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| From | Gary Glauber <gigwords@optonline.net> |
| Subject | Re: Beatles on Ed Sullivan DVD |
| Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:56:01 -0500 |
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Crotchety Old Man Durben:
You are correct, sir. That was a young David Jones in the cast of Oliver
(minus the stars that would eventually plague his eyes some years later).
Best,
Gary G.
At 06:45 PM 1/13/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> OK, I vaguely remember catching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan as 4 or 5
>year old. I mainly recall my dad loudly proclaiming..."You can't hear
>a word their singing!!" (Never a Beatles fan my dad).
> I know I've seen clips of theses shows here and there (and
>everywhere..sorry) but a few things that struck me post watching the
>Ed Sullivan DVD's with the Beatles.
>
>1) That is a young Davy Jones following them as one of the singers in
>the Oliver cast, right? Or am I hallucinating again? Assuming it is
>Davy, funny to me that he followed the Beatles on their initial show
>and would later follow them as a TV. band. Am I the only one on this
>list that didn't know he was on this Ed Sullivan show? Or am I just
>flat wrong?
>
>2) The other thing I didn't know recall was how poorly the mix was
>for the mics. The first show Paul's seemed too loud compared to
>John's. Then on one of the later shows, John's was much louder then
>Paul's (whom you can barely hear). Also, one of the performances both
>Paul's and John's mic's were too low. John grabbed his and noisily
>pulled it up during the start of the song. Paul just kind of hunched
>over more while singing.
> Somehow this made it all seem all the more cool to me and long for
>these seemingly simpler days. What a different era it was. Here's
>this phenomena sweeping into America and they don't even have the
>mics set up right! Oddly, for me, It's so less sterile feeling then
>many shows might feel today. Now days you can bet any televised show
>of the mega star of the day has every possible wrinkle taken care of
>well in advance of the show. Image over music perhaps?
>
>I know these are just my loose impressions, I may be all wet.
>
>Signed, Crotchety Old Man Durben
>
>Near RIP: UFB. A fab live band...
>Hey Gabe!
>
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