Friday, November 26, 2021

Beatles Get Back Part 2 Paul: “She’s Great. She really is alright. They just want to be near each other.”

 A review in motion from Joe Viglione

This is Monday, the 20th of January, 1969, Day 8 of taping/audio recording / filming and the way Peter Jackson lets the story unfold, chronologically, as well as the crisp clarity of the 50+ years old aged film is remarkable.


This is a documentary on how to make a motion picture; this is a documentary on how to write songs on the spot by two of the greatest songwriters in pop history; this features Dick James (publisher of Elton John / Bernie Taupin) and the Beatles.   

This is a film on how girlfriends break up bands.  Paul's quote above:  Paul: “She’s Great. She really is alright. They just want to be near each other," it's quite accurate.  My first drummer's first wife would hang all over him WHILE DRUMMING at practice.  It was disgusting.  Then he lost interest in her so she asked me to be her "beard" and get him jealous.   We showed up at a Winthrop carnival together. He wasn't phased in the least.  He's on his third wife now in 2021...go figure.  

So Yoko gets a bad rap.  This happens in every single band.  Two wives of two artists in one of the greatest American hard rock bands from the mid-west, both Born Again Christians, aren't speaking to each other, depriving millions of fans of the magic that rocked the 1970s and 1980s.

Women are the enemy of rock and roll bands.   Yoko is the one caught on camera with the biggest band in rock history.  File Under: The Yoko Effect.   And we are only 6:35 in on Part 2 right now, so this review, out of necessity, is in pieces, fragments that I have to re-edit.

The dilemma of studying eight hours of film.

A document that will be utilized in colleges around the world for all the reasons above and more.

10;23 am Black Friday, Nov. 26, 2021

 10:39 am (JV writing time) "We probably do need a central daddy figure.  "Be there, 9 o'clock, leave the girls at home, lads." It's going to be an incredible sort of, comical thing like in 50 years time, you know, they broke up because Yoko sat on an amp."   Paul McCartney

Paul: “She’s Great. She really is alright. They just want to be near each other.”

Interesting comment ...Part 2 is intriguing. Ringo Walks in alone...the big film studio ... and some flowers arrive for George Harrison who has quit the Beatles.  Ringo opens the card and it is from Hare Krishna: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)

2:46:37 is the slightly longer Part 2 and we are only 6:35 in where Linda Eastman and Paul McCartney have just arrived, and what is unique here is that you hear Ringo talking, then Paul, and they are sorting out the present-time demise of the greatest pop band in history.   Far more compelling than any drama in the preceding two hour episode, Part 1.
 

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Paul: “She’s Great. She really is alright. They just want to be near each other.”

 

Songs Part 2

1)You’re My World   Bindi/Paoli/Sigman

2)Get Back – Lennon/McCartney

3)Build Me Up Buttercup -  Macaulay /Mike D’Abo

4)No Other Love / Rodgers- Hammerstein

5)Piano Piece (Bonding) Lennon/McCartney

6)Woman  Paul McCartney

7)Martha My Dear

8)I Bought A Piano the Other Day – Lennon/Mc/Starkey

9)The Backseat of My Car  McCartney

10)Long Tall Sally – Blackwell/Penniman/Johnson

11)Those Were the Days  Raskin

12)Song of Love   Lennon/McCartney

13)Help

14)I Want To Hold Your Hand

15)Tutti Frutti – Lubin, LaBostrie, Penniman

16)Mean Mr. Mustard

17)Madman (Lennon/McCartney)

18)Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner – Hubert Gregg

19)Oh! Darling (Lennon/McCartney)

20)You Are My Sunshine – Jimmie Davis

21)Forty Days  Chuck Berry

22)Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer/Katzenellen Bogen By the Sea

Hoffman/Manning

23)Queen of the Hop – Woody Harris

24)New Orleans – Guida/Royster

25)Too Bad About Sorrow – Lennon/McCartney

26)My Baby Left Me – Arthur Crudup

27)Hi-heel Sneakers - Higgenbotham

28)Dig a Pony

29)Hallelujah I Just Love Her So – Ray Charles

30)Good Rockin’ Tonight – Roy Brown

31)Milk Cow Blues – K Arnold

32)Shout – Isley/Isley/Isley

33)I’ve Got a Feeling

34)You’re Gonna Lose That Girl

35)Don’t Let Me Down

36)She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

37)Some Other Guy – Barrett/Leiber/Stoller

38)The Long and Winding Road

39)Going Up The Country  Alan Wilson

40)A Taste of Honey – Scott-Marlow

41)Save the Last Dance for Me  Pomus/Shuman

42)Cupcake Baby – Lennon/McCartney

43)Freakout Jam – Yoko Ono  Ono/Len/McCart

44)You Never Give Me Your Money

45)Twenty Flight Rock -  Fairchild-Cochran

46)Reach Out, I’ll Be There – Holland/Dozier/holland

47)Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

48)On the Road Again – Floyd/Wilson

49)On the Road to Marrakesh/Child of Nature – Lennon

50)I’ll Get You

51)Please Please Me

52)School Day (Ring Ring) Chuck Berry

53)Stand By me (King/Leiber/Stoller)

