The Beatles – Twist and Shout

Posted on March 9th, 2008 by ecthompson md

I was looking for music the other day and I came across The Beatles – Twist and Shout. This was a huge hit for them. But I was able to find a couple of versions of the song. So, I thought it would be interesting to splice some of these together. I thought about cutting up the song and that didn’t sit well with me. So, we have Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles in 1965 at Shea Stadium. After his introduction I cut to a 1964 performance then back the 1965 performance. Look at how they have changed. Just in that short period of time. They have added a scream or yell to their harmony. They are a little looser and freer in their performance. Their hair is significantly longer. Now, compare 1965 to a 1963 performance. Although this is a much more formal performance. See how John looks looser. He opens with a nice joke.

Enjoy.

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  • Jim
  • http://www.whereistheoutrage.net ecthompson

    Doesn’t Michael Jackson own the rights to the Beatles songs? Isn’t he filing for bankruptcy? He needs the money!

  • ted

    Micheal sold his animals from the ‘Wonderland’ zoo. Apparently, they are over ten years old so he lost interest in them.

  • ted

    BTW, If you knew about the Beatles before they came to America, you would not be surprized about them loosening up. Their manager insisted they get clean cut and suited. This was a very big difference from their long hair and leather jacket upbringing in Amsterdam. A clasic example that if you want to be accepted into a society, you must emulate their culture. Otherwise you will either be thrown out, be subject to poverty and have a long dangerous road to slowly make them adjust to your forein behavior.

  • ted

    Speaking of music, I have found the next candidate to hand out trophies at the MTV rap music awards.

    “School Fight Leads to Arrest”
    Tuesday, March 11th

    A Bastrop student is arrested after getting into a fight at school, but her mother says she’s being treated unfairly because she’s black.

    Any parent would be upset if they felt their child was being punished unfairly, but it becomes even more personal when they feel their being targeted because of their race. That is what this mother says happened to her daughter and she is speaking up about what she says is discrimination.

    “They have messed up my baby’s life,” says Brenda Schoefield. “This is the last child they going to destroy over here in Morehouse Parish.”

    Schoefield is furious because she says her 13-year-old daughter Rachel now has a rap sheet.

    Rachel got into a fight at East Side Elementary two weeks ago after she says a white student kicked her when she walked by the swings on the playground. When Rachel told her to stop the other girl apparently tired to hit her with the swing. Rachel admits she then grabbed the girls’ wrists to make her stop, but her mother is angry about what happened next.

    “It’s a crowd of people in there, they made plans to have my baby locked up.”

    Ms. Schoefield is upset because she says no one from the school contacted her to tell her that her daughter was being arrested, but the school board says they followed proper procedure and had nothing to do with her child being arrested.

    Ralph Davenport is in charge of discipline for Morehouse parish schools.

    “The parent of the child involved in the altercation is the one that contacted the police.”

    Schoefield claims another fight where a white student slapped a black student ended with the white student only getting time-out for a week.

    “Kids get in fights all the time. If you going to call the police on my daughter, you should have called the police on them other kids that was fighting.” She says.

    But davenport says he has to check into whether those claims are true and the discipline that took place has nothing to do with race.

    “I don’t feel this is a black white issue and it definitely won’t be handled as a black white issue as far as I’m concerned”

    Davenport says if Schoefield claims are true the students wouldn’t be disciplined or suspended this week because they have to be present for mandatory leap testing going on all week. But he says if students are involved in a fight, they should all be disciplined the same.

    (Copyright 2008, NBC 10/FOX 14 News)

    Please be sure Jesse & Al see this.

    We have a group not to far from Bastrop that can’t wait to see them.

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