Post by CountryCrock on Dec 8, 2023 20:36:20 GMT
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John leading a song mournful in its nature which, unfortunately, befits the mood of today's date (and: the World, at this moment, also).
However...when you realize (artistically speaking) ALL the different influences going on together in this track, it is one of the earliest Mac/Len originals from they themselves showing those influences *without* covering somebody *else* outright.
I mean:
The unmistakable Everly Brothers-type "Folk" harmonizing.
The forlorn lyrical-style of Roy Orbison.
The melody being a variation on an old English nursery rhyme called: "Johnny's So Long At the Fair" (which, in the early-20th-century, became a standard renamed: "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?").
As someone that never had any interest in believing BEATLES FOR SALE was somehow(?) a "replacement" for BEATLES '65 (nor having heard BFS until the 2009 box), I can say this: "Baby's in Black" (as well as the successive track: "Rock and Roll Music") WERE/ARE, TO ME, ABSOLUTE STANDOUTS ON SIDE 1 OF BEATLES '65 AND IN NO WAY FILLER. Hell, Capitol practically turned BFS into a John concept album by their restructuring it!
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i.postimg.cc/qqq5F02J/Polish-20231207-203209689.jpg
mega.nz/file/0a8wQQpR#EuGXLDnU6MuMVe1YmAP1BVvfYknzLYSy98xQXVkyJbE
John leading a song mournful in its nature which, unfortunately, befits the mood of today's date (and: the World, at this moment, also).
However...when you realize (artistically speaking) ALL the different influences going on together in this track, it is one of the earliest Mac/Len originals from they themselves showing those influences *without* covering somebody *else* outright.
I mean:
The unmistakable Everly Brothers-type "Folk" harmonizing.
The forlorn lyrical-style of Roy Orbison.
The melody being a variation on an old English nursery rhyme called: "Johnny's So Long At the Fair" (which, in the early-20th-century, became a standard renamed: "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?").
As someone that never had any interest in believing BEATLES FOR SALE was somehow(?) a "replacement" for BEATLES '65 (nor having heard BFS until the 2009 box), I can say this: "Baby's in Black" (as well as the successive track: "Rock and Roll Music") WERE/ARE, TO ME, ABSOLUTE STANDOUTS ON SIDE 1 OF BEATLES '65 AND IN NO WAY FILLER. Hell, Capitol practically turned BFS into a John concept album by their restructuring it!
i.postimg.cc/SNZPcXFn/Screenshot-20230728-153341-5.png
i.postimg.cc/R0TKnHy8/Screenshot-20230728-153915-3.png
i.postimg.cc/qqq5F02J/Polish-20231207-203209689.jpg