54)Two of Us

55)Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da

56)Polythene Pam

57)Her Majesty

58)Fancy My Chances With You (Lennon/McCartney)

59)Teddy Boy - McCartney

60)Maggie Mae - Traditional

61)Back in the USSR

62)Within Without You - Harrison

63)Dehra Dun   Harrison

64)Dig It / Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey

65)Why Don’t We Do It In The Road

66)Bye, Bye Love – Bryant/Bryant

67)Act Naturally – Russell/Morrison

68)For You Blue - Harrison

69)I Lost My Little Girl - McCartney

70)Blues Jam – J,P,G,R

71)Let It Be

72)The Walk – McCracklin-Garlic  

73)Without a Song – Youmins/Eliscu/Rose

 

1:16 am 11/27/21

25 November 25, 2021 Thursday Thanksgiving

 

1)In Spite of All the Danger  McCartney/Harrison

2)Love Me Do

3)Some Other Guy (Barrett/Leiber/Stoller)

4)Please Please Me

5)Twist and Shout (Bert Berns/Phil Medley)

6)I Want to Hold Your Hand

7)She Loves You

8)Do You Want to Know a Secret

9)All My Loving

10)A Hard day’s Night

11)Eight Days a Week

12)Can’t Buy Me Love

13)I Should Have Known Better

14)Act Naturally (Russell/Morrisson)

15)Help

16)Yesterday

17)Drive My Car

18)Taxman

19)Yellow Submarine

20)Tomorrow Never Knows

21)Strawberry Fields Forever

22)Sgt Pepper

23)Penny Lane

24)With a Little Help from my Friends

25)Lucy

26)A Day in the Life

27)All You Need is Love

28)Magical Mystery Tour

29)I Am the Walrus

30)While My Guitar Gently Weekps

31)Back in the USSR

32)Blackbird

33)Hey Jude

34)On the Road To Marrakesh/Child of Nature (Jealous Guy) (John Lennon)

35)Everybody’s Got Soul (Lennon/McCartney)

36)Don’t Let Me Down

37)I’ve Got a Feeling

38)Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)

39)I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan)

40)Quinn the Eskimo (the Mighty Quinn)Dylan

41)Two of Us

42)Taking a Trip to California (Richard Starkey)

43)Tea for Two (Youmans/Caesar)
44)Just for Fun (lennon/McCartney)

45)Thinking of Linking (Paul McCartney)

46)Won’t You Please Say Goodbye (Lennon/McCartney)

47)One After 909

48)Because I Know You Love Me So (Len/Mac)

49)Obla Di Obla Da

50)What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For

     (Monaco/Johnson/McCarthy)

51)Midnight Special (traditional)

52)The Harry Lime theme from Third Man (Karas)

53)Gimme Some Truth (John Lennon)

54)Every Little Thing (Lennon/McCartney)

55)All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)

56)I’m So Tired

57)You Wear Your Women Out  (J,P,G,R)

58)She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

59)My Imagination (J,P,G,R)

60)Get Back
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61)When I’m 64

62)Across the Universe

63)Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

64)Rock and Roll Music (Berry)

65)I Me Mine (Harrison)

66)Stand By Me (King/Leiber/Stoller)

67)Mr Bass Man (Johnny Cymbal)

68)Ba Ba Black Sheep (Traditional)

69)To Kingdom Come (Robbie Robertson)

70)Please Please Me

71)The Long and Winding Road

72)You Win Again (Hank Williams)

73)Carry That Weight

74)Another Day (Paul Mc/LindaMc)

75)Golden Slumbers

76)The Castle of the King of the Birds (J,P,G,R)

77)For You Blue (Harrison)

78)Enoch Powell (Lennon/McCartney)

79)Commonwealth (Lennon/McCartney)

80)Norwegian Wood

81)Honey Hush (Turner)

82)House of the Rising Sun (traditional)
83)Move It (Samwell)

84)Suzy Parker (J,P,G,R)

85)Let it Be

86)Shakin’ In The Sixties (J,P,G,R)

87)Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind (Dylan)

88)Christmas Alphabet (Loman/Kaye)

89)I’m Talking About You (Chuck Berry)

90)Carolina Moon (Burke/Davis)

91)Hi Heel Sneakers – Higgenbotham

92)She’s a Woman (Lennon/McCartney)

93)Martha My Dear

94)Jam (P,G,J,R,Ono)

95)It’s Only Make Believe (Nance/Jenkins)

96)John (Yoko Ono)

97)Isn’t It a Pity (Harrison)

 

97+73=170 songs

 

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