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[Hello Goodbye]

The New York City Pavillion of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair stayed on after the World's Fairs and had a ice skating rink with an organist.  I took my first girlfriend there one evening.  She was a very good skater with her own pair of figure skates replete with pom poms.  Me, I had my own pair of hockey skates.  After a little while, I asked her to wait where she was and skated over to the organist and asked him to play Mr. Moonlight.  He smiled and said "Gladly."

What a great song to skate to arms around each other's waists!  And those lyrics...


You came to me one summer night
And from your beam, you made my dream
And from the whirl, you sent my girl
And from above, you sent us love.

And now she is mine
I think you're fine
'Cause we love you
Mr. Moonlight.


What a night that was!  She was a Beatles fan too and loved what i did.


I'm still waiting for nimrod to say what a crappy song this is.   

[nimrod]

The New York City Pavillion of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair stayed on after the World's Fairs and had a ice skating rink with an organist.  I took my first girlfriend there one evening.  She was a very good skater with her own pair of figure skates replete with pom poms.  Me, I had my own pair of hockey skates.  After a little while, I asked her to wait where she was and skated over to the organist and asked him to play Mr. Moonlight.  He smiled and said "Gladly."

What a great song to skate to arms around each other's waists!  And those lyrics...


You came to me one summer night
And from your beam, you made my dream
And from the whirl, you sent my girl
And from above, you sent us love.

And now she is mine
I think you're fine
'Cause we love you
Mr. Moonlight.


What a night that was!  She was a Beatles fan too and loved what i did.


I'm still waiting for nimrod to say what a crappy song this is.   

Haha nice story Baz. But I suspect you just wanted to get your arms around her waist 

Mr Moonlight isn't a bad song, but it shouldn't be on a Beatle album, they'd gone past covers by then. I feel exactly the same about Words Of Love & Everybody's Tryin To Be My Baby. Kansas City also.
Words Of Love achieves nothing over the original version.

[Hello Goodbye]

Haha nice story Baz. But I suspect you just wanted to get your arms around her waist 

Well, yes but don't you know that about twenty other couples did the same thing, Kev.  We all applauded the organist at the end of that number.

As I said, it's a very romantic song.  And it left me with fond memories of coming of age. 

Mr Moonlight isn't a bad song...

Could it be that you're beginning to like Mr. Moonlight?

[zipp]

The New York City Pavillion of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair stayed on after the World's Fairs and had a ice skating rink with an organist.  I took my first girlfriend there one evening.  She was a very good skater with her own pair of figure skates replete with pom poms.  Me, I had my own pair of hockey skates.  After a little while, I asked her to wait where she was and skated over to the organist and asked him to play Mr. Moonlight.  He smiled and said "Gladly."

What a great song to skate to arms around each other's waists!  And those lyrics...

What a night that was!  She was a Beatles fan too and loved what i did.

I'm still waiting for nimrod to say what a crappy song this is.   

It's a crappy song and The Beatles do a crappy version of it.

George's guitar solo idea, when fully worked out, wouldn't have saved the track but would have made it more tolerable.

But the song obviously brings back nice memories for you which is nice.

Myself I like Cry Like A Baby by the Box Tops. It's a pretty nothing song but it reminds me of my first girlfriend ...

 

[nimrod]

Could it be that you're beginning to like Mr. Moonlight?

 

[Hello Goodbye]

^

Well, Kev, at least you admitted it isn't a bad song.   

[Hello Goodbye]

It's a crappy song and The Beatles do a crappy version of it.

George's guitar solo idea, when fully worked out, wouldn't have saved the track but would have made it more tolerable.

If you say so.

But the song obviously brings back nice memories for you which is nice.

I guess I'm just an incurable romantic.

Myself I like Cry Like A Baby by the Box Tops. It's a pretty nothing song but it reminds me of my first girlfriend ...

You should have treated her better.   

[nimrod]

I don't mind Mr Moonlight as a song but the way The Beatles did it was a bit rubbish imo.
That backing reminds me of those old organs that people had in their house with Bass & drums backing, sort of like some cabaret nightclub.. My Uncle Bob had one

I think BFS could've been a hundred time better if they'd worked on their own songs like World Without Love, Thinking Of Linking and heaps of others instead of the covers.

[Hello Goodbye]

Paul liked the Hammond organ, Kev...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_7xjpySK0" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_7xjpySK0</a>

So did Rick Wakeman...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nth2QPM0lQ4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nth2QPM0lQ4</a>