Sir Paul McCartney is 70 years ago today. One of the greatest songwriters and singers in rock and roll, Sir Paul McCartney turns 70 today (June 18). With the Beatles and later as a solo performer and bandleader, McCartney created some of the best (and worst) music in rock and roll history. He isn’t as cool today as he was in the 1960s or in the early part of the 1970s, but even at the twilight of his career McCartney is still a formidable talent. In 1965 McCartney wrote “Yesterday,” which the Guinness [...]
Mary Hopkin : Goodbye [ Purchase ] The first two official Apple Records releases were The Beatles' "Hey Jude" and a single, based on a Ukranian folk song that Paul McCartney had found. The singer would be a shy, pretty 17-year old Welsh girl by the name of Mary Hopkin. "Hey Jude" spent three weeks atop the NME singles list before it was dethroned by Mary's "Those Were The Days" which stayed on top for five weeks. In 1969 McCartney wrote a new song just for Mary: "Goodbye". The song [...]
The Beach Boys in Japan, 1966. More versions of English/American hits done in other languages by the original artists. Now, there are TONS of hit songs that were remade for European and Japanese music fans - the Beatles' remakes alone could fill a large warehouse - but we thought we'd focus here on the versions cut by the people who made the hits. I would give anything to see how long it took Johnny Cash to lay down German versions of his songs. Full disclosure: "Santo Domingo" by Wanda Jackson, was actually recorded in [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive These days, 70-year-old Stephen Friedland works at a media publishing company in New York City, but in a past life, he was once a young pop singer named Brute Force who recorded a 1967 album called 'I Brute Force: Confections of Love.' More importantly, the New Jersey native also has a connection with the Beatles : He was one of the artists on the band's Apple Records in the late '60s. [...]
With the list of musicians taking a stand against Arizona's recently passed controversial immigration law SB 1070 by participating in The Sound Strike growing, two of the more vocal opponents of this controversial legislation will team up for a benefit concert to take place in L.A. On July 23, Rage Against The Machine, who are no strangers to these type things, will join up with Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band to play the Hollywood Palladium. Proceeds from the benefit show [...]
This dates from 1970. MP3 File yousendit
One of the greatest songwriters and singers in rock and roll, Paul McCartney turns 67 on Thursday (June 18). With the Beatles and later as a solo performer and bandleader, McCartney created some of the best (and worst) music in rock and roll history. He isn't as cool today as he was in the 1960s, or in the early part of the 1970s, but even at the twilight of his career McCartney is still a formidable talent. His album Electric Arguments , released as The Fireman late last year, was considered to be one of the year's best and [...]
One of the greatest songwriters and singers in rock and roll, Paul McCartney turns 67 on Thursday (June 18). With the Beatles and later as a solo performer and bandleader, McCartney created some of the best (and worst) music in rock and roll history. He isn't as cool today as he was in the 1960s, or in the early part of the 1970s, but even at the twilight of his career McCartney is still a formidable talent. His album Electric Arguments , released as The Fireman late last year, was considered to be one of the year's best and [...]
Badfinger: Come And Get It [ purchase ] (Apple 20) Mary Hopkin: Those Were The Days [ purchase ] (Apple 2) Most music fans know that Apple Records was the record company started by the extremely wealthy Beatles in 1968. The idea, at least as it was expressed publicly, was that Apple Records would be a different kind of company where it would be easier for deserving artists of all kinds to get funding. To the band's accountants [...]
My interest in Harry Nilsson came through coversong, most specifically 1995 covers album For The Love Of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson , which I picked up when it was new in order to gain access to otherwise-unavailable rarities from Marc Cohn, Aimee Mann, and a solid roster of other perfectly tuned oddities (like, say, Fred Schneider of the B-52s doing a pitch-perfect version of Coconut , or the infamous nasal harmonies of The Roches applied to a space-age Spaceman ). Purchasing the album was a revelation: here was a set of tunes that [...]
My interest in Harry Nilsson came through coversong, most specifically 1995 covers album For The Love Of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson , which I picked up when it was new in order to gain access to otherwise-unavailable rarities from Marc Cohn, Aimee Mann, and a solid roster of other perfectly tuned oddities (like, say, Fred Schneider of the B-52s doing a pitch-perfect version of Coconut , or the infamous nasal harmonies of The Roches applied to a space-age Spaceman ). Purchasing the album was a revelation: here was a set of tunes that [...]
This extraordinarily beautiful song was sent to me by a dear friend. I know it appears on Those Were the Days (The Best of) which was released in 1995, but it was first released in 1969 on a 7' vinyl. It was the B side of Que Sera, Sera. MP3 File
And since we're on a nice little little roll all of a sudden, let's follow up one monthly series with another, the Friday Five. For today's Friday Five we look songs that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote, but handed off to other artists to run and have hits with. The Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership, of course, is arguably the greatest in music history, rivaled only in lasting popularity (maybe) by the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein or the Gershwin brothers. And while the songs they wrote for the Beatles have etched a personal spot in the [...]
The OPFIHDW is on Fire Island, a skinny little number that lies south of the mighty Long Island. The whole island is about 31 miles long and 1/4 mile wide at the widest point. Long and skinny. Real skinny. The Otis Pike area is 7 miles of National Park Service wilderness located on the eastern side of the island . It's the only NPS wilderness in the whole state of New York. And Holy heck. This place is the place. [...]
Having a favourite song that has won the Eurovision Song Contest does little for anyone's street cred. I could argue that it is a favourite of mine in a sort of post ironic way. I would be lying. I just like it. Knock Knock Who's There is simply a wonderfully crafted pop song, both lyrically and musically, and Mary's voice sounds just great. The song featured in the excellent BBC drama Blackpool of a couple of years b ack. Here, the guarded optimism of the lyrics, along with the lightness and [...]
Lynd Fruit Farm Pataskala, Ohio Does it get any more decorative out there than this? Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
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