A more uplifting tune...

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; (Originally A Depressing Song)



In this clip, Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, she sings a depressing, but hopeful tune, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas to a young girl who is determined to bring all of her toys, including the ones that Santa might give her, even the dead ones, too! In the original lyrics written by Hugh Martin, one of the lines -- well, the first line was: Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last. Depressing, ain't it?!

This was soon changed, though, when criticized for being to depressing for a Christmas song. He changed the lyrics from "It may be your last / Next year we may all be living in the past" to "Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight".

This song was made popular in the movie Meet Me in St. Louis sung by Judy Garland in 1944, which became a very popular Christmas tune since then, covered by several artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, and several more...

There's just no getting over you..

For this Christmas Day, I played my favorite online game, Wizard101, while listening to old 60s & 70s songs on YouTube.

I say that this was my first listen to The Rolling Stones.

I drank my coffee, and had my mind filled up with whatever the RS had in store for me.

I first listened to "Paint It Black". It was wonderful listening to this song. I just love the African beats on it.

Then I listened to She's A Rainbow,  Get Off My Cloud, and Ruby Tuesday <333

My first "favorite" Rolling Stones song was "Miss You" because it was way off what RS did in the Sixties. It was discoesque and did not sound like Mick Jagger at all, which at first I despised for not being a very melodic singer, but someone who just shouted out the words in angst. (Yeah, I'm sorry, but it's true!)

I like six songs so far, so that is a good start. :)

For this pre-Christmas Day, I will write about my first real crush, Paul McCartney. He was someone I obsessed about in my 14th year. (Yeah, birthday.) He certainly wasn't the first boy I actually dreamed about. But he was the "one" I cared about the most. Every day during Science class, or any other classes in school, I would doodle his name on a piece of loose-leaf paper, writing his last name after my first name. Writing his name over, and over, and over again... I thought that someday, I would marry him. And if I wasn't, I would marry someone just like him.

I would have thoughts during lunch, when I would sit alone by myself on the floor of my high school building that he *has* to marry me. Even if he was married to (someone I do *not* want to mention!), I would try to be their maid or nanny, THEN Paul would notice me.

Imagine, me writing his name 200x in one day, and then coming home from school, and putting on my 'A Hard Day's Night' CD and playing it on my blue 3-in-1 radio/CD/tape player and trying to reminisce a life with him thru the songs. My 2 song favorites were 'And I Love Her' and 'Things We Said Today'. 'Things We Said Today' was a more of the song I could imagine myself with.

Here's how I'd picture it:

Me and him on a meadow, he is wearing his black pants, white shirt, black tie, regularl Beatle haircut.
I would be wearing a 60s dress, my hair in a feminine Beatle haircut. (Oh, I just love the bangs!)

He and I would exchange stories, love quotes, and all those romantic stuff. A soulmate. A lover. A friend..

Also, when I read one of the books I had on him, it said that at 15-years old, he banged the babysitter.

I was enraged by this! I wrote it on a piece of paper, the only place where I can contain my thoughts & feelings, and wrote that. I left it on my bed, only for my mom to discover it and eventually through away. (I didn't actually witness this, but this is what I would have imagined if she did find it and did read it.)

I was so furious, thinking, wow, I am only 14, and he did it at 15!

Another thing, I read that he wrote his first song? at 14, with Little Girl Come Home (something like that.)

I wanted to write my own song at 14, too.

This eventually led me to buying my first guitar. It was an acoustic guitar. I wasn't much of fan of the bass, and I didn't like electric. I thought and still believe that acoustic is "staying true". As such the hippie & environmentalist I am.

I didn't write any song, though, but if I did gather up all the notes and little thoughts I had from them, it would make one awesome love / refrain song. I wouldn't have the music that went with it, though. I'm not that much musically inclined as I want to be, although if I did try not to think about it too much, I would have created a 5-chord song, and it would be alright.

I thought, Paul is the most perfect Beatle, man, boy, guy, person to ever live. His eyes so beautiful, his voice so angelic, his eyes so pretty. They look like doves flying with their wings out... (Indirected pun.)

I also drew a sketch of him when I paused my A Hard Day's Night DVD and found a still that I liked, which was a scene during 'And I Love Her'. It was beautiful. I wanted him to be perfect. It took me 2 hours.

That work is gone. So is my DVD and my CD, but I still have the memory of it.

One day, I went to the library, just to look for more Beatle material I could find. There was this rock book, so I immediately went to the glossary to look for Paul McCartney or The Beatles. I found one picture, which I thought was so cute, that the next day? I got my scissors to cut him out of there and put him in my room.

It was my first mini-stolen picture of Paul McCartney, and I was happy about it...

