The Beatles Or The Rolling Stones ( Etc ) Part II

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Recently while visiting YouTube I came across a very interesting group called " The Fendertones. " It is quite a large group of performers and they have redone a lot of the hits put out by " The Beach Boys " ( and " The Fendertones " also do a very nice job ).    

   ---   Sometimes it is best to keep the lyrics very simple such as in the hit song " Woo Hoo " put out by The Rock-A-Teens in 1959 ( and they do roll along at a very good clip  lol ).

Favorite Rolling Stones song:  "As Tears Go By"  https://youtu.be/L3c2NXJEi2w 

(I just checked out the original, and quickly realized that there was something special I'd always liked about it.  The song was Perfect for 2 part harmony, but it was sung Solo by Mick, so whenever I listened to it alone, I could always sing the harmony with him!  Boy, what a great duet we sang -- if only he'd known how good we were together .... sigh .... ;-D!)

It is beautiful, but she sings it in a whole different key -- one that's just wrong for me.  Therefore, sadly, I find I can't enrich her version dramatically, simply by adding my lovely alto harmonies.  (Don't tell her.  She might feel bad.)

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   ---   Yes that is another good version. Also I came across a version of " As Tears Go By " sung by Nancy Sinatra that was quite different. Those of us that remember the Folk Music days may have heard the version done by Melanie.

Getting back to Nancy Sinatra her big hit song was " These Boots Were Made For Walking ".

 " Over And Over " was a big hit song for the Dave Cark Five however today I had the chance to hear the older Bobby Day version of the song ( from 1958 ). Both versions of this song are very good, sort of 1A and 1B.  

Don't know why I just thought of "Please, Mister, Please - Don't Play B17" .... Looking it up, I ran across "Please, Mr. Postman" -- done by the Marvelettes, covered by the Beatles!

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   ---   While over on you tube I came across another cute number from years ago about " Henry the 8th " ( yup Herman's Hermits ).

Stones also appeared on the Red Skelton and then Dean Martin shows.

Sullivan just had the Beatles after those two shows and then the Stones.

Both groups would have been successful without the Sullivan show.

   ---   Thanks for the post Monie49. Yes I guess that both of the groups mentioned ( & also other acts as well ) were making some progress in Europe and would have come over to the USA sooner or later. However I do feel that the Ed Sullivan effect was very important going back to the days when there were only a couple of TV channels to choose from unlike today ( hundreds of channels on the remote ). I feel that being on Sullivan's show really rocketed people into the spotlight in a major way in the USA.

I agree.

Stones. 

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As I've grown older I've come to like the song " Yesterday " more and more. The Beatles put that song out in 1965 back when they were quite young, how did they know & understand such things way back then ? Frank Sinatra also recorded his own version of that song in 1969. Elvis liked to do the song in his act as well and there is a clip of him up on YouTube performing " Yesterday " in one of his Las Vegas shows. 

Sometimes when I'm driving, I enjoy singing  harmony to "Yesterday."  And since Paul first sang it as a solo, I know how much he values my contribution.  I can just hear him now --"Thanks!  That makes it so much Better!" (...funny, that's exactly what Mick Jagger says when I help him out on "When Tears Go By.")

Speaking of Sinatra and songs like "Yesterday" that express real life experience, one of my favorites besides "September Song" is Sinatra's "A Very Good Year."  Poignant, sad, but ultimately life-affirming and somehow comforting.