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August 28, 2006
Coming Clean
I think it's time I set the record straight.
I grew up believing that Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees were the original recording artists of songs like "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Getting Better," "Good Morning, Good Morning," "Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window," and "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight." It is all the doing of the 1978 feature film CLASSIC Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. (Notice I did not say "fault".)
(Further, I grew up believing that The Beatles covered songs like George Burns' "Fixing A Hole," Steve Martin's "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," Alice Cooper's "Because," Earth Wind and Fire's "Got To Get You Into My Life," Billy Preston's "Get Back," and the brilliant Aerosmith's "Come Together.")
None of this makes me a bad person.
And I still think Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the best movies ever.
Edit: Oh, and I should probably mention that I didn't hear "Hey Jude" until around 1987 and, until around that time as well, I thought Siouxsie and the Banshees originated "Dear Prudence."
Posted by bonnie at August 28, 2006 6:27 AM
Comments
I love Sgt Pepper! One of my all-time favorites.
Posted by: drc at August 28, 2006 8:57 AM
Isn't it great? I have a mess of* "bad" movies that I really, really love (I think that'll be a future blog topic), but "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has been at the TOP of the list since 1978. I swear I've seen that movie 100 times (and probably haven't seen it in the past decade--so that's all "early on" viewings).
Hee!
* Keith has been busting my chops about the use of "mess of" lately, saying it's way southern. Hmm.
Posted by: Bon at August 28, 2006 9:18 AM
How unhip of you.
The Brits and their bretheren say "heaps of," which I think is way cool, so I have been appropriating (stealing) that lately.
Posted by: Hal at August 28, 2006 9:56 AM
No older siblings, huh?
Posted by: Leemer 
at August 28, 2006 10:02 AM
YOU ARE CRAZY!
Posted by: Erik at August 28, 2006 10:55 AM
No sin, that. The tunes are good regardless of who's playing them. I enjoyed that movie too, though I haven't seen it since it was in theaters.
Posted by: Ed R at August 28, 2006 1:58 PM
We watched "Tommy" a few weeks ago... now THAT is one effed up movie.
Posted by: NiNi at August 31, 2006 10:26 AM