BW's Saturday #71

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Thanks!

 

Happy Thanksgiving from Astoria, Queens, NYC!

If you are reading this, thanks for checking in.

I hope all of you wonderful people who have kept this place from going under for the last (almost) 17 years (!) have a stress-free, fun-filled, hyphenated word of your choice Thanksgiving holiday. 

Safe travels. 

 

Beatles Week: Part Three

 

When the song first came out, I thought it was a swing and a miss. It felt clumsy. Over the years, I've changed my tune. It was easier for me to mock what was wrong with it back then and even easier for me now to hear all that's right with it. 

This version is pretty great.

Beatles Week: Part Two

There's a story going back to 1964 when Lennon & McCartney were writing hits for others, like "A World Without Love" for Peter & Gordon and "Bad To Me" for Billy J. Kramer, where critics were claiming these songs were only hits because of The Beatles' names attached to them. So, as a fake out, McCartney wrote "Woman" for Peter & Gordon under the alias Bernard Webb. When it only reached #28 in the U.K., the same critics said, "See?," while those more understanding blamed the song itself, saying it wasn't one of McCartney's bettter tunes. The U.S thought better of it and "Woman" peaked at #14.

I think "Woman" is an amazing record and I fell deeper in love with it when I heard Frankie Siragusa cover it 2020.

At the time, Frankie Siragusa played drums for The Posies, and he released a solo album in 2020 called "Goodbye My Love: Lost Songs Of Lennon & McCartney, Covered and Rediscovered" with a little help from Jellyfish's Roger Joseph Manning and Keith Sletterdahl from The 88. On the surface it looks like another attempt to record those great early sides that The Beatles gave away to the likes of Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, & Peter & Gordon, except this is unbelievably good! The whole record is worth your time.

 

Beatles Week: Part One

 

A pretty solid pop track from Helen Shapiro made even better by The Fab Three.

This should put a smile on your face.

(h/t lilcheaplet) 

 

Songs Of The Week, 2025: 11/15-11/21

 

Even If You Don't- Ween
Groove Holmes- Beastie Boys
You Make Me Feel Good- The Zombies
Peaches En Regalia- Frank Zappa
How Does The Grass Grow?- David Bowie
Time Song- The Kinks
The Drugs Don't Work- The Verve

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Enjoy! 

Good Records, Cheap!

 

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