"Yes we can can!" said Little Nicola.

[JamesJazGuitar]

Hey BullDog has to be one of the best lesser known Beatles songs here in the USA. (lesser known since it wasn't released on any of the USA releases of Beatles albums at the time of their original release. Great riff and more of a rock feel than many of the other tunes release around this time. i.e. It would of made Magical Mystery Tour a better album so sure.

[cujas]

"Hey, Bulldog" was never released on an album. It was one of the speciality treats for Beatlemanics who belonged to the UK Beatle Fan Club. I believe every Xmas they did 1 special recording just for the club members.

[misswonderly3]

Today is the 65th anniversary of a terrible day. We can either laugh...

 

 

 

or cry:

 

 

 

Arcade Fire with"Black Mirror". Since it's hard to make the lyrics out, here they are:

 

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/arcadefire/blackmirror.html

[C.Bogle]

I got so messed up with Yellow Submarine I had to go to Wiki for a little help.

The original album from 1969, which was released in both the UK and US, did

include those four songs, plus two others on Side One. Side Two had George

Martin's instrumental music on it. It was released in January of 1969, not too

long after the White Album. In 1999 a new CD was released called

Yellow Submarine, Songtrack. Yikes. That included the original Beatles' songs

without the George Martin music, a number of other Beatles songs taking the place

of the instrumentals. If I recall it correctly, the movie Yellow Submarine was done

to fulfill the three movie contract the Beatles had with UA. Beatles records do have

a lot of twist and turns. 1, 2, 3, 4...

[C.Bogle]

ELO playing Can't Get It Out of My Head. This is the singles version, which

shaved about a minute off the album cut.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBLu_d8mb0&feature=fvst

[JamesJazGuitar]

As C Bogel points out Hey Bulldog was released on an album but as I said not at the time of its creation (i.e. it was released years later as part of the Yellow Sub movie soundtrack record). I felt that record was a rip off (not a Beatles album) since there were only a few Beatles songs on it (but yea I got the record anyhow since I had to complete my collection!).

 

I also had the X-mas album (like a dummy I sold it!), but I don't remember the song being on that. But hey that was over 15 years ago so I could be mistaken.

[misswonderly3]

Too bad you sold that, james, baby, I bet it's worth a fortune now. Hey how was that family reunion you mentioned a few weeks back?

 

C.Bogle, funny you chose that particular song by ELO, because that's one of the few songs I actively like by them. In fact I really like it.

 

So, did people think I was being too much of a "downer" with my post today? Or does no one know what I was talking about? I know it's depressing, but I always think of what happened in Japan on this date all those years ago. Maybe it's too scary or discouraging -or just plain in bad taste - to post anything about it on a site like this.

 

Edited by: misswonderly on Aug 6, 2010 6:00 PM

[Arturo]

*Hey BullDog has to be one of the best lesser known Beatles songs here in the USA. (lesser known since it wasn't released on any of the USA releases of Beatles albums at the time of their original release. Great riff and more of a rock feel than many of the other tunes release around this time. i.e. It would of made Magical Mystery Tour a better album so sure.*

 

I agree that 'Hey Bulldog" is a great rock song and would have made Magical Mystery Tour a better album, except . . . it hadn't been recorded yet. Contrary to what's been posted here, HB was not a Sgt. Pepper outtake. It was actually recorded around the time the Beatles recorded Lady Madonna, in early 1968, most likely February (Pepper and MMT were both released in 1967), but before going off to India. I don't remeber exactly how, but they either recorded it at the same session as Lady Madonna, or during one where they were filming a promotional video for it. It was just a knockoff, but it turned out so well there was brief talk about it being the next A-side, instead of Madonna (especially by Lennon, who had lost his bid for Across The Universe to be an A-side.) If you notice, the tempo energy and even the chords seem to be similar to Lady Madonna.

[misswonderly3]

Arturo, nobody in this discussion about "Hey Bulldog" (which seems to be endlessly fascinating for people, I don't quite know why) has suggested it's an out-take from Sergeant Pepper.

[Arturo]

Sorry misswonderly. Just me seeing red while reading and reading wrong. I focused on the wrong portion of your statement below:

 

*Hey Bulldog, as you doubtless know, is one of the four songs left off of the original Yellow Submarine soundtrack. Two of them were kind of weak ( The Inner Light, Only a Northern Song ) and two of them were pretty darn good. Hey Bulldog was one of the good ones, and here's the other:*

 

I saw "*is one of the four songs left off of* the original Yellow Submarine soundtrack. *Two of them were kind of weak ( The Inner Light, Only a Northern Song )*

 

Since Only A Northern Song had been left off of Sgt. Pepper, my mind decided that that's the lp you were referring about.

[JamesJazGuitar]

Hey the reunion was great. Thanks for asking. I played two sets and everyone liked the music. It was the first time I played music for my 'new' brothers and sister. It was so funny because I had old friends at the party that didn't know about them yet. So these friends would ask 'hey who are those guys over there,,, we have never seen them before'? I would tell them they were my brothers and many didn't believe me. They believed I was joking and would ask 'no really,,, who are they!'. It was a hoot.

