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With A Little Help From My Friends question
« on: March 25, 2005, 08:41:20 PM »
Was it a phrase before the song came out? Like, did people actually say that? The reason I want to know is because I hear that saying alllllllll the time and I'm wondering if it originated from the song or nor.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2005, 09:37:52 PM »
Well im sure it became an extermely popular term after Cocker covered it for the Wonder Years.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2005, 09:54:36 PM »
The Beatles are responsible for several words/phrases that have gone into the language.

"with a little help from my friends" zapped into the language with unbelievable speed. I reckon it was established by the end of 1967. And I don't think Joe Cocker had ANYTHING to do with it!

Another phrase is "all you need is love".

Slightly different is Lucy, the name given to the female Australopithecus skull found in Africa, in 1974. Lucy is a famous ape/hominid, being the earliest member of the hominids known at that time (older hominid fossils have been found lately). "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" was playing on a portable radio/cassette player at the time!
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2005, 03:18:02 AM »
yeah Ydolls right,, but too bad it was Elton Johns version..I like elton, but I think it would be better if it was original
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2005, 09:10:43 AM »
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The Beatles are responsible for several words/phrases that have gone into the language.

"with a little help from my friends" zapped into the language with unbelievable speed. I reckon it was established by the end of 1967. And I don't think Joe Cocker had ANYTHING to do with it!

Another phrase is "all you need is love".

Slightly different is Lucy, the name given to the female Australopithecus skull found in Africa, in 1974. Lucy is a famous ape/hominid, being the earliest member of the hominids known at that time (older hominid fossils have been found lately). "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" was playing on a portable radio/cassette player at the time!

"A Hard Day's Night" is a Ringo-ism.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2005, 01:28:24 AM »
any of you guys heard bout the dinosaur named mark knopfler?

you guys metioned 'lucy' so i thought id say something.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2005, 01:51:59 AM »
You're kidding right?
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2005, 01:17:38 AM »
no he is not.seems it was playing on the radio when they found the first traces........dedication was playing i think.and i think it was in brazil....
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2005, 01:29:04 AM »
Goodness gracious....
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2005, 03:08:05 AM »
Although the "Beatles" were obviously know for the "Little Help From My Friends" I think "Joe Cocker" was more know for the song because he sung it live numerous times and it was his best known cover! John Belushi even mocked him doing it in front of millions on Sat Night Live! Also was cover for a Canadian charity by guys from Helix, and Lee Aron amoung others!
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2005, 12:52:05 AM »
Bon Jovi did a cover of it too. Joe Cocker does a good job of it,but I still like The Beatles version of it better. I love the way the other Beatles sing the questions to Ringo.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2005, 01:59:28 PM »
I like the Joe Cocker version, but I swear I always thought he said something like, "I could give up for my friends"... I guess it was just the way he speeds into it... After I heard the Beatles version (which is after I heard the Cocker version!), it just stopped sounding right to me (the Cocker version, that is)...

And I'm sure the Beatles contributed a lot to the times' vocabulary. It'd be interesting to know what they could've contributed.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2005, 02:07:48 PM »
i think its the best Beatles cover I've heard (not that the competition is that hot). He makes the song his own, not just copying it. Most non-Beatle people I know prefer it to the original - they reckon its more ballsy.
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2005, 08:27:11 PM »
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i think its the best Beatles cover I've heard (not that the competition is that hot). He makes the song his own, not just copying it. Most non-Beatle people I know prefer it to the original - they reckon its more ballsy.

i agree, a lot of people i come across like cocker's version better. i really don't enjoy it that much though, it sounds so overdramatic to me. i'll take ringo singing, thanks
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2005, 04:27:04 PM »
To get back to the original question, I don't think 'With a little help from my friends' is a particular Beatles phrase.
It existed before the song came out but now of course nobody else could possibly do a song with the same title.
It's been 'Beatle-ised'!
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Re: With A Little Help From My Friends question
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2005, 01:46:26 AM »
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It's been 'Beatle-ised'!

 :D Haha! I like that!  :D

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