Tag: music

JEOPARDY! answers. Questions at the end.

FAMOUS WOMEN $200: After taking up with John Lennon, she became known as “The Woman Who Broke Up the Beatles”
NONFICTION $400: Vincent Bugliosi took the title of this 1974 book about the Manson murders from a Beatles song
INVENTIONS $200: Name shared by a Beatles album title & an 1835 invention of Samuel Colt

The rules of engagement

103 Words of Love from Beatles for Sale (US), Beatles VI (US). My sisters, neighbor, and I used to lipsynch to this album and charge the neighbor kids a nickel each to watch. I was Lennon and sister Leslie was McCartney. Listened to this Buddy Holly cover a lot.
102 She’s a Woman from the B-side to I Feel Fine (UK), Beatles ’65 (US). A jaunty McCartney tune.
101 I Will from the white album. A lovely McCartney tune, but I always thought it needed to be longer than 1:42, as most of the covers (Ben Taylor, Alison Krauss) are.
100 Paperback Writer, A-side of single (UK), Hey Jude album (US). Not sure that I really liked this song all that much on the first listen, but it grew on me, especially the opening riff.
99 Yellow Submarine from Revolver.  This, b/w Eleanor Rigby, was possibly the first single I ever purchased. And then the album came out, and I was mystified that the response vocal in the last verse started one line later on the album than the single – no, I’m not crazy – confirmed finally on one of those Anthology singles. I like this McCartney song, performed by Starkey, though I’m not convinced that, tone-wise, it belongs on the album.
98 I Need You from Help! In the 1980s, my favorite local radio station had something called Fourplay, four songs related by a theme. I found four songs called “I Need You” – this Harrison song, an obscure Who tune, the ones by America, and I think, Joan Armatrading. Or maybe it was Paul Carrack. They went together surprisingly well.
97 Please Please Me from Please Please Me (UK), Introducing the Beatles/The Early Beatles. About a perfect early pop tune from Lennon.
96 Good Night from the white album. OK, a schmaltzy song, with sappy strings, from Lennon, sung by Starkey, but for over a year, I sang it to my daughter to get her to sleep.
95 Dear Prudence from the white album. Lennon’s song about Mia Farrow’s sister in India. I like that it’s of a specific time and place.
94 Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. From circus posters Lennon saw. A fun, psychedelic cut.
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JEOPARDY! questions:
Who was Yoko Ono? (But I don’t buy the charge.)
What was “Helter Skelter”?
What is Revolver?

JEOPARDY! answers-
SONGS OF THE ’60S $400: The Beatles’ 8th No. 1 hit, it begins “I think I’m gonna be sad”
MUSIC $600: 42 members of the London Symphony are heard in “A Day In The Life” on this Beatles album
“LONG” SONGS $100: Phil Spector overdubbed this last number-one Beatles hit

Did the Beatles appear in Albany movie theaters BEFORE “A Hard Day’s Night”? Yes, they did…
And that concert film, also starring the Beach Boys and Lesley Gore, will be shown again in Los Angeles on February 11, 2011.

The rules of engagement

113 Long Tall Sally from EP release (UK), Beatles’ Second Album (US). McCartney doing his best Little Richard impression.
112 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The trouble with the segued songs is that they don’t feel as complete. I like it well enough.
111 I Call Your Name from EP release (UK), Beatles’ Second Album (US). This was first released, I believe, by Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, then done pretty much as a throwaway by Lennon, but works for me.
110 Bad Boy from Beatles VI (US). Yet another Larry Williams song, covered by Lennon. How is it that this song was released in the US but not in the UK until a collection of oldies came out after the fact? That’s what ranks this over Dizzy Miss Lizzie.
109 The Ballad of John and Yoko from A-side of the single. The story song by Lennon, banned on some stations for the repeated use of the word “Christ”, and featuring only John and Paul, who played the drums, among other things.
108 Good Day Sunshine from Revolver. The song sounds like a stroll. The daughter has taken to singing the chorus, and I’m not sure she heard the McCartney song from me.
107 Baby, It’s You from Please Please Me (UK), Introducing the Beatles/The Early Beatles (US). The oft-covered Shirelles song by Burt Bacharach, Hal David, and Luther Dixon has a nice Lennon vocal. The BBC version of this song charted in the UK three decades later.
106 All I’ve Got to Do from With the Beatles (UK), Meet the Beatles (US). Like this from the first strummed chord.
105 I’ll Get You from the B-side of She Loves You (UK), The Beatles’ Second Album (US). Nice early Lennon and McCartney.
104 Lovely Rita from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Cheerful McCartney tune which made me rethink meter maids. But my favorite part is the darker outro.

What is “Ticket To Ride”
What is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
What is “The Long and Winding Road”; re: the latter, the original clue also said, “John and Paul’s original version is not for sale”, but this is no longer true, thanks to the release of Let It Be…Naked.

JEOPARDY! answers-
LICENSE PLATES $300: A car with plate #LMW 28IF on this Beatles album cover furthered rumors that Paul was dead
GOLDEN OLDIES $200: It’s easy to grasp the fact that this Beatles song was their 1st to go to #1 in the U.S.
ROCK ‘N ROLL $200: Beatles song about purchasing affection that was 1st to hit #1 in U.S. & Britain at same time

The Beatles Complete on Ukulele

The rules of engagement

123 Dizzy Miss Lizzy from Help! (UK), Beatles VI (US). Another Larry Williams tune, well covered by Lennon.
122 I’ll Cry Instead from A Hard Day’s Night (UK, US), Something New (US). “I’m gonna have myself a way/hey”? But I loved it.
121 Here, There, and Everywhere from Revolver. Pretty McCartney.
120 Julia from the white album. Lennon lost his mother twice, once when she abandoned him when he was five, and again at 17, when she died. It is a gentle portent to the more primal screams of Plastic Ono Band’s Mother.
119 It Won’t Be Long from With the Beatles (UK), Meet the Beatles (US). Good use of “yeah”.
118 Love You To from Revolver. Harrison got three songs on the album, and while this is the least of the three, at least it’s less self-important than Within You, Without You on Sgt. Pepper.
117 When I Get Home from A Hard Day’s Night (UK), Something New (US). Muscular tune from Lennon.
116 Let It Be from Let It Be. Yet another overplayed McCartney song, though a fine one.
115 Don’t Bother Me from With the Beatles (UK), Meet the Beatles (US). Harrison’s first writing credit in the canon, and it spoke to a theme in his life.
114 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) from Rubber Soul. A very nice Lennon song, mysterious, the first song with sitar, and all that, and slightly overplayed in my time.

JEOPARDY! questions-
What is Abbey Road?
What is “I Want To Hold Your Hand”?
What is “Can’t Buy Me Love”?