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Insulin_John

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Hi

I love the Beatles and always have, their later stuff mostly- post-Rubber Soul- after they'd given up touring.

My fave list (Revolution, Cry baby cry, Because, etc) isn't exactly in line with the usual popular hits on combo albums, but I just started my own website dedicated to the group!!

Cheers
 
I was brought up on the Beatles.I learn't to play the guitar and piano because of the Beatles.I loved this site because it made me look at a lot of Beatle songs in a new way.I don't agree with all of his findings,but it is a good site. :wink:
 
For me the Beatles ushered in the era of incomprehensible lyrics. Does anyone remember the days when not only could you hear the lyrics, but they were worth listening to?
 
BillB said:
For me the Beatles ushered in the era of incomprehensible lyrics. Does anyone remember the days when not only could you hear the lyrics, but they were worth listening to?
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Yeah - back to the days of Paul Robeson & Peter Dawson (or even Buddy Holly.) Later on the Folk Revival got people singing. The Methodist Revival of the 18th C got people singing songs that were really worth singing.
 
Paul Robeson singing Old Man River; Nat King Cole with When I fall in love; Ella Fitzgerald and those songbook records she made in the '50s and the incomparable Frank Sinatra singing anything at all. :D
 
A great clip, Ian. As a movie buff I didn't know that there had been an earlier version of King Solomon's Mines. I'll have to research a but further.
 
Ian, I was thinking about Old Man River which, as you well know, was one of Robeson's greatest hits, and it struck me that when Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics to that song he expressed all the misery and despair of a black man's life in the Deep South with just one line. When he wrote, "I'm tired of living but scared of dying," he set a standard for modern songwriters that nobody has ever reached again. The way Robeson interpreted that song ensured him a place in musical history.
 
BillB said:
Ian, I was thinking about Old Man River which, as you well know, was one of Robeson's greatest hits, and it struck me that when Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics to that song he expressed all the misery and despair of a black man's life in the Deep South with just one line. When he wrote, "I'm tired of living but scared of dying," he set a standard for modern songwriters that nobody has ever reached again. The way Robeson interpreted that song ensured him a place in musical history.
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Later, Robeson changed the lyrics "I must keep fighting until I'm dying." The original song (on U-tube) includes the offensive n-word rather than darkies.
 
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