Mildred and Patty Hill
Done without a Goolge search but I do read movie credits constantly and it is in about 1 of every 8 movies or so.

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Np..v/a -Second Thoughts

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> At Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:49:40 Barry wrote: 
> 
> >Gee Jaimie, you have such great things to say . . . usually. These 
> >however make no sense to me at all. 
> > 
> > > 1) It was Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" that was sent up in the 
> > > Voyager explorer to the other side of the galaxy....NOT the Beatles. 
> >It's 
> > > all about frame of reference. 
> > 
> >So, a couple of dude at NASA liked the irony of that selection, or maybe 
> >they actually liked the record. That says zero about history. 
> 
> But it perfectly discredits Josh's assertion that the Beatles are the Alpha 
> and Omega. If the Beatles were the zenith by which all pop culture is based 
> there would have been a Beatles record on board....and to further illustrate 
> I must also add that Chuck Berry had a recording on that flight as well. 
> 
> > > 2) With the exception of Queen and The Dave Clark Five, The Beatles 
> >were nearly the last hold out to join the CD revolution. 
> > 
> >There were CDs when the Beatles and the Dave Clark 5 were recording? 
> >Can't say that I remember that. 
> > 
> > > 3) The Beatles "template" will not survive the Internet.....as they've 
> > > balked at the idea of MP3 downloads on any website other than Apple 
> >Records. 
> > 
> >I know nothing about what is or is not on Apple Records' website (okay, 
> >I didn't even know there was such a site) but every Beatle recording 
> >imaginable is available all over the net. 
> 
> Again, two examples to illustrate that the Beatles may have BEEN the 
> template (back to Josh's mail), but they no longer are. Once that grip on 
> popular music/culture/what have you slips from their grasp, time will 
> determine how they will survive the coming communications revolution. 
> 
> > > In 100 years the Beatles will be but a footnote. There will have been 
> >more 
> > > names and more FIRSTS to have overshadowed everything they did for 
> >those 
> > > brief 8 years. Just as Wayne Gretzky overshadowed Rocket Richard and 
> >Gordie 
> > > Howe...so too shall someone overshadow him. 
> > 
> >I am no more a seer than you are, so you could be right. Richard and 
> >Howe were hardly cultural touchstones (at least in the US), so Gretzky's 
> >catapulting over them in hockey's recordbooks is not a good analogy. 
> 
> Yes, it is. Richard and Howe were the definition of hockey during THEIR 
> period. They held all the records, scored all the goals, dominated the media 
> and defined what hockey was. Gretzky came along, beat the records and 
> popularized the game in the eyes of AMERICA....just like a little band from 
> Liverpool did. 
> 
> >What I do know is: we are 35 years into your 100-year period --- a fair 
> >ways, I am sure you will agree --- and I hardly see the Beatles on the 
> >road to being relegated to a footnote. 
> 
> Doesn't matter....I'll give you another 30 years from now and the result 
> will be the same. With the Internet levelling the playing field and popular 
> culture becoming but footnotes on the internet ("Click on the button marked 
> 1960's to see what Hippies and Viet Nam were all about"). 
> 
> We can get into a whole sociological debate about information, but that 
> won't change the fact that archives aren't being back-dated. We're moving 
> forward without taking stock of our past and only those with a boner for 
> nostalgia are keeping the spirit alive (I happen to be one of them...which 
> is why I wrote The Canadian Music Encyclopedia -- I live in a nation whose 
> entire 100 years of musical output has NEVER been measured.) 
> 
> I realize these are broad strokes, but the Beatles become merely trivia to 
> those who didn't live through their influence. They're not gods and their 
> accomplishments can only be measured by the culture that it affected. Once 
> all the boomers are dead and their children, and radio sinks into the tar 
> pit it now inhabits, The Beatles become just another band that gets played 
> on Oldies radio stations. 
> 
> And as for the assertion that "She Loves You" is some reigning beacon of the 
> band's enduring qualities, I offer the perennially more popular "Happy 
> Birthday" and defy 3 people on this list to name the author of that song 
> without doing a Google search. 
> 
> 
> Jaimie Vernon, 
> President, Bullseye Records 
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com 
> Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia 
> http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages 
> 
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