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07/18/16 - NNHS Newsletter - Yesterday
“A feeling of sadness and longing, |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
I've loved this
song ever since I first heard it over fifty years ago.
BONUS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHL9b6nBXA - Yesterday - Paul McCartney and The Beatles, 1965, live
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_%28song%29:
"Yesterday" is a song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. According to Guinness World Records, "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone. The song was not released as a single in the UK at the time of the US release, and thus never gained number 1 single status in that country. However, "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners. In 2000, "Yesterday" was voted the #1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"Yesterday" takes the form of a melancholic acoustic guitar ballad about a breakup. It was the first official recording by The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band, namely, Paul McCartney. He was accompanied solely by a string quartet. The final recording differed so greatly from other works by The Beatles that the other three members of the band vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom (however, in 1976 it was eventually issued as a single there). Although credited to "Lennon/McCartney", the song was written solely by McCartney. In 2002, McCartney asked Yoko Ono if she would consider reversing the songwriting credits on the song to read "McCartney/Lennon". Ono refused.[1]
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney:
BBC News named his song "Yesterday" the most covered song in history—by over 2,200 artists[4]—and, according to the BBC has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio.[5]
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy
Birthday today to
Bill Queensberry ('57)
AND
Mary Ellen Brewer ('57)!
Happy Birthday
tomorrow to
Happy Birthday this week to: 20 - Harlan Hamby ('57) AND Alan Jecmenek of TX; 21 - ![]() ![]() 22 - Jerry Saunders ('57)
AND
23 - Newell Blayton ('57) AND Bettie Bracey Gosner ('57); 25 - Janey Roane Harper ('57)!
Many Happy
Returns,
One and All!
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THIS DAY IN 1966:
Monday, July 18, 1966 - Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
Monday, July 18, 1966 - The Australian children's television series Play School aired for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running children's show in the world
Monday, July 18, 1966 - Actress Lori Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland.
Monday, July 18, 1966 - Decathlete and coach Dan O'Brien was born Daniel Dion O'Brien in Portland, Oregon.
Monday, July 18, 1966 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) Bobby Fuller (b. Robert Gaston Fuller on 22 Oct 1942 in Baytown, Texas) died in Los Angeles, California under mysterious circumstances at the age of 23.
“Let
us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our
love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of
tomorrows... Our realization of what is most important in life goes hand
in hand with gratitude for our blessings... Despite the changes which
come into our lives and with gratitude in our hearts, may we fill our
days—as much as we can—with those things which matter most. May we
cherish those we hold dear and express our love to them in word and in
deed.”
- Thomas S. Monson, October 2008(b. 21 Aug 1927) |
Thanks so much, Susan! ![]() |
FOR THE ARCHIVE:
http://www.nnhs65.com/SITE-MAP.html http://www.nnhs65.com/old-stomping.html http://www.nnhs65.com/OOSG-H-M.html http://www.nnhs65.com/leggetts.html - This page has been unavailable since mid-2009. When I was repairing the link, I gussied up the page. |
From Jane Monfalcone Simmons ('61) of
GA (or FL) - 07/17/16:
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INDEED!
Thank you, Jane!
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“Little
League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off
the streets.” - Yogi Berra(12 May 1925 - 12 May 1925) |
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Climate Change! . . . is a new phenomenon
on Earth!
THIS IS WHEN YOU REALLY KNOW IT'S HOT!
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You know it’s hot outside when… | ||
Seagulls gather under umbrellas. |
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From www.ajokeaday.com - 07/17/16:
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Y'all take good care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe! Love to all, Carol ==============================================
NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.com
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Words and Music by Paul McCartney (b. 18 June 1942) (though credited to Lennon/McCartney), 1965
Recorded by
The
Beatles, 1965
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed
so far away!
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I
used to be!
Why she had to go I don't know;
she wouldn't say,
Yesterday, love was such an easy
game to play!
Why she had to go I don't know;
she wouldn't say,
Yesterday, love was such an easy
game to play,
"Yesterday" midi courtesy of
http://juali.chez.tiscali.fr/loveli/musicbox/yesterday.mid - 10/03/04 Animated Two Blue Arrows Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars2.html -04/20/06
Animated Tiny Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05 Brighton High School (UT) Logo courtesy of http://www.jordandistrict.org/schools/high/brighton/index.htm - 08/02/07
Animated Laughing Smiley
courtesy of Janice McCain Rose ('65) of VA - 02/07/07 |