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Things We Learned Today...
9 January 2023
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Still my favorite sci-fi movie.

Now today I find, you have changed your mind

20 February 2023
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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

20 February 2023
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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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25 February 2023
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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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26 February 2023
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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. a-hard-days-night-paul-7

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27 February 2023
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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. a-hard-days-night-paul-7

  

That song was the reason I bought a mandolin a-hard-days-night-john-6

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27 February 2023
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Neely said

That song was the reason I bought a mandolin a-hard-days-night-john-6  

N I C E a-hard-days-night-george-9

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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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28 February 2023
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Not something I learnt today, but it follows on from a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 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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28 February 2023
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a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 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…

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1 March 2023
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La-la-la-la la la lovely Linnnnnnda a-hard-days-night-paul-8

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19 March 2023
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Tayto were the first-ever brand to make flavored potato chips. Cheese and onion flavored Tayto chips were introduced in 1954.

(I’m not apologizing for using American English. I’m an American.)

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20 March 2023
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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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20 March 2023
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There is a meanie in the Yellow Submarine movie named Robin ~ The Butterfly Stomper paul-mccartneyblue-meanie

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20 March 2023
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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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sigh butterfly said
There is a meanie in the Yellow Submarine movie named Robin ~ The Butterfly Stomper paul-mccartneyblue-meanie

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I’m not a fan of puns but Jack The Nipper is a cool name.

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