcomb’s Luxuria Music radio show, he played a lot of wonderful old tunes. But it was this 90-year-old toe-tapper in particular that gave me the idea of pulling out “Only Yesterday” for another read-through.
For now, the Kindle edition of Mark Lewisohn’s magnum opus “Tune In: The Beatles, All These Years” is available for only $1.99. Who knows for how much longer at this low, low price?
