Hi Everybody! Welcome to Hippy Hour and the Saturday Night Dance. After talking online with some of You, a decision was made to celebrate the Music of the Sixties with a Saturday Night Dance. As we are now in our sixties, we found that 3 songs are enough to Dance to! We decided to dedicate our dancing energy to spreading more joy and peace in the world. I invite you to join us. The three dance videos are listed below under Feature Presentation. Just stand up by your screen and push play to join in the fun! I can promise you will feel better. We are dancing with You! Enjoy!
To get in the mood for the Dance,
Just Push Play
Lana's Warmup before the Dance-
Just Push Play
Thank You For Joining In on the Fun!!!!
Together we can make a Difference!!!!!
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Next, the Feature Presentation:
Saturday Night Dance Lineup!!!!!
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Stand up and just dance to the next three videos. We are dancing to put more Joy and positive energy in the World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#1 Lana's Fave: Just Push Play
#2 brendasue's Fave:
Just Push Play
#3 max's Fave: Just Push Play
This concludes the Dance-Sit Down and Rest now!!! Good Job. I feel more Joy!
Front cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "the most famous cover of any music album, and one of the most imitated images in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles
The Beatles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| The Beatles | |
|---|---|
 The Beatles in 1964 Top: John Lennon, Paul McCartney Bottom: George Harrison, Ringo Starr | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Genres | Rock, pop |
| Years active | 1960–1970 |
| Labels | Parlophone, Swan, Vee-Jay,Capitol, United Artists, Apple |
| Associated acts | The Quarrymen, Billy Preston,Plastic Ono Band |
| Website | thebeatles.com |
| Members | |
| Principal John Lennon (1960–69) Paul McCartney (1960–70) George Harrison (1960–70) Ringo Starr (1962–70) Other Stuart Sutcliffe (1960–61) Pete Best (1960–62) | |
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, becoming one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music.[1] The band's best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later utilised many genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classicaland other elements, in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication, they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.
The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960. They were moulded into a professional act by manager Brian Epstein, and their musical potential was enhanced by the creativity of producer George Martin. They gained popularity in the United Kingdom after their first single, "Love Me Do", became a modest hit in late 1962. They acquired the nickname the "Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had become international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market. The group toured extensively around the world until August 1966, when they performed their final commercial concert. From 1966 on, they produced what many critics consider to be some of their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (1968), and Abbey Road (1969). After their break-up in 1970, the ex-Beatles each found success in individual musical careers. Lennon was murdered in 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain active.
The Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with sales of over one billion units estimated by EMI Records.[2] They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. According to the RIAA, as of 2012 they have sold 177 million units in the US, more than any other artist, and in 2008 they topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists. As of 2012, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with 20. They have received 7 Grammy Awards from the American National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and 15 Ivor Novello Awardsfrom the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. They were collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people
Beatlemania and touring years (1963–1966)
Please Please Me and With The Beatles
Martin originally considered recording their debut LP live at the Cavern Club, but after deciding that the building's acoustics were inadequate he elected to simulate a "live" album with minimal production in "a single marathon session at Abbey Road".[46] Ten songs were recorded for Please Please Me, accompanied by the four tracks already released on their two singles.[46] After the moderate success of "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me" met with a more emphatic reception. Released in January 1963, it reached number one on every national chart except Record Retailer, where it stalled at number two.[47] Recalling how the band "rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day", Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine comments, "Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins."[48] Lennon said little thought went into composition at the time; he and McCartney were "just writing songs à la Everly Brothers, à la Buddy Holly, pop songs with no more thought of them than that—to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant."[49]
