I grew up without the Beatles. We lived in Elvis Country. I assumed that meant one or the other, we had Elvis til he died. Literally. His last concert was in South Dakota. We also had Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. Not to mention Hee-Haw every Saturday night without fail.
I don't think the Beatles ever made it to Souf'akota; I don't think they'da been welcome.
I remember the titillation of hearing a certain record hit the airwaves, "Stars on 45" ~ oh yeah, snippets of the Beatles ♥ I ran right out and purchased my own vinyl copy! I had their entire (forbidden) anthology in 15 minutes!
Elvis who?
hey, I think I left that record at Danette's house in 8th grade! Can I have it back?
Fast forward 25ish years Scotty and I are sharing one of 10hundred-kabillion shared childhood memories, this record in particular. First thing, we hit YouTube ♥ and nope, that can't be it. Keep looking Beatles Stars on 45... we keep landing on this bizarre Dutch cover group who are impersonating the Beatles. We want the real thing, like when we were kids.
Oh. Fuck.
We were tricked.
Big Time.
I fell in love with the Beatles, much to the chagrin of my Dutch grandfather, an Elvis lover.
Who's chagrin would have been lessened if he'd known it was a Dutch Trick.
He'da been proud of his countrymen. He probably would have let me play the 45 at his house.
He probably woulda let me play regular guitar, instead of slide guitar all the time.
I'm a bit chagrined right here, now, myself. Tricked. For 25 27 years. Whoa.
It wasn't even the Beatles. Not even good Beatles wigs.
I don't know if I'll ever get over this discovery.
I feel "Milli-Vanilli-ed"
I need a bath.
That said, they also do a pretty cool Stevie Wonder medley :) It's on my phone.
I don't think the Beatles ever made it to Souf'akota; I don't think they'da been welcome.
I remember the titillation of hearing a certain record hit the airwaves, "Stars on 45" ~ oh yeah, snippets of the Beatles ♥ I ran right out and purchased my own vinyl copy! I had their entire (forbidden) anthology in 15 minutes!
Elvis who?
hey, I think I left that record at Danette's house in 8th grade! Can I have it back?
Fast forward 25ish years Scotty and I are sharing one of 10hundred-kabillion shared childhood memories, this record in particular. First thing, we hit YouTube ♥ and nope, that can't be it. Keep looking Beatles Stars on 45... we keep landing on this bizarre Dutch cover group who are impersonating the Beatles. We want the real thing, like when we were kids.
Oh. Fuck.
We were tricked.
Big Time.
I fell in love with the Beatles, much to the chagrin of my Dutch grandfather, an Elvis lover.
Who's chagrin would have been lessened if he'd known it was a Dutch Trick.
He'da been proud of his countrymen. He probably would have let me play the 45 at his house.
He probably woulda let me play regular guitar, instead of slide guitar all the time.
I'm a bit chagrined right here, now, myself. Tricked. For 25 27 years. Whoa.
It wasn't even the Beatles. Not even good Beatles wigs.
I don't know if I'll ever get over this discovery.
I feel "Milli-Vanilli-ed"
I need a bath.
That said, they also do a pretty cool Stevie Wonder medley :) It's on my phone.
2 comments:
Now that's funny...Carolyn (who grew up listening to Rick Springfield ~gasp!~ and other such 80s saccharine pop (but much cooler music when she wanted to hang out with her older brothers) and came to love Elvis in college...)
I grew up with this too... I did always know it wasn't THEM but never knew these guys were so ugly thankfully.
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