This Day In History: October 6, 1969

For the first time in Beatles history a George Harrison song got the A side of a 45, "Something"/"Come Together."

 

(I hope the video is still available!)

30 Songs in 30 Days: Day 11 – A song from your favorite band

The Beatles were my first band. My stepdad had all the albums and I remember sharing cassettes with friends in junior high school. How do you pick just one?

Enjoy!

Her Majesty by The Beatles

30 Songs in 30 Days: Day 04 – A song that makes you sad

I don't think there are many songs that make me sad.  This one inspires a certain...wistfulness, maybe melancholy.  And that might be the intent.

Either way...."for people and things that went before..." it just gets me. 

Enjoy!

The Beatles "In My Life"

Blogging From A To Z: B is for Beatles

Beatles....my favorite musicians of all time....

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I am attempting to take part in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. See the full list at Tossing It Out.  There are currently over 1100 blogs participating!





Here are some of the other blogs participating that I follow:
The Armchair Squid; A good friend in the real world and Master Blogger who took up this challenge with GUSTO!
Tossing It Out; Where this all started!
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool; A delightfully quirky blog I stumbled across a few months ago.
Open The Toy; The title says it all..."Toys, Games and Anything Fun!"

From The Grumpy Old Man Dept.

via SPAZOTRON: CRAZY!

Peace and Love!

Happy Birthday Ringo!

This Date in History...

1969 - For the first time in Beatles history a George Harrison song got the A side of a 45, "Something"/"Come Together."

Using Wordle.....

Here are the lyrics to "I've Got a Feeling" by The Beatles (and a heads up thanks to smacky...follow his BLOG or him on TWITTER) in a cloud via Wordle. Wordle recognized "Yeah" with uppercase, as a different word than "yeah" in lower.

Top 10 Paul McCartney Solo Songs (Wings Included)

As a life long Beatles and Paul McCartney fan, I have really been enjoying the SiriusXM station devoted to his solo work. Here is a list of ten of my favorite McCartney songs. Like most of my lists, there really is no order to this.

Here are what I consider to be among Paul McCartney's best:

10. Fine Line - This song is from McCartney's last album "Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard." A good song all around.

9. Here Today - An homage to John Lennon, it ended up on "Tug Of War", the album he released after Lennon's murder.

8. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five - It's tempting to choose "Band On The Run" from the same album. But this one edges out for me just based on the piano work and sense of urgency that pervades this entire album. The story of this album's recording in Nigeria is legendary and just helped push McCartney that much further.

7. My Brave Face - This was a single from his 1989 album, Flowers in the Dirt. Written by McCartney with Elvis Costello, their collaboration resulted in some of McCartney's strongest solo work ever. While Elvis doesn't sing on this one (like some of their other songs) his sense of wordplay is evident in the final product.

6. Too Many People - This song is one of several songs from the four Beatles after the band broke up where the band members attacked one another. It is peppy sounding with such a vicious bite.

5. Coming Up - I always hear echoes of "Got To Get you Into My Life" in the live version of this song. Just infectious and fun.

4. Put It There - Also from "Flowers In The Dirt", it describes the sort of relationship I hope to have with my children as they grow up.

3. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Even if it wasn't in one of my favorite MST3K episodes this one would make my list. This fun song continues a technique that the Beatles used in "A Day In The Life" and "St. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band." It is multi-layered and it tells several silly stories. A reviewer once wrote "The shear number of changes in the lyrics and music, all woven together skillfully, make it a marvel."

2. Live and Let Die - Has any other movie theme ever evoked that movie as effectively as this song? It just screams James Bond.

1. Mull of Kintyre - Written in tribute of the same named Scottish peninsula, it became the first single to sell two million copies in Great Britain. While Nan and I hate these sort of distinctions, it remains the best-selling completely non-charity single in the United Kingdom.