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The Beatles We Can't Get Them Outta' Our Lives By Tommy Towery It has been a while since one subject received so many comments as the Beatles have received on this site. I guess we all relate to their music and how it influenced our lives. I know that when I graduated from Lee, I had an overwhelming desire to see them live in concert. I finally got to go see them in concert in Memphis in about 1966. The ticket cost me $10. I remember that because the girl I was dating at the time got one for Christmas, but she only got one ticket because her sister couldn't afford to buy her one for me because they cost that much. I went to see them at the Coliseum, and it was a great concert. It was so much different from the Paul McCartney and Wings concert I went to seven years ago. There were no laser lights, no big screen TV, no smoke or I beam stages. There were a couple of speakers on the stage, microphones, and The Beatles. It was a concert to remember, and I still have the ticket stub in a collection at home. I followed their music, bought it, listened to it and sang along with it for a decade. I still do today on the Oldie Goldie station. Later on, maybe we'll remember some of the other great groups we grew up with. From Our Mailbag... Subject: Re: LHS 64-65-66 Site Remembers the Beatles Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:43:37 -0600 From: "JOY MORRIS" <MORRIJA@ATHENS.EDU> Having been gone the entire month of December to help take care of my daughter's family, it was terrific to read all the comments about the Beatles, the buses ( I rode one all through high school) and the bowling alleys. Although I have not bowled in years, I always loved it although it took me awhile to get the hang of keeping score. I am please to report that our youngest grandson (Matthew) who was born three months premature is doing fine. His birth weight was two pounds but now he is a whopping eight pounder. He and his older brother, mother and father are doing fine. In fact, they will be moving back to the North Alabama area as our son-in-law will be discharged from the Marines soon. In recalling old memories, how about: Avon Calling, Tupperware parties, Beeline in-home fashion parties, grilling out in the yard and the smell of charcoal and lighter fluid, Parkway City before it was a mall, Davy Crockett, Nash Ramblers, Transistor radios, Princess Telephones, Full service gas stations, Soda Fountains, and the Five and Ten Center store where you could spend your allowance on Christmas presents for your family. Kool Aid made with real sugar and home made cookies right out of the oven, bus routes in Huntsville and shopping downtown during the Christmas holidays (the smell of pop corn, bell ringing, and the excitement of running into your friends and hoping they didn't see what you had bought them). Eddie Burton is right. Don't take moments with your loved ones for granted. Time is relentless, demanding, and waits for no one. Once spent, time can never to be retrieved. Make time for those you love--lost moments are irreplaceable. Tommy, your memories of your grandmother are priceless. Thank you for sharing them with us. It was beautiful. I wish for everyone a wonderful 2002. Can't wait to read and see the pictures of the Atlanta reunion. May God bless you, Joy Rubins Morris Subject: The Beatles Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:30:58 -0600 From: "Linda Walker" <lbwalker@usit.net> I was not a great Beatles fan. However, I do remember that the young man that lived across the street from me, and his friend evidently loved the Beatles. They sat on the front porch with their guitars and sang "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "She Was Just Seventeen" over and over and over again. They weren't bad either. That may also be why I didn't care for the Beatles until many years later. And talk about feeling OLD -- when Carl Perkins died, George Harrison attended his funeral here in Jackson. The service was televised and one of the partners in our firm had his TV on and several of us were watching, bits and pieces, as time and clients allowed. One of the secretaries, however, wanted to know who George Harrison was and who the Beatles were. She said she had never heard of them. Can you believe it???? I thought West Tennessee was part of this planet!!!! I mean, even if you didn't like'em, I thought everyone knew who they were. Thankfully, I was not the only one in the office that gave her a sharp "WHAT DO YOU MEAN???!!! WHO ARE THE BEATLES?" She knows who they are now. I'm glad the mini-reunion was a success. I'm sorry that I am unable to attend these, but my mother's sitter doesn't stay with her on weekends, therefore, I do. So keep the photos and memories coming. Thank you again for the good work that you and the others do on this site. Linda (Beal) Walker Class of '66 P.S. Does anyone remember this - "Sin, sex, booze, kicks, we're the class of '66" ? I found this written in my yearbook. Subject: Beatles Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:34:29 EST From: BamaYaYa@aol.com Sorry to be late submitting a Beatle memory. I went to Atlanta for the Beatle's concert in 1964. The concert was at Fulton Stadium, or it's forerunner......not sure what month it was but it was hot. It was my very first live concert.....can you imagine that it would be the Beatles, I was 16 years old. We weren't near enough to see very well, but the folks sitting right in front of us came to their seats with polaroid pictures of themselves with the Beatles, they had just taken in the dressing room. They were middle aged (or at least older than us....I remember the men were wearing suits) and they were just as awestruck as us teenieboppers.....I was with my cousins from Birmingham and my Aunt who was crazy enough to take