 

Yes, that XMAS album is now worth a lot of money. For a while I got so into jazz I gave away all my rock albums to friends. YES I was a major snob! Of course now I play all types of music and this period didn't last that long but that is the reason some rare material I had was given away for a song.

[C.Bogle]

I don't think the Beatles considered Yellow Submarine a real Beatles' album either.

It was more of a hodgepodge pasted together to meet bottom line obligations, sort of

a TCB thing. I never bought the original because it was like half a Beatles' record, no

offense to Sir George. I did buy the 1999 CD version, which has the songs from YS,

plus many more from the 1966-67 period.

 

OMD also recorded a song about the event, Enola Gay, which has a negative view

of the decision to drop the bomb. It can still stir up feelings on both sides, especially

in America.

 

ELO came up with a lot of solid pop music, and I have a few of their records. I played

that Eldorado album almost to wear out condition. Couldn't get enough of it at the time.

Then there was the cover:

 

 

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/e/electric-light-orchestra/album-eldorado.jpg

height =250 width =250>

[C.Bogle]

R & B singer Ray Charles with an early crossover hit from 1962, covering Don Gibson's

country song I Can't Stop Loving You.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFeB7zTGesk

[misswonderly3]

I guess that explains why nobody made any comment whatsoever on that post. In spite of what you said, it' s occurred to me that Americans in particular don't like to talk about that event. Whatever. I don't want to stir anything up, that's for sure, and nobody, including me, wants to get political on this website. Nor are we allowed to. There's nothing in what I say in that post that is political, really. Just drawing attention to the date. Also, those two songs are very good, regardless of lyrical content.

[C.Bogle]

The Supremes with one of the last of their twelve Number One hits, Love Child.

 

Diana Ross in torn denim cutoffs. What the...heck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VebcJWlmM

[misswonderly3]

Wow, for some reason I found that video a lot of fun to watch. The little shack set that the poor love child girl has to live in, the frayed cut offs. The other Supremes undulating along in harmony.

Guess "Love Child" was written before oral contraception became commonplace.

[misswonderly3]

Sill thinking about Beatles rarities circa 1967-68. As many fans know, there is another version of *Across the Universe* extant. It was left off one of their albums (the White Album, maybe?) and then they put it on *Let It Be*. This is the original, which is actually the same recording, slowed down from the version we're used to, plus bird noises, minus some of the Let It Be production. I think this version was donated to Unicef or something. But enough talk.

 

 

[cujas]

We have oral contraception now and abortion is rather commonplace, isn't it?

[C.Bogle]

There is definitely what would today be called a safe sex message there. Barefoot

and not pregnant. That is an unusual video. Most of the time they're all dressed

up in glittery gowns.

 

Across the Universe is one of my favorite Beatles' songs. and there are a lot

of twist and turns to get to the "final" version. I believe the early version first

appeared on a World Wildlife Fund charity record.

[C.Bogle]

Oasis playing She's Electric.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrHHWhhOsw&feature=related

[misswonderly3]

Funny about Oasis, I used to intensely dislike them, I can't even remember why. Just to be perverse, I think, because everyone else was so ga-ga over them. I have had a conversion, and now quite like a lot of their stuff.

 

Here's another English band, from another British Invasion. They, too, had brothers slugging it out on stage (sometimes -not in this clip). The Kinks:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWWe69dnOo

 

(The much better original version of this is also available on YouTube, but I figured people were already familiar with it. I f not, they should be.)

[C.Bogle]

They did have somewhat of a vogue in the US, though a brief one and nothing compared

to their popularity in the UK. They were Beatles' fans, and they did have a good updated

hard pop sound that goes down very easily. Something about brothers and rock that

usually doesn't mix, at least in personal terms.

[C.Bogle]

One of the first of the British super duper groups, Cream, performing White Room.

According to one comment, this is from their farewell performance in late 1968. At

least they kept their word. Not a bad video, though I could do with less extreme

closeups of Jack Bruce's inner mouth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRC0rdFokKM

[misswonderly3]

A "Power Trio", is that what they were called? It probably was from their farewell concert, as Eric Clapton appears to have lost the afro he sported earlier. The Cream were in a category all their own.

"Heavy", but not "heavy metal". Too smart, too good, too original for that label.

 

But, thinking about that term "heavy metal" reminded me of this delightful song. It was difficult to pick which version to use, because there are many. Finally decided to go with this one, because it's in black and white, and because of the clarity of the video. Bear with the first minute or so.

Wilco: "Heavy Metal Drummer" :

 

[traceyk65]

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}

> Pure "new wave" pop. O, Candy. You probably knew this song was used in the film *Boys Don't Cry*

>

> This is a lesser known Beatles song, never released on an album. If anyone saw My Name is Julia Ross the other night, they can imagine poor Julia singing it:

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVJNTIIH7E&feature=related

>

> Edited by: misswonderly on Jul 16, 2010 10:59 AM

 

 

I never know that was a Beatles' song! I didn't know who wrote it, but this is the version I know:

 

 

This is a great thread. I never have time to look at all the threads on these boards, but I'm sorry I skipped this one til now.