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06/24/16
- NNHS Newsletter -
Things We Said Today
“If I go away |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Actually, I haven't said much of anything today, sooo.....
BONUS #1 - Things We Said Today - The Beatles, Live... somewhere.....
BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DcV1UI1B6M - Things We Said Today - The Beatles, Live at Indiana State Fair, September 3, 1964
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_We_Said_Today:
"Things We Said Today" is a song by The Beatles written by Paul McCartney[1] and credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was composed for the film A Hard Day's Night and appears on the soundtrack album. It was also released as the B-side of the "A Hard Day's Night" single in the UK.
McCartney wrote the song in May 1964 while cruising the Caribbean aboard a yacht called Happy Days with his then-girlfriend Jane Asher.[2] Music critic Ian MacDonald said, "The sombre lyric—provoked by the frustrating interruptions of a relationship between two career people—matches the lowering gloom of the music."[1]
The song is one of three main compositions (along with "And I Love Her" and "Can't Buy Me Love") that Paul McCartney wrote for The Beatles' film. Recorded in advance of film production for lip-synching reasons, "Things We Said Today" has a reverse nostalgia premise. McCartney said, "I wrote this on acoustic. It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia. We’ll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future."[3]
McCartney was particularly satisfied with his chord change, F major to B flat major—instead of the more obvious F minor—which first occurs beneath "…wishing you weren't so far away" in the song.[4] John Lennon accentuates McCartney's strident acoustic guitar strumming by triple hitting a low A note on a piano. The tempo of the song moves from ballad to rock and back with a minor to major key change during its middle eight section.
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday
today to
My Cousin, Jean Atkinson Mallory (Warsaw HS / Rappahannock HS / John
Marshall HS - '65) of VA!
Happy Birthday
tomorrow to
David Lundquist ('57)
AND the late
Glenn Dye ('60)
Happy Birthday this week to:
26 -
Fred Eubank ('64) of TX;
27 -
Gene Duncan ('60) of VA AND
Eddie Mirmelstein ('62) AND Richard Honeycutt
('63) AND
Jimmy Dick ('65) of FL
AND
My #1 Daughter-in-Law, Mary Bennett Harty (Litchfield HS,
IL - '89) of IL;
28 -
Andrew Puckett ('57)
AND
Henry Hoyle ('65) of Northern VA;
29 -
Carolyn Frizzelle Hogge ('61) of VA
AND
Jimmy Smith ('62) of VA
AND
Patricia Eken Miller ('66) of VA;
30 - Blaine Crum ('57) AND
Chuck Jones ('66) of Northern VA;
01 -
the late
Julius Benton ('58)
Many Happy Returns, One and All!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
150 YEARS AGO TODAY:
June 24, 1866 - Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeated the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War. |
100 YEARS AGO TODAY:
June 24, 1916 -
Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a
million-dollar contract. June 24, 1916 - World War I: The Battle of the Somme began with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line. |
THIS DAY IN WWII:
June 24, 1940 -
Operation Collar, the first
British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11
Independent Company.
June 24, 1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy. |
THIS DAY IN 1966:
Friday, June 24, 1966 - Singer-songwriter (Mazzy
Star and
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
Hope Sandoval was born in
Los Angeles,
California. Friday, June 24, 1966 - Actress, director, and screenwriter Adrienne Shelly was born Adrienne Levine in Queens, New York. On November 1, 2006, at the age of 40, she was found dead, hanging in the shower of her Greenwich Village work studio apartment. Originally declared a suicide, it was later determined that she had been murdered by a construction worker Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian undocumented immigrant. |
“So often we get caught up in the illusion that there is something just
beyond our reach that would bring us happiness: a better family
situation, a better financial situation, or the end of a challenging
trial. The older we get, the more we look back and realize that external
circumstances don’t really matter or determine our happiness. We do
matter. We determine our happiness. You and I are ultimately in charge
of our own happiness.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf(b. 06 Nov 1940) |
Thanks so much, Susan! ![]() |