A couple of my friends have birthdays coming up in April. One of them is Prue, who by now should be relocated in France. I’m waiting for her reply to a message I sent.
Here’s Prue’s first husband in an offbeat episode of Danger Man, reprising his croupier role from A Hard Day’s Night. If only Prue had been cast as the lovely lady with Patrick McGoohan. Note the presence of Desmond Llewelyn, the original Q in the James Bond films.
I’m waiting for the complete box set.
At the NCS conference last August, Colleen Doran and I discussed how, generally, comic book people are more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books. Today’s Jumble has an exception to that generality.
Boomer boy that I am, Marvel Comics from the Sixties are one of my favorite things. Another is, of course, the Beatles.
LBJ was notorious for strong-arming legislators into voting his way. What if he had been a flat-out authoritarian president, like Trump? Could he have kept the Beatles out of America?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-president-deploy-wartime-law-203749200.html
Looking at the charts Denro provided in the previous post, I see ‘Nothing But a Heartache’ by the Flirtations. A powerful, catchy record that deserved to do better, it peaked at #34, even lower than ‘Will You Be Staying After Sunday’.
How did a 1968 Psychedelic UK record that didn’t chart in America (was it even released here?) …
… get reworked into the Soul Pop sound of ‘Nothing But a Heartache’?
Here’s the explanation. Its history starts with a former Beatle.
Five years later came this Sugar Pop classic.
A few posts ago, Petula Clark explained a personal crisis she experienced in 1969. Performing a bilingual show in Montreal she tried, and failed, to please both the French and English speakers in the audience.
Reduced to tears, on a whim Petula visited with John and Yoko at their infamous Montreal bed-in. She explained the cause of her distress and John’s advice was, “fuck ’em!”
The split between French and English language music in Quebec in mid-1969 can be heard in the two most recent ’88 Rewound’ programs on WMBR, the MIT radio station.
French Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59020
English Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59104
