Back then, comedy had adopted a trend towards being intellectual. Amongst them, there was Bob Newhart, Mort Sahl and Shelley Berman to name a few. I was 8 years old when I heard this.
I received this record as one of my birthday presents when I was maybe 10 in 1970, and it makes me laugh just as much as when I was a kid! The Western, and Elwood P. Suggins with the Martian, and the ancient old fart college dean at the football game singing the School Song and crowning the homecoming Queen and can't find the crown ("gimme the damn thing!") Winters genuinely was a funny guy and on TV a lot during the 70s -- remember the Hefty trash bag commercials where he was the immaculate garbage collector wearing white gloves, and referred to it as "Gar-BAHGE" ?
@Panflute Extra Thank you for recording and uploading this. I've read Palimpsest many times over the past 30 years, and it's still as fresh and relevant today as it was when it was first written. For instance: here's Vidal, speaking of the late-1950s in America: "Anybody who earned over $100,000 a year was obliged to pay 90% income tax, presumably for that surge of pride that one could not help but feel as our CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala. It is difficult to understand now why we put up so supinely with such taxation without anything to show for it at home. Of course we still have nothing to show for our tax money ... This confiscation of one's hard earned money did not drive me into the right wing, as it did Ronald Reagan ... I started to turn left. If the government was going to take so much of our money then let the government give us healthcare, education, and all those other things 1st world countries provide their tax payers." Have you read the (considerably smaller) 2nd volume of his memoirs titled "Point to Point Navigation"? I liked that as well.
Love of the loved is one of the best Beatles songs and the recording of them at the Star Club with Ringo is the better than pretty much anything else they ever did. John Lennon would agree.
We can compare The Pete Best Era Beatles to one of the most infamous bands of all-time by typing, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World: Full Album, or The Shaggs at Solid Sound Festival 2017, in the search box of RU-vid.
Every turn in their incredible assent to unimaginable success was kismet. They knew they had what they needed, but even they could not imagine how their songwriting would develop. The greatest rock band -- ever.
Not a stellar performance. Not horrible but just dreadfully unremarkable. While it's easy to point out that EMI's George Martin was an important ingredient for The Beatles' later success, don't undersell the removal of Pete Best. Pete was not a poor drummer but Ringo's touch was exceptional. As a bass player - not a great one, either - I can immediately differentiate the difference Ringo made.
I have an idea! Let's compare this video to an early video by Metallica by typing, Metallica Live March 1983 in San Francisco, CA, in the search box of RU-vid.
I think Pete Bests drumming style was competitive. I recognise it as I'm a drummer with the same outlook as him. It's not always a bad thing look at Keith Moon for example. Ringo was more supportive rather than challenging and the overall sound of the band was better because of it.
So weird that even the experts in their field like Dick Rowe made such a huge mistake. Not only was this a win for George Martin but a win for the world.
yes Paul has a beautiful voice but it was John's voice in I want to hold your hand that shot them into the stratosphere. listening here to his early vocals I once again think that he was one of the great singers of the 20th century [in his Beatle period].
