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Farewell - Mary Black

All things that have life will pass beyond returning. This will be the final farewell for this blog. Should anyone read this, may your spirit be ever more buoyant than mine.

Be well.
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As if by magic...

Having mentioned a couple of (to me) memorable lines from Yellow Sub, the next clip I looked at contained both...

I confess to being something of a Beatlemaniac: I have every vinyl album they released in the US while they were still a group, including a numbered copy of the White Album, a white vinyl White Album, a picture disc of Sgt. Pepper, a commemorative plate of the Sgt. Pepper cover, a Beatles song book from 1964 that has fallen apart but still contains the Fan Club application, 2 other, more recent songbooks, the original Two Virgins, featuring a naked John and Yoko on the front and back covers... and more. Not that I'm obsessed or anything - it was an ccident, really!

Once upon a time... or maybe twice

The opening scenes of the Beatles' film, Yellow Submarine... I have seen it 22 times, in the theatre. Always interesting to see how people choose to spend their money, isn't it?

Some great lines in this script. Although the Beatles themselves did not do the voices, the actors did a passable job. Harrison says, "it's all in the mind," and Lennon says "nothing is Beatleproof." I still use those lines today...
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I Got a Feeling - Beatles (Live)

How awesome it must have been to be in that neighborhood that day, to hear the last live performance by the best group of their generation!
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Got a Feelin' - Mamas & Papas (Live)

Quite possibly the most magical concert experience of this life was seeing the Mamas & Papas. Cass Elliot had such a marvelous voice, and just looking at Michelle Phillips was enough to make me ache, this song more than any other of ther repertoire. Their harmonies have never been surpassed. This film was shot at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

I was scheduled to go in 1968, but something happened that kept me away and changed the course of my life. Water well past the bridge, time to look forward, not back.
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Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys...

A song reflecting the less than glamorous aspect of dying from the cold, in the arms of a nightmare, with a video about taking what you need from the ladies...
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