Music Monday: The Beatles

Yes, again.

At least, the last time, I tricked you with the title "The Greatest Band Ever" (Part 1 & Part 2).

But seriously, I HAVE to talk about The Beatles again because last Sunday (February 9th), CBS aired "The Beatles: The Night That Changed America- A Grammy Salute."  This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the British Invasion, and on February 9, 1964, The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show!

This is just a short clip:

The CBS broadcast was so popular that they aired it again on Wednesday, February 12th.  The only reason I didn't watch it the second time was that it's still saved on my DVR.

So anyway, the show featured some of today's artists performing Beatles hits.  

Some of MY favorites were Maroon 5 with "Ticket to Ride":

Katy Perry with "Yesterday":


Ed Sheeran with "In My Life":


and Joe Walsh, Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison (George Harrison's son) with "Something":

They also showed clips of David Letterman interviewing Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on his set which used to be the stage for The Ed Sullivan Show.  And then....

AND THEN

Ringo performed solo.

AND THEN

Paul performed solo.

AND THEN

THEY PERFORMED TOGETHER!!!


This video gets cut off before the end, but it starts with Paul performing "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and all of a sudden, I realized what was about to happen. Just like the recording, they sing, "Billy Shears" and.....out came Ringo! Then the video show most of "With a Little Help from My Friends."

My cousin, Jaime is also a HUGE Beatles fan, and this conversation happened on Facebook (between Jaime, me, and my aunt & uncle):

Becky ‎Jaime 

Just started watching The Beatles Grammy tribute from last night, and I'm already crying! What's wrong with us?? And MAROON 5 to start out the tributes?!  KILLING ME (in a good way!)!! lol

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  Becky  Also, by watching this, I discovered that if I had ever seen The Beatles play live, I would not have been one of those silly, ridiculous screaming girls. I would've been one of those girls who was bawling her eyes out, not able to speak...which is what I did from the moment Ringo hit the stage and it got worse the longer it went on. Haha! That was an awesome tribute! 

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  Jaime I understand. I was like, "Good Lord, why am I crying?" Was I crying because of what will never be?

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  Joe  My parents actually let me stay up and watch the Ed Sullivan show, and I still have there first album called Meet the Beatles. it is up in the attic. I played it to death..

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  Vickie  I loved the way Ringo got into it. Paul seemed pleased as well but Ringo was having the time of his life. You could see it on his face!

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Love, love love! Love is all you need!

Music Monday: The Grammys

So in case you didn't know, The Grammys aired on CBS last Sunday night.  I never stay up late to watch award shows.  I do DVR them.  This way, I can skip parts I don't like, and fast forward through commercials.

I was really disappointed with the Grammys this year.  There weren't very many performances that I enjoyed, and I wasn't all that thrilled with most of the winners.

I'll start with the things that I did actually like.

First of all, THIS HAPPENED!!!

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Yes, friends, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited on stage for a performance of Paul's new song "Queenie Eye."  Ringo was on the drums, of course.  The song was so-so, but I couldn't care less what he sang.  They were TOGETHER.

Ringo also had a performance of "Photograph" earlier in the show.

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P.S. CBS is airing a tribute to The Beatles on Sunday, February 9th.  Can we say, "OMG!!!???"

Anyway.

I also really liked Blake Shelton's performance with Willy Nelson, Kris Kristoferson, & Mearl Haggard.

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Robin Thicke performing with Chicago was also tops in my book!  (This is one that I could actually find a decent video for.)


So clearly, I like the mix of the old and the new.  

Other performances I liked were Katy Perry's performance of "Dark Horse" and Pink and Nate Ruess (from Fun) with "Just Give Me a Reason."

 

I pretty much hated or was indifferent to the rest of the performances.  But the ones I REALLY hated were Beyoncé and JZ "Drunken Love", Hunter Hayes, and Lorde "Royals".

 

Why didn't I like them?? Let me count the ways.....I typically don't dislike Beyoncé, though her music isn't my style.  But it was a bit over the top sexually.  I suppose I can be glad that she was at least performing it with her husband.  I'm not a fan of Hunter Hayes at all.  I don't think he's a good singer.  I never caught the name of the song he was performing, but when LL Cool J announced him, he told us to pay careful attention to the words.  Well, LL, I tried.  But I couldn't understand a single one.  I actually like the song "Royals", but I didn't like how Lorde performed it on the show.  Ever heard of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?"  Maybe she needs to.

 

So now, onto the winners I was happy with!

 

Best Rock Song

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"Cut Me Some Slack"- Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic, & Pat Smear

 

Never heard the song.  I'm just biased because Sir Paul McCartney was involved.  :)

 

Best Pop Vocal Album

 

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Unorthodox Jukebox ~Bruno Mars

 

Ok, yeah, that was all.  I was ok with many of the other winners, but I thought there were songs, people. or albums nominated that should have won instead.

 

And I was really mad that Blake Shelton didn't win best country album. 

 

Oh well, at least Taylor Swift didn't win.

 

And no, Taylor, you didn't win album of the year either....

 

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In case you didn't see this....they start to announce "RRRAA" and they start reacting.  Well, it wasn't Red.  It was Random Access Memories

Disclaimer: I do not dislike Taylor Swift as a person.  I think she is a positive role model, and I do really like some of her songs.  I would just like to hear a happy one every now and then.  And I'm over the hoopla. 

One more thing that bothers me.  I know that they don't have time to show EVERY SINGLE winner, but I think we should at least see the winners in each genre for best album or something.  I found myself disappointed that they didn't acknowledge any Christian artists.  They're there.  They win Grammys, too.  You just didn't know about it.

Did you watch the Grammys??  What were your favorites/least favorites?
 

Random Thoughts on a Tuesday

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It's cold.

REALLY cold.

Yesterday, I was so cold at one point, I decided to go change into my PJs.  I put on a pair of my Long Jane pajamas from Victoria's Secret and then put sweat pants and a sweatshirt over them.  I had on a regular pair of white socks with warm fuzzy ones on top, and THEN I drank a yummy cup of warm gingerbread flavored tea.

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This isn't the pair I was wearing, but I DO have this set.  :)
 

So I'm home from school today.  (Sorry, Sarah...)  Our pipes are frozen, which  means I currently have no water.  Awesome.  Good thing the potato soup I'm planning to make for dinner doesn't need water.  (I'll be sharing the recipe soon!)  On the bright side, I don't have to do the laundry like I planned.

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I just watched The Grammys from Sunday night.  You know you're a blogger when you "take notes" during award shows that you want to post about.  Take a wild guess what Monday's Music Monday post will be about...

There's still time left to enter my giveaway for free ad space here on Rebekann's Random Thoughts!

What's going on with YOUR Tuesday??