I am completely obsessed with Eric Burdon (1960s) so here are some photos of him in that era!
Forgive me if some of these photos are watermarked or aren't from the '60s... Just enjoy! :-)

Solos:
Paul McCartney - http://www.paulmccartney.com/
Billy Joel - http://www.billyjoel.com/
Ringo Starr - http://ringostarr.com/index/home/
Eric Burdon - http://ericburdon.ning.com/

Groups:
The Cowsills - http://cowsill.com/home/
Hall and Oates - http://www.hallandoates.com/

On-Going Tours:
"Happy Together" inclu. The Turtles
http://www.theturtles.com/documents/tour.html


- Venue:
B.B. King's Blues Bar in NYC
http://www.bbkingblues.com/calendar.php


- Artists:
Eric Burdon - http://ericburdon.ning.com/events
Hall & Oates - http://www.hallandoates.com/tour.html
Paul McCartney - http://www.paulmccartney.com/web/guest/tours-archive
Ringo Starr - http://ringostarr.com/tour/
Billy Joel - http://www.billyjoel.com/events

A sweet song about The Guitar Man. By Bread. Written by David Gates. 1972

2008 - Ronnie Spector
2009 - Paul McCartney x3 w/ Ringo Starr x1 (Donovan)
2009 - Brian Wilson
2009 - Frankie Valli & Connie Francis
2010 - Hall & Oates
2011 - Paul McCartney

Alex DeLarge driving like a maniac, looking to see his next victim's lair.

Portrayed by Malcolm McDowell


Okay, the movie itself was released in 1971, directed/producted/screenplay by Stanley Kubrick.
The dystopian novel set in futuristic Britain was published in 1962, and is written by Anthony Burgess.

In the book, Alex does not reveal a last name. Only in the movie do you see the front page of a newspaper that shows DeLarge as his surname.

This is my own personal, Beach Boys Haven! :-) Top Favorite Beach Boys Songs of All Time!
by Beatle Girl

1. Good Vibrations




2. God Only Knows




3. Wouldn't It Be Nice




4. Don't Worry, Baby




5. The Warmth of the Sun




6. Surfer Girl




7. In My Room




There You Have It! :-) The rest I like.

A Hard Day's Night


Rubber Soul


Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band


Abbey Road


Odessey and the Oracle


Ram


Imagine



Not Totally My Favorites, But Still Makes The List:


Albums I Like:


Plastic Ono Band

All Other Beatles Albums

Off the Wall

The Stranger

Aladdin Sane

Thriller

More To Be Added! :-)

"She's Not There"



I am so obsessed with this song at this moment. I've been listening to it since 2 am last nite.

I listen to a lot of stuff. That I like. :)
Just because I say I'm a Sixties or a Beatles girl does not mean I like 100% of all the things I hear from either.
I am picky in my choosing of songs and bands and singers. I look for meaning, depth, or lack thereof. I like songs that have their own personalities or quirks. In this blog I will share some of them with you. I will try not to show songs that have that modern pop-Euro sounds to them, as those aren't what this blog or my interests is about.

My channel on YouTube will let you know exactly what my likes are and favorites are if you look at it.

Here is a song performed by Peter & Gordon in the Sixties. Written by Paul McCartney. Given to his girlfriend Jane Asher's brother's duo.

I am much into dreams. Though I say that, I do not mean that I take every aspect of dream symbolism literally. I do it for fun, as an interest. Here are some sites that help with interpreting dreams and more...

Dream Journal - A fun online dream journal where you can post your dreams and get them interpreted by others. You may also try to interpret your dream yourself by using the keywords you used in your blog post and seeing up what they mean.

Dream Moods - My favorite look-up site for dream symbolism. Do you only remember an item or a person or an activity in your dream? Find out its meaning in Dream Mood's database search. You may be amazed what your dreams could mean in your subconscious and waking life.

There is something about the Sixties that always intrigued me. Something in my brain triggers when that word comes up. It reminds me of flowers, sunshine, drugs, newfound discovery, the age of the end of innocence. I use the word "innocence" loosely here because how does a decade differ in what we know to what we knew back then? Anyway, I am Asian, and my family originated in the South East Asia. No one in my family could tell me about Sixties music in America or Europe, and I doubt rock 'n roll was that much popular in Asian parts of the world back then. I would think it would take months or years, maybe even a decade for that type of music to pop out. I'm sure the Seventies was more popular around the world with anyone who had a television and a radio, and oh yeah, magazines. Also, notice how I said "reminds" me? Yeah, I don't know why, but I say remember and remind a lot when referring to the Sixties. It's like I was there. Everytime I see a picture, listen to a song, or see a form of style originating from the Sixties, it makes me believe I was at a time like that, and I try to grasp that.
Even though you may think by now that I am an expert on everything-Sixties, no I am not. There are still things I do not know enough about, or have an interesting depth to. I am much biased to my favorite bands, like The Beatles. They are my everything. Notice how I try to use them in my every day language and items I use. I can make up Beatles references to everything I see. They have over 250+ songs, and I have listened to each and every one of them. Not every day anymore, but I still listen to them in my brain. "Listen to the Music playing in your head"... (Lady Madonna.) Okay, so on to more generic Sixties and more about me stuff. :)

Well, I've pretty much wanted to have some type of diary or blog for the past few years now. I've scattered blog posts all around the internet, but never put them in one blog. Here, I will try to accomplish that. Sadly, Vox.com was taken offline, which is unfortunate, because it was a community of bloggers who felt like they had a home on the internet. I felt that way, also, too, seldom I went there. Blogger has always been around, so here will I post anything that comes up in my brain, and write things in a diary as I would.... Readers, lurkers, interested are welcome. Thank you for viewing this blog. :)