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Each day just goes so fast
I turn around, it’s past
You don’t get time to hang a sign on me
Love me while you can
Before I’m a dead old man
–Beatles, Love You To
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Running late but wanted to share this little bit. On this date, August 5, back in 1966, a favorite album of mine, the groundbreaking Revolver from the Beatles, was released. With its daring technical innovations, it set the tone for pop and rock music then, bringing the psychedelic era to the wider audience of pop music. It was like they kicked their machine into a higher gear that challenged every other musician to follow them.
It’s good stuff.
I have quite a few favorites on this album but the two that jump out at me are Tomorrow Never Knows and Love You To, both heavily influenced by George Harrison‘s affinity for the music and rhythms of India. I’ve never played Love You To here and thought today would be appropriate.
Give a listen and have a decent day.
There are a half-dozen songs on this album I liked then and still like, but I can’t remember hearing either of these. Odd. Maybe they didn’t get the same airtime as the ones I liked. We tend to forget how dependent on radio we were back then.
Yes, it’s hard to get across how influential the radio of that time was. A single local station often sent out a wide range of selections from many genres. But sometimes its width made it a bit shallow and songs like these two wouldn’t get the airplay of some of the others. But they’re still there and still great to hear.
Thank you always for your posts.
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Thanks for taking the time to read them, Sheila!
One of my favorite of their albums, too, but the lyrics you quote are incorrect, and incorrectly noted on line, too, I might add.
“Love me while you can
Or I’ll get a plan”
should be
“Love me while you can
Before I’m a dead old man.”
which makes more sense, I have to say. I bought the (vinyl) album shortly after it was released and played it to death, much to my parent’s disgruntlement.
I’ve listened to this song hundreds and hundreds of times , never positively knowing the lyrics. When I looked them up online, I thought the “Or I’ll get a plan” didn’t make sense but listening to it, the looping used in the recording distort that line enough that I could see where someone could make that mistake. But now knowing the line is “Before I’m a dead old man,” I can’t hear it that other way. Thanks, I am going to change that in my post.