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Followup, similar trivia
« on: October 30, 2005, 06:02:17 AM »

Okay, more on the 1970's and Columbia Records.  This act, the first one whose albums I collected (even before I started buying Beatles albums), in its initial 10-year hitmaking period (the only one I care about), quoted the Beatles no fewer than three times in songs. One instance, from the entity's debut album, is an absolutely explicit rendering of one of Lennon-McCartney's  most famous lyric lines (the song may as well have said "As John and Paul once told us, ..."), while the other two cases, from among this act's many Top 10 hit singles, use Beatles titles as lines.

Name the act, its three tracks, and which Beatles' lines are quoted.

Big hint: Prior to being signed to Columbia, this act used to actually play "Magical Mystery Tour" live in clubs, which of course The Beatles themselves never actually did (though Paul does now).  Coincidentally, this act's only non-self-composed hit from the era was a cover version by someone directly involved in The Beatles' MMT.

And let me know, there may be even more Fab quotations which I haven't thought of.
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Re: Followup, similar trivia
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2005, 06:54:19 PM »

bob dylan, cheap trick?
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Re: Followup, similar trivia
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2005, 08:12:10 PM »

Aerosmith, perhaps.

Is Mama Kin one of them, "I've been dreaming, floatin' down stream"?  
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Re: Followup, similar trivia
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2005, 02:40:59 AM »

Cheap Trick

1) I Want You to Want Me--mentions shining up Old Brown Shoes

2) Mr Taxman, Mr Thief--mentions Mr Heath (and Taxman)

3) He's a Whore--mentions Anytime at All

It seems they covered Magical Mystery Tour on their greatest hits package.
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« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2005, 03:17:55 AM »

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Cheap Trick

1) I Want You to Want Me--mentions shining up Old Brown Shoes

2) Mr Taxman, Mr Thief--mentions Mr Heath (and Taxman)

3) He's a Whore--mentions Anytime at All

It seems they covered Magical Mystery Tour on their greatest hits package.

Nicely done. My first thought was that it was Cheap Trick, but I always thought they were signed to Epic.
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« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2005, 05:47:37 AM »

Yes, that was fantastic research on Cheap Trick (I was not aware of it), and they, like America and The Little River Band, even had a later album produced by George Martin, but they were on Epic rather than Columbia, and therefore are not the answer....

As with the Billy Joel answer to the last question, the combination of the label and the immense number of hits should be be enough to at least reveal the recording act -- a group, in this case -- though finding the song lines (two of which were on Top 10 hits of theirs, the other a track from their debut album) would be trickier.
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Re: Followup, similar trivia
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2005, 07:18:00 AM »

I'm guessing Chicago.

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« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2005, 09:06:42 AM »

I thought that, but trolled through the lyrics of their 1st album, and found no "explicit rendering" of Beatle lyrics, except an intro that was a bit Sgt Peppery
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« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2005, 10:42:20 AM »

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I thought that, but trolled through the lyrics of their 1st album, and found no "explicit rendering" of Beatle lyrics, except an intro that was a bit Sgt Peppery

Yeah, I didnt do a whole lot of research. I just remembered that they played 'MMT' and were signed to Columbia so I threw them out there. I'll look a little harder I suppose.

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« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2005, 04:20:56 PM »

Yes, Chicago is the act.  Perhaps the printed lyrics you read deliberately excluded the L-McC quote since they could not have copyrighted that blatant part.

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together..."
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« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2005, 04:24:45 PM »

Is it from Chicago Transit Authority? Maybe I missed it. I want to check. And what was the MMT-single connection? (I tried looking for writing credits for their singles, but gave up)
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« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2005, 06:41:58 PM »

Yes, the track with "I am he as you are he..."  is "Southern California Purples" from their debut CTA album (before the City of Chicago froced the group to quit using that name).

And their only non-self-composed hit was "I'm A Man" which was orignally by the Spencer Davis Group (although, of course, co-written and sung by the great Steve Winwood); Spencer Davis himself is in the "Magical Mystery Tour" movie, just because he happened to be where the Beatles were filiming their fantasy bus trip; they recognized him and invited him along.

Now what are the other two quoted (perhaps inadvertanly) Beatles titles, both in Top 10 hits by Chicago?
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« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2005, 07:03:13 PM »

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Yes, that was fantastic research on Cheap Trick (I was not aware of it), and they, like America and The Little River Band, even had a later album produced by George Martin, but they were on Epic rather than Columbia, and therefore are not the answer....


Can I have half credit since Epic was a 1950s spinoff of CBS?  See

http://www.sonymusic.co.uk/uk/history.php

I haven't heard Cheap Trick's version of MMT, but I did see Rick Nielson a couple years ago--he was driving down Charlotte Ave. in Music City in this junky-looking brandy-colored station wagon from the 80s.  I looked over and saw this funny-looking dude with a hat and rat-tails in his beard and thought, "Is that Rick Nielson?"

Apparently Tom Peterson lives here--and it's his wagon.

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« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2005, 08:43:11 PM »

nice nice, i knew cheap trick did a version of mmt..got any more for us john. k. walker?
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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2005, 12:17:56 PM »

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Yes, the track with "I am he as you are he..."
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Re: Followup, similar trivia
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2005, 07:34:53 PM »

FINAL:

The other two are "Beginnings" ("I got to get you into my life mama,...") and "If You Leave Me Now" ("We remember the things we said today").
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