"What would you think if I sang out of tune, Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key."
I have been singing and humming this song for days. It is making me crazy because I can't get it out of my head. I've tried singing other songs, but I just keep going back to the beat and pleasant sing-songey melody and then I catch myself with my head gently bobbing from side to side and if I don't remember all the words, then I end up humming through part of it. The bad part of this is, I don't know when I heard it recently to plant it so deeply in my brain that it has taken root and I cannot get it out of my head!!!!. Literally, I was laying in bed last night and caught myself humming again! Enough! Enough! Enough!
I am a baby boomer. My generation has been witness to an unbelievable number of events, good and bad. Some of them quite scary and others just incredible. Of course, one major entertainment event that I remember is the night that the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. February, 1964 and I remember all of it. I was 10 and a smidge, a preteen of sorts and I thought these 4 guys from Liverpool were just absolutely the greatest thing I had ever seen. Barbie, Ken and Midge took a back seat in my life for awhile. I have an aunt that is 9 years older than me and we were as much like sisters at that point in my life as aunt and niece. But we both agreed, these guys were really something! I also remember quite well, the reactions that my parents and grandparents had when these 4 really, really cool guys tempted fate and dared to perform looking so "radically different". After all, they all had LONG hair. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were every young girls dream. This was a night that history was made not only for television but for the music industry in this country as well.
Funny, the things that really stand out in your mind as you get older. I recently reconnected with one of my cousins that I grew up with and we just absolutely had a wonderful time "remembering" all the way down to the colored aluminum drinking glasses that his mother had in her kitchen, to the little portable reel to reel tape recorder that we used to do "Spotty on the Spot" interviews with "people on the street" (which were in actuality, the two of us making up really stupid characters and situations).
Time really does seem to move more quickly nowadays and memories flow so quickly from my brain, that some days, I don't think I can keep up with all of them. That specifically, is one of the reasons that I started to keep a journal, which has now led to blogging, which hopefully will lead to a published collection of short stories. Who knows!
I have a couple of questions for you. Are you ready? This is a test. You can't fail it, but you might just surprise yourself when you finish taking it. The number of answers is entirely up to you! So here goes, pencils up, paper ready! Okay, start!
I want you to make a list of every standout historical event, epiphany and major progressive and technological wonder that has occurred in your lifetime that YOU CAN REMEMBER and as far back as you can remember! No cheating. It cannot be what others have told you. It must be your specific memory(ies). Send me an email and share your list. I would love to see what you came up with.
Bonus Round Questions!
What were you doing on Friday, November 22, 1963 and why is that date important?
How many times did the Beatles perform on Ed Sullivan in February, 1964, and do you remember the songs that they performed?
Those are easy, you can look up the answers! Isn't the internet great! The rest of your list, however, depends upon your brain! Looking forward to your comments and answers!
Until then, feel free to hum from here on down if you want. I'm reasonably sure you will get this song stuck in your head the way that it is in mine! But, it's a great song and it could be worse, it could be "This Is The Song That Never Ends!" (by the way, who sang that and when?)
by the Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967 and originally entitled "A Little Help from My Friends".
"What would you think if I sang out of tune, Would you stand up and walk out on me ?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song And I'll try not to sing out of key.Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
What do I do when my love is away (Does it worry you to be alone ?)
How do I feel by the end of the day, (Are you sad because you're on your own ?)
No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody, I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody, I want somebody to love.
Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light, I can't tell you but I know it's mine,
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody
I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love.
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
with a little help from my friends."
Have Fun!
Later, y'all!
Katydid
