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Worst Cover Ever!

Posted in Music, Pop Culture, Social Media, The Beatles, tagged , , , , , on April 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

As my (few) readers know, I blog Beatles covers. While researching “She Loves You” on YouTube last night, I came across this little gem of a cover from the year 1980, on the Lawrence Welk Show:

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Imagine iPeace: The Beatles and Kids in a YouTube World

Posted in Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Social Media, The Beatles, Woman Up, tagged , on December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Had John Lennon not died in 1980, this year he would have celebrated his 70th birthday on Oct. 9. And a month later, he would have seen the Beatles catalog appear on iTunes for the first time. In one week, Apple sold 1.4 million Beatles songs. “Just imagine that we could live our favorite melodies,” Carly Paige [...]

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Ignore Your Inner Cynic and Vote on Tuesday

Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Social Media, The Beatles, Woman Up, tagged , on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“Tribute to Her,” uploaded to the Internet on Nov. 7, 2008, is a slideshow of Election Day photographs. YouTube member SailorBrownie described her post as a “dedication to all those Black Americans who went out on Tuesday and voted. We made history.” While it’s not altogether clear who is the “Her” in the title of [...]

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Love Them? We Still Do

Posted in Music, Social Media, The Beatles, tagged , on May 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »

[ed. note: updated November 2, 2011; continuation of Love Them? We Do.] Fans around the world uploaded these covers of songs by The Beatles. The Marvin Berrys perform “Love Me Do.” Kevin Coonan of Canada plays “Love Me Do.” ortoPilot of the UK sings “I Saw Her Standing There.” Tiago Rosa from Brazil sings “I [...]

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Love Them? We Do

Posted in Music, Pop Culture, The Beatles, tagged , , , on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

[ed. note: updated August 19, 2011] Half a century ago The Beatles snagged their first bonafide hit in the United States when “Love Me Do” climbed to the top of the charts. I was just a young girl, but even so, I listened. Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell believes it wasn’t raw talent that made The Beatles, [...]

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