2.46am
7 November 2022
10.12pm
30 December 2022
Today I found out George Harrison was stabbed in 1999.
I also found out I raise my left eyebrow higher than the right.
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." -John Lennon
10.26pm
Moderators
15 February 2015
Today, while compiling my first-spring-breeze playlist, I learned that the Cranberries covered “Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac. It’s not as good as the original, in my biased opinion, but it is funny because Fleetwood Mac and the Cranberries both had (different) hit songs called “Dreams”. I wonder now if the Cranberries titled their song thus as a nod to the Fleetwood one.
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9.40pm
30 December 2022
I learned The Battle of Evermore on mandolin by ear
When I pulled out the vinyl to listen to the song… the LP was gone! I then freaked out because I thought I lost my LZ IV vinyl… No, I just put it in a David Bowie sleeve about a week ago.
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12.35am
Moderators
15 February 2015
That’s a great song – probably the song that helped me understand just how cool mandolin can sound. I also learned it on mandolin, although I’m too lazy to practice enough to play well.
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4.12am
30 December 2022
Beatlebug said
That’s a great song – probably the song that helped me understand just how cool mandolin can sound. I also learned it on mandolin, although I’m too lazy to practice enough to play well.
That song was the reason I bought a mandolin
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4.20am
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15 February 2015
Neely said
That song was the reason I bought a mandolin
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5.03pm
14 December 2009
This is a pretty startling factoid, so much that RN or somebody super-knowledgable may have already posted it elsewhere on the forum, but anyways:
The Isley Brothers’ followup single to their modest hit “Twist And Shout “, was another quickie attempt to capitalize on the “Twist” craze, a track called “Twisting With Linda”. The name was inspired by “Linda”, a recent hit for Jan & Dean, which was itself named for the young daughter of a music industry lawyer whom Jan & Dean were working with…
…and that lawyer was none other than LEE EASTMAN! So, the future Mrs. McCartney had an Isley Brothers- performed song indirectly named for her a full decade before Paul could write one. Remarkable!
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Ahhh Girl, Ron Nasty, Richard, BeatlebugOne day, a tape-op got a tape on backwards, he went to play it, and it was all "Neeeradno-undowarrroom" and it was "Wow! Sounds Indian!"
-- Paul McCartney
5.29pm
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17 December 2012
Not something I learnt today, but it follows on from quite nicely.
Recorded by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Buddy Clark, Jack Lawrence’s 1946 song Linda — inspired by the one-year-old daughter of his lawyer, Lee Eastman — topped the Billboard chart in 1947. So the Isleys were quite late to the party, as was Paul, when it came to being inspired by Lee Eastman’s daughter.
It was recorded by others, including Jan and Dean, who released their version as the single before Surf City, with it reaching 28 on the Billboard chart.
So, the lovely Linda never knew a time when songs inspired by her didn’t exist.
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5.42pm
14 December 2009
Thanks for the full details! I have read about the Ray Noble recording before (possibly in one of Philip Norman’s books) but didn’t know it led to the Isley Brothers involvement. One of those Beatles coincidences…
One day, a tape-op got a tape on backwards, he went to play it, and it was all "Neeeradno-undowarrroom" and it was "Wow! Sounds Indian!"
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4.53am
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15 February 2015
La-la-la-la la la lovely Linnnnnnda
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11.10pm
11 November 2010
Tayto were the first-ever brand to make flavored potato chips. Cheese and onion flavored Tayto chips were introduced in 1954.
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4.22am
30 December 2022
this is more of a “thing i found out today” but whatever…
I found out that the bass i have wanted for a veryyy long time is in the goof room of my house now! i have to wait till my birthday on april 3rd though. It’s a j-bass like the one paul used.
goof room = a junk drawer, except it’s a whole room. it seems to be unique to my home, but i am sure others have one as well- just not with this beloved name that my step father came up with on the spot.
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5.47am
11 June 2015
There is a meanie in the Yellow Submarine movie named Robin ~ The Butterfly Stomper
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12.48pm
23 November 2022
I just learned it is the 53rd anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s wedding today (March 20, 2023). I randomly looked up Yoko Ono on Google and looked at news and it said her and John’s wedding was on this day in 1969. Pretty interesting I guess.
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11.03pm
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1 May 2011
sigh butterfly said
There is a meanie in the Yellow Submarine movie named Robin ~ The Butterfly Stomper
I’m not a fan of puns but Jack The Nipper is a cool name.
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