us. It was certainly an unforgetable experience but as a concert....well you couln't hear the words for all the girls screaming (I was not one of them) and they were so far away you couldn't tell one from the other......but I was there. I related this experience to a crowd of younger folks at work the other day after George died and we were sharing Beatle memories, I had also mentioned recently to this group that I had shaken hands with Bobby Kennedy in Tuscaloosa in April before he was killed in June 1968....one of the guys very dryly commented "you're a regular Forest Gump aren't you?". By the way Tommy, I had lunch at Zestos Friday. Dip dogs were as good as ever, no window or seating outside and that wonderful big old tree is gone. The menu is quite different also......the have dip dogs with kielbasa AND with Andouille sausage.....pretty outrageous don't you think? Lynn Bozeman Van Pelt Class of '66 Subject: The Beatles Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:45:44 EST From: Barbdonn13@aol.com I remember hearing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" the first time and thinking how I absolutely did not like it! Then, less than a week later, I was in the record store buying the same record! I am, above all, wishy-washy when it comes to music. There are so many times that I've reacted the same way to songs I've heard for the first time and later discovered that I loved them! A fine few: Me and Bobby McGee, Maggie May and Ruby. I used to issue the blanket statement that I hated country music. Of course, after hearing: (Garth Brooks) Rodeo, That Summer, (Lee Ann Womack) I Hope You Dance, (Toby Keith) We Were in Love, Dream Walking, I changed my mind forever regarding country music. Since Ed is a die-hard country music fan, it has made life easier -- we have a rule that whoever is driving the car gets to pick the songs to which the others are subjected. I did, in fact, love almost every song the Beatles churned out (not much "wishy-washy" there after the first one!) and still think that Lennon and McCartney were/are geniuses. I enjoyed them the most, however, while dancing at Bradley's with the Tics playing the Beatles' songs. Those were the days, my friends! (Thanks, Jerry, and the other Tics!) I remember waiting as did all of America, it seems, to see the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, and I was not disappointed. It was a very exciting evening, and I knew, even then, that they had changed music forever. I was never in love with Paul or George -- thought they were both cute, of course. My real love was Elvis. His contribution to music (and the Beatles' own form) was phenomenal! He was the first entertainer I remember that you never had to ask his last name after hearing his first. Favorite Beatle songs: She Loves You, Let it Be, Yesterday, Come Together. And, I cannot leave out the Wings production: Band on the Run -- the entire album. In short, the Beatles rocked! We were lucky to have some really swinging icons to remember, huh guys? My best, Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly Class of '64 Subject: "Double Dog Dare" Section Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:04:47 -0500 From: Julius.Smoak@sba.gov We are showing our age and I don't feel that old. Where did all the years go? When did this much time pass? I remember all but one of the items. Aren't the children of today deprived? No wonder they have so many emotional problems. Chip Smoak |
1964 Academy Awards Best Picture -"My Fair Lady" Best Actor - Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady" Best Actress - Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins" Best Supporting Actor - Peter Ustinov in "Topkapi" Best Supporting Actress - Lila Kedrova in "Zorba The Greek" Best Director -George Cukor for "My Fair Lady" Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium Edward Anhalt for "Becket" Best Story And Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff For "Father Goose" Best Cinematography Walter Lassally for "Zorba The Greek" (B&W) Harry Stradling for "My Fair Lady" (Color) Best Art Direction Vassilis Fotopoulos for "Zorba The Greek" (B&W) Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton and George James Hopkins for "My Fair Lady" (Color) Best Film Editing Cotton Warburton for "Mary Poppins" Best Sound George Groves for "My Fair Lady" Best Special Visual Effects Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske & Eustace Lycett for "Mary Poppins" Best Foreign Language Film "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" from Italy Those Oldies, But Goodies! 1964 DATE TITLE ARTIST 1/04 There! I've Said It Again-Bobby Vinton 2/01 I Want To Hold Your Hand-The Beatles 3/21 She Loves You-The Beatles 4/04 Can't Buy Me Love-The Beatles 5/09 Hello, Dolly!-Louis Armstrong 5/16 My Guy-Mary Wells 5/30 Love Me Do-The Beatles 6/06 Chapel Of Love-The Dixie Cups 6/27 A World Without Love-Peter & Gordon 7/04 I Get Around-The Beach Boys 7/18 Rag Doll-The 4 Seasons 8/01 A Hard Day's Night-The Beatles 8/15 Everybody Loves Somebody -Dean Martin 8/22 Where Did Our Love Go-The Supremes 9/05 The House Of The Rising Sun-The Animals 9/26 Oh, Pretty Woman-Roy Orbison 10/17 Do Wah Diddy Diddy-Manfred Mann 10/31 Baby Love-The Supremes 11/28 Leader Of The Pack-The Shangri-Las 12/05 Ringo-Lorne Greene 12/12 Mr. Lonely-Bobby Vinton 12/19 Come See About Me-The Supremes 12/26 I Feel Fine-The Beatles Atlanta Mini-Reunion I got some photos of the Atlanta Mini-Reunion, but I don't have the right programs on my laptop that I brought with me here on vacation to reduce the photos to a size that I can post them on the site, so I will have to wait until I return home to post them. It should go without saying that the eight of us there seemed to have a great time, and the chili dogs are almost as good as Mullin's. |
