Friday, January 26, 2007

"I Saw her Standing There-Woooooo"

Hoots, you are just too damn far ahead of everyone else. How does it feel to be a trendsetter? Since you first imbeded youtube onto "Hootsbuddy's Place," the world has followed suit. Bravo; hip hip hooray; and kudos. You are da man.

Golden Pond has refrained from using the youtube link lately, but it is about to appear again. While perusing various videos, I came upon this one. It was written by Paul McCartney back in the latter days of 1963. It has to be one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever. And Paul always uses it at the end of his concerts.

This version is sung and played by an unlikely collage of musicians: George Harrison, who does the obligatory Beatles "woo"; Bob Dylan; Bruce, the "Boss," Springsteen; Ringo Starr; Paul "Letterman" Schafer; Billy "Piano Man" Joel; and Mick Jagger among others.

Here it tis: Wooooooooooo


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1 comment:

Hoots said...

Thanks for the kudos. I just came across another source tonight and snagged another video via The Fat Lady Sings.
I saw at the official Google Blog that as of yesterday YouTube and Google are now being cross-referenced, with YouTube thumbnails appearing in Google Video searches. The plan is to continue both sites even though Google owns YouTube. Seems they recognize the importance of branding.

Too bad a certain food business didn't have the same appreciation for a competing brand, even after they bought it lock, stock and barrel. Changing a name and format can have catastrophic unintended results, it seems.

(By the way, it may be my browser or something else, but your embeds are not coming up tonight, even the ones that have worked in the past. Be sure you haven't tinkered with a setting that might have messed things up.)