Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Up until about three years ago, I used to play Beatles songs quite a bit on Youtube. However, I was unable to load Real Player on to that pc, and so I couldn’t download anything.
Then all, the Beatles videos suddenly disappeared. I would search for them, and all that came up were some covers by amateurs. If I want to hear a Beatles song, I don’t want to hear a cover. I’ll make an exception for Sergio Mendes and Brazil ‘66’ version of “The Fool on the Hill,” because the boys never bothered cutting a single of it, and when Mendes did, it went gold. It’s a very nice version.
I was broken-hearted, and mad at Ringo and Paul, and at George and John’s heirs, for their greed. You don’t see the Sinatra family being so greedy. Sure, it’s their property, but my voice is my property.
I was most disappointed in losing a particular video of Paul McCartney’s “I Will.” One of the best things about Youtube is the video editors who splice together exquisite photo and video essays to go with the music. The guy who posted the video in question started out with a black-and-white video of the boys very early in their career, standing on a stage in smart suits, and playing their guitars and moving in unison. The song continued with later videos, in color, e.g., of Paul during the Sgt. Pepper’s period, with a mustache and sideburns, and a light blue bandleader’s vest. With time, Paul got better looking and John got worse.
It always made me sad to see their degeneration. Paul may have looked very handsome, but they all looked like bums.
A few hours ago, I saw a link on the sidebar to this Beatles video, and then more and more. I know some readers will doubtless say, “But look at the dates. It’s been there for four years.”
In some cases, that’s true, but they weren’t available. Otherwise, my searches would not have come up empty. Youtube must have put them in cold storage and then, for reasons known only to its powers, released them, and permitted other videos to be uploaded.
Take a gander at the numbers for this one. It’s gotten 43,703,221 views in fewer than 17 months. People were starved for the Fab Four. (And of course, they were reminded of it daily by the Google commercial with the lady and her irresistible, misbehaving dog.)
This came out in 1965, and was the musical core of the silly but entertaining, eponymous Beatles picture, in which Ringo was marked for death by some sort of Bahamian Voodoo cult, while they were visiting the West Indian island nation on tour.
It played on radios all day long for the entire summer, and I never got tired of it. Still haven’t.
The Beatles weren’t the first singers to cause mass sexual hysteria among girls—Sinatra and Elvis Presley had done that before them—but nobody, before or since, has caused such worldwide adulation, and not just among young girls, while having a talent level (above all, as tunesmiths) that no other musical group would ever approach.
And so, without further adieu, here come the Beatles!
Help!
43,703,221 views
•Jun 21, 2018
Postscript: Be sure to download this, before it’s removed again!
The theme song of Michael Drejka (and all whites,stuck in this liberal morass of stupidity).We,and the country of white Americans--who are STILL what I consider the foundation of America--are in need of help to save it.A political organization for whites only,a new television network with a non NBC/CNN point of view,lawyers who would work to re-establish whites rights over Mex and blacks.
ReplyDeleteJust a little help...lol.
--GRA
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteI did a little searching around but had no problem finding some of my favorite Beatles songs. Doesn't mean they couldn't go away though, sometimes material will disappear wholesale. I don't think YouTube takes on the responsibility of removing copyrighted material themselves, I've heard that artists or publishers will assign people to the monitor YouTube then contact them to remove offending material, YouTube itself puts ads on them and tries to make money, some of which supposedly filters to the artists themselves, though some don't appear to think it's enough. For a long time you couldn't find a Van Morrison song on YouTube because he was bitching about his music being posted for free, he eventually gave up though and appears to be embracing YouTube as a way of promoting his new music.
One of my favorite Beatles songs, lesser known ones, is "Baby You're a Rich Man Too" from Magical Mystery Tour, there are several posting of it on YouTube that appear to have been up for a while. It's a Lennon song and one of the best examples of brand of wicked non PC humor because it's a song about their former manager, the late Brian Epstein, which Lennon originally envisioned the chorus to be "Baby, You're a Rich Fag Jew". Ha ha, quintessential Lennon there. That wouldn't fly on the radio of course so it became "Baby, You're a Rich Man Too". Too bad there isn't a bootleg somewhere of him singing the lyric he really wanted to have on there, at least that I've been able to find anyways.
Then there is the infamous "Get Back" alternate take with lyrics about Pakistani's taking other people's jobs and that they should "Get Back" to where they once belonged. Some would say it's satire and actually anti "racist" but I'm not so sure and in light of Pakistani child sex grooming gangs I think it could be considered prescient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjBF1uj6Do
The Beatles, mostly due to Lennon but Paul was good also, were brilliant satirists and wrote it between the lines better than anyone else in mainstream music, even Dylan, who was a brilliant lyricists didn't have Lennon's satirical genius. One of my other favorites from Lennon was "Y'er Blues" off the white album, it was a satire of white musicians who played the blues so much their playing had become puerile. I couldn't agree with him more, personally I was tired of white "blues" artists also, as far as I was concerned they could leave the blues to the blacks. Paul's "Why Don't we do it in the Road" was also a blues satire, a repetitious novelty ditty that poked fun at the Rolling Stones and their style of pop blues, not as good as John's "Y'er Blues" but still amusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQQ-1rd4A0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4E6KtQg_z0