The Byrds’ Isolated Vocals For “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)”
Written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s, Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) really made its mark in late 1965 when it was covered by The Byrds. The lyrics, except for the title which is repeated throughout the song, and the final verse of the song, are adapted word-for-word from Chapter 3 of the Book of Ecclesiastes, set to music and recorded in 1962. The recording of the song reputedly took 78 takes, spread over five days of recording and likely created a few Biblical-sized arguments of their own in the studio.
Check out what they used to call “magic” in the studio from Gene Clark, David Crosby, Jim McGuinn.
Watch this gnarly 5-minute 1980s mashup video
I think I just grew a mullet watching the best of the 1980s all mashed-up into a giant video, underscored by A Flock of Seagulls’ I Ran.
Watch Peter Gabriel-Fronted Genesis Play Paris’ Le Bataclan In 1972
I think I’ve returned to the Peter Gabriel-fronted Genesis more times in the last year than any other time in my life. After the 10,000th time of hearing the group around this 1972-era concert at Paris’ Le Bataclan, I think I’ve finally got them!
Watch the group play “The Musical Box,” “Supper’s Ready,” “Return of the Giant Hogweed,” and “The Knife.”
Paul McCartney plays ‘Hard Day’s Night’ for first time since the Beatles
THAT chord that kicks off The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night. It’s F with a G on top. And at his “One on One” tour opener Wednesday night in Fresno, Paul McCartney played the song — the first time he’d ever performed the song as a solo artist, meaning the first time he’d played it publicly in 51 years. He also played “Love Me Do” for the first time as a solo artist, and dug out the Quarrymen song “In Spite of All the Danger.” Another notable entry in the setlist was “FourFiveSeconds,” McCartney’s hit 2015 collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna.
Lucille Ball In One The Greatest 5 Minutes Of Comedy Ever
Lucille Ball was so far ahead of anyone else when it came to comedy that even after 57 years, this clip from The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode called “Lucy Goes to Alaska,” still delivers.
Lucy and the gang are flying to Alaska to see some property Ricky bought. The show starts off by Lucy and her friend Ethel having to share a hotel suite with Red Skelton because no rooms are available. The laughs start when the gang of 4 must sleep in a room with only a single bed. The hotel has only a hammock, army cot and sleeping bag to help out the sleepy friends.
Guess who gets the hammock? How her co-stars managed to keep a straight face, I’ll never know.
A Supercut Of The Greatest Foul Ball Catches By Baseball Fans
With the 2016 MLB season back in full swing, World Wide Interweb takes a look at some of the greatest foul ball catches every made by fans at baseball games over the years.
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Kobe Bryant Conducts Singing Haters…Wait…What?
Depending on who you ask, Kobe Bryant was basketball’s greatest hero or its greatest villain. As he walks off the court for the last time, opponents and fans tell him how they really feel.
https://youtu.be/qQYz0I5dE_A
By the way, playing in the last game of his 20-year career, Kobe Bryant put on a show for a sold-out Staples Center crowd, putting in a season-high 60 points and steering his team to a 101-96 comeback win over the Utah Jazz.
Watch David Bowie And Other Appear On Marc Bolan’s Variety Show, MARC
Marc Bolan hosted a music TV show in the 1970s, called – wait for it – MARC, a cross between Saturday Night Special and your favourite music video.
Granada Television commissioned Bolan to front the series, which was just fab as he was, indeed, called Marc, and he introduced new and established bands and performed his own songs. By this time Bolan had lost weight, appearing as trim as he had during T. Rex’s earlier heyday. The show was broadcast during the post-school half-hour on ITV earmarked for children and teenagers.
The last episode featured Bolan duetting with his friend David Bowie. Before the song had reached its end, Bolan tripped over a microphone cable and fell off the stage. Bowie is said to have called out “Could we have a wooden box for Marc [to stand on]?”. Following the show Bolan and Bowie co-wrote and recorded a rough outline of a new song, “Madman.” The new wave band Cuddly Toys found a bootleg tape and recorded it, which became a UK Indie Chart single and featured on their Guillotine Theatre album.
The final show was recorded on September 7, 1977, but not broadcast until after Bolan’s funeral on September 20, 1977, which was also attended by David Bowie and Rod Stewart, among others.