Released in March 1963, the album reached number one on the top four British charts, initiating a run during which eleven of their twelve studio albums released in the United Kingdom through 1970 reached number one.[51] The band's third single, "From Me to You", came out in April and was also a chart-topping hit, starting an almost unbroken string of seventeen British number one singles for the band, including all but one of the eighteen they released over the next six years.[52] Released in August, the band's fourth single, "She Loves You", achieved the fastest sales of any record in the UK up to that time, selling three-quarters of a million copies in under four weeks.[53] It became their first single to sell a million copies, and remained the biggest-selling record in the UK until 1978 when it was surpassed by "Mull of Kintyre", by McCartney's post-Beatles band, Wings.[54] Their popularity brought increasing press attention, to which the band members responded with an irreverent and comical attitude that defied what was expected of pop musicians at the time, inspiring even more interest.[55]
The band toured the UK three times in the first half of the year: a four-week stint that began in February, the band's first nationwide tour, preceded three-week tours in March and May–June.[56] As their popularity spread, a frenzied adulation of the group took hold; they were greeted with riotous enthusiasm by screaming fans—a phenomenon dubbed "Beatlemania".[57] Although not billed as tour leaders, they overshadowed American acts Tommy Roe and Chris Montez during the February engagements and assumed top billing "by audience demand" wrote Lewisohn, something no British act had previously accomplished while touring with artists from the US.[58] A similar situation arose during the band's May–June tour with Roy Orbison.[59]
In late October the band began a five-day tour of Sweden, their first time abroad since the final Hamburg engagement of December 1962.[61] Upon their return to the UK on the 31st, they were greeted in heavy rain at Heathrow Airport by "several hundred screaming fans", and fifty to a hundred journalists and photographers as well as representatives from the BBC, "the first of a hundred so-called 'airport receptions'".[62] The next day, they began their fourth tour of Britain within nine months, this one scheduled for six weeks.[63] As Beatlemania intensified, police found it necessary to use high-pressure water hoses to control the crowd before a concert in Plymouth in mid–November.[64]
Please Please Me maintained the top position on the Record Retailer chart for thirty weeks, only to be displaced by their follow-up, With The Beatles, which EMI delayed the release of until sales of Please Please Me had subsided.[65] With The Beatles was released in late-November to record advance orders of 270,000 copies, topping the half-million mark in one week.[66] It held the top spot for twenty-one weeks with a chart life of 40 weeks.[67] Recorded between July and October, the album made better use of studio production techniques than its "deliberately primitive" predecessor.[68] Erlewine describes With The Beatles as "a sequel of the highest order—one that betters the original".[69] In a reversal of then standard practice, the album was released ahead of the impending single "I Want to Hold Your Hand", with the song excluded in order to maximize the single's sales.[70] With The Beatles caught the attention of The Times' music criticWilliam Mann, who suggested that Lennon and McCartney were "the outstanding English composers of 1963".[68] The newspaper published a series of articles in which Mann offered detailed analyses of the music, lending it respectability.[71] With The Beatlesbecame the second album in UK chart history to sell a million copies, a figure previously reached only by the 1958 South Pacificsoundtrack.[72] In writing the sleeve notes for the album, the band's press officer Tony Barrow used the superlative "the fabulous foursome", which the media widely adopted as "the Fab Four"
Just Push Play
A Höfner "violin" bass guitarand Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar, models played by McCartney and Harrison, respectively. (The bass is right-handed; McCartney played a left-handed version.) The Vox AC30amplifier behind them is the kind the band used in early concerts.
The Good Old Boys! Just Push Play
After all these Years-Just Push Play
Love is All You Need-Just Push Play
Goodnight Everybody!
Have a Great Weekend-
...this is brendasue signing off from
Rainbow Creek. See You Next Time!
Peace!
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Well, I donned my favorite, nicely broken in, comfortable bib overalls for Hippie Hour tonight and enjoyed dancing in my bare feet to some of the greatest music from the 60's. Great selections tonight! Made me realize that all this world really needs is LOVE! Glad to be a part of spreading the joy and the love around the world. Thanks sister Brendasue! ;-)
ReplyDeleteHey Lana! Glad You made it! Nice you danced in style in the bibs!!! For the occasion, I selected my most comfy cotton nightgown with flowers! (Some in my hair for max!)
DeleteI think everybody loves the Beatles and I proudly was one of the screaming teenagers.
WE ARE very important! The positive energy we create by dancing for joy, peace and love for every living thing on Earth and especially our Humankind IS CHANGING THE WORLD FOR A BETTER PLACE. That is our dreams for our children and grandchildren.
Enough is Enough. I am closing the door on Hatred, War, Illness, Corruption, etc!!
GET READY EVERYBODY-IT IS GOING TO BE A HAPPIER LIFE FOR ALL. jOIN US- ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS JUST DANCE FOR JOY FOR ALL PEOPLE. THAT EASY!
Brenda Sue,
ReplyDeleteThis is one amazing blog. There is ever more some amazing energy here! Bravo, bravo, bravo!!! :-)
Hi Gari There is amazing energy because of all the amazing people that come here, like You! Thanks
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