Post by CountryCrock on Dec 9, 2023 22:46:57 GMT
GETTING BETTER
194MB
mega.nz/file/kPkGDDyT#AUu4C0YQQSfwP8Ws7xG-kG2a4z40_t2uDObx_4Itx5w
For all-intents-and-purposes: it, certainly, was considered as-such by no less a figure than "Cousin Brucie" Morrow on ABC MusicRadio in New York (circa July, 1967); when, he'd regularly feature it among a playlist then dominated by the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday"; the Beach Boys' "Heroes and Villains"; and Engelbert Humperdinck's cover of the ballad "There Goes My Everything" (an excellent version!, BTW).
I know that information for a historical fact because I had somebody's homemade, off-the-air tapes of his shows from that timeframe (and: they'd actually been recorded the correct way using interconnect patch cables with full-fidelity, though 3 3/4IPS...NOT by the often then-amateur practice of '60s teenagers just sticking a crystal microphone in front of a table radio's speaker). It had been in a flea market haul I'd once gotten; where there was a box of reels with a budget-model Akai 1710 machine all for $25! However, the majority of the recording tape was "white box" dept. store brand as well as "Shamrock" (which, I would never attempt playing on the level of equipment I've long since "graduated" to: because such low grade tape would be like sandpaper across the heads). There, also, were a lot of off-the-air recordings from TV of CBS and ABC variety shows someone had made; between November 1966 and March 1967 (most interesting to me, was: Ray Bolger from the Wizard of Oz guest-hosting ABC's "Hollywood Palace" in Jan. 1967, introducing Paul Revere and the Raiders doing "The Great Airplane Strike").
ANYHOW...
Regardless of how MANY times "Getting Better" has been overplayed (even as a bumper music staple): I think, in a way, THAT is actually a testament to a song (fairly mundane; vs. when you realize the *OTHER* stuff they did/were doing in this same period) I would honestly consider one-of-three-of: the best/timeless/"pure Beatles' music" (as John himself called it specifically), post-1966 (following: "Rain") Pop-crafted songs (next-to: George's "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun") they recorded which never sounds like it's dated full-of psychedelia excesses.
Aside from the infamous line John throws-in: "I used to be cruel to my woman...I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loves." (strange to imagine THAT going right past somebody, then listening as a 15-25 y.-o.; let-alone hearing such a violent reference in a song "cute Paul" was singing lead?!); the entire song, at its core, is really another example of Paul being sentimental in a kind of almost 1950s/Albert Finney-esque-"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"-working class-England mould (the notions of: having been an "angry young man"; or hating school with its "rules" and teachers who "weren't cool"). Cleverly, when George's tamboura comes in at the break: it's like a flash-forward moment of not just John's line serving as a publicly-admitted catharsis from the old (and wrongful), but (also) it acts as a musical allegory to imply the evolution from the 1950s directly into the (new) 1960s awareness rebirth.
Whether they deliberately planned the arrangement that way or not, "Getting Better" has a lot of details going on underneath it which are highly intelligent!
i.postimg.cc/DyVgK9n7/487757249-1.jpg
i.postimg.cc/QtTT4MB1/Polish-20231204-140222831.jpg
194MB
mega.nz/file/kPkGDDyT#AUu4C0YQQSfwP8Ws7xG-kG2a4z40_t2uDObx_4Itx5w
For all-intents-and-purposes: it, certainly, was considered as-such by no less a figure than "Cousin Brucie" Morrow on ABC MusicRadio in New York (circa July, 1967); when, he'd regularly feature it among a playlist then dominated by the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday"; the Beach Boys' "Heroes and Villains"; and Engelbert Humperdinck's cover of the ballad "There Goes My Everything" (an excellent version!, BTW).
I know that information for a historical fact because I had somebody's homemade, off-the-air tapes of his shows from that timeframe (and: they'd actually been recorded the correct way using interconnect patch cables with full-fidelity, though 3 3/4IPS...NOT by the often then-amateur practice of '60s teenagers just sticking a crystal microphone in front of a table radio's speaker). It had been in a flea market haul I'd once gotten; where there was a box of reels with a budget-model Akai 1710 machine all for $25! However, the majority of the recording tape was "white box" dept. store brand as well as "Shamrock" (which, I would never attempt playing on the level of equipment I've long since "graduated" to: because such low grade tape would be like sandpaper across the heads). There, also, were a lot of off-the-air recordings from TV of CBS and ABC variety shows someone had made; between November 1966 and March 1967 (most interesting to me, was: Ray Bolger from the Wizard of Oz guest-hosting ABC's "Hollywood Palace" in Jan. 1967, introducing Paul Revere and the Raiders doing "The Great Airplane Strike").
ANYHOW...
Regardless of how MANY times "Getting Better" has been overplayed (even as a bumper music staple): I think, in a way, THAT is actually a testament to a song (fairly mundane; vs. when you realize the *OTHER* stuff they did/were doing in this same period) I would honestly consider one-of-three-of: the best/timeless/"pure Beatles' music" (as John himself called it specifically), post-1966 (following: "Rain") Pop-crafted songs (next-to: George's "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun") they recorded which never sounds like it's dated full-of psychedelia excesses.
Aside from the infamous line John throws-in: "I used to be cruel to my woman...I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loves." (strange to imagine THAT going right past somebody, then listening as a 15-25 y.-o.; let-alone hearing such a violent reference in a song "cute Paul" was singing lead?!); the entire song, at its core, is really another example of Paul being sentimental in a kind of almost 1950s/Albert Finney-esque-"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"-working class-England mould (the notions of: having been an "angry young man"; or hating school with its "rules" and teachers who "weren't cool"). Cleverly, when George's tamboura comes in at the break: it's like a flash-forward moment of not just John's line serving as a publicly-admitted catharsis from the old (and wrongful), but (also) it acts as a musical allegory to imply the evolution from the 1950s directly into the (new) 1960s awareness rebirth.
Whether they deliberately planned the arrangement that way or not, "Getting Better" has a lot of details going on underneath it which are highly intelligent!
i.postimg.cc/DyVgK9n7/487757249-1.jpg
i.postimg.cc/QtTT4MB1/Polish-20231204-140222831.jpg