Righting on the Wallz: The Beatles

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Throwback Thursday: Maxwell's Silver Hammer

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test-tube ohh oh oh oh
Maxwell Edison majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone
Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan? ohh oh oh oh
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead

Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again
Teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene-ee-ee-een
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing 50 times "I must not be so" oh oh oh
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head Do do do do do
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead ohh oh oh oh

Do do do do do
P.C. Thirty-One said "We caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures ohh oh oh oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so oh oh oh
But as the words were leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head Do do do do do
Bang, Bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead ohh oh oh oh
Wow wow wow oh!
Do do do do do

Silver hammer

Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Beatles Catalog: The transfer of debt.

by Angela K. Durden

Google search screenshot.

On January 20 of this interesting year of twenty and seventeen, Billboard.com took readers through a timeline of the ownership of the Beatles catalog of 250 songs. It is an interesting read, especially if one wonders how the original members lost control of it in the first place.

You know what they say about deals when they start to stink? They say follow the money."

So I've been following the money for several years as the catalog changed hands for massive sums of money. Wow. Ten of millions and even more to transfer...errrrr...purchase the publishing rights. To sum up the Billboard.com article, Sing this along to the tune of Smoke That Cigarette:

Them pay They.
They pay Him.
Him needs money; sink or swim!
Next thing you know, They own it all again. But,
Him and Them are left out in the cold, and
Him and Them cry and moan, but
They say "Your turn next, it's all a game." So the
Debt gets transferred, hither and yon,
Banks none the wiser, and fans not concerned, but
"Something's nasty in the woodshed," one woman says.

That woman is me and here's why I say that.

One: The value of a catalog is based on how much it can earn.

Two: A catalog earns by selling (downloads, CDs, vinyl) or licensing.

Three: When a famous AC/DC song can be licensed for $500 for a 30-second spot that will run for less than a week on a sports show and that song is chosen because the network cannot afford to license another song, then we can clearly see licensing is not where the money is coming in from since —

Four: The Beatles' songs are priced in the upper stratosphere and nobody can afford that, so

Five: The valuation of the Beatles catalog is out of sync with its sale price, therefore —

Six: There's something nasty in the woodshed.

The something nasty to which I refer is the now open secret that the music business is so hungry and been gnawing on its own leg for so long the meat is all gone and the marrow has just about been sucked out of what remains of the leg bone.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Why Don't We Do It In The Road

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Two Of Us - Let it Be Sessions

Friday, May 19, 2017

Yer Blues

Sunday, May 14, 2017

#happymothersday - La même chanson

Your mother Should Know

Let's all get up and dance to a song
That was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know

Sing it again

Let's all get up and dance to a song
That was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know

Lift up your hearts and sing me a song
That was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know

Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know

Sing it again

Da da dada da da da dada dada dada da da
Da dada da da
Though she was born a long long time ago
Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know

Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know

Your mother should know (your mother should)
Your mother should know, yeah

Songwriters
LENNON, JOHN WINSTON / MCCARTNEY, PAUL JAMES