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I missed a few of the Phamily Foto Phriday posts, and have a few random pictures from the last few months to share. “It’s All Too Much” was recorded for Magical Mystery Tour, but left off of that album and would find a place in Yellow Submarine. It’s a hazy sort of love song…
Think For Yourself was initially released on Rubber Soul, both original UK and butchered US versions. Tell Me Why mentions the “fuzz bass adds just the right guttural cynicism” but doesn’t really give the song itself high praise. BeatleSongs quotes Harrison as saying the song “…must be about ‘somebody’ from the sound of…
Tell Me Why refers to the song as “harmless” and Beatleongs mentions it was inspired by George’s then wife Patti. It’s a simple song, pretty much a love song. It’s been released twice, originally on the soundtrack album Let It Be and then again on Let It Be… Naked. The more recently released version is truer to…
“Don’t Bother Me” was written by George and appears on With The Beatles, their second album. It is the first song written by George to appear on a Beatles album. It was not, however, the first George Harrison vocal appearance or Harrison song to be recorded. Tell Me Why considers this a “weak…
Beatles Week is a wonderful tradition I look forward to every year. I wish I could claim to have come up with the idea, but it was Mark Zwolanek who started it back in…. what … 2008? He hoped somebody else would also do the same thing, and I did starting in 2009. It’s a…
Today started off with the offer of a few free MP3 downloads from Amazon. Usually they are by artists I don’t know or don’t care that much for. This time, it was a mix of 5 different artists, one of which was Rick Springfield. The songs were all Christmas themed. A free Christmas song by…
I forgot my anniversary. Well, one of them. December 18 is when Laura and I met, October 31 is the day we got married, and February 23 is the day our marriage was consecrated in the church (as in, legally wed according The Church). I can’t tell you how long we’ve been…
Several days ago Laura was putting Ciárán (age 5) to bed. As she was tucking him in she said “I love you more than anything in the world.” His reply? “Is that all you got?”
Last week I quit my “day job” which had morphed into my early morning, day, and evening job. Working from home has been a blessing and a curse, and I wouldn’t trade it in for anything. What I was doing, however, simply wasn’t working. I used to (still a difficult phrase to get used…