[Chris Weber]

My maternal grandfather was 100% Irish. His parents arrived in the States from Ireland 3 years before he was born.

Had the classic boiled dinner today and some Guinness with some family.

All the best to everyone on the High Holy Day.

[Chris Weber]

I always thought I might never have heard of a band of John, George, Ringo, and a bass player to be named later. There is no Beatles without Paul.

But if Paul was in the band and John was not, then maybe you just get Wings. Not my favorite band. Some good songs, but way out on the pop end of the continuum.

There’s nothing wrong with pop music, but Lennon was the counterweight that made the Beatles possible. Somebody had to bring some grit, some rock and roll. It’s not too surprising John only ever complimented one of Paul’s songs. Maybe what’s surprising is that they lasted 9 years.

Last weekend I was at my sister’s house and she had the sound track from the Mozart movie on, and I told her it was kind of like 18th century pop music. lol.

The second thought was something that was said about the Beatles not knowing any music theory. A lot of people seem to think that “music theory” are rules that define what you’re allowed to do in music.

I’ve always thought of it the other way round. Music theory is a way of describing what guys like the Beatles are doing.

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I am new here. One of the things that reminds me that I’m late to the party is that I keep discovering things.

Like that vid – thanks for posting it.

[Chris Weber]

The typewriter sounds like a percussion instrument to me, unless I’m missing something.

I wonder if Mona has one of those?

[Chris Weber]

That looks like a version of pans (aka steelpan, aka steel drum) to me. The island instrument made out of hammered steel drum, usually. Big in reggae, for example.

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[Chris Weber]

Billy was a very good singer. You can hear him singing on his hits. I was fortunate to see him once with his band at 20/20 in New York. 20/20 was at 20 West 20th Street and was a club owned by the well known singing duo of Ashford & Simpson, the husband/wife team.

Great show, he played all his hits and sang that night, but that was a long time ago, I’m thinking it was in the ’80s.

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That’s the right song to show their
synergy. Some Lennon-McCartney songs are mostly one or the other,
but that song truly is the two together and greater than the sum of
its parts and their parts. And to such enormous effect. It’s hard
to say this about the best songwriting team in history, and I
generally don’t like the idea that there has to be a #1, but maybe
that’s theirs.

It reminds me musically, or
emotionally?, of Space Oddity from Bowie or Simon and Garfunkel’s
America. Maybe they all have something similar lyrically – can
you, within one emotional memory, or feeling, juxtapose common things
that everyone knows but that, together, describe the feeling, or put
you in the moment, transported by the music. You know: I read the
news today—oh boy; the papers want to know whose shirts you wear;
it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw.

Songs about everyday things, and life,
and a journey, a journey through life, and none of which is
remarkable in itself, but the sum paints a picture.

But Bowie and Simon were solo writers.
With Lennon-McCartney you get 2 guys who each write music and lyrics
and sing and play, and they do it in different styles. So when it
really comes together, it’s magic.

I think there’s a question in here
somewhere for the next Q&A, how do Mona, Lisa and Rudi do this?
I know they’ve been asked about their writing process before. Lennon
and McCartney had a lot in common, and definite differences. Is it
possible to be closer to someone than your identical twin sister?
And then throw in George Martin or Papa Rudi to temper the mix.

[Chris Weber]

Interesting thread. Thanks for doing the legwork on this David.

As recently as a few years ago, I was still working in IT, birthing and babysitting websites, and using toys like Google Analytics to take their temperature.

So after seeing this I Googled “YouTube Analytics”. And there it is. GA used to be, and probably still is, the best analytics package around.

I am not a YT channel owner, and only spent a moment looking at the YT Help, so Idk how much of the GA toolbox they’ve exposed to YT, but I would think it would be substantial, since Google makes money when YT channels make money.

I suspect/expect someone at Team MLT is already looking at these numbers. Or they could be.