MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Time to break out the champagne: 100,009,684 views!
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The current number is 99,991,613. The next update should put us over the top!
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Thanks for keeping track of these stats, David. Of course the total only updates once every few hours, so unfortunately we won’t really be able to “watch” it go over 100M. Currently it’s at 99,930,855.
Here’s how I thought we might mark the occasion. (Feel free to suggest modifications or alternatives.) We could start a thread where we contribute some of the best (by whatever metric) comments that we’ve seen posted on YouTube regarding various MLT videos. That would kind of put the focus on the people who are actually doing the viewing that has culminated in this milestone.
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One last weekly update on the public livestream: averaged over the past week, V = 357 and C = 19.0.
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This recording (which is the best-known version of the song, but actually not the first) came out around the time that I had my first crush, and I still think of it as “our song”, even though there was never an “us”. I suppose it’s technically a post-breakup song, but at the time I thought of it as a wistful ode.
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Apparently Hazy Shade was surprisingly obscure. Here’s a revealing quote from Susanna Hoffs that I just found on Wikipedia:
I’m listening to K-EARTH 101, an oldies station. I’m alone in this dark room and all I had was the radio. “Hazy Shade of Winter” came on one day. I thought I was a Simon & Garfunkel aficionado but I, somehow, had missed that badass folk-rock song of theirs. I ran to our band rehearsal that night and was like, “We have to cover this song”.
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Tim, apparently three of the four are back together. The bassist has been replaced by her own pre-fame predecessor, so it’s now technically the original lineup.
I didn’t know before MLT played it recently that Hazy Shade of Winter wasn’t considered a hit for Simon and Garfunkel. It was before my time, but it reached #13 on Billboard and was in the regular rotation on the oldies station I listened to in the 80’s before the Bangles’ version came out.
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I didn’t know that If She Knew What She Wants was a cover, Juergen. Among the Bangles songs that I’m familiar with, that’s my second favorite.
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Ah, so that’s what those little notches are for! I always thought they were just there to frustrate me when I tried to pull a shirt off the hanger too quickly.
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Eternal Flame is one of my favorite songs from the 80’s, Juergen, although granted that’s a very low bar to clear.
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The Crystals’ version says, “I felt so happy I almost cried, and then he kissed me.” So it’s kinda right down the middle between the two later versions.
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I once read somewhere (and just confirmed on Wikipedia) that One Bad Apple was written for Michael Jackson, and Ben was written for Donny Osmond. The Jackson 5 considered One Bad Apple but passed in favor of ABC (the song, not the TV network). And Donny couldn’t record Ben because the Osmonds were in the middle of a tour. In each case, the songwriter ended up offering his product to the other group.
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Hey, Tim. Actually it was the Jackson 5 that covered Rockin’ Robin. But yeah, that sort of thing had been going on at least since Sh-Boom in 1954.
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Yeah, the Beach Boys had a real knack for remaking any existing song in their own image without compromising quality.
I forgot how many 60’s songs Shaun Cassidy introduced me to. Checking the Wikipedia entry I see Da Doo Ron Ron, Morning Girl, Hey There Lonely Girl, Take Good Care of My Baby, Be My Baby, and Do You Believe in Magic. And of course he did Surfin’ USA on the Hardy Boys TV show.
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Hey, Tim.
I didn’t know the history of that Manilow song until I looked it up right before my post. It was written in 1975 by Christian Arnold, David Martin, and Geoff Morrow. The first release was by David Martin, and then it was covered by the Carpenters before Manilow got a